A Global Perspective on Mother’s Day by Sarah LeVine
Living Under the Trees: Indigenous Mexican Farm Workers in California by
David Bacon
Monday Link Roundup: Fresh Food, Seeds, Bulbs and More
A Tree Grows for Shirley by Kelly McMasters
Bloody Foundation for U.S. – Columbia Free Trade Agreement by Garry
Leech
Publicity, Reviews, Praise, and Upcoming Events:
Red Bird,
Mary Oliver, April 2008, Cloth, $23.00, 978-0-8070-6892-2?
Book Sense Hardcover Fiction bestseller lists:
#10 National (7 weeks and running)
#5 New England
#9 Mountains and Plains
#5 Pacific Northwest
#11 Northern California
American Magazine; review with jacket art in the April 28th issue
Town and Country; brief profile with excerpt of “Mornings at
Blackwater” from Red Bird; to run in June issue
Upcoming Events:
Valley Bookstore; reading and book signing; book sales through Valley Bookstore;
Jackson, WY; May 8th & 9th
Boise Egyptian Theater; reading and book signing; book sales through The
Rediscovered Bookshop; Boise, ID; September 23rd
Sun Valley Bookstore; reading and book signing; book sales through Iconoclast
Books; Sun Valley, ID; September 25th
Philadelphia Hall; reading and book signing; book sales through Joseph Fox
Bookshop; Philadelphia, PA; November 18th
Santa Rosa Hall; reading and book signing; book sales through Copperfield's;
Santa Rosa, CA; December 1st
Herbst Theater; reading and book signing; book sales through Books Inc;
San Francisco, CA; December 3rd
Inheriting
the Trade,Thomas Norman DeWolf, January 2008, Cloth,
$25.95, 978-0-8070-7281-3
Upcoming Broadcast:
CBS Early Show; co-host Harry Smith will interview DeWolf and his cousin
Katrina Browne; clips of the documentary will be shown; in-studio taping Tuesday,
April 29th; airing next week; exact date and time to come
P.O.V. / PBS; Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North, the Sundance
selected documentary based on DeWolf’s book has been selected for a national
broadcast premiere; coming June 24th
Upcoming Events:
Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center; Council on Foundations
Philanthropy Summit; National Harbor, MD; May 6th-7th
Davies Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church; reading, discussion, book
signing; Campa Springs, MD; May 10th, 6 p.m.
Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly, Greater Fort Lauderdale
Broward County Convention Center; workshop led by DeWolf to examine the complicated
legacy of slavery, a fresh look at history and tools to overcome racism, followed
by book signing; Fort Lauderdale, FL; June 28th, 1:30pm
AARP, The Bulletin; brief excerpt with jacket art in the May issue
Salon.com; Katharine Mieskowski will interview Mooney on May 9th for a
Q&A to run right around the book's pub date (May 15th); interview will
also run as an edited podcast on the site
Upcoming Broadcast:
On Point with Tom Ashbrook /NPR; Wednesday, May 14th, 11:00- 12:00 p.m.
EST; live via remote; On Point is heard on over 110 NPR affiliate stations
across the country
Barnes and Noble/Upper West Side; author event in celebration of Gay Pride
Month; New York City, June 9th, 7 p.m.
Love & Death, Forrest Church, September 2008, cloth, $22.00,
978-0-8070-7293-6
“This beautiful book by a matchless preacher, poet, and author is Forrest
Church in his finest hour.”—Senator George McGovern
Awards:
Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage, Nancy D. Polikoff, February 2008,
Cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-4432-2
QBliss has selected Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage as their
2008 “Outstanding Book of the Year”
Beacon Acquisitions:
Beacon is delighted to announce the acquisition of Margaret Regan’s
Border Tragedies: Death and Disorder on the Arizona-Mexico Line
(tentative title). In July 2000, Regan began reporting on the escalating
chaos along the U.S.-Mexico border, particularly in Arizona, where growing
numbers of border crossings and arrests have made the state a test case for
border policies and immigration debate. Using Arizona as a microcosm, Regan
explores the larger issues surrounding the massive human migration from Mexico
to America including: the desperation that compels Mexicans to cross the border;
the militarization of the borderlands; the pile-up of unidentified bodies;
how the rights of U.S. citizens have been curtailed; and, the resulting environmental
damage. Fall 2009
After publishing Joe Mackall’s critically acclaimed Plain
Secrets: An Outsider among the Amish, Beacon is happy to announce the
acquisition of Amish Exiles: The Other in our Midst (tentative
title). In this new book, Mackall profiles people in various stages of leaving
their Amish communities and explores how their experiences tell us something
about what it means to be an “other” in modern America—particularly
for Amish women who leave their communities with fewer marketable skills than
their male counterparts. Amish Exiles will raise provocative and fascinating
questions about how insular and patriarchal societies function in our contemporary
society. Spring 2010
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