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Beacon Weekly Report

February 10, 2010

Headlines:

The Death of Josseline, Margaret Regan, February 2010, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-4227-4

  • Talk of the Nation; author interview on February 22nd at 3pm

Morning Haiku, Sonia Sanchez, February 2010, cloth, $19.95, 978-0-8070-6910-3

  • Tavis Smiley; author interview aired this past weekend.

    Click the link below to listen to the interview, along with a “Web Extra” recording of Sonia reading her haiku to Max Roach and Maya Angelou:

    http://www.tavissmileyradio.com/guests10/020510/SoniaSanchez.html

  • B.L.A.C. Detroit; write up with cover art featured in the “Hot On The Shelf” section of the February 2010 issue

Medicine in Translation, Danielle Ofri, January 2010, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7320-9

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  • MediaBistro.com; author interview ran February 8th in a segment called “Translating Medicine” 

Click the link below to listen:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mediabistro

  • Real Simple.com; health blog covers the book.

Click the link below to read:

http://simplystated.realsimple.com/simplystated/2010/02/whats-a-doctors-role.html

  • C-Span/BookTV; the taping of author’s Politics & Prose event will air Saturday, February 13th at 8am and 11pm

You can see it Saturday by clicking on the link below:

http://booktv.org/Program/11221/Medicine+in+Translation+Journeys+with+My+Patients.aspx/

Publicity Reviews, and Praise:

She Looks Just Like You, Amie Klempnauer Miller, May 2010, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-0469-2

  • Library Journal; starred review in their “Short Takes: 24 Spring Memoirs” section.

    “[a] humorous and strikingly original contribution to parenting literature.”

  • Curve;  review to come with book cover art and author photo

The Protest Psychosis, Jonathan M. Metzl, January 2010, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-8592-9

  • The Chronicle Review; in-depth story ran in the January 31st issue. 

    Click the link below to read:

    http://chronicle.com/article/RacismMental-Illness/63741/?key=SD90cgJuMHIdbHBoc3YefCEBayF4IE95OnVFYnkaYl9R.

  • American Journal of Psychiatry;  review forthcoming; date to come

  • Multicultural Review; review in Spring 2010 issue.

  • Harvard Journal of African American Policy; review to come in the March issue

  • Black Health magazine; review in February issue with jacket art

  • The New Physician; review in March issue

  • JAMA; review in March issue as part of theme issue on mental health

  • Michigan Today; excerpt forthcoming

  • Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal; review, date to come

  • PsycCRITIQUES /APA;  review, date to come

  • Joy Cardin Show/Wisconsin Public Radio; author interview live via ISDN Thursday, February 18th; 8:00 - 9:00am Central time

American Privacy, Frederick S. Lane, November 2009, cloth, 978-0-8070-4441-4

  • Vermont Public Radio’s Vermont Edition; author interview on February 4th. The show aired at 12pm and 7pm that day.

    Click the link below to learn about the program or listen to the podcast:

    http://www.vpr.net/episode/47887

  • Free and Fair with John Ford; pre-recorded 30-minute author interview to air on February 17th, at noon PST, 9am EST

  • WILL Afternoon Magazine; live author interview February 2nd

  • Nightcall with Peter Werbe, Detroit Public Media; 20-minute taped author interview on February 1st at 1pm

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

  • Lilith; A great review with cover art in the Winter issue, available now

Dispatches from the Abortion Wars, Carole Joffe, January 2010, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-3502-3

  • Feministing; listed in their “Not Oprah’s Book Club” section on February 4th

  • Sacramento News and Review; review and event announcement will run February 11th

  • WMNF’s The Woman Show; taped author interview aired February 6th

  • RH Reality Check; ran author Q&A February 1st

The Death of Josseline, Margaret Regan, February 2010, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-4227-4

  • KFPA Morning Show; live 30-minute author interview on February 9th, 8:30am PST

  • Phoenix New Times; author interview on February 11th for an article that will run in the February 25th issue

  • Onda Suave, KCXI; 20-minute author interview on March 10th, interspersed with songs about border deaths

  • Multicultural Review; review to come in the summer 2010 issue.  Date TBA

  • Sentitenta Vera; bilingual blog will include author photo and Q&A, along with book cover art in a forthcoming review

Medicine in Translation, Danielle Ofri, January 2010, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7320-9

Beacon May Pub Announcements:

Price Changes:

A City So Grand, now $26.95, $1 less than catalog price
Final Arc of Sky PB, now $16, $ 1 more than catalog price
House for Hope, now $25.95, $1 more than catalog price
Love in Condition Yellow, now $16, $1 more than catalog price

Beacon Blurbs:

The Boys from Little Mexico, Steve Wilson, June 2010, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-2167-5

  • “Steve Wilson's reporting is deep and true, clear and at times heartbreaking. These displaced boys come alive on the page as they make their challenging run through Oregon high school soccer.”

—David Maraniss, author of Clemente and When Pride Still Mattered

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