Beacon Press
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
$18.95 Add to cart“All Souls is the written equivalent of an Irish wake, where revelers dance and sing the dead person’s praises. In that same style, the book leavens tragedy with dashes of humor but preserves the hear… [more below]
- Author: MacDonald, Michael Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0807020532
- Language: English
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Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control
$17.95 Add to cart“In this stunning blend of memoir, theory, and cultural criticism, a new mother examines the intersection between misogyny and motherhood, considering how caregivers can take back their bodies and pas… [more below]
- Author: Montei, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0807016470
- Language: English
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No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference
$28.95 Add to cartAn urgent examination of the invisibility of Black women and girls as victims of targeted killings, and the lack of police intervention and media coverage
When Black women and girls are targeted and m- Author: Neely, Cheryl L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0807004561
- Language: English
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Hildegard’s Healing Plants: From Her Medieval Classic Physica
$25.00 Add to cart- Author: Von Bingen, Hildegard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: May 11 2002
- ISBN10: 0807021091
- Language: English
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The White Peril: A Family Memoir
$27.95 Add to cartFrom the son of legendary civil rights organizer Robert P. Moses: a brilliant, unflinching memoir about becoming Black in America that interweaves voices from 3 generations of the Moses family
In The- Author: Moses, Omo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0807004820
- Language: English
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They Just Need to Get a Job: 15 Myths on Homelessness
$18.95 Add to cartFor readers of Andrea Elliott and Matthew Desmond, the former CEO of the Coalition for the Homeless breaks through the highly destructive misinformation surrounding our homeless neighbors
Conservative- Series: Myths Made in America
- Author: Brosnahan, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0807006971
- Language: English
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Revolution by Fire: New York’s Afro-Irish Uprising of 1741, a Graphic Novel
$18.95 Add to cartBased on the little known real life “Slave Insurrection” of 1741, this book imagines outlaw fugitive John Gwin and an eclectic crew of renegades as they attempt to disrupt and overthrow the colonial s… [more below]
- Author: Lester, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0807012556
- Language: English
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Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop
$28.95 Read moreFor readers of Hood Feminism and Against White Feminism
An incisive examination of why the pillars of feminism have eroded–and how all women, not just the #girlbosses, can rebuild them After over 175- Author: Khader, Serene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0807008273
- Language: English
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Religion Is Not Done with You: Or, the Hidden Power of Religion on Race, Maps, Bodies, and Law
$24.95 Add to cartA smart, irreverent, and accessible guide to thinking more deeply about how religion permeates and shapes the world around us -and why you need to understand the work it’s doing
Religion lurks in the- Author: Morgenstein Fuerst, Ilyse
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0807012750
- Language: English
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A Black Women’s History of the United States
$29.95 Add to cartThe award-winning Revisioning American History series continues with this “groundbreaking new history of Black women in the United States” (Ibram X. Kendi)–the perfect companion to An Indigenous Peop… [more below]
- Series: ReVisioning American History #5
- Author: Berry, Daina Ramey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0807033553
- Language: English
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The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature’s Salvation
$21.00 Read moreNamed one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist
A provocative exploration of the “new ecology” and why most of what we think we know about alien species is wrong For a long time, veteran environm- Author: Pearce, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0807039551
- Language: English
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Julian Bond’s Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
$20.00 Read moreA masterclass in the civil rights movement from one of the legendary activists who led it.
Compiled from his original lecture notes, Julian Bond’s Time to Teach brings his invaluable teachings to a ne- Author: Bond, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0807014788
- Language: English
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Is Science Enough?: Forty Critical Questions about Climate Justice
$16.00 Read moreWhy social, racial, and economic justice are just as crucial as science in determining how humans can reverse climate catastrophe
We are facing a climate catastrophe. A plethora of studies describe th- Series: Myths Made in America
- Author: Chomsky, Aviva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0807015768
- Language: English
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White Rat: Short Stories
$17.95 Read moreThe acclaimed author’s first collection of stories, reissued to coincide with the paperback publication of her second and latest, Butter
“Gayl Jones’s work represents a watershed in American literatur- Author: Jones, Gayl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0807012947
- Language: English
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Vinegar Hill: Poems
$22.95 Read moreFrom the New York Times best-selling author of Brooklyn, Colm T?b?’s first collection of poetry explores sexuality, religion, and belonging through a modern lens
Fans of Colm T?b?’s novels, including- Author: Toibin, Colm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 080700653X
- Language: English
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Antes Que Isla Es Volcán / Before Island Is Volcano: Poemas / Poems
$17.00 Read moreGold Medal Winner of the Juan Felipe Herrera Award for Bilingual Poetry
From the National Book Award-nominated, Lambda Award-winning poet: a powerful, inventive new collection that looks to the future- Series: Raised Voices
- Author: Salas Rivera, Raquel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0807014575
- Language: English
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Celebrity Nation: How America Evolved Into a Culture of Fans and Followers
$18.95 Read moreA former People magazine editor reveals how our cult of celebrity has shaped our politics, our culture, and our personal lives–for better or worse
From the writer and editor who coined the term “baby- Author: Jones, Landon Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0807093424
- Language: English
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Brokers of Deceit: How the US Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East
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An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments For more tha
Winner of the 2014 Lionel Trilling Book Award- Author: Khalidi, Rashid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0807033243
- Language: English
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White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
$20.00 Read moreThe story of how white bread became white trash, this social history shows how our relationship with the love-it-or-hate-it food staple reflects our country’s changing values
In the early twentieth ce- Author: Bobrow-Strain, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0807044784
- Language: English
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Interfaith Leadership: A Primer
$20.00 Read moreA guide for students, groups, and organizations seeking to foster interfaith dialogue and promote understanding across religious lines
In this book, renowned interfaith leader Eboo Patel offers a clea- Author: Patel, Eboo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0807033626
- Language: English
