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Category: Biography and Memoir
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Two Beacon Press books are leading the voting for the Boston Globe’s first citywide read program.
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Congratulations to Beacon Press staff and associates for their inspired design of David Plante’s The Pure Lover, recently honored by Bookbuilders of Boston.
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An excerpt from a new book about a family’s quest to cure their daughter’s debilitating disease by creating a sibling who could help her.
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An excerpt from Geoffrey Canada’s memoir, Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America
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Danielle Ofri, one of many doctors writing about their experiences with patients, discusses her own approach to ensuring patient privacy.
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In honor of Don Belton, whose death on December 27th was a great loss, Beacon Broadside shares this essay from Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream.
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Mark Hyman, author of Until is Hurts: America’s Obsession with Youth Sports and How it Harms Our Kids, reviews the latest feel-good sports film, The Blind Side.
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Today's post is from Danielle Ofri, writer and practicing internist at New York City's Bellevue Hospital. She is the editor-in-chief of the Bellevue Literary Review. Her newest book is Medicine in Translation: Journeys with my Patients. This post originally appeared at her Medicine in Translation blog at Psychology Today. “Angelina Gomez,” the medical assistant hollers…
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