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PREORDER! No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene

Transaction Denied: Big Finance's Power to Punish Speech

No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene

Common Sense (1776) Addressed to Today's Citizens of America: An Erasure

The Best Things in Life Aren't Things: Celebrating What Matters Most

This Is Not a Small Voice: Selected Poems

Student Parent: Student Parent The Fight for Families, the Cost of Poverty, and the Power of College

Our Diaries, Ourselves: How Diarists Chronicle Their Lives and Document Our World

The Collective Cure: Upstream Solutions for Better Public Health

Stand Your Ground: A History of America's Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense

Forever for the Culture: Notes from the New Black Digital Arts Renaissance

A Black Queer History of the United States

When It's Darkness on the Delta: How America's Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land

24 Hours at the Capitol: An Oral History of the January 6th Insurrection

After Purity: Race, Sex, and Religion in White Christian America

Political Girl: Life and Fate in Russia

Voices from the Kitchen: Personal Narratives from New York's Immigrant Restaurant Workers

The Coroner's Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence

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🎧Listening now: Democracy for Sale w/ LaShawn Harris

▶️ Protest is an investment: ‘The power of unity is what we need to see right now’

🔊 Listen Now: Protests are near constant. Do they work?

⭐ Booklist Review: The Cost of Being Undocumented

What It’s Like to Provide Abortions Later in Pregnancy

A doctor’s impassioned defense of later abortions

The Truth About Third-Trimester Abortion Care

What Would It Mean to Defend All Abortions?

Radical Unlearning: The Art and Science of Creating Change from Within

My Name Means Fire: A Memoir

Our Hands Hold Violence: Poems

Who Gets to Be Indian?: Ethnic Fraud and Other Difficult Conversations About Native American Identity

Just Pills: The Extraordinary Story of a Revolution in Abortion Care

Israel on the Brink: And the Eight Revolutions that Could Lead to Decolonization and Coexistence

Leveling the Ice: Confronting Racism in Hockey

The Boy Kingdom / El reino de los varones: Poems / Poemas

The Idea of an Entire Life: Poems

Touch Me, I'm Sick: A Memoir in Essays

Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City

Learning Environment: Inspirational Actions, Approaches, and Stories from the Science Classroom

Fat and Furious: Igniting Radical Fat Resistance

The Fight for Sex Ed: The Century-Long Battle Between Truth and Doctrine

Viktor E. Frankl and the Search for Meaning: 21 Reflections on Living Life with Purpose, A Companion

What We Stand to Lose: Black Teachers, the Culture They Created, and the Closure of a New Orleans High School

Mother of Methadone: Mother of Methadone A Doctor's Quest, a Forgotten History, and a Modern-Day Crisis

Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World

Finding and Leaning into Black Trans Joy: An Interview with Gia Love

You Only Get What You're Organized to Take: Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty

boy maybe: poems

After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but Not Abortion

The Echo Machine: How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America

The Cost of Fear: Why Most Safety Advice is Sexist and How We Can Stop Gender-Based Violence

Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons

Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to Hip-Hop

No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference

Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present

The White Peril: A Family Memoir

Three Leaves, Three Roots: Poems on the Haiti–Congo Story

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks: 10th-Anniversary Edition

Revolution by Fire: New York's Afro-Irish Uprising of 1741, a Graphic Novel

"They Just Need to Get a Job": 15 Myths on Homelessness

Religion Is Not Done With You: Or, the Hidden Power of Religion on Race, Maps, Bodies, and Law

Don't Build, Rebuild: The Case for Imaginative Reuse in Architecture

Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop

Field Guide for Accidents: Poems

Maria Hinojosa and Bill Hing on Immigration and Justice in America

In Praise of Pioneers of Change for Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month: A Reading List

Mad Wife: A Memoir

Beacon Behind the Books: Meet Mei Su Bailey, Publicity Assistant

What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times

Ghosts of Crook County: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land

Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz’s Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States: A Graphic Interpretation

Beacon Behind the Books: Meet Sophie Yook, Sales Intern

A Cup of Water Under My Bed: 10th-Anniversary Edition

Transfarmation: The Movement to Free Us from Factory Farming

When Freedom Is the Question, Abolition Is the Answer: Reflections on Collective Liberation

Mayor of the Tenderloin: Del Seymour's Journey from Living on the Streets to Fighting Homelessness in San Francisco

Beacon Behind the Books: Meet Mai-Linh Weller, Digital and Social Media Intern

All Souls: A Family Story from Southie

The New Science of Social Change: A Modern Handbook for Activists

Embracing Hope: On Freedom, Responsibility & the Meaning of Life

The Unicorn Woman

Beacon Behind the Books: Meet Beatrice Hruska, Sales Intern

The Hivemind Swarmed: Conversations on Gamergate, the Aftermath, and the Quest for a Safer Internet

Encounter on the Seine: Essays

From White Folks Who Teach in the Hood: Reflections on Race, Culture, and Identity

The Dragon From Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany

To Be a Problem: A Black Woman's Survival in the Racist Disability Rights Movement

The Harlem Ghetto: Essays

Everybody's Protest Novel: Essays

Don't Wait: Three Girls Who Fought for Change and Won

Swole: The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscle

Kindred: Young Adult Edition

The Black Practice of Disbelief: An Introduction to the Principles, History, and Communities of Black Nonbelievers

Drive: Scraping By in Uber's America, One Ride at a Time

The Court v. The Voters: The Troubling Story of How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Voting Rights

Treating Violence: An Emergency Room Doctor Takes On A Deadly American Epidemic

A Black Girl in the Middle: Essays on (Allegedly) Figuring It All Out

Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder

Asian American Is Not A Color: Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family

Without a Map: A Memoir

Right to Learn: Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom

Migration Letters: Poems

A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing

On Gold Hill: A Personal History of Wheat, Farming, and Family, from Punjab to California

After the Worst Day Ever: What Sick Kids Know About Sustaining Hope in Chronic Illness

Don't Look Left: A Diary of Genocide

God's Country

Watershed

Kristen Joiner: “What Co-Writing Judy Heumann’s Memoir Taught Me”

“The Story Behind Obama’s Keynote Address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention”

Howard Bryant: “When Colin Kaepernick Took the Risk to Take a Knee”

White Rat: Short Stories

Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India’s Caste System

The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance

School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education

The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers

What Works in Community News: Media Startups, News Deserts, and the Future of the Fourth Estate

Spoiler Alert! Thanksgiving Doesn’t Prove the Native Americans Welcomed the Pilgrims

My Reflections on Transgender Day of Remembrance

Toward Liberation: Educational Practices Rooted in Activism, Healing, and Love

Humanizing Immigration: How to Transform Our Racist and Unjust System

Homeland of My Body: New and Selected Poems

Sweet Movie: Poems

Ada Lovelace Day: 7 Facts about Girls and Women in STEM That Need to Change

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States: 10th-Anniversary Edition

Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control

Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole

To Teaching Truth and Liberatory Learning!: A Back-to-School Reading List

The Power of Words: The March on Washington and the Voices of Change

Desire: An Inclusive Guide to Navigating Libido Differences in Relationships

When One Partner Wants Sex More Than the Other

9 Dream Reads Bookworm Barbie Needs in Her Library

No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

Beacon Behind the Books: Meet Emily Spaulding, Business Operations Assistant

A Space for Us: A Guide for Leading Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Affinity Groups

Fred Pearce: The Unstable Path to Plutonium’s Atomic Seduction of the Manhattan Project

Superfreaks: Kink, Pleasure, and the Pursuit of Happiness

A Master Class on Being Human: A Black Christian and a Black Secular Humanist on Religion, Race, and Justice

Narcas: The Secret Rise of Women in Latin America's Cartels

24 Hours in Charlottesville: An Oral History of the Stand Against White Supremacy

Free the Book: Book Banning in the US

The Florida Curriculum: Reading to Guide You Through DeSantisLand

Beacon Behind the Books: Meet Frankie Karnedy, Sales and Marketing Assistant

Unbroken Chains: The Hidden Role of Human Trafficking in the American Economy

Celebrity Nation: How America Evolved into a Culture of Fans and Followers

Beacon Behind the Books: Meet Gabel Strickland, Digital and Social Media Intern

Mind Over Monsters: Supporting Youth Mental Health with Compassionate Challenge

Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty

Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture

“You Should Be Grateful”: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption

Beacon Behind the Books: Meet Ruthie Block, Editorial Assistant

Butter: Novellas, Stories, and Fragments

Some of the Light: New and Selected Poems

Homegirls & Handgrenades

Working to Restore: Harnessing the Power of Regenerative Business to Heal the World

Beacon Behind the Books: Meet Matt Davis, Chief Financial Officer, with Clifford Manko

What We Build with Power: The Fight for Economic Justice in Tech

The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality

When the Light Goes On

“Reagan’s Steps to the Wrong Side of History, from B-Movie Hero to Civil Rights Zero”

Beacon Behind the Books: Meet Catherine Tung, Editor

School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness

Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic, a Graphic Novel

Meditations of the Heart

Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Beacon Behind the Books: Perpetua Charles, Publicist — Part II

Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices

Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century

The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging

“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

Beacon Behind the Books: Meet Nicole-Anne Keyton, Assistant Editor

Common Grace: Poems

Craft and Conscience: How to Write About Social Issues

Fighting for Recovery: An Activists’ History of Mental Health Reform

Chokepoint Capitalism

Beacon Behind the Books: Meet Lindsay Wang, Digital and Social Media Intern

Banned Books Week 2022 Resources PDF

Kindred: Gift Edition

White Fragility Adapted for Young Adults

The Birdcatcher

On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

Beacon Behind the Books: Meet Avery Cook, Sales and Marketing Assistant

ReVisioning Our Education System at Its Core: A Back-to-School Reading List

Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up

Beacon Behind the Books: Meet Aayushi Agarwal, Sales and Marketing Intern

Mother to Mother

Freedom Dreams, Revised and Expanded: The Black Radical Imagination

Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality

Chokepoint Capitalism Audiobook Kickstarter Campaign

The Facilitator’s Guide for White Affinity Groups: Strategies for Leading White People in an Anti-Racist Practice

Asian American Histories of the United States

Disability Is a Thread in the Fabric of Life: A Reading Guide for Disability Pride

Sumbul Ali-Karamali: “The Taliban, Texas Abortion Laws, and Shariah Ignorance”

Beacon Behind the Books: Meet Brittany Wallace, Sales and Marketing Assistant

Beacon Behind the Books: Meet Bev Rivero, Senior Publicist

Breaking News! Beacon Press Announces Promotion of Gayatri Patnaik to Director

Blog post by Pamela D. Toler: Gender Conceal: When Cathay Williams Went to War in Disguise

Beacon Behind the Books: Meet Travis Cohen, Production Associate

Blog post: The Troubling History and Present Danger of School Vouchers

Blog post: Unseen in Plain Sight: Navigating the Unbearable Whiteness of Beauty Culture

Blog post: What the New York Times Just Got Wrong About the ADA

Blog post: The Climate Perils of Cryptocurrency

Blog post: What Is This Rage Against Critical Race Theory All About?

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