Beacon Authors in the Media:
Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice,
and the Promise of America by Eboo Patel
Eboo Patel asks colleges, "Do your students learn everything they know about Islam from their Facebook news feed?" Inside Higher Ed
Overdiagnosed:Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health by H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa Schwartz and Steve Woloshin
Author appearance on PBS "Money & Medicine" (Reading List)
White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Fox Foodie Column column on FoxNews.com looking at the history and healthfulness of white bread.
Coming Soon:
The $60,000 Dog: My Life With Animals by Lauren Slater, November 20, 2012
Booklist review Oct 15: “A thoughtful examination of a sometimes difficult life, ameliorated and often alleviated by connections with nature and animals. . . .Dogs, wasps, and bats also figure in a poetic narrative that gives the reader a melodic look into a deeply considered life."
My Mother’s Wars by Lillian Faderman, Mar. 05, 2013
“Lillian Faderman is an extraordinary storyteller, one of the few who can tell a painful story, with a complex ending—and imbue it with humor, sensuality and earthy grace, in every sentence.”—Amy Bloom, author of Away
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis, Jan. 29, 2013
Jeanne Theoharis, author of The Rebellious Mrs. Rosa Parks has been selected to keynote MLK Sunrise Celebration the Mid-Winter Meeting of ALA. 6:30-7:45am on Monday, January 28 in Seattle, WA
What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine by Danielle Ofri, June 04, 2013
Essay in the New York Times: “Women Still Missing from Medicine's Top Ranks.”
Author Events:
Reimagining
Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home by
Anita Hill
Author events include:
Oct 11 at
Tufts Medical Center (Boston, MA)
Oct 18 at
Brandeis House (New York)
Oct 23 at
Harriet Tubman House (Boston)
Oct 27 at
Boston Book Festival (Boston Public Library)
Oct 31 at
Claremont McKenna College (Claremont, CA)
Nov 07 at
USTA Serves (White Plain, NY)
Dec 06 at
National Archives Records Center (Waltham, MA)
A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today by Kate Bornstein
Brooklyn
Book Fair on Sept 23
Twin
Cities Book Festival Oct 13
Miami
Book Fair Nov 16-18
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