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70 posts categorized "Patricia Harman"
Aviva Chomsky traveled to Havana for the Cuban Book Fair and the release of a Spanish translation of her book, They Take Our Jobs! And 20 Other Myths About Immigration. Read more →
A Giveaway to Help With Grief, and Our Thanks to Random House
December 20, 2012
A note about our giveaway of books on grief. Read more →
Author Patricia Harman finds much to relate to in the BBC series Call the Midwife. Read more →
"The message of Banned Books Week is that we only possess free speech as long as we are willing to fight for it." Read more →
From an inauspicious beginning, Kate Whouley turned her love of books into a life of writing. Read more →
If you were surfing in Santa Cruz yesterday and you got a free book... you can thank World Book Night! Read more →
The Pulitzer board dropped the ball on the 2011 fiction prize, so our staff felt compelled to pick it up. Read more →
Edward Cullen as a ruthless CEO with bondage fetish? You have now entered the Twilight fanfic zone. Read more →
Patricia Harman looks at the personal costs of political battles over women's health. Read more →
Enter a giveaway for free books from Other Press. Read more →
Countdown to Beacon Press vs. Other Press (or Patriots vs. Giants, if that's what you care about)
February 05, 2012
The outcome of today's game will be felt for the ages. Or for at least a week on the website of one fortunate independent publisher. Read more →
A selection from Patricia Harman's memoir for the Winter Solstice. Read more →
Tom DeWolf casts a sympathetic but critical eye on Katherine Stockett's book and the film adapted from it. Read more →
Order any book from beacon.org by December 31st and receive 10% off your order and free standard shipping*. Plus, Beacon Press will donate 20% of total sales to three of its favorite organizations--Harlem Children's Zone, Interfaith Youth Core, and Food... Read more →
A night with a book club reminds an author of why he wrote his book. Read more →
Glenn Branch shares his summer reading, which includes scholarly tomes and comics explanations of the origins of life. Read more →
Teachers assign summer reading, but what do they read on their vacations? Linda Nathan shares her favorites. Read more →
The Unitarian Universalist Association's Common Read program has selected Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. Read more →
The exam room is like a confessional. Patricia Harman writes about some of the lessons she's learned from her patients. Read more →