Beacon Press: Weekly Report

Beacon Weekly Report

November 12, 2009

All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald, October 2007, paperback re-release, $14.00, 978-0-8070-7213-4

Hollowing Out The Middle, Patrick J. Carr And Maria J. Kefalas, October 2009, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-4238-0

Library Journal; featured in round up of starred November titles; jacket art featured on top.

“Deftly researched and written, this book is highly recommended for sociologists, educators, policymakers, and anyone concerned about the future of this country.”

Click below to read:

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6705178.html?nid=4683&source=title&rid=1775541570&
Dakota Midday/South Dakota Public Radio; Monday, November 9th; 1:00 – 1:25pm EST (12:00 – 12:25 Central); live by phone
Conversations/WQUB (Quincy, Ill; Hannibal, MO; Keokuk, IA); Tuesday, November 10th; 2:00 - 2:30pm EST (1:00 - 1:30pm Central); taped by phone
This, That, and The Other/Gap Broadcasting (Great Falls, MT); Tuesday, November 10th; 6:35 - 6:50pm EST (4:35 Mountain Time); live by phone
Up To Date/KCUR Public Radio (Kansas City, MI); Wednesday, November 11th; 12:06 -12:35pm EST, live by phone
Voices of the Tri-States/KDTH Radio (Dubuque, Iowa); Wednesday, November 11th; 1:30 – 2:00pm EST (12:30 to 1:00 pm Central); live by phone with call-ins
Eight Forty-Eight/Chicago Public Radio; Friday, November 20th, 12:00 - 12:30am taped via remote
Leonard Lopate Show/WNYC (NPR New York); Tuesday, November 24th; 1:30 – 2:00pm; live in studio
Tavis Smiley Show/PRI, taped in early December
Radio Times/WHYY (NPR Philly); live in studio; early December

Beyond the Miracle Worker, Kim E. Nielsen, May 2009, cloth, $28.95, 978-0-8070-5046-0

Women’s Review of Books; a thoughtful and thorough review is in the November/December issue. The review is also the issue’s cover story.

“Now, in Beyond the Miracle Worker, Nielsen further revises the Keller-Sullivan narrative by placing the teacher at center stage. She portrays Sullivan Macy as a complex, deeply troubled woman who needed Helen Keller at least as much as Keller needed her…Drawing lavishly upon letters, diaries, and other primary sources, Nielsen conveys the rich texture of Sullivan’s character.”

Sowing Crisis, Rashid Khalidi, March 2009, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-0310-7

New York Times online; author featured in online forum debate in the Opinion section, with mention of book.

Click below to read:

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/abbas-makes-his-move/#more-23121

The Lonely Soldier, Helen Benedict, April 2010, paperback, $17.00, 978-0-8070-6149-7

IslamOnline.net English Radio; author interview November 9th

Click below to read:

http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout&cid=1256909842007
Rosie O’Donnell’s show Rosie Radio Sirius XM; author interview November 11th
CNN; Benedict is also conducting pre-interviews for a documentary on women in the military

Write These Laws on Your Children, Robert Kunzman, August 2009, cloth, $27.95, 978-0-8070-3291-6

The John and Kathy Show/WORD-FM (Pittsburgh, PA); Kunzman will be interviewed live at 4:15 pm EST on Tuesday, November 17th on this Christian, talk radio show
Books and Culture/Christianity Today; read Robert Kunzman’s article about homeschooling, “Home Room: What We Don’t Know About Homeschooling,” which was posted October 29th

Click below to read:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2009/novdec/homeroom.html
Theory and Research in Education; Robert Kunzman wrote an article, “Understanding Homeschooling,” for the 2009 issue of the journal;

Click below to read a very brief abstract about the article:

http://tre.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/7/3/311

Mean Little Deaf Queer, Terry Galloway, June 2010, paperback, $15.00, 978-0-8070-7331-5

Edge publications; forthcoming Q&A
Galloway has also received many positive blog mentions for her book and recent performances, including a forthcoming review from AfterEllen.com

Flashback, Penny Coleman, paperback, $16.00, 978-0-8070-5041-5

AlterNet.org; author article, titled “Why Are We Locking Up Traumatized Veterans for Their Addictions Instead of Offering Them Treatment?” in World news section. Book mentioned.

Click below to read:

http://www.alternet.org/world/143867/why_are_we_locking_up_traumatized_veterans_for_their_addictions_instead_of_offering_them_treatment

I Don’t Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine, David Chura, March 2010, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-0064-9

“In thick and unvarnished descriptions, David Chura takes us into the growing gulag of American youth prisons and shows us the fractured faces and bruised spirits of children who seem almost condemned to destruction by the structural ecology of class and race and ancestry. These young people--hurt and hardened--have become the icons of our times, and they cry out for Divine intervention. But it's not what God has done to them, finally, it's what we've done to ourselves.

Read this book and know we must do better.”

—Bill Ayers, author of A Kind and Just Parent