U.S. News and World Report.com; author in-studio interview 4:00pm on Wednesday, January 20th. Interview will be for 3 – 4 minute video that will on website, along with a Q&A style article
C-Span/Book TV; taping January 21st event at Politics & Prose
Mediabistro.com; Blog Talk Radio; Monday, January 11th; 9:00am
Morning Haiku, Sonia Sanchez, February 2010, cloth, $19.95, 978-0-8070-6910-3
Ebony Magazine; Morning Haiku will be featured in the books column in the March issue, on newsstands in early February
Not Quite Paradise, Adele Barker, December 2009, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-0061-8
Huffington Post; visit the Books page to read Barker’s 4th blog post from Sri Lanka; the piece ran on Monday, January 11th
Stride Toward Freedom, Martin Luther King, Jr., January 2010, paperback, $14.00, 978-0-8070-0069-4
Where Do We Go From Here, Martin Luther King, Jr., January 2010, paperback, $14.00, 978-0-8070-0067-0
Advertising and Coop Update
The Crisis Magazine, third page vertical will be in Winter 2010 issue
ALA History Lives Poster and bookmarks
Baker & Taylor Forecast Super Annotation in the December 2009 issue
Ingram Ashanti full-page, color ad with WDWGFH, December 2009
Ingram Black Currents annotation
Christian Century, third page vertical ad
Bookselling this Week banner ad (January 6)
Morning Haiku, Sonia Sanchez, February 2010, cloth, $19.95, 978-0-8070-6910-3
Ebony Magazine; Morning Haiku will be featured in the books column in the March issue, on newsstands in early February
Upcoming Events
Thursday, January 14th Bluestockings Books (New York)
Reading and Signing
Saturday, January 16th Rust College (Mississippi)
Sonia is the keynote speaker at the college
Monday, January 18th Boston, MA Faneuil Hall, 12:00pm
MLK National Speaking Program
Sonia Sanchez is the keynote speaker at the City of Boston’s MLK Day celebration
“Just as Buzz Bissinger did in Friday Night Lights, Steve Wilson manages to achieve the unexpected: a book about sports that turns out to be about so much more. He wrests poetry out of these boys’ lives, while aiming directly for that one destination where we all seek home—the heart.”
—Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Into the beautiful North and The Devil's Highway
A House for Hope, John A. Buehrens and Rebecca Ann Parker, May 2010, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7738-2
“To make hope something more than just another four letter word we all need some positive evidence, which is just what this solid and well crafted book supplies. Bombarded as we are by so much sound and fury from the religious right, we also need a credible voice from the often ignored progressive wing of American religion, which is also what this work gives us.”
—Harvey Cox, author of The Future of Faith
Beacon Acquisition:
Beacon Press is happy to announce a new acquisition for the new year: Blue Is the New Green by Cynthia Barnett. Our offer was accepted and the book will appear on our Fall 2011 list.
Beacon Press is a department of the