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  • December is here, and it’s time for our holiday sale! All this month, get 30% off every purchase on beacon.org using code HOLIDAY30. Are you looking for the perfect gift to inspire someone in your life but don’t know where to start? Check out our bestsellers from this year below! If you’ve got a specific kind of…

  • By Andrew Hrycyna Nancy Mairs wrote about ideas in ways no philosophers do, entwined with story, the particulars of one woman’s life. But she made me feel I could be helpful to her as an editor. I would say, “Something’s missing here, a step in the argument: here, let me write it out.” What invariably…

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  • It’s a terrible shame when you see how easy it can be to feed children good, healthy food that not only nourishes their bodies, but gives them a sense of place and a sense of community. Sharing good, local food can do that—it’s not an unrealistic romantic dream.

  • We at Beacon would like to honor World Wildlife Day, marked every year on March 3, by highlighting some of the books dedicated to various kinds of wildlife conservation.

  • All of us at Beacon Press join our colleagues in the international publishing community in condemning the terrorist attacks on the offices of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, and reaffirming the vital importance of a free press to people everywhere.

  • In Hunting Season, Mirta Ojito reports the true story of an immigrant’s murder that turned a quaint village on the Long Island shore into ground zero in the war on immigration.

  • Here’s a roundup of what we’ve been reading and listening to online this week.