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Available for pre-orderAs women’s rights are increasingly depleted in the US, journalist Rebecca Kelliher dives into the radical history of the abortion pills from invention to distribution to todaySpanning decades and continents with a tenacious cast of doctors, activists, politicians, drug
Hardcover | By Kate Hamilton, Rebecca Kelliher | From Beacon Press -
Available for pre-orderA highly anticipated, rediscovered collection from Viktor Frankl, published for the first time in the United States, exploring freedom, responsibility, and how we can draw meaning from the temporary nature of our livesFrom the bestselling author of Man’s Search for Meaning,…
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Available for pre-orderA 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 Classics edition, featuring spot gloss cover and retro, classic
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Available for pre-orderFrom award-winning Driftpile Cree poet Billy-Ray Belcourt, a dazzling exploration of love, anguish, queerness, and Indigenous resistance in the 21st centuryQueer Indigenous poet Billy-Ray Belcourt offers up a powerful meditation on the present as a space where the past and …
Paperback | From Beacon PressTagged as: Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Personal Inspiration -
Available for pre-orderThe unforgettable account of Del Seymour, who overcame 18 years of homelessness and addiction to become one of the most respected advocates in San FranciscoIn Mayor of the Tenderloin, journalist Alison Owings slips behind the cold statistics and sensationalism surrounding San Francisco’s Tenderloin to reveal a harrowing and life-affirming account of Del Seymour—whose addiction led him into eighteen years of homelessness, pimping, and drug dealing. Once sober, he started Tenderloin Walking Tours and later Code Tenderloin, the remarkable organization teaching homeless, recovering addicts, sex workers, dealers, ex-felons, and other marginalized people how to get and keep a job.Owings traces Del’s story and those in his orbit: from his daughters, sobriety buddy, and ex-girlfriend, to a police captain and a psychiatric social worker, housing activists and corporate philanthropists, and Del’s Code Tenderloin students. In the Tenderloin, in a city known for its beauty and currently infamous for its divide between haves and have-nots, Owings highlights how Del gives back to people struggling with the same daunting setbacks—including a criminal record—he once faced.Honest and compelling, Mayor of the Tenderloin follows homelessness in one of America’s toughest neighborhoods as it was lived—in the words of someone who lived it and is now fighting to solve it.
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Available for pre-orderReject the stigmas of trauma and chronic illness by fostering queer forms of intimacy—and embracing the many ways humans can care for one anotherThe writer behind the popular @softcore_trauma Instagram offers a deeply personal memoir for folks seeking healing and better
Hardcover | From Beacon PressTagged as: Healing, Illness, Personal Inspiration, Psychology, Trauma -
Available for pre-orderThe life and 1984 murder of a beloved Black grandmother that changed community activism forever—and sparked the ongoing movement against racist policing and brutality.#SayHerName: The story of Eleanor Bumpurs, told for the first time by decorated historian and Bumpurs’s…
Hardcover | By LaShawn Harris | From Beacon PressTagged as: Anti-Racism, History, History, Racial Justice -
Available for pre-orderA searing critique of the disability rights movement from within, and a call for collective liberation that is pro-Black and centers disabled people of colorFor over twenty years, Dara Baldwin has often been the only person of color in the room when significant disability
Paperback | By Dara Baldwin | From Beacon PressTagged as: Disability, History, History, Intersectionality -
Available for pre-orderThe story of factory farmers, rescued farm animals, and rural communities standing up to big corporations and constructing their own new world that will change the way we eatIn Transfarmation, president and CEO of Mercy For Animals Leah Garcés explains how food and farming…
Paperback | By Leah Garcés | From Beacon PressTagged as: Animals, Food, Poverty -
Available for pre-orderAn award-winning environmental science teacher’s actionable roadmap for educators interested in making the world a classroom, even in the city.Join award-winning New York City educator Dr. Jared Fox in—and out of—his classroom on an excursion that goes beyond books and…
Hardcover | From Beacon PressTagged as: Education
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