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Beacon Weekly ReportDecember 11, 2009Headlines:Nobody Turn Me Around, Charles Euchner, August 2010, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-0059-5
Morning Haiku, Sonia Sanchez, February 2010, cloth, $19.95, 978-0-8070-6910-3
Publicity Reviews, and Praise:The Khaarijee, J. Malcolm Garcia, September 2009, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-0057-1
Write These Laws on Your Children, Robert Kunzman, August 2009, cloth, $27.95, 978-0-8070-3291-6
Hollowing Out The Middle, Patrick J. Carr And Maria J. Kefalas, October 2009, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-4238-0
Nature’s Second Chance, Steven I. Apfelbaum, February 2010, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-8582-0
I Don’t Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine, David Chura, March 2010, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-0064-9
Not Quite Paradise, Adele Barker, December 2009, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-0061-8
The House of Secrets, Varda Polak-Sahm, August 2009, cloth, 978-0-8070-7742-9
Holy Hullabaloos, Jay Wexler, June 2009, paperback original, $20.00, 978-0-8070-0044-1
The Young and the Digital, S. Craig Watkins, October 2009, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-6193-0
American Privacy, Frederick S. Lane, November 2009, cloth, 978-0-8070-4441-4
Quiverfull, Kathryn Joyce, May 2010, paperback, $20.00, 978-0-8070-1073-0
Flashback, Penny Coleman, paperback, $16.00, 978-0-8070-5041-5
Beacon Blurbs:Power in Words, Mary Frances Berry, October 2010, cloth, $26.95
Beacon Acquisition:Beacon is delighted to announce the acquisition of The Accordion Family: How Globalization Reshapes the Private World (tent. title). Both here in the U.S. and abroad, the “failure to launch” phenomenon is exploding. Since the 1970s, there’s been a 50% increase in the proportion of American 30-34 year olds who live with their parents, and the trend is similar in some European countries like Italy where over half of men age 30 have never lived away from home. In response, families are stretching to accommodate kids who never left or who tried and have since boomeranged back. Acclaimed sociologist Katherine Newman calls them “accordion families”—two and three generation households where the youngest are between 22 and 35—and she persuasively argues that this trend is here to stay. Based on extensive research and interviews with families in the U.S., as well as six countries, Newman deftly examines what this shift means for the economy and globalization and how it’s rewriting relationships between parents and children—sometimes in surprising ways.Fall 2012 Beacon has acquired the paperback rights to Letters from Black America edited by award-winning journalist Pamela Newkirk. The first-ever narrative history of African Americans told through the intimate lens of their own letters, this compilation fills a literary and historical void. Arranged thematically—with sections on family, romance, politics, education, war, and art—as well as chronologically, from the 1700s to the 21st century, it includes the thoughts of slaves, servicemen, and domestic workers, and also politicians, writers, and entertainers. An indispensable and enduring collection, this book is a moving testament to the myriad facets of the African American experience. Spring 2011 Beacon is delighted to announce the acquisition of Cloud County Revival: How Wind Energy Is Breathing new Life into America’s Heartland, by journalist and former president of the Conservation Law Foundation Philip Warburg. Cloud County, Kansas, a community of farmers and ranchers, is also home to the Meridian Way Wind Farm. Warburg tells the story of how this declining Kansas county came to be at the forefront of pursuing a saner energy future for the country as readers meet the people most involved in moving this project forward: farmers, a high school science teacher turned wind energy trainer, a local business booster, and a savvy team of wind developers. He also takes readers around the globe to explore the emerging global wind industry in Denmark, Portugal and Spain, where the builders of Cloud County’s forty-story-high turbines are based, and on to China, India and Vietnam, whose factories are major players in the growing global marketplace for wind power. Back on U.S. soil, readers will visit ranches, farms and tribal communities across the continent where new wind farms are taking root. This book addresses the gravest challenge of our day – averting climate disaster – through an intimate narrative of bringing the American heartland back to life. This Week in Beacon Broadside, a project of Beacon Press (www.beaconbroadside.com):
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