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By Christian Coleman

Christmas gift box by Ronalds
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If last Christmas, you gave someone your heart, and the very next day, they gave it away, this year, to save yourself from tears, you’ll give it to your TBR list! ALL our books are 30% off through December 31 using holiday code REV30 during our holiday sale! 

Scroll down and you’ll see some selections to give you ideas. This is just a handful of our catalog.

Remember that USPS media mail takes 7-10 business days. Also, the Penguin Random House warehouse will be closed from December 23 to December 25 and then on December 31. So, plan accordingly while placing your orders during this time.

And remember to support your local independent bookstore this holiday season!

 

All Souls reissue

All Souls: A Family Story from Southie

“Ma was thrilled, as if she’d died and gone to heaven by getting a place in the all-white South Boston housing projects. She yelled up to all the neighbors on Jamaica Street that we’d struck a great bit of luck, six rooms for eighty dollars a month, heat, light, and gas included, and it’s all white—we wouldn’t have to go back to the black projects! I didn’t know why the white thing was so important. While I’d become familiar with the nightmarish stories from Columbia Point, my own experience had been that we got along much better with the black kids in Jamaica Plain, who seemed to have more in common with us than the other kids with Irish parents.”
—Michael Patrick MacDonald

 

The Blooming of a Lotus

The Blooming of a Lotus: Essential Guided Meditations for Mindfulness, Healing, and Transformation

“Time contains time, and time contains space. Space contains space, and space contains time. Space is itself time. Space and time cannot exist separately from each other. One ksana (point instant) contains infinite time, and the smallest particle contains limitless space. This is the principle of all is one and one is all. When we understand that principle, the phenomena that we used to call birth, death, being, and nonbeing are seen to be illusions.”
—Thich Nhat Hanh 

 

A Cup of Water Under My Bed_10th Anniversary

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

“The tricky thing with open secrets is that you can’t barge your way in. You can read all the books you find at the library and download unpublished theses. You can visit botánicas, buy candles, and have your questions, but to be let in, you have to wait for people. You have to learn when to ask a question and when to shut up. It’s like dealing with someone’s heart. You can’t just knock at the door. You can’t show up and say, ‘I want to live here.’ You have to prove yourself. You have to stick around. You have to wait until the other person is ready.”
—Daisy Hernández 

 

Don't Wait

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

“Sonia was becoming a face that arts people knew in California. Throughout the summer and fall of 2020, she spoke at online events to other teens and to advocates around the state about how art helped her mental health and how vital it was to students in California. Sonia’s cup of chamomile tea resting atop a coaster that reads “Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are, it solely relies on what you think” would grow cold as she’d talk passionately about how more money would help get arts resources to her peers. The 2020 election was coming up and in addition to deciding whether to oust the US president after one term, Californians would be voting on a measure that would give more funding to schools.”
—Sonali Kohli  

 

Embracing Hope

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

“[S]ociety is frustrating man’s will to meaning; on the other hand, psychology is neglecting this fact. If you go through the current motivation theories, you will find scarcely any reference to what is the most fundamental and basic concern of man: neither pleasure nor happiness, nor power nor prestige, but originally and basically his wish, his desire to find and fulfil a meaning in his life or, for that matter, in each single life situation confronting him.”
—Viktor E. Frankl 

 

God's Country

God’s Country

“‘Now, don’t you start with yeps and nopes. Dang fool says only that and you’re supposed have some kinda conversation with the filthy scumwagon. Yep and nope, yep and nope. Who can get a rabbit’s turd o’ sense out of a man who says two confounded words? And you know he knows more. Got to.’ I guess I got carried away a little bit because the boy was staring at me like I had a horse’s prick hanging out of my britches. Looking back now, I know it was my chance to lose him by making him think I was crazy, but it slipped past me at the time.”
—Percival Everett 

 

House of Light reissue

House of Light: Poems

“The kingfisher rises out of the black wave
like a blue flower, in his beak
he carries a silver leaf. I think this is
the prettiest world—so long as you don’t mind
a little dying, how could there be a day in your whole life
that doesn’t have its splash of happiness?
There are more fish than there are leaves
on a thousand trees, and anyway the kingfisher
wasn’t born to think about it, or anything else.”
—Mary Oliver, “The Kingfisher” 

 

In This Place Together

In This Place Together: A Palestinian’s Journey to Collective Liberation

“Over a small plate of banana bread, Souli asked again. He wanted me to help tell his story, to weave in Israeli stories, and my own—not to forget the importance of American Jewry in this conflict. As I listened, as time passed in its strange way, I knew that he was asking for the impossible. I knew that the result would be a tangled book, knotted with starkly unresolved issues of representation. But I also knew that the book’s questions of ownership and form might have something beautiful and distinctive to say about who Souli is, about the place he comes from, about what has happened there.”
—Penina Eilberg-Schwartz with Sulaiman Khatib  

 

Rolling Warrior

Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution

“We lived on one of those streets where there were tons of kids and everyone knows each other. I was the only kid in a wheelchair, but this meant literally nothing to us. We were little and we just figured things out, like you do when you’re little. If everyone was roller skating, we put roller skates over my shoes and I skated in my chair. If everyone was jumping rope, I turned the rope for the kids who were jumping. We didn’t even think about it. Me being in a wheelchair just felt like me having straight hair when Mary had curly. Sometimes I think kids are so much smarter than adults.”
—Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner 

 

A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories

A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories   

“Now when Jesus was born in Benin of Nigeria in the days of English rule, behold, there came wise men from the East to London. Saying, where is he that is born King of the Blacks? For we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. When the Prime Minister had heard these things, he was troubled, and all England was with him. And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scholars of the land together, he demanded of them where this new Christ should be born.”
—W. E. B. Du Bois, “The Sermon in the Cradle”

Christmas gift box by Ronalds

 

About the Author 

Christian Coleman is the digital marketing manager at Beacon Press and editor of Beacon Broadside. Before joining Beacon, he worked in writing, copy editing, and marketing positions at Sustainable Silicon Valley and Trikone. He graduated from Boston College and the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. Follow him on Twitter at @coleman_II and on Bluesky at @colemanthe2nd.bsky.social.

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