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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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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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
$16.00 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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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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Why I Wake Early: New Poems
$25.00 Add to cartMary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America’s foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-sev… [more below]
- Author: Oliver, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0807068764
- Language: English
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Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene
$29.95 Add to cart“This book doesn’t offer easy answers, but it offers something better–a way of seeing our shared vulnerability as the starting point for understanding what’s breaking and what still might be saved.&#… [more below]
- Author: Boissoneault, Lorraine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0807017558
- Language: English
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The Lesbian Bar Chronicles: The Living History and Hopeful Future of America’s Dyke Dives and Sapphic Spaces
$29.95 Read moreA grassroots tour of the nation’s lesbian bars that illuminates their past, present, and hopeful future, from the co-creator of the hit podcast Cruising
Lesbian bars are so much more than a place to g- Author: Karp, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 0807023442
- Language: English
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Man’s Search for Meaning
$24.00 Add to cartA gorgeous, deluxe edition of the bestselling Holocaust memoir about finding purpose and strength in times of despair–selected as a Library of Congress “10 Most Influential Books in America”
A Beacon- Series: Beacon Classics
- Author: Frankl, Viktor E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 080701883X
- Language: English
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In the Arms of Mountains: A Memoir of Land, Love, and Queer Resistance in Red America
$28.95 Read moreRural America deserves more than an elegy: a powerful story of hope, resilience, and political resistance where you least expect it, from Idaho’s first openly LGBTQ+ lawmaker
“One doesn’t need to be q- Author: Lefavour, Cole Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 080702418X
- Language: English
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Transaction Denied: Big Finance’s Power to Punish Speech
$29.95 Read moreExposes how companies like Visa, Chase, PayPal, Bank of America, and Mastercard use their power to silence dissenting voices and hurt democracy through the practice of financial censorship
Civil liber- Author: Reitman, Rainey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0807019119
- Language: English
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Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
$24.00 Add to cartA deluxe hardcover edition of the pioneering classic that explores the contexts in which history is produced–now part of the HBO docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes, written and directed by Raoul P… [more below]
- Series: Beacon Classics
- Author: Trouillot, Michel-Rolph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0807024120
- Language: English
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Common Sense (1776), Addressed to Today’s Citizens of America: An Erasure
$21.95 Read moreA revolutionary work of erasure poetry that exposes the contradictions in Thomas Paine’s Common Sense–calling for a new definition of citizenship that embraces all Americans
In his famous cry for inh- Author: Smith, Crystal Simone
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0807023388
- Language: English
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The Collective Cure: Upstream Solutions for Better Public Health
$27.95 Add to cartA personable, story-driven explanation of how the systems around us–where we live, work, learn, and connect–shape our health, and how each of us can help create healthier communities.
A powerful ble- Author: Wang, Monica L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0807017493
- Language: English
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Student Parent: The Fight for Families, the Cost of Poverty, and the Power of College
$27.95 Add to cartA vital call to disrupt systemic forces that impoverish families and to reimagine accessible higher education, empowering parents to thrive in college and at home
From the former teen mom and award-win… [more below]- Author: Lewis, Nicole Lynn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0807017574
- Language: English
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Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal
$17.00 Add to cartA longtime immigration activist explores what it means to be an undocumented American in this “impassioned and well-reported case for change“ (New York Times).
In this illuminating work, immigrant ri- Author: Chomsky, Aviva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 0807001678
- Language: English
