Beacon Press
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Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives
$20.00 Add to cartIn this inspiring book, based on her twenty years of research, highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo reveals the healing power of writing. DeSalvo shows how anyone can use writing as a wa… [more below]
- Author: DeSalvo, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0807072435
- Language: English
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Watershed
$17.00 Add to cartA classic of politics, murder, and espionage
“Watershed has all the makings of a social thriller…In this novel about water and the struggle for a life free of injustice, the mix doesn’t just work, i- Author: Everett, Percival
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0807016276
- Language: English
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Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
$17.00 Add to cartFor readers of The Vanishing Half, a hidden gem from the Harlem Renaissance about a young Black woman’s journey toward self-acceptance while passing as white in 1920s New York City.
Originally publish- Series: Celebrating Black Women Writers
- Author: Fauset, Jessi Redmon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0807006602
- Language: English
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Notes of a Native Son
$28.95 Add to cartIn an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin’s essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documenta… [more below]
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0807006114
- Language: English
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God’s Country
$17.00 Add to cart“Mr. Everett is successful combining heart with rage. . . . The novel sears.” ―David Bowman, The New York Times Book Review
This ‘comic and fierce’ novel spoofs the classic Western format with t- Author: Everett, Percival
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0807016292
- Language: English
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Superior: The Return of Race Science
$16.00 Add to cartThis fascinating critique of race science, from the Enlightenment to the 21st century, is an “easy-to-read blend of science reporting, cultural criticism, and personal reflection” (Slate).
“An importa- Author: Saini, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0807028428
- Language: English
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Buddhish: A Guide to the 20 Most Important Buddhist Ideas for the Curious and Skeptical
$18.95 Add to cartAn engaging, accessible introduction to Buddhism for those who are looking to explore a new spiritual tradition or understand the roots of their mindfulness practice.
Are you curious about Buddhism bu- Author: Salguero, C. Pierce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0807064564
- Language: English
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The Radiant Lives of Animals
$21.95 Add to cartWinner of the (Inaugural) 2022 National Book Foundation Science + Literature Award
From a celebrated Chickasaw writer, a spiritual meditation, in prose and poetry, on our relationship to the animal wo- Author: Hogan, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0807047929
- Language: English
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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
$25.00 Add to cartOriginally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in the ensuing decade of radical political change. This second edition, newly introduced by Marcuse sch… [more below]
- Author: Marcuse, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0807014176
- Language: English
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An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
$27.95 Add to cartThe first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America
Beginning with pre-Rev- Series: Revisioning History
- Author: Mays, Kyle T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0807011681
- Language: English
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Palmares
$17.95 Read more2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Fiction
A NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2021 Selection A New York Times “Biggest New Books Coming Out in September” Selection – A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Pick – A- Author: Jones, Gayl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807007153
- Language: English
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A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
$29.95 Add to cartFrom the Haitian-style “shotgun” houses of the 19th century to the lavish high-rises of the 21st century, a walk through the streets of America’s neighborhoods that reveals the rich history–and futur… [more below]
- Author: Podemski, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0807007781
- Language: English
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Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
$20.00 Add to cartMLK’s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott.
A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the succe- Series: King Legacy (Paperback) #1
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0807000698
- Language: English
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The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance
$28.95 Add to cartFrom Playboy to Jay-Z, the racial origins of toxic masculinity and its impact on women, especially Black and “insufficiently white” women
More men than ever are refusing loving partnerships and commit- Author: Strings, Sabrina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0807008621
- Language: English
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A Master Class on Being Human: A Black Christian and a Black Secular Humanist on Religion, Race, and Justice
$28.95 Read moreA conversation between 2 eminent Black thinkers on how to work together to make the world a better place despite deep religious differences
Brad Braxton and Anthony Pinn represent two traditions–Chri- Author: Pinn, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807007889
- Language: English
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Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century
$18.00 Add to cartBlack women physicians’ stories have gone untold for far too long, leaving gaping holes in American medical history, in women’s history, and in black history. It’s time to set the record straight
No r- Author: Brown, Jasmine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0807013374
- Language: English
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The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging
$18.95 Read moreAn unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings mixed-race people face in family spaces and intimate relationships across their varying cultural backgrounds
In this emotionally powerful an- Author: Mehta, Samira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0807013366
- Language: English
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
$18.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Winner of th- Author: Perry, Imani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0807039837
- Language: English
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And the Category Is.: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
$18.95 Add to cartA 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0807007323
- Language: English
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The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
$21.95 Read moreAt a time when a lasting peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis seems virtually unattainable, understanding the roots of their conflict is an essential step in restoring hope to the region. I… [more below]
- Author: Khalidi, Rashid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0807003093
- Language: English
