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Beacon staff returns from a productive and photogenic BookExpo America!
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Today’s post is from Tom Hallock, Associate Publisher of Beacon Press. Last week, Beacon announced a change in its distribution from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to Random House Publisher Services which will be effective July 1, 2010. It’s a big change and one we’re excited about. The new partnership encompasses all formats and channels. Random House…
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An excerpt from Thousand Pieces of Gold, a biographical novel about the life of an extraordinary Chinese-American woman in the old west.
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Current Beacon contests and links to good reading.
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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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Out Front Colorado named David Plante‘s The Pure Lover one of its top 10 nonfiction titles of the year: When a writer as profoundly able as Plante pens a lament for his lost companion, the result is a fierce encapsulation of grief, the fundamentally private wrought wrenchingly public. This sublime remembrance – more a compilation of…
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Several Beacon Press books have made it onto Holiday gift-giving lists. Here’s a quick look at a handful of them. You can get 20% off any of these titles, or any other Beacon Press book, at the Beacon Press website by entering the code BROADSIDE at checkout. This discount is good until January 4, 2010.…
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Michael Patrick MacDonald’s All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, still resonates with readers of all ages ten years after it was first published.
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Today’s post is from Helene Atwan, Director of Beacon Press. She recently attended the 75th birthday celebration of Sonia Sanchez, an award-winning poet, playwright, activist, and scholar whose work includes Shake Loose My Skin and the forthcoming Morning Haiku. On Saturday, September 12, I had the joy and privilege of sharing in poet Sonia Sanchez’s…
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