Beacon: 545 books
by Scott Russell Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
This award-winning collection moves from the dark and technically astonishing title essay—on growing up within the confines of a huge Army arsenal in Ohio—to reflections on mountain hikes, limestone quarries, and fathers teaching their sons.
Fist Stick Knife Gun
A Personal History of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Long before U.S. News and World Report named him one of America's Best Leaders and Oprah Winfrey called him "an angel from God," Geoffrey Canada was a small, vulnerable, scared boy growing up in the South Bronx. Canada's world was one where "sidewalk" boys learned the codes of...
by Shelina Janmohamed
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
When Shelina Janmohamed, an Oxford-educated Muslim living in the bubbling ethnic mix of North London, opted for the traditional “arranged” route to finding a partner, she never suspected it would be the journey of her life.
Through ten long years of matchmaking buxom aunties, countless mismatches,...
Faitheist
How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The story of a former Evangelical Christian turned openly gay atheist who now works to bridge the divide between atheists and the religious
The stunning popularity of the “New Atheist” movement—whose most famous spokesmen include Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens—speaks...
Souls in the Hands of a Tender God
Stories of the Search for Home and Healing on the Streets
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Since 1987, Craig Rennebohm has ministered to people on the streets of Seattle who are homeless and struggling with mental illness. In Souls in the Hands of a Tender God, he tells the evocative stories of persons who desperately need psychiatric, psychological, and spiritual support-like Mary, who...
Breathing Space
A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
This book is a song of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving for the people whose courageous witness has transfigured this community-and this pastor. Thanksgiving for the gift of these stories that cry out to be told and retold because in the midst of death they rise to fill the air with life.
Breathing...
Beyond $15
Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The inside story of the first successful $15 minimum wage campaign that renewed a national labor movement
With captivating narrative and insightful commentary, labor organizer Jonathan Rosenblum reveals the inside story of the first successful fight for a $15 minimum wage, which renewed a national...
Big-Box Swindle
The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America and are rapidly transforming our economy, communities, and landscape. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class...
Billionaires' Ball
Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
The concentration of wealth today in such a small number of hands inevitably created a dynamic that led to freewheeling financial speculation—a dynamic that produced similarly disastrous results in the last great age of inequality, in the 1920s. Such concentrated economic power reverberates throughout...
Social Insecurity
401(k)s and the Retirement Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
**How 401(k)s have gutted retirement security, from charging exorbitant hidden fees to failing to replace the income of traditional pensions
Named one of PW's Top 10 for Business & Economics**
A retirement crisis is looming. In 2008, as the 401(k) fallout rippled across the country,...
White Coat, Black Hat
Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Over the last twenty-five years, medicine and consumerism have been on an unchecked collision course, but, until now, the fallout from their impact has yet to be fully uncovered. A writer for The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly, Carl Elliott ventures into the uncharted dark side of medicine,...
Expand Social Security Now!
How to Ensure Americans Get the Retirement They Deserve
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Why Social Security is not only sustainable but should be substantially expanded
Social Security is bankrupting us. It’s outdated. It’s a Ponzi scheme. It’s stealing from young people. These are some of the biggest myths and lies about one of the most successful programs in our nation’s...
by Gayl Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 1987
Here is Gayl Jones's classic novel, the tale of blues singer Ursa, consumed by her hatred of the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both her grandmother and mother.
by Alice Childress
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
A new edition of Alice Childress’s classic novel about African American domestic workers, featuring a foreword by Roxane Gay
First published in Paul Robeson’s newspaper, Freedom, and composed of a series of conversations between Mildred, a black domestic, and her friend Marge, Like One...