Fall 2015 Beacon Books
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Fall 2015 Beacon Books / New books from Beacon Press, coming between August 11, 2015 - February 16, 2016.
Spring 2015 Beacon Books
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Spring 2015 Beacon Books
Fall 2014 Beacon Books
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Fall 2014 Beacon Books
Spring 2014 Beacon Books
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Spring 2014 Beacon Books / Coming soon! Books going on sale February - August, 2014.
Book Trailers and Author Videos
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Book Trailers and Author Videos / Some quick videos to introduce Beacon Press books, alongside some fun and interesting videos of our authors.
Teachers' Guides
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Teachers' Guides / A selection of titles for which Beacon Press has developed teachers' guides with discussion questions and suggested classroom activities. Find the list here: http://www.beacon.org/Assets/ClientPages/TeacherGuides.aspx
Reading Group Guides
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Reading Group Guides / A selection of titles for which Beacon Press has developed reading group guides perfect for book groups and community discussions. Find the list here: http://www.beacon.org/client/readguide/
Immigration
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Immigration / Beacon Press is committed to affirming human diversity and upholding the dignity of all people, including those seeking a better life inside our nation's borders than they had without.
King Legacy
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King Legacy / Beacon Press is partnering with the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr. in a new publishing program, "The King Legacy." Beacon will print new editions of previously published King titles and compile Dr. King's writings, sermons, orations, lectures, and prayers into entirely new editions, including significant new introductions by leading scholars.
Law & Society
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Law & Society
Queer Perspectives from Beacon Press
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Queer Perspectives from Beacon Press / Books and more for understanding and celebrating the LGBT experience.
Education
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Education / A sampling from our education-oriented publications.
Nature & Environment
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Nature & Environment
History
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History / History books. We've got some!
Religion
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Religion / A selection of Beacon Press titles on religious topics of all stripes.
Civil Rights
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Civil Rights
African American History
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African American History
Women's History
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Women's History
Marketplace of the Marvelous
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Marketplace of the Marvelous / A history of botanical remedies, hypnotic suggestion, water cures, skeletal manipulation and other health innovations of nineteenth-century America, and the surprising ways they influenced modern medicine.
Health & Medicine
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Health & Medicine
Fall 2013 Beacon Books
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Fall 2013 Beacon Books / Books that are going on sale between September 1, 2013, and February 28, 2014.
Spring 2013 Beacon Books
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Spring 2013 Beacon Books
Fall 2012 Beacon Books
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Fall 2012 Beacon Books / Books that are going on sale between September 1, 2012, and February 28, 2013.
Summer 2012 Books
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Summer 2012 Books
Beacon Recommends
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Beacon Recommends
#Boston
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#Boston / We've been here since 1854 and what can we say? We love this town!
Outlaw Marriages
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Outlaw Marriages / Couples featured in Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples by Rodger Streitmatter (http://goo.gl/QlPS0)
A Queer History of the United States
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A Queer History of the United States / A Queer History of the United States is more than a "who's who" of queer history: it is a book that radically challenges how we understand American history. Drawing upon primary-source documents, literature, and cultural histories, scholar and activist Michael Bronski charts the breadth of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from 1492 to the 1990s. Click through to hear episodes from our Queer History podcast with Michael Bronski.
Into Great Silence
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Into Great Silence
Quotes
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Quotes / We might be a little biased, but our authors have some pretty great things to say.
World Book Night
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World Book Night / World Book Night is an annual celebration designed to spread a love of reading and books. To be held in the U.S. as well as the U.K. and Ireland on April 23, 2012. It will see tens of thousands of people go out into their communities to spread the joy and love of reading by giving out free World Book Night paperbacks.
Great People in History
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Great People in History
Our Favorite Authors
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Our Favorite Authors
2013 Best of the Best from University Presses
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2013 Best of the Best from University Presses / The "Best of the Best" program is presented annually at the American Library Association Conference. University presses represent an often-undiscovered gold mine of resources for school and public libraries. Public and secondary school librarians who served on the 2012-13 selection committees for University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries introduce 13 recent titles they found to be "the best" for a variety of reasons.
What Are You Reading?
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What Are You Reading? / Feel free to share what book you are currently reading. Please do not pin sweepstakes, quotes, magazine articles, blogs, infographics, lists, contests, pictures of book shelves,etc. Enjoy, and let's find some great new books to read!
Black Women Writers
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Black Women Writers
Indigenous Peoples
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Indigenous Peoples
Ramadan Reading
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Ramadan Reading
For Book Clubs
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For Book Clubs / What’s your group reading? What’s next on your list? Share your picks with us, as well as recipes, cocktails, reading guides, and more! (Anything unrelated to book clubs will be removed and spammers will be blocked. Self-promotional pins will be removed unless relevant to the board. No more than 5 pins per day, per pinner)