Beacon: 545 books
She Looks Just Like You
A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
After ten years of talking about children, two years of trying (and failing) to conceive, and one shot of donor sperm for her partner, Amie Miller was about to become a mother. Or something like that.
Over the next nine months, as her partner became the biological mom-to-be, Miller became ....
Family Pride
What LGBT Families Should Know about Navigating Home, School, and Safety in Their Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
An invaluable portrait and roadmap on how to thrive as an LGBT family
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The overwhelming success of Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” YouTube project aimed at queer youth highlighted that despite the progress made in gay rights, LGBT people are still at high risk of being victimized. While...
Medicine in Translation
Journeys with My Patients
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From a doctor Oliver Sacks has called a “born storyteller,” a riveting account of practicing medicine at a fast-paced urban hospital
For two decades, Dr. Danielle Ofri has cared for patients at Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in the country and a crossroads for the world’s cultures....
The Drone Eats with Me
A Gaza Diary
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
An ordinary Gazan’s chronicle of the struggle to survive during Israel’s 2014 invasion of Gaza
The Drone Eats with Me is an unforgettable rendering of everyday civilian life shattered by the realities of twenty-first-century warfare. Israel’s 2014 invasion of Gaza lasted 51 days, killed...
by Mona Eltahawy
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they've been trained to avoid.
Seizing upon the energy of the #MeToo movement, feminist activist Mona Eltahawy advocates a muscular, out-loud approach...
How Does It Feel to Be Unwanted?
Stories of Resistance and Resilience from Mexicans Living in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
In an era of increasing anti-immigrant sentiment and bigotry, each of these 13 stories illuminates the issues affecting the Mexican community and shows the breadth of a frequently stereotyped population.
Dreamers and their allies, those who care about immigration justice, and anyone interested...
Scriptorium
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A collection of poems exploring questions of religious and linguistic authority, from medieval England to contemporary Appalachia
A National Poetry Series winner, selected and with a foreword by Tracy K. Smith
The poems in Scriptorium are primarily concerned with questions of religious...
Dosed
The Medication Generation Grows Up
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Over the last two decades, we have seen a dramatic spike in the number of young people taking psychiatric medication--but, despite a heated debate on the issue, we haven't heard directly from the "medicated kids" themselves. In Dosed, Kaitlin Bell Barnett, who was diagnosed with depression...
Junk Raft
An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
An exciting account of an activist scientist’s unorthodox fight in the growing movement against plastic marine pollution and of his expedition across the Pacific on a home-made “junk raft”
News media brought the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”—the famous swirling gyre of plastic pollution...
Why Do Bluebirds Hate Me?
More Answers to Common and Not-So-Common Questions about Birds and Birding
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
A collection of humorous Q&As about everything you've always wanted to ask about birds and birding
Mike O’Connor knows bird watchers as well as he knows birds. He knows that if you’re even slightly interested in identifying birds or attracting them to your backyard with a feeder, then you’ve...
The Protest Psychosis
How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
A powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness
The civil rights era is largely remembered as a time of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots. But a very different civil rights history evolved at the Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in...
Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Headaches?
And Other Bird Questions You Know You Want to Ask
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
In 1983, Mike O'Connor opened the Bird Watcher's General Store on Cape Cod, which might well have been the first store devoted solely to birding in the United States. Since that time he has answered thousands of questions about birds, both at his store and while walking down the aisles of the supermarket....
Finding Fernanda
Two Mothers, One Child, and a Cross-Border Search for Truth
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
A compelling, dramatic narrative of how an American housewife discovered that the Guatemalan child she was about to adopt had been stolen from her birth mother, shedding light on the alarming and growing problem of international adoption fraud.
Over the past five years, over 100,000 children...
Summoned at Midnight
A Story of Race and the Last Military Executions at Fort Leavenworth
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Uncovers the hidden world of the military legal system and the intimate history of racism that pervaded the armed forces long after integration.
Richard A. Serrano reveals how racial discrimination in the US military criminal justice system determined whose lives mattered and deserved a second...