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An esteemed activist invites us to consider the complex idea of abolition as much more than a strategy or a set of tactics—at a deeper level, abolition is an entire political framework, culture, and orientationThe January 2025 Justice and Spirit: Unitarian Universalist Book Club selection.Blendin…
Paperback | By William Ayers | From Beacon PressTagged as: Activism, America, Culture, Freedom, History, History, Politics, Social Justice -
An accessible exploration into how we can use trauma psychology to unravel and transform our harmful beliefsIn Radical Unlearning, journalist and transgender antiracist activist Lewis Raven Wallace argues that breaking out of the frameworks of thought and behavior we’ve been taught in our
Hardcover | By Lewis Raven Wallace | From Beacon PressTagged as: Change, Personal Inspiration, Psychology, Trauma -
Available for pre-orderA stunning, collectible edition of Howard Zinn’s landmark memoir that chronicles his lifelong commitment to social justice and steadfast belief that ordinary people can change historyA Beacon Classics edition, featuring spot gloss cover and retro, classic paletteIs change…
Hardcover | By Howard Zinn | From Beacon PressTagged as: Activism, Personal Stories, Social Justice -
Available for pre-orderAn incisive examination of why the pillars of feminism have eroded—and how all women, not just the #girlbosses, can rebuild themThe March 2025 Justice and Spirit: Unitarian Universalist Book Club selection.After over 175 years, the feminist movement, now in its fourth wave,…
Paperback | By Serene Khader | From Beacon PressTagged as: Culture, Equity, Gender, Intersectionality, Justice, Women -
Available for pre-order An investigation into how Native American identity became a commodity, from cultural appropriation to ethnic fraud to disenrollment Settler capitalism has been so effective that the very identities of Indigenous people have been usurped, misconstrued, and weaponized.
Hardcover | By Dina Gilio-Whitaker | From Beacon PressTagged as: Identity -
Available for pre-orderAn exclusive Beacon Classics edition of the book that brought mindfulness to the Western world and continues to open the hearts and minds of readers everywhere, with a gorgeous spot gloss cover and retro, classic palette.The Miracle of Mindfulness has been cherished by
Hardcover | By Thich Nhat Hanh | From Beacon Press -
Available for pre-orderJust in time for Hispanic Heritage Month comes another brilliant bilingual poetry collection by Achy Obejas—a meditation on being a queer mom to 2 sonsThese 44 prose poems, artful yet accessible, presented in both Spanish and English versions, immerse us in the boy kingdom…
Paperback | By Achy Obejas | From Beacon PressTagged as: Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer -
Available for pre-orderA renowned historian argues that we are seeing the beginning of the end of the Zionist project, and considers the issues that must be centered for a sustainable and peaceful future for Palestinians and Jews to emergeIn this urgent and timely book, historian Ilan Pappé argue…
Hardcover | By Ilan Pappeé | From Beacon PressTagged as: History, History -
Available for pre-orderThe true—and unsolved—story of unabashedly greedy men, their exploitation of Muscogee land, and the hunt for the ghost of a boy who may never have existedA 2024 Publisher’s Weekly best Nonfiction book of the year.In the early 1900s, at the dawn of the “American
Paperback | By Russell Cobb | From Beacon PressTagged as: History, History -
Available for pre-orderSubmitting to unwanted sex destroyed Kate’s love for her husbandBut she considered killing herself before she could imagine leavingIn this electrifying literary memoir, Kate Hamilton deftly traces her complicated journey from loving wife to gaslit victim to furious feminist…
Paperback | From Beacon PressTagged as: Family, Marriage
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