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Beacon Weekly Report

May 19, 2010

Headlines:

Pornland, Gail Dines, July 2010, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-4452-0

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

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

  • Salon; author interview posted online May 18th.

    "Amie Klempnauer Miller's delightful new memoir, "She Looks Just Like You," offers an engrossing, funny and eminently readable new take on the subject of gay parenthood."

    Click the link below to read the full article:
    http://www.salon.com/books/nonfiction/index.html?story=/books/feature/2010/05/17/lesbian_parenting_interview

  • Curve Magazine; featured in the June issue of in their “Page Turners” section. It includes cover art.

    “Motherhood can be scary for anyone, but when it comes to lesbian, Nonbiological moms-to-be, there was no real guidebook—until now. Miller talks about the excitements and difficulties that come from being the lesbian partner who doesn’t give birth. (beacon.org)”

  • Seattle Woman Magazine is publishing an interview with Amie Miller about her book, She Looks Just Like You, on May 25th. It will be available in their print and online editions.

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

  • Library Journal; reviewed in the May 15th issue in their “Short Takes: Soccer Fever” section:

    “Essential for soccer fans and those who find inspiration in young people achieving well beyond expectations.”

    Click the link below to read:
    http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6728047.html

Beacon Backlist:

  • CNBC; Maria de los Angeles Torres, author of ‘The Lost Apple: Operation Pedro Pan, Cuban Children in the U.S., and the Promise of a Better Future’ will be interviewed on a one-hour documentary on the babylift, narrated by Meredith Vieira, on May 27th.

  • New York Times; Jane Brody, who lost her husband in March, mentioned and quoted from Earl Grollman's Living When a Loved One Has Died in the Science section on May 18th

Publicity Reviews, and Praise:

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

To Uphold the World, Bruce Rich, March 2010, paperback original, $23.00, 978-0-8070-0613-9

  • Religion Dispatches; lengthy author interview features both cover art and an author photo.

    Click on the link to read:
    http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/rd10q/2490/what_can_ancient_india_tell_us_about_our_world

  • Buddha Dharma; the book will be featured in the New and Noteworthy list in the forthcoming Summer issue.

  • Little India; forthcoming review, print date to come

  • South Asian Focus; forthcoming review, print date to come

  • Tibet House; reading and book signing May 14th, 7:00pm – 9:00pm; 22 West 15th Street NY, NY 10011

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

  • JAMA; A very nice write up in the May 19th issue:

    “. . . a fascinating, penetrating book by one of medicine's most exceptional young scholars. . . . Folding together equal measures of historical analysis, psychiatry,social criticism, and impeccable research, The Protest Psychosis offers not only psychiatrists but anyone involved in health care new insight into the nature of disease, the ongoing flux of medical knowledge, the influence of culture and politics on medicine and science, and the "unequal treatment" still at play regarding race in the United States.”

I Don’t Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine, David Chura, March 2010, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-0064-9

  • Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon/WMUA (Amherst, Ma); in-studio taped interview on May 17th; air date to come

  • Midweek Politics Radio with David Pakman (Northampton, Ma); 30 minute taped interview May 19th at 3:15pm

A House for Hope, John A. Buehrens and Rebecca Ann Parker, May 2010, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-7738-2

  • UU World; excerpt ran in the May 15th issue

Mean Little deaf Queer, Terry Galloway, June 2009, cloth, 978-0-8070-7290-5

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