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Winner of the 2026 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal for History Exploring 500 years of resistance movements in US history—and how lasting change results from diverse forms of sustained protest In this timely new book in Beacon’s successful ReVisioning History series, professor...

New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans inspired a generation reckoning with their evangelical upbringing and what faith is meant to be (or not be). This book offers a collection of her most impactful essays that still speak prophetically and profoundly today. The audiobook, read by...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller From Senator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock, a sermon in the public square on the issues that plague us most Senator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock is a transformational voice in Congress and the pastor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, and...

A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Powerful . . . a coming-of-age story with a twist' Guardian 'Heart-wrenching . . . We need accounts like this haunting, compelling book' Telegraph 'A profound and moving tribute . . . It is Lana's inside perspective on what it was like to grow up within this society...

The New York Times bestselling author of True Biz retraces her path out of the hearing world and into the deaf community—and seeks to understand what it means to raise children who are different from her—in this emotionally rich memoir. “In this enraging history and big-hearted family saga...

Brought to you by Penguin. If you are what you eat, what does that make you? Virtuous? Cool? Immortal? Or deviant, pitiful, ill? Is it useful to make these judgements? Do they help us improve our lives? In a world where it feels as though the value of your life can be gauged by the goodness in...

Brought to you by Penguin. *WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2024* A gripping reconstruction of the daring escape to freedom of hundreds of East Germans in the summer of 1989 and how it led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. 'A pivotal – and exhilarating – moment in 20th century...

Mobilizing the Power to Stop Harm, Cultivating the Love to Heal We are living in a world where the depths of division, violence, and destruction can no longer be ignored. From political polarization leading to the erosion of the democratic process to the climate crisis continuing to perpetuate...

Paul Skalnik was a prolific and ruthless conman and abuser. For more than three decades, he passed himself off as a Vietnam veteran, a college football star, a high-rolling oilman, a criminal defence attorney, an undercover FBI agent and a terminally ill cancer patient. From 1977 to 2015 he was...

Begin the journey to freedom, even when the way is uncertain “Every page in Temper sizzles with ancient truth and brand new, desperately needed hope. The world is on fire—it’s true. Temper is our Emergency Exit.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed “Temper...

For readers of Permission to Come Home, Minor Feelings, and Pleasure Activism, an insightful guide for “hyphenates” seeking to better understand themselves and help others understand them, too. What does it mean to live a hyphenated life? So many folks are forced to toggle across the...

March 1984. In a Shropshire copse, the body of an elderly woman is found. She is a rose grower and an environmental campaigner, a solitary figure who lived by her own convictions. Her name is Hilda Murrell. Hilda’s murder sparks national outrage – and suspicion. When the initial police...

A gripping, immersive tour of the front lines in today’s battle for environmental justice, where pipeline saboteurs, civil disobedients, and clandestine organizers are taking direct action in the fight for a livable future This year may be the hottest in our planet’s history, yet our leaders...

Brought to you by Penguin. We all feel it: something is seriously wrong. Our attention—that essential ability to give our minds and senses to the world—is being trapped, gutted, and sold out from under us by an industry of immense technological and financial power. The heedless exploitation...

Brought to you by Penguin. A moving exploration of the solace and power of listening in an unjust world, from the author of The Feminist Killjoy Handbook ‘Behind many disasters are unheard complaints’ To complain is an intimate, dangerous act. Whether it’s speaking up about racism in the...

A manifesto from one of America's most influential activists which disrupts political, economic, and social norms by reimagining the Black Radical Tradition. Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Haitian Revolution, the US civil rights movement, and...

Bloomsbury presents Systemic by Layal Liverpool, read by Diana Yekinni. Racism is a public health crisis – and we can do something about it. 'A work of towering importance that will undoubtedly change science and save lives, but it will also change the way you see yourself and the people...

How do underdogs, facing far stronger opponents, sometimes win? In the tradition of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce's Practical Radicals offers winning strategies, history, and theory for a new generation of activists. Based on...

From a social critic and journalist, a poignant book that encourages publicly grieving of what we've lost in order to move towards a hopeful future. “Detailed, lucid and richly sourced, Sarah Jaffe’s From the Ashes shows how the transformational power of grief can fuel revolutionary change...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Hill Times Top 100 Best Book of 2025 From the celebrated writer, observer and naturalist Robert Macfarlane comes a brilliant, perspective-shifting new book, which answers a resounding "yes" to the question of its title. At the heart of Is a River Alive? is a single...