Beacon Press
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Man’s Search for Meaning
$16.00 Add to cartA book for finding purpose and strength in times of great despair, the international best-seller is still just as relevant today as when it was first published.
“This is a book I reread a lot . . . it
- Author: Frankl, Viktor E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0807014273
- Language: English
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White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
$17.00 Add to cartThe New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
I- Author: Diangelo, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0807047414
- Language: English
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An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
$18.95 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
Now part of the HBO docuseries “Exterminate All the Brutes,” written and directed by Raoul Peck Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States to- Series: ReVisioning American History #3
- Author: Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 11 2015
- ISBN10: 0807057835
- Language: English
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Kindred
$17.00 Add to cartSelected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS. (“You have to read them.”)
From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hu- Series: Bluestreak
- Author: Butler, Octavia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 287
- Publish Date: February 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0807083690
- Language: English
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Race Matters, 25th Anniversary: With a New Introduction
$15.00 Add to cartThe twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introduction
First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a nationa- Author: West, Cornel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0807008834
- Language: English
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Man’s Search for Meaning
$27.95 Add to cartWe needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, b… [more below]
- Author: Frankl, Viktor E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 18 2014
- ISBN10: 0807000000
- Language: English
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Collected Poems
$19.95 Add to cartWinner Gish Prize for Lifetime Achievement
A representative collection of the life work of the much-honored poet and a founder of the Black Arts movement, spanning the 4 decades of her literary career- Author: Sanchez, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0807007358
- Language: English
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Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
$25.95 Add to cart“The foundational text that gave me life-changing context, helping me to understand who I was and who came before me.”–Tourmaline, activist and filmmaker
Transgender Warriors is an essential read for … [more below]- Author: Feinberg, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 30 1997
- ISBN10: 0807079413
- Language: English
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Notes of a Native Son
$16.00 Add to cart#26 on The Guardian’s list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in America
In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin’s essays on life in Harlem,- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0807006238
- Language: English
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The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
$17.00 Add to cartOne of the best available introductions to the wisdom and beauty of meditation practice. –New Age Journal
In this beautiful and lucid guide, Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh offers gentle anecdotes and pra- Author: Nhat Hanh, Thich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0807012394
- Language: English
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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
$20.00 Add to cartThis “bracing corrective to national mythology” around the American civil rights movement “shows us how little we remember, and how much more there is to understand” (New York Times).
“Theoharis’s … [more below]- Author: Theoharis, Jeanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0807063487
- Language: English
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Her Own Voice: Eight Women Who Rewrote Life and Art
$29.95 Add to cartWith Virginia Woolf as a guide, the stories of eight radical 20th century women–wanderers, rebels, explorers, mentors–who made a life for themselves in spite of everything.
Everything that changed i- Author: Fernald, Anne E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 18 2026
- ISBN10: 0807021334
- Language: English
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Walden: Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben
$24.00 Add to cartA deluxe edition of Henry David Thoreau’s groundbreaking environmentalist masterpiece, including an introduction and annotations by renowned social and environmental critic Bill McKibben
A Beacon Clas- Series: Beacon Classics
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0807024104
- Language: English
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The Cost of Fear: Why Most Safety Advice Is Sexist and How We Can Stop Gender-Based Violence
$17.95 Add to cart- Author: Stone, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0807022721
- Language: English
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The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
$25.00 Add to cartBy the author of the New York Times Bestseller The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
From British colonization to Israeli occupation, an essential primer on the nearly century-long fight for Palestinian- Series: Beacon Classics
- Author: Khalidi, Rashid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0807024155
- Language: English
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The Rainbow Ain’t Never Been Enuf: On the Myth of LGBTQ+ Solidarity
$18.95 Add to cartA queer Black feminist debunks the myth of rainbow solidarity, repositioning Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ people at the forefront of queer pasts, presents, and futures
Your favorite Black queer studies pro- Author: Story, Kaila Adia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 0807022799
- Language: English
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Let Us Play: Winning the Battle for Gender Diverse Athletes
$17.95 Add to cartA crucial subversion of the misconceptions around the participation of genderdiverse athletes advocating for the inclusion of trans and nonbinary athletes across all levels of sport
The debate over th- Series: Queer Ideas/Queer Action
- Author: Browne, Harrison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 0807022780
- Language: English
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Empire and Liberty: The Tied Histories of Two American Landmarks
$32.00 Read moreA sweeping cultural history of two iconic landmarks that reflect the spirit, character, and values of the US–the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty–and the role they play in shaping Ame… [more below]
- Author: Cook, Vaneesa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0807019682
- Language: English
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Midstream: A Life Remade in 50 Swims
$27.95 Read moreA memoir of jumping feet first into a new life, reclaiming long-forgotten joys, and discovering a renewed sense of self after divorce, offering a fresh vision of midlife to women who have abandoned th… [more below]
- Author: Washington, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 07 2026
- ISBN10: 080702354X
- Language: English
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24 Hours at the Capitol: An Oral History of the January 6th Insurrection
$28.95 Add to cartThe 24 Hours in Charlottesville author offers a minute-by-minute account of the January 6 riots through never-before-heard stories of those who were there
Neus goes beyond mainstream reporting to reve- Author: Neus, Nora
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0807020621
- Language: English
