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Father’s Day Reading from Beacon Press

In honor of Father's Day, a collection of readings for all types of fathers!

28 p.

The Daddy Shift, excerpt

Click here to read Chapter 1 from Jeremy Adam Smith's "Daddy Shift" (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=2121), a revealing look at stay-at-home fatherhood-for men, their familie...

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14 p.

Soaring with Fidel Excerpt

Click here to read Chapter 1 from David Gessner's Soaring with Fidel (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=8578). One September, after writing about ospreys on Cape Cod for year...

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14 p.

Cabin Fever, Excerpt

Read Chapter 13 from Tom Montgomery Fate's Cabin Fever: A Suburban Father's Search for the Wild (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=0096). Try to imagine Thoreau married, with ...

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  • 05 / 13 / 2011
19 p.

Recovering a Lost River, Excerpt

Read Chapter 8 of Steven Hawley's "Recovering A Lost River" (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=0471). In the Pacific Northwest, the Snake River and its wilderness tributaries...

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24 p.

Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game, Excerpt

Read chapter 2, "Blackball's Heyday," from Raceball by Rob Ruck (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=4805). From an award-winning writer, the first linked history of African Ame...

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16 p.

A City So Grand

NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK, read an excerpt from Stephen Puleo's A City So Grand: The Rise of an American Metropolis, Boston 1850-1900 (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=5043)....

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