American Friends Service Committee Tote Bag

FROM AFSC
Nice looking red/black Tote bag with three side pockets and Velcro central closing on main bag. Long handles. Says "American Friends Service Committee: Quaker values in action" and has the AFSC star emblem. Made in China

AFSC BAG Blank

$15.00 (in stock)

American Friends Service Committee T Shirt

FROM A F S C
Very ethical T shirt - Organic cotton, fair traded and Union made in Mexico. Unbleached attractive off white color with discrete wording saying "American Friends Service Committee: Quaker values in action" and has the AFSC star emblem. Available in Youth M, L, and Adult M. L, XL, XXL. REPLY TO CONFIRMATION EMAIL TO TELL US REQUIRED SIZE

AFSC T SHIRT Blank

$15.00 (in stock)

American Friends Service Committee

Baseball Hat

FROM AFSC
Black baseball hat with the words American Friends Service Committee and the Quaker Star on the front. Just a few left in a color that will keep your head toasty warm all summer long. Made in Bangladesh. AFSC,

AFSC ONE SIZE Blank

$7.50 (out of stock but can be backordered)

American Nonviolence

The History Of An Idea

BY IRA CHERNUS
"Thoroughly researched, brilliantly argued and elegantly written. . .This book will be at the center of debate as to whether and what kinds of nonviolence can be effective in our time."-Walter Wink Ira Chernus surveys the evolution of the powerful idea of nonviolence from the Colonial Era up to today, focusing on representative movements (Anabaptists, Quakers, Anarchists, Progressives) and key individuals (Thoreau, Reinhold Niebuhr, Dorothy Day, A.J. Muste, King, Barbara Deming), including non-Americans like Mohandas Gandhi or Thich Nhat Hanh, who have helped form the idea of nonviolence in the United States. American Nonviolence offers an essential guide for both students and activists.

Orbis 2004 248 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

Amerigo

The Man Who Gave His Name To America

BY FELIPE FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO
n 1507 a world map was published with a new continent on it called "America," after the explorer and navigator Amerigo Vespucci. The map was a phenomenal success and when Mercator`s 1538 world map extended the name to the northern hemisphere of the continent. This is the story of how one side of the world came to be named not after Christopher Columbus, but after his friend and rival Amerigo Vespucci who excelled above all at self-invention and self-promotion.

Random House 2007 221 PP. Cloth

$7.50 (in stock)

Amish Grace

How Forgiveness Transcends Tragedy

BY DONALD KRAYBILL, STEVEN NOLT, DAVID WEAVER-ZERCHER
On Monday morning, October 2, 2006, a gunman entered a one-room Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. He tied up and shot ten girls killing five and leaving the others critically wounded. He then shot himself as police stormed the building. His motivation? "I'm angry at God for taking my little daughter," he told the children before the massacre. The blood was barely dry on the schoolhouse floor when Amish parents brought words of forgiveness to the family of the one who had slain their children. This book explores the many questions this story raises about the religious beliefs and habits that led the Amish to forgive so quickly.

Jossey-Bass 2010 267 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

The Amish Way

Patient Faith In A Perilous World

BY DONALD B. KRAYBILL, STEVEN M. NOLT, AND DAVID L. WEAVER-ZERCHER
This book introduces readers to the ways and beliefs of the Amish, a "peculiar people," to explain the reasons behind their extraordinary forgiveness and tight-knit communities.

Jossey-Bass-Wiley 2010 267 PP. Cloth

$24.95 (in stock)

Ancient Ways

Indigenous Healing Innovations For The 21st Century

BY GERAL BLANCHARD
Drawing from sacred shamanic traditions and contemporary North American medicine, Blanchard explains how old and new healing strategies are surprisingly compatible and combine for a more powerful potentiating effect. For the therapist who desires a more reverent and meaningful counseling practice, this book offers a solid theoretical foundation for this important work. See http://afsc.org/audio/geral-blanchard-ancient-ways-indigenous-wisdom

Neari Press 2010 Paper

$24.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

And A Little Child Shall Lead Them

BY PARKER J. PALMER
In this pamphlet, Parker Palmer speaks on the importance of understanding the spiritual gifts of children and following their leadings. He writes beautifully of the Society of Friends as a family that needs to care for and nurture the young. But rather than a family by blood and birth, which can be exclusive and closed, a family of adoption that extends hospitality to strangers. A typically compassionate and thoughtful entry from Palmer and a worthwhile read.

Friends Publishing Corporation 1978 24 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

And Furthermore

BY JUDI DENCH
And Furthermore is the story of a great actress's career. Of all the plays and films and actors/actresses that she has been in and known, but It is also the story of Judi Dench's life, filled with her impish sense of humor, diamond-sharp intelligence and photos from her personal archives. Follows on from her earlier but sadly now unavailable "with a crack in her voice" Judi Dench is a private person in many ways, a Quaker, but not one to make much of her faith.

St Martins Press 2011 265 PP. Cloth

$26.99 (in stock)

And Tango Makes Three

BY JUSTIN RICHARDSON AND PETER PARNALL, ILLUSTRATED BY HENRY COLE
"Tango has two daddies in this heartwarming tale, inspired by actual events in New York's Central Park Zoo. Two male penguins, Roy and Silo, 'did everything together. They bowed to each other....They sang to each other. And swam together. Wherever Roy went, Silo went too....Their keeper... thought to himself, 'They must be in love.' Cole's endearing watercolors follow the twosome as they frolic affectionately...When the keeper discovers an egg that needs tending, he gives it to Roy and Silo, who hatch and raise the female. The keeper says, 'We'll call her Tango, because it takes two to make a Tango.'" - Publishers Weekly

Simon & Schuster 2005 32 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)

And To Think That We Thought We'd Never Be Friends

BY MARY ANN HOBERMAN, ILLUSTRATED BY KEVIN HAWKES
In rhyming verse that's a deliberate homage to Dr. Seuss, poet and picture book author Mary Ann Hoberman takes on quarreling and its consequences, and shows how turning fighters into friends leads to greater peace. It all starts with a fighting brother and sister, who make up with the help of another sibling. When the family begins fighting with their noisy neighbors, it's music that brings them together. Soon the whole town is marching in a parade, and eventually the parade swells to include the whole country, and even the animals. By the end of this optimistic picture book, the whole world is united in friendship.

Dragonfly Books 2003 32 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

An Angel At My Shoulder

CARRIE NEWCOMER
Carrier Newcomer, born and raised Quaker, is a prolific singer-songwriter with a talent for producing alums with soothing and spiritual messages. On this 1994 album of 14 songs, Newcomer sings about topics from childhood to love to regret.

Rounder Records 1994 14 TRACKS Disk

$17.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Angel Child, Dragon Child

BY MICHELE MARIA SURAT
Ut comes to America from Vietnam, leaving her mother behind due to a shortage of funds. At school in America things are made worse by insensitive classmates but when they learn of her problems the students run a fair to raise the money for Ut's mother to join her family.

Scholastic 1989 40 PP. Paper

$4.99 (in stock)

Angelina Grimke

Voice Of Abolition

BY ELLEN TODRAS
Based on her diaries, letters, and other primary sources, this biography follows an intense and sometimes difficult woman from childhood to her career as a reformer, her passionate courtship and marriage with abolitionist Theodore Weld, her later life of service to the cause in spite of chronic ill health.

Linnett 1999 178 PP. Cloth

$25.00 (in stock)

Angels Watching Over Me

BY JULIA DURANGO, ILLUSTRATED BY ELISA KLEVEN
Based on a beloved spiritual, this book features Durango's expanded text, bursting with childlike exuberance, coupled with a cheerful mix of media images by acclaimed "New York Times" Best Illustrator Kleven, to create an ideal lullaby. Full color. a beautiful nondenominational paean to creation and the Earth's many blessings.

Simon & Schuster 2007 32 PP. Cloth

$17.99 (in stock)

Anger

Wisdom For Cooling The Flames

BY THICH NHAT HANH
"Some of Hanh's suggestions cut refreshingly against the grain. He dissents, for example, from the popular therapeutic wisdom to 'express our anger:' when we beat a pillow to get rid of our feelings, he insists we are merely 'rehearsing' our anger, not 'reducing' it. Hanh reminds us that anger begins and ends with ourselves: we may feel that we are mad at our wife or son, but really we are the direct objects of our rage. An expansive vision that lifts this book out of the self-absorbed self-help pile." -Publishers Weekly

Riverhead 2002 227 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Audio Version

A Year Of Food Life

READ BY THE AUTHORS: BARBARA KINSOLVER, STEVEN L. HOPP AND CAMILLE KINGSOLVER
Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet. 14.5 hours, 12 compact discs.

HarperAudio 2007 14.5 HOURS Audio

$24.95 (in stock)

Anne Frank

BY JOSEPHINE POOLE
What was Anne Frank like as a small girl, at home with her family and friends; at play and at school? And how did an ordinary little girl come to live such an extraordinary and tragically short life? In the first half of the book, we meet Anne growing up with her family in Germany. Then, we follow her flight to Holland to escape the Nazis; the German invasion and the gradual isolation, then outright persecution, of the Jewish population which forces the family into hiding; the years in the Secret Annex; and her last heart-breaking journey.

Red Fox 2006 40 PP. Cloth

$4.50 (in stock)

Anne Frank And Etty Hillesum

Inscribing Spirituality And Sexuality

BY DENISE DE COSTA
De Costa approaches Anne Frank largely from a psychoanalytical perspective and emphasizes the act of writing as a function in the development of adolescent self-identity. For Etty Hillesum her focus is on how writing establishes a philosophy of life-a faith-that grows from a position of duality and paradox. The author's assessments of the written legacy of two victims of genocide makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how the Holocaust affected individual lives.

Rutgers University Press 1998 304 PP. Paper

$4.50 (in stock)

Anne Hutchinson

A biography profiling the life of Anne Hutchinson, aPuritan exiled from Massachusetts for her beliefs in 1638. Includes source notes and timeline, Very nice, well written and well illustrated book, part of the Signature lives series. Age 9+.

Compass Point Books 2007 112 PP. Paper

$9.95 (in stock)

Annie Dunne

BY BARRY SEBASTIAN
Renowned Irish playwright and novelist whose stories often feature a few Quakers, though sadly this one doesn't... It is 1959 in Wicklow, Ireland, and Annie and her cousin Sarah are living and working together to keep Sarah's small farm running. Suddenly, Annie's young niece and nephew are left in their care. Unprepared for the chaos that the two children inevitably bring, Annie finds the interruption of her normal life and her last chance at happiness complicated further by the attention being paid to Sarah by a local man with his eye on the farm. A summer of adventure, pain, delight, and, ultimately, epiphany in this poignant and exquisitely told story of innocence, loss, and reconciliation.

Peng 2002 228 PP. Paper

$3.00 (in stock)

Answering Terror

Responses To War And Peace After 9/11/01

EDITED BY SHARON HOOVER
Answering terror is an anthology of the articles and letters in Friends Journal following the 911 attacks. From the statements of the big Quaker Yearly Meetings and organizations, to the protracted correspondence on Scott Simon's rejection of pacifism, these writings show how America and the world could have responded to 911 in a more positive manner. Includes writing by Pamela Haines, George Lakey, Marcelle Martin, Charlie Clements, Lyle Tatum, Keith Helmuth, Paul Buckley, John Paul Lederach, Mary Lord, Stephen Cary, and Jeanne Lohman.

Friends Publishing Corporation (Friends Journal) 2006 223 PP. Paper

$24.95 (in stock)

Answering That Of God In Our Children

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 315

BY HARRIET HEATH
"Seeing my child as a wonderer with the potential of growing into goodness expands my understanding of that child and defines my role as a parent or caregiver. I can be a loving guide rather than only a strict authority figure or only a loving companion. The stories in this pamphlet, drawn from life, illustrate the wondering that our children do and the role it opens for us who live and work with them." - Harriet Heath.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1994 39 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Answering The Call To Heal The World

Php 383

BY PATIENCE SCHENCK
There is a role for each of us to play in healing the wounds of the world and bringing into being the wholeness that is possible in God's creation. But where do we begin? This pamphlet invites us to explore our unique gifts and the hungers of our hearts, to discover our own calling in this sacred work. In a wise and intimate conversation with her readers, Patience Schenck walks us through the life of a leading: hearing a call, testing our discernment, overcoming the obstacles to faithfulness, finding the support we need, and finally recognizing when our work is done.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2006 34 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Answering The Violence

Encounters With Perpetrators

BY JOHN LAMPEN
As a People committed to peace, Friends have nonetheless, from time to time, sought to build close relationships with perpetrators of violence, groups and individuals who may be thought to be "beyond the pale" - dictators and terrorists . Why? What part do such relationships play in efforts to end differences and build peace in troubled situations? John Lampen, who has served as a Quaker peace worker in N Ireland and elsewhere, draws on his own experiences and the accounts of other peace workers to explore the controversies, risks, rewards, and possible benefits of reaching out in friendship to perpetrators of violence.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2011 32 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

The Anthologist

A Novel

BY NICHOLSON BAKER
Paul Chowder is trying to write the introduction to a new anthology of rhyming verse, but he's having a hard time getting started. The result of his fitful struggles is The Anthologist, Quaker novelist and thinker Nicholson Baker's brilliantly funny and exquisite love story about poetry. "Baker makes poetry seem as necessary as air, and his enthusiasm is likely to wake readers up to its marvelous possibilities" Margaret Quamme, The Columbus dispatch

S & S Paperbacks 2009 243 PP. Paper

$4.50 (in stock)

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

A Biography

BY ELIIZABETH CAZDEN
This first biography of the 19th-century feminist and first American woman to be ordained a Christian minister is steeped in family correspondence, contemporary newspaper accounts, and Blackwell's own work. Cazden follows Blackwell from her student days at Oberlin, through her feminist activity on the lecture circuit with Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony, to her marriage to Elizabeth Blackwell's brother Samuel (on condition he would share household responsibilities while she worked) and rearing of five daughters.

Feminist Press 1983 315 PP. Paper

$4.50 (in stock)

Any Approaching Enemy

A Novel Of The Napoleonic Wars

BY JAY WORRALL
The second novel about Charles Edgemont, a ships captain during the Napoleonic war. He is married to a pacifist Quaker though this is not a theme in this book as it was in the first volume. Jay Worrall, the author, was born into a military family but raised as a Quaker. During the Vietnam War he worked with refugees in the Central Highlands of that country, and afterwards taught English in Japan. Worrall has also worked to develop innovative and humane prison programs, policies, and administration.

Random House 2007 288 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

Apocalypse Of The Word

BY DOUGLAS GWYN
Gwyn emphasizes the apocalyptic perspective behind George Fox's declaration that "Christ has come to teach his people himself" and describes how it affected Fox's view of preaching, worship and Church order. This work helps explain the urgency of the message that sparked the early Quaker movement. "This highly readable work develops the religious thought of George Fox in new and fresh ways and constitutes a major contribution to early Quaker research." - Dean Freiday.

Friends United Press 1986 241 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)