Beacon Press
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Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
$16.99 Add to cartAn extraordinary retrospective covering over thirty years of work, From a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society’s 2018 Wallace Stevens Award-winner.
Shake Loose My S… [more below]- Series: Bluestreak #12
- Author: Sanchez, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0807068535
- Language: English
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The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays
$17.00 Add to cartThe Truro Bear and Other Adventures, a companion volume to Owls and Other Fantasies and Blue Iris, brings together ten new poems, thirty-five of Oliver’s classic poems, and two essays all about mammal… [more below]
- Author: Oliver, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0807068853
- Language: English
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You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption
$17.95 Add to cartAn adoption expert and transracial adoptee herself examines the unique perspectives and challenges these adoptees have as they navigate multiple cultures
“Your parents are so amazing for adopting you!- Author: Tucker, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0807093378
- Language: English
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The Miracle of Mindfulness: Gift Edition
$22.00 Add to cartA new gift edition of the classic guide to meditation and mindfulness, featuring archival photography and beautiful calligraphy by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Miracle of Mindfulness is a classic guide to medi- Author: Nhat Hanh, Thich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0807064904
- Language: English
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How to Be Less Stupid about Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
$14.95 Read moreA unique and irreverent take on everything that’s wrong with our “national conversation about race”–and what to do about it
How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking throug- Author: Fleming, Crystal M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0807039845
- Language: English
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Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence
$16.95 Read moreLong before President Barack Obama praised his work as “an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a generation of children,” and First Lady Michelle Obama cal
- Author: Canada, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0807044490
- Language: English
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The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
$18.95 Add to cartA bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they’ve been trained to avoid.
Seizing upon the ener- Author: Eltahawy, Mona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0807002585
- Language: English
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School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness
$25.95 Read moreA chorus of Black student voices that renders a new story of US education–one where racial barriers and violence are confronted by freedom dreaming and resistance
Black students were forced to live a- Author: Givens, Jarvis R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 080705481X
- Language: English
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Craft and Conscience: How to Write about Social Issues
$19.95 Add to cartThe first major book for writers to more effectively engage with complex socio-political issues–a critical first step in creating social change
Writers are witnesses and scribes to society’s conscien- Author: Das, Kavita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0807046493
- Language: English
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Making Americans: Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas, and Inspiration in Immigrant Education
$19.95 Read more“Making Americans shines a light on the barriers that immigrant students in the US face–and shares inspiring stories about students who have overcome them” –Bill Gates
A landmark work that weaves cap… [more below]- Author: Lander, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0807013358
- Language: English
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What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
$17.95 Add to cart“A fascinating journey into the heart and mind of a physician” that explores the doctor-patient relationship, the flaws in our health care system, and how doctors’ emotions impact medical care (Boston… [more below]
- Author: Ofri, Danielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0807033308
- Language: English
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Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America
$16.95 Add to cartNational Book Critics Circle 2021 Biography Finalist
53rd NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography “[A] riveting and timely exploration of Hamer’s life. . . . Bri- Author: Blain, Keisha N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0807007250
- Language: English
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Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World
$21.95 Add to cartAn eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today, and how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities… [more below]
- Author: Mattlin, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0807013331
- Language: English
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-And the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story
$17.00 Add to cartWhat science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew
For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the- Author: Saini, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0807010030
- Language: English
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White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
$26.95 Read moreThe 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0807047406
- Language: English
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Nature and Walking
$16.00 Add to cartTogether in one volume, Emerson’s Nature and Thoreau’s Walking, is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature.
- Series: Concord Library
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0807014192
- Language: English
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And the Category Is.: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
$25.95 Read moreA 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Nonfiction
An Electric Literature “Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2022” Selection A love letter to the legendary Black and Latinx LGBTQ underground subculture- Author: Tucker, Ricky
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0807003484
- Language: English
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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
$18.95 Add to cartA new 100th anniversary edition of the only adult book on one of the odder disasters in US history–and the greed, disregard for poor immigrants, and lack of safety standards that led to it.
Around no- Author: Puleo, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 080707800X
- Language: English
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
$18.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities in early America that “reminds us of the cold calculus at the intersection of slavery and capitalism” (Kirkus Reviews).
“Searing, revelatory, and vita… [more below]- Author: Berry, Daina Ramey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0807067148
- Language: English
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Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
$19.95 Add to cartFind hope even in these dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece, a companion to his international bestseller Man’s Search for Meaning.
Eleven months after he was liberated from the Nazi concentr- Author: Frankl, Viktor E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 23 2020
- ISBN10: 080700555X
- Language: English
