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Beacon Buzz: Interfaith Cooperation

Watch and Listen:

Eboo-sacredgroundSacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America by Eboo Patel

Melissa Harris-Perry Show on MSNBC

WNYC Radio/Brian Lehrer Show

Interview on Christine Amanpour's show, "Amanpour" on CNN International

 

Tweet Land of Liberty: Irreverent Rhymes from the Political Circus by Elinor Lipman

Lipman was a guest on WBUR's "Here and Now"


Review and Interview in Shelf Awareness for Readers, and Book Trailer of the Day in Shelf Awareness for the Book Trade


Notable Mentions:

GOYAL-TheSpringsOfNamjeThe Springs of Namje: A Ten-Year Journey from the Villages of Nepal to the Halls of Congress by Rajeev Goyal

Booklist review, in print Sept 15: “An honest and inspiring look at the hard work and reward of development efforts.”

Write-up and author interview in The Island Now, Sept. 06; The Island Now

 

When the World Calls: The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and Its First Fifty Years by Stanley Meisler

Stanley Meisler wins a Peace Corps Writers Award: 2011 Publisher’s Special Award, Peace Corps Worldwide

 

 

Coming Soon:

Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married by Nancy Rubin Stuart (April 09, 2013) 

"In this lively double-biography, Nancy Rubin Stuart reveals the resilient lives of a leading Patriot and a notorious Loyalist: both of them women.  Lucy Flucker Knox and Peggy Shippen Arnold deftly performed the parlor politics that helped to shape the American Revolution in surprising ways."

--Alan Taylor, author of The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies

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