Beacon: 545 books
Living When a Young Friend Commits Suicide
Or Even Starts Talking about It
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
In the last thirty years, the suicide rate among young people has tripled. In this book addressed to the young survivors of this epidemic, Earl A. Grollman, the internationally known lecturer, writer, and grief counselor, and Max Malikow, a psychotherapist and pastoral counselor, offer solace and...
The Lively Place
Mount Auburn, America's First Garden Cemetery, and Its Revolutionary and Literary Residents
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The story of one of the Boston area’s most famous attractions, the Mount Auburn Cemetery, and how its founders and “residents” have influenced American culture
When Mount Auburn Cemetery was founded, in 1831, it revolutionized the way Americans mourned the dead by offering a peaceful...
Defying the Nazis
The Sharps' War
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The little-known story of the Sharps whose rescue and relief missions across Europe during World War II saved the lives of countless Jews, refugees, and political dissidents. Official companion to the Ken Burns PBS film.
For readers captivated by the story of Antonina Zabinski as told in The...
Our Bodies, Our Data
How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
How the hidden trade in our sensitive medical information became a multibillion-dollar business, but has done little to improve our health-care outcomes
Hidden to consumers, patient medical data has become a multibillion-dollar worldwide trade industry between our health-care providers, drug...
The Most Expensive Game in Town
The Rising Cost of Youth Sports and the Toll on Today's Families
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Building on the eye-opening investigation into the damaging effects of the ultra-competitive culture of youth sports in his previous book, Until It Hurts, Mark Hyman's new book looks at the business of youth sports, how it has changed, and how it is affecting young Americans. Examining the youth sports...
by Jeanne Theoharis
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
**2014 NAACP Image Award Winner: Outstanding Literary Work – Biography / Auto Biography
2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians
Choice Top 25 Academic Titles for 2013
The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades...
by Jeanne Theoharis
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
**2014 NAACP Image Award Winner: Outstanding Literary Work – Biography / Auto Biography
2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians
Choice Top 25 Academic Titles for 2013
The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades...
by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Together in one volume, Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walking, is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature.
Redemption
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
An “immersive, humanizing, and demystifying” (Charles Blow, New York Times) look at the final hours of Dr. King’s life as he seeks to revive the non-violent civil rights movement and push to end poverty in America.
At 10:33 a.m. on April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., landed in...
The Crooked Mirror
A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
A lyrical literary memoir that explores the exhilarating, discomforting, and ultimately healing process of Polish-Jewish reconciliation taking place in Poland today
Although an estimated 80 percent of American Jews are of Polish descent, many in the postwar generation and those born later know...
Daring Democracy
Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
An optimistic book for Americans who are asking, in the wake of Trump’s victory, What do we do now? The answer: We need to organize and fight to protect and expand our democracy.
Americans are distraught as tightly held economic and political power drowns out their voices and values. Legendary...
Uncovering Race
A Black Journalist's Story of Reporting and Reinvention
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
From an award-winning black journalist, a tough-minded look at the treatment of ethnic minorities both in newsrooms and in the reporting that comes out of them, within the changing media landscape.
From the Rodney King riots to the racial inequities of the new digital media, Amy Alexander has...
Blue Revolution
Unmaking America's Water Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Americans see water as abundant and cheap: we turn on the faucet and out it gushes, for less than a penny a gallon. We use more water than any other culture in the world, much to quench what’s now our largest crop—the lawn. Yet most Americans cannot name the river or aquifer that flows to our...
Prairie Silence
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
A rural expatriate’s struggle to reconcile family, home, love, and faith with the silence of the prairie land and its people
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Melanie Hoffert longs for her North Dakota childhood home, with its grain trucks and empty main streets. A land where she imagines standing at the bottom of the ancient...