Old Turtle And The Broken Truth

BY DOUGLAS WOOD AND TOM MASON, ILLUSTRATED BY JON MUTH
Earth is full of suffering and war until one little girl seeks Old Turtle, who tells her about a "broken truth" and how mending it will help her community to understand the common bond of all humanity.

Scholastic 2003 64 PP. Cloth

$17.95 (in stock)

The Omnivore's Dilemma For Kids

The Secrets Behind What You Eat

BY MICHAEL POLLAN
A version of Pollans classic work on how our food gets to us, what is in it, and how it is grown. Among his detective work he tracks animals and plants through the system. Very good value, with a new introduction and a Q & A section with the author, AND the text is divided up into bite sized segments with illustrations, fact boxes and explanatory diagrams. I think this is even better than the "adult" version.

Penguin 2009 298 PP. Paper

$9.99 (in stock)

The Omnivore's Dilemma

A Natural History Of Four Meals

BY MICHAEL POLLAN
This book has three parts, one for each of the food chains that sustain us: industrialized food, organic food, and food people grow or hunt themselves. Pollan follows the food chain literally from the ground up to the table, & concludes each section by sitting down to a meal--at McDonald's, at home with his family sharing a dinner from Whole Foods, and in a revolutionary farm in Virginia. He traces the provenance of everything consumed, revealing the hidden components we unwittingly ingest and explaining how our taste for particular foods reflects our environmental and biological inheritance.

Penguin 2007 464 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

On Angel Wings

BY MICHAEL MORPURGO, ILLUSTRATED BY QUENTIN BLAKE
"I bring you news of great joy. For tonight, in Bethlehem, a child has been born, a savior who is Christ the Lord." When the shepherds are invited to follow the star to visit the child, one young boy is told to stay and mind the flock. But the Angel Gabriel returns for him, taking the boy on a magical, memorable flight to be the first to witness the Christmas miracle. With a gently wry narration by Michael Morpurgo and expressive illustrations by the extraordinary Quentin Blake, this inviting, uplifting story is destined to become a holiday tradition.

Candlewick 2007 48 PP. Cloth

$8.99 (in stock)

On Being A Christian (723)

HANS KUNG
SECONDHAND BOOKin good condition with dustjacket, looks alittle aged I guess. If you like your theology intense, and in huge chunks then this is the book for you - a real doorstop of book. One of the leading catholic thinkers till the pope excomunicated him. The Proust of theologians.

P<Doubleday 1974 719 PP. Cloth

$15.50 USED - availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST

On Being Grafted Into The Root

Beacon Hill Friends House Listen! Series

BY DEBBIE HUMPHRIES
Debbie Humphries talk began a series, with the theme the call to ministry. In the lecture she explored images of grafting and the growth of olive trees in both the Bible and the Mormon texts she grew up with. She uses these texts to illuminate her experience of the call to ministry.

Beacon Hill Friends House 2007 23 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

On Death And Dying

What The Dying Have To Teach Doctors, Nursers, Clergy, And Their Own Families

BY ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS
One of the most famous psychological studies of our time, this classic grew out of one of the author's interdisciplinary seminars on death. Sample interviews and conversations provide a better understanding of the effects which imminent death has on patients and their families.

Scribner 2003 284 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

On Doing Good (9217)

The Quaker Experiment

BY GERALD JONAS
SECONDHAND COPY - Good condition book, but poor dust jacket. A look at Quaker work with Native Americans and with slavery, an early attempt to look at Quaker contributions in these areas subsequently reexamined in Fit for Freedom. He then looks at the work of AFSC in more recent years.

Scibners 1971 175 PP. Cloth

$10.00 USED - availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST

On Food Justice

Ladonna Redmond's 2011 Gathering Plenary

BY LADONNA REDMOND
This is an audio mp3 file of LaDonna Redmond's Plenary address at the 2011 FGC Gathering in Grinnell, Iowa. LaDonna is a long-time community activist who has successfully worked to get Chicago Public Schools to evaluate junk food, launched urban agricultural projects, started community grocery stores, and worked on federal farm policy to expand access to healthy food in low-income communities. "Stream this presentation free until September 15 at http://www.fgcquaker.org/quakerpress."

Quaker Press of FGC 2011 Audio

$5.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

On Hallowing One's Diminishments

Php 292

BY JOHN YUNGBLUT
A lifelong student of mysticism shares the experience of contemplative prayer in facing many forms of diminishment: birth defects, natural disasters, aging, and death itself.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1990 27 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

On Killing

The Psychological Cost Of Learning To Kill In War And Society

BY DAVE GROSSMAN
The good news, according to Grossman - drawing on dozens of interviews, first-person reports, and historic studies of combat, ranging from Frederick the Great's battles in the eighteenth century through Vietnam - is that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to kill. In World War II, for instance, only 15 to 25 percent of combat infantry were willing to fire their rifles. The provocative news is that modern armies, using Pavlovian and operant conditioning, have learned how to overcome this reluctance.

Back Bay Books 1996 400 PP. Paper

$15.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

On Living With A Concern For Gospel Ministry

BY BRIAN DRAYTON
"Brian Drayton has studied A Description of the Qualifications Necessary to a Gospel Minister by Samuel Bownas, and many Friends journals, internalizing their teaching and applying it to his own life and ministry. He is called to minister to ministers, to encourage, help, and yes, even admonish Friends who feel a gift for ministry arising within. Here is a book full of wisdom and advice on how to cherish, live with, and grow into the gift of ministry. It is well aimed at the specific temptations and opportunities of our own day, while incorporating those timeless truths with which a minister of any era must grapple."

Quaker Press of FGC 2005 196 PP. Paper

$19.00 (in stock)

On Meadowview Street

BY HENRY COLE
Caroline lives on Meadowview Street. But where's the meadow? Where's the view? There's nothing growing in her front yard except grass. Then she spots a flower and a butterfly and a bird and Caroline realizes that with her help, maybe Meadowview Street can have a meadow after all. Grades k-2.

GreenWillow 2007 32 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

On Noah's Ark

BY JAN BRETT
Jan Brett's intricate illustrations against a beautiful papyrus background make a stunning picture book of a favorite story, this time featuring Noah's granddaughter. As the floodwaters rise, she helps take the animals onto the ark and get them settled down. But it's not easy when giraffes are sleeping next to pandas and lions are curled up with turkeys. Finally the gentle rocking of the ark lulls them all to sleep until the waters recede and Grandpa Noah, his family, and all the animals leave the ark. This simple telling, combined with extraordinary illustrations of every animal imaginable, makes On Noah's Ark perfect for young and old.

Putnam 2003 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

On Retiring To Kendal (and Beyond)

A Literary Excursion - Php 368

BY PETER BIEN
Retiring to Kendal is obviously one's final move before "and beyond." This leads the author to wonder whether death is an unmitigated calamity. Would it be better to live forever? Not, presumably, if debility were included. But what about eternal youthfulness and health? Guided by literary passages from Homer and Shakespeare to Kazantzakis and Cavafy, the author concludes, strangely, that death actually enhances life rather than negating it.

Pendle Hill 2003 27 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

On Sitting Still

BY MARY C. TEST
Sometimes the most wonderful things in the world, like the rising and setting of the sun, happen in stillness. This small book introduces children to the special quiet of meeting for worship.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 2003 15 PP. Paper

$3.50 (in stock)

On Stepping Out Of The Boat

BY TRAYCE PETERSON
Walking on water. That's not an image most of us think about often. Trayce Peterson opens up the challenges and possibilities of responding to the Light's invitation to walk away from our safe, comfortable boat using art and experience to illustrate her ideas.

Beacon Hill Friends House 2009 17 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

On The Contrary

A Reflection On The Universal Light Of Childhood

BY JOHN HEMMIMG
A meditative reflection on the universal light of childhood and our journey to wholeness.

Quaker Universalist Group (UK) 1996 25 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

On The Vocal Ministry

BY RUTH PITMAN
A helpful explanation of vocal ministry in the Quaker meeting for worship for those new to Quaker meeting.

Tract

$0.10 (out of stock but can be backordered)

One

BY TRIBE1
"One" is Tribe1's first CD featuring songs of change, peace, and community involvement. Eleven songs by Diane Spann-Miller, Niyonu Spann and Benson Sebastian. Tribe1 is Sonia Rosen, Ingrid Lake, Jonathan Snipe, Deborra Sines Pancoe, Brother Rob Carter, Cedric Miller, Niyonu Spann and Foluke Bennett.

Tribe 1 1994 11 SONGS Disk

$15.00 (in stock)

One - Picture Book

BY KATHRYN OTOSHI
Blue is a quiet color. Red's a hothead who likes to pick on Blue. Yellow, Orange, Green, and Purple don't like what they see, but what can they do? When no one speaks up, things get out of hand - until One comes along and shows all the colors how to stand up, stand together, and count. As budding young readers learn about numbers, counting, and primary and secondary colors, they also learn about accepting each other's differences and how it sometimes just takes one voice to make everyone count.

KO Kids Books 2008 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

One City, Two Brothers

BY CHRIS SMITH, ILLUSTRATED BY AURELIA FRONTY
A folktale heard in synagogues, mosques and churches across Near East and beyond, the story of how the city of Jerusalem came to be has been passed along for hundreds of years. In this gorgeously illustrated book, storyteller Chris Smith shows how two brothers find peace by seeing themselves in each other. Chris Smith is a storyteller who has also worked with UNICEF and Oxfam on the West Bank and in Gaza. The power of traditional stories is a source of inspiration for Chris, and he wrote this book to combine his love of story with the wish for the people of Israel and Palestine to find peace.

Barefoot Books 2007 32 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

One Day The Soldiers

Paper

$14.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

One Explorer's Glossary Of Quaker Terms

BY WARREN SMITH, EDITED BY MAE SMITH-BIXBY, REVISED BY DEBORAH HAINES
REVISED AND UPDATED! For students and those new to Quakerism having trouble with the peculiar lingo of Friends "here are some of the words and phrases that keep cropping up in Quaker talk and writings, with some casual and completely unauthorized commentary" says the author Warren Smith. Brought into the 21st century, this revised book will be an invaluable aid for speaking and understanding Quakerese.

Quaker Press of FGC 1992 42 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

One Grain Of Sand

A Lullaby

BY PETE SEEGER, ILLUSTRATED BY LINDA WINGERTER
This is THE song that Pete Seeger has said he hopes to be remembered for, a story of parental love and the feelings of amazement at the beauty of the world and a commitment to justice that such love can give. The lyrics are beautifully illustrated and show a trip round the world looking at family love in scenes from the tropics to the ice caps of the world and back. Ages 4-9 (and up).

Megan Tingley 2004 32 PP Cloth

$15.95 (in stock)

One Heart And A Wrong Spirit

The Religioius Society Of Friends And Colonial Racism - The 2006 James Backhouse Lecture

BY POLLY DAKSI WALKER
"Although the original Quaker settlers held good intentions [in the United States], they were part of a larger system of colonial racism that legitimized the appropriation of Indigenous peoples and lands. Not only in the Americas, but also in colonized lands across the globe, a wrong spirit wrought devastation on all Indigenous peoples through a system of colonial racism." - the author, from the introduction In this lecture, Polly Walker draws on her Cherokee forebears and on interviews she conducted with Indigenous Australians to illustrate the damage and distress to Indigenous peoples caused by the continuing legacy of colonial racism in the United States and in Australia.

Australia Yearly Mtg. 2006 71 PP. Paper

$8.00 (in stock)

One Hen

How One Small Loan Made A Big Difference

BY KATIE SMITH MILWAY
One Hen tells the story of Kojo, who lives in an Ashanti village in Ghana and turns a small loan into a thriving farm. After his father died, Kojo had to quit school to help his mother collect firewood to sell. When his mother receives a loan from some village families, she gives a little money to her son. With this tiny loan, Kojo buys a hen. A year later, Kojo has built up a flock of 25 hens. With his earnings Kojo is able to return to school. Kojo's story is inspired by the life of Kwabena Darko, who as a boy started a tiny poultry farm just like Kojo's, which later grew to be the largest in Ghana. The final pages of One Hen explain the microloan system.

Kids Can Press 2008 32 PP. Cloth

$18.95 (in stock)

One Of Us

BY PEGGY MOSS, ILLUSTRATED BY PENNY WEBER
The familiar story of a new kid's struggle to fit in at school gets a wry twist in this lively picture book. Roberta receives a warm welcome from Carmen and her friends, who do their hair like Roberta does. But they turn away when she runs toward the monkey bars: they don't play on the playground. The monkey-bar kids invite her to their lunch table, but then they see her daisy lunchbox. Other kids with flowered lunchboxes wave her over, but then they make fun of her pita roll-up. The story's message of diversity comes when Anna, who likes baseball, the trumpet, car racing, and ballet, tells Roberta, "You are one of us," precisely because each one of Anna's group is different.

Tilbury House 2010 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

One Small Plot Of Heaven

Reflections On Family Life By A Quaker Sociologist

BY ELISE BOULDING
More than any other single book, this is an intelligent and sensitive manual for Quaker parenting and family life. Elise Boulding, noted sociologist and peace activist, talks about practicing peace making in family life and creating a colony of heaven, "a home of peace from which to help build a more peaceful world." Boulding speaks of children and solitude, the personhood of children, Friends testimonies in the home, families as centers of peace and love, Quaker foremothers as ministers and householders, reweaving the web of family life for lesbians and gays, the re-creation of relationship and the family as a small society. Boulding offers an inspiring vision for the family.

Pendle Hill 1989 225 PP. Paper

$12.50 (in stock)

One Thousand Tracings

Healing The Wounds Of World War Ii

WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY LITA JUDGE
When Lita Judge found hundreds of tracings of feet in her grandmother's attic, she was moved to discover the story behind them. One Thousand Tracings tells that story. In the aftermath of World War II, a family in America established contact with a family in Germany, and sent them a package of much-needed supplies, including shoes. The German family was extremely grateful and asked if their friends would help others in Europe. Soon foot tracings from all over the continent started pouring in to the modest Midwest farm. As the network of American families grew, hundreds of people were touched by this remarkable process. "A lovely book about generosity and compassion." - Karen Hesse

Hyperion Books 2007 40 PP. Cloth

$15.99 (in stock)