Dark Tide,
Stephen Puleo, September 2004, paperback, $15.00, 978-0-8070-5021-7
Selected for Boston’s first ever One Book, One City program. Sponsored
by the Boston Globe, the program will culminate on September 20th with
a live discussion online at Boston.com, followed that evening with an author
event at the Boston Public Library’s central branch.
New York Times Magazine; author is quoted in this week’s edition,
in an article about abortion providers. Dispatches is mentioned and
her other Beacon book, Doctors of Conscience, is mentioned as well.
The article is written by Emily Bazelon (of Slate) who covered Dispatches
at publication.
The House
of Secrets, Varda Polak-Sahm, September 2010, trade paperback,
$20.00, 978-0-8070-7746-7
Christian Century reviewed by Amy Frykholm in the July 27th 2010
issue.
“Polak-Sahm mesmerizes the reader with her encounters at the mikveh...brilliantly
illuminates these tensions and their religious and cultural meanings, not
just intellectually but, like all good anthropologists, in a way that produces
a rich understanding of people’s lives.”
Featured Books:
White Coat,
Black Hat, Carl Elliott, September 2010, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-6142-8
Booklist; Starred review which was boxed, shaded and featured jacket
art in the July issue
Publisher’s Weekly (Fall Announcement Issue); jacket art featured
in middle of announcement page
Reader’s Digest; author interviewed Current Lives section for
October issue
American Journal of Bioethics; review assigned for September issue
The Lancet; review has been assigned
New Yorker; fact checking has finished with his article and it will
likely run in the next few months
Mother Jones; article by author will run in September
Boston Globe; review assigned
Pornland,
Gail Dines, July 2010, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-4452-0
Washington Post BookWorld; book mentioned in the print edition on
July 11th
Washington Post Express; author interview July 15th.
New England Cable News’"Broadside"; author appearance
on July 15th between 6pm and 7pm for a 10 minute interview.
(NECN) - Gail Dines, professor of sociology and women's studies at Wheelock
College joins Chet Curtis with more on the campaign to expose the effect
porn is having on society.
Her book is, "Pornland: How porn has hijacked our sexuality."
Dines says the answer is a massive education campaign, because it is a public
health issue.
The Mitch Albom Show (Detroit Radio); She is also recording an interview
for tonight during the 5 o’clock hour
Publicity Reviews, and Praise:
Nobody Turn
Me Around, Charles Euchner, August 2010, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-0059-5
Booklist; nice review in the August 1st issue
“A sweeping, comprehensive look at a pivotal march in American history”
Minneapolis Star Tribune; review to come
Boston Globe; review to come
Shelf Talker, Daily Dharma; author piece to come in August
Do It Anyway,
Courtney Martin, September 2010, trade paperback, $16.00, 978-0-8070-0047-2
Publisher’s Weekly; nice review in the July issue
“A passionate champion for social justice work of all stripes, she
profiles eight activists who have managed to "soothe the critics and
pessimists in their own heads and act,"…
…it initiates a vital conversation at a time when the world and its
challenges seem more intractable than ever.”
Are We Born
Racist?, Marsh et al, August 2010, paperback original, $18.00,
978-0-8070-1157-7
Booklist; nice review in the August 1st issue
“A highly accessible, thought-provoking collection on racial bias.”
Hollowing
Out the Middle, Patrick J. Carr And Maria J. Kefalas, October
2009, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-4238-0
Huffington Post; David Gray, Director of the Workforce and Family
Program at the New America Foundation, mentions Hollowing Out the Middle
in this piece about the rural Midwest’s tendency to over-invest in young
people who leave. Last November he hosted Pat for an event at the Foundation:
Outdoor writer and parent Michael Lanza has spent much of his life in
our country’s national parks, and he’s always wanted to share the
splendor of these wild areas with his children. But because of climate change,
time is running out: for example, it is predicted that within a decade—by
the time Lanza’s kids are in their late teens—Glacier National Park’s
7,000-year-old ice will be gone. So he’s embarked on a year-long quest
to visit as many climate-threatened wild places as possible with his wife and
kids. His book will document his unusual family adventure, report from the front
lines of climate change, and ultimately offer a celebration of the wild. Spring
2012.
Beacon is delighted to announce the acquisition of a book telling a story of
hope in a time of widespread extinctions. David Wingate is known throughout
Bermuda as the “birdman” and in the international birding and conservation
community as a “living legend” singlehandedly responsible for bringing
back a species of sea bird thought to have been extinct for 400 years. Journalist
Elizabeth Gehrman has set out to share Wingate’s lifelong quest
to save the Bermuda petrel, telling the extraordinary story of how he restored
the precolonial ecosystem of an entire island and saved this unlikely bird against
all the odds. Fall 2012.
Beacon Press is a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association