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Category: Biography and Memoir
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In honor of Mother's Day and moms everywhere, where sharing a few of our favorite Mom moments in Beacon books. Today's passages illustrate two beautiful gifts the authors received from their moms: for Kevin Jennings, a love of books; for Chris Stedman, a sense of gratitude. Please feel free to share your own mom memories…
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Lillian Faderman is an internationally known scholar of lesbian history and literature, as well as of ethnic and immigrant history. She is the author of such acclaimed works as To Believe in Woman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, Surpassing the Love of Men, I Begin My Life All Over, and her memoir Naked in the Promised Land. Last…
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This eBook original exhibits Danielle Ofri’s range and skill as a storyteller as well as her empathy and astuteness as a doctor.
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An acclaimed writer on her mother’s tumultuous life as a Jewish immigrant in 1930s New York and her life-long guilt when the Holocaust claims the family she left behind in Latvia
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Terry Galloway’s wickedly hilarious memoir is now available in audiobook.
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This post originally appeared at Huffington Post. Today would have been the 100th birthday of Rosa Parks. To honor the day, we share these Ten Things You Didn't Know About Rosa Parks, compiled by Jeanne Theoharis, author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. 1. Parks had been thrown off the bus a decade earlier by…
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A look at recent mentions and media for Beacon books and authors.
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Now available in Audiobook: Without a Map, Meredith Hall’s moving memoir about banishment, reconciliation, and the meaning of family.
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William Ayers’ memoir of life in the Weather Underground is now available in audiobook.
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Now in audiobook: A rural expatriate’s struggle to reconcile family, home, love, and faith with the silence of the prairie land and its people.
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