Sidney & Norman

BY PHIL VISCHER
Sidney & Norman uses the simple context of two pigs living next door to each other to communicate a profound truth about how we judge each other and often judge ourselves. On the surface, Sidney & Norman appears to be a picture book that will entertain children. But this story has deeply moved adult audiences in informal readings, leading to deep-thinking discussions. By the creator of the Christian TV cartoon Veggietales.

Thomas Nelson 2006 48 PP. Cloth

$16.00 (in stock)

Signposts To The Future?

Creation Centered Spirituality And The Sea Of Faith

BY JOSEPHINE TEAGLE
Discusses two ideas current in modern Christianity, the "Sea of Faith Ideas" inspired by Don Cuppitt and "Creation Spirituality" developed by Matthew Fox. By trying to make sense of her own spiritual journey using these ideas she explores their implications for Quakerism and asks four questions of each; what is their worldview, the relationship of individual to community, ethics promoted, and the future they point to.

Quaker Universalist group (UK) 1997 26 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Signs And Wonders

BY PHILIP GULLEY
Home to Quaker Pastor Sam Gardner and all manner of other quirky characters and the occasional everyday miracle, to know tiny Harmony, Indiana, is to love it. Even crackpot, high-flying salvation schemes cannot lessen Harmony's appeal - a place as near to heaven as seekers of the simple life are likely to find.

HarperSanFrancisco 2006 226 PP Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

Signs Of Salvation

New Life Where Grace And Truth Meet - A Biblical Meditation

BY BEN RICHMOND
In the Bible, God acts to save people - in this world - from all sorts of dangers and evil. God saves us from enemies, so that we can live free from fear and at peace. God saves us from economic oppression, so that we can afford to be generous. God forgives our sins, heals our wounds, and speaks intimately in our hearts. There is no salvation, the author contends, without "signs of salvation" because salvation is for this world and the next. Richmond presents a joyful invitation to a new relationship with God, who has chosen to come in love.

Friends United Press 2005 253 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

Sikulu And Harambe By The Zambezi River

An African Version Of The Good Samaritan Story

BY KUNLE OGUNEYE
This is the first in a series of adventures that will follow Sikulu the spider and Harambe the Hippo as they travel to different countries in Africa. In this story, they are in the village of Sioma where they encounter an old woman in need of help. The other animals all have convenient excuses for not helping while Sikulu & Harambe are the only ones who do. Based on an actual folktale, it is a great story that reinforces the beauty of kindness to young children. The book also offers a glossary of terms and weaves information about Zambian culture into the story

Blue Brush Media 2008 32 PP. Cloth

$14.99 (in stock)

Silence

The Mystery Of Wholeness

BY ROBERT SARDELLO
A useful and well written meditation on silence and the depths which you can reach by attending to the silence. The authors come at it from a rather "new age" direction and examples are mostly taken from anthroposophy, depth psychology, and phenomenology. An abridged more popular version of his earlier book "Silence".

North Atlantic Books 2008 123 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Silence - Poster

DESIGNED BY FRIENDS GENERAL CONFERENCE
Text: "Silence / is a natural demand / born of a need for God, felt by young and old, / in all the world's religions. / In silence we may worship together, / sharing our search for life, / sharing our quest for peace, / sharing God's gift of love."

Quaker Press of FGC 23" BY 35" Blank

$10.00 (in stock)

Silence And Witness

The Quaker Tradition

BY MICHAEL BIRKEL
This is a meaty and inviting introduction to Quaker thought and spiritual life. The detailed examination of discernment about when to speak in meeting and other leadings is worth the cover price. His chapter entitled 'The Facing Bench' lifts up well selected quotations of prominent Friends on topics such as 'The Immediate Presence of God,' 'The Universal Light of Christ,' and 'The Spiritual Basis of Peace.' His chapter on the inward experience of worship is both an excellent introduction and a seasoned examination of centering techniques. This is a book that belongs in every meeting house and in every new attenders' home.

Orbis 2004 144 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

The Silent Cry

Mysticism And Resistance

BY DOROTHEE SOELLE, TRANSLATED BY BARBARA & MARTIN RUMSCHEIDT
This major work from one of the world's best known and most widely read theologians explores the religious impulse of mysticism, the "silent cry" at the heart of all the world's religions. Soelle believes that the longing for God has never been more important than in this age of materialism and fundamentalism. The book is written in three parts: "What is Mysticism?," "Places of Mystical Experience," and "Mysticism is Resistance." Soelle references Quakers, Woolman and Fell in her exploration of a mysticism accessible to all.

Fortress Press 2001 326 PP. Paper

$24.00 (in stock)

Silent Witness

Quaker Meeting Houses In The Delaware Valley, 1695 To The Present

BY HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Silent Witness is a documentation of the evolution of meetinghouse design in the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting region from 1695 to the present. It shows the way changes in faith and practice have been reflected in meetinghouse form, as well as the influence of the Quaker testimony of simplicity. The meetinghouses included in the catalog are documented with photographs and drawings produced by the Historic American Buildings Survey of the National Park Service.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 2002 56 PP Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Simon's Gold

BY BOBBIE TEAGUE, ILLUSTRATED BY CHARLES DEPPNER
Simon's Gold is a contemporary `ghost' story based on historical and geographical facts from Quaker North Carolina that will appeal to the young reader. Gwen Gosney Erickson, Librarian and College Archivist of the Friends Historical Collection, Guilford College, says, "Simon's Gold offers a look into the past with an interesting spin...blending past events with current settings adds insight into Quaker and Revolutionary era history without distracting the reader from the basic adventure. The book addresses timeless issues such as the importance of family and is an enjoyable read for all ages." Both author and illustrator are Friends.

Canmore Press 2002 92 PP. Paper

$13.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Simple Lives, Radiant Faith

Bible Lessons From The 2004 Fgc Gathering Of Friends

BY BECKEY PHIPPS
These 5 lessons reflect the author's personal encounter with the bible as a source of spiritual truth. She reveals the treasure she found through intimate vignettes of learning to engage and interpret the scriptures. Each lesson uncovers an aspect of the radiant faith that leads to an inner transformation and a subsequent simplified life. Written lovingly but not avoiding difficulty or sorrow, you may find yourself awakened as the author did, awakened to a greater response-ability to God's persistent invitation to faithfulness.

Quaker Press of FGC 2005 28 PP. Paper

$7.00 (in stock)

The Simple Living Guide

An Essential Sourcebook For Less Stressful, More Joyful Living

BY JANET LUHRS
Whether you are looking at small solutions for cutting down the stress in your life or taking the big leap toward the simpler life, this book can be your guide. Janet Luhrs, the nationally recognized founder and editor of the Simple Living Journal, brings together strategies, inspiration, resources, and real-life profiles of people who have slowed down, overcome obstacles, and created richer lives. As Janet Luhrs says, Simple living is about living deliberately. Simple living is not about austerity, or frugality, or income level. It's about being fully aware of why you are living your particular life, and knowing that life is one you have chosen thoughtfully.

Broadway Books 1997 444 PP. Paper

$24.95 (in stock)

Simple Riches

Reflections On The Work Of The Quaker Parent

BY JUDY & DENIS ASSELIN
Key ingredients to successful Quaker parenting: "living simply, loving unconditionally, and having faith."

Southeastern Yearly Meeting 1995 17 PP. Paper

$3.00 (in stock)

Simply In Season Children's Cookbook

Fun With Food From Garden To Table

BY MARK BEACH AND JULIE KAUFFMAN
Help children make the connection between what they eat, where it comes from, and when it is in season. This colorful profusely illustrated cookbook makes it easy and fun for children to think and cook in season "An imaginative, active way to invite kids of all ages, but especially 6-to-12-year-olds, to get in touch with real food, to see where it comes from, to take responsibility for preparing it, and to have fun in the process"- Mary Beth Lind.

Herald Press 2006 80 PP. Spiral Bound

$10.00 (in stock)

Simply Live It Up (8777)

Brief Soloutions

TERRI BELF C WARD
SECONDHAND paperback in good but just slightly curly condition. "Magically demonstrates that brief solutions are the surest way to success. Virtual playground of new choices. Playful, clever approach to personal development." -- Paul R. Scheele, Chairman, Learning Strategies Corporation.

Purposeful press 1997 220 PP. Paper

$8.50 USED - availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST

A Sincere And Constant Love

An Introduction To The Writings Of Margaret Fell

EDITED BY T H S WALLACE
This is the only collection of writings featuring epistles and doctrinal writings of the woman many have called `the mother of Quakerism. Selections include `Women's Speaking Justified,' `Some Ranters Principles Answered,' `The Mystery Letter,' `A Testimony of Margaret Fell Concerning Her Late Husband George Fox.,' and `Some of the Sayings of Margaret Fox a Little before her Departure out of this World.' An important book for any meeting library or any Friend interested in early Quakerism. See also 'Undaunted Zeal' for her letters.The new second edition is a handsome and much more clearly typeset book.

Friends United Press 2009 235 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Sins Of Scripture

Exposing The Bibles Texts Of Hate To Reveal The God Of Love

BY JOHN SHELBY SPONG
Bishop John Shelby Spong boldly approaches those texts that have been used through history to justify the denigration or persecution of others while carrying with them the implied and imposed authority of the claim that they were the "Word of God." As he exposes and challenges what he calls the "terrible texts of the Bible," laying bare the evil done by these texts in the name of God, he also seeks to redeem these texts, hoping to recover their ultimate depth and purpose. Spong looks specifically at texts used to justify homophobia, anti-Semitism, treating women as second-class humans, corporal punishment, and environmental degradation.

HarperSanFrancisco 2006 336 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

The Sisterhood (5334)

BY MARCIA COHEN
Nice SECONDHAND COPY with dustcover. subtitled "The true story of the women who changed the world". In this epic drama of personality and politics, passion and ambition, courage and betrayal, Cohen tells the fascinating inside story of the feminist revolution through the lives of the women who made it and were sometimes unmade by it--Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer, and Kate Millett.

s & S 1988 445 PP. Cloth

$12.00 USED - availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST

Sisters In Spirit

Haudenosaunee (iroquois) Influence On Early American Feminists

BY SALLY ROESCH-WAGNER
Distinguished historian and contemporary feminist scholar Sally Roesch Wagner has compiled extensive research to analyze the source of the revolutionary vision of the early feminists. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Lucretia Mott had formed friendships with their Native neighbors that enabled them to understand a world view far different, and in many ways superior, to the patriarchal one that existed at that time. This is the provocative and compelling history of their struggle to bring equality and dignity to all women, and the role played by the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) women who modeled the position women could occupy in society.

Native Voices 2001 127 PP. Paper

$11.95 (in stock)

Sit-in

How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down

BY ANDREA DAVIS PINKNEY, BRIAN PINKNEY
This picture book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in, when four college students staged a peaceful protest that became a defining moment in the struggle for racial equality and the growing civil rights movement. "It was February 1, 1960. They didn't need menus; Their order was simple; A doughnut and coffee, with cream on the side." Plain spoken, but not oversimplified, a great addition to children's literature of the civil rights era.

Little Brown 2010 40 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

Sivu's Six Wishes

BY JUDE DALY
The stonemason Sivu can create extraordinary things out of rock. But he is poor, and as time goes by he becomes bitter and envious. If only he could be rich and powerful surely then he would be happy? When Sivu's wish is mysteriously granted six times, however, transforming him by turn into a rich businessman, the mayor, the sun, a rain cloud, and a great rock, he learns that sometimes people have the most power just by being themselves. A Taoist story retold in an African setting.

Eerdmans 2010 36 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

The Skin You Live In

BY MICHAEL TYLER, ILLUSTRATED BY DAVID CSICSKO
With the ease and simplicity of a nursery rhyme, this lively story delivers an important message of social acceptance to young readers. Themes associated with child development and social harmony, such as friendship, acceptance, self-esteem, and diversity are promoted in simple and straightforward prose. Vivid illustrations of children's activities for all cultures, such as swimming in the ocean, hugging, catching butterflies, and eating birthday cake are also provided. This delightful picture book offers a wonderful venue through which parents and teachers can discuss important social concepts with their children. Ages 4-8.

Chicago Children's Museum 2005 32 PP. Cloth

$14.95 (in stock)

Sky Sweeper

BY PHILLIS GERSHATOR, ILLUSTRATED BY HOLLY MEADE
Young Takeboki needs a job and the monks in the temple need a flower keeper - so Takeboki sets to work, sweeping up flowers and leaves and creating swirling miniature worlds of his own in the temple garden. As the years go by, others ask him: Don't you want a better job? But as the seasons shift, each as beautiful as the last, Takeboki knows the pleasures of nature and of humbly doing a job well. He is happy. Luminous collage illustrations created from delicate Japanese papers by a Caldecott Honor artist bring to life this thought-provoking tale that, with its Zen Buddhist sensibility, has much to say about work, wisdom, and the joy of being true to oneself.

Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2007 40 PP. Cloth

$16.00 (in stock)

Slaughterhouse-five

Or The Children's Crusade, A Duty-dance With Death

BY KURT VONNEGUT
Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.

Dell 224 PP. Paper

$7.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Slavery And The Meetinghouse

The Quakers And The Abolitionist Dilemma, 1820-1865

BY RYAN P. JORDAN
This study explores the limits of religious dissent in antebellum America, and reminds us of the difficulties facing reformers who tried peacefully to end slavery. In the years before the Civil War, the Society of Friends opposed the abolitionist campaign for an immediate end to slavery and considered abolitionists within the church as heterodox radicals seeking to destroy civil and religious liberty. In response, many Quaker abolitionists began to build "comeouter" institutions where social and legal inequalities could be freely discussed, and where church members could fuse religious worship with social activism.

Indiana University Press 2007 175 PP. Cloth

$29.95 (in stock)

Slavery By Another Name

The Re-enslavement Of Black Americans From The Civil War To World War 2

BY DOUGLAS A. BLACKMON
Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter. By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals the stories of those caught up in the re-emergence of human labor trafficking, the companies that profited most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today in the justice system and elsewhere.

Anchor 2008 468 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

Sleepy Boy

BY POLLY KANEVSKY, ILLUSTRATED BY STEPHANIE ANDERSON
During the day, the boy has been to the zoo where he has seen a lion and her cub. As nighttime falls, the boy and his father share a book. It's the boy's bedtime, but the boy is not sleepy. He is still with the lions. "Sleepy Boy" is a lovely hymn from a new author - a hymn to day and to night, to awake and to asleep, to mother and child, to father and son. "There is art and craft, both verbal and visual, in this very quiet bedtime story. Unusual and captivating." - Kirkus Review, starred review

Atheneum 2006 32 PP. Cloth

$15.95 (in stock)

Small Is Possible

Life In A Local Economy

BY LYLE ESTILL
In an era when incomprehensibly complex issues like Peak Oil and Climate Change dominate headlines, practical solutions at a local level can seem inadequate. In response, Lyle Estill's book introduces us to "hometown security," with this chronicle of a community's response to resource depletion in a fickle global economy. True stories, springing from Chatham County, NC, offer a positive counter balance to the bleakness of our age. This is the story of how one small town found actual solutions to actual problems. Unwilling to rely on government and wary of large corporations, residents discovered it's possible for a community to feed itself, fuel itself, heal itself & govern itself.

New Society 2008 240 PP. Paper

$17.95 (in stock)

Small Theatres Double Cd

BY EVALYN PARRY
Double CD: one full of music, one full of spoken word. Produced by John Switzer and Evalyn Parry. Featuring a veritable host of the finest of players: Suzie Vinnick, Brad Hart, Anne Lindsay, Richard Reed Parry, Joe Phillips, Treasa Lavesseur, Ken Whiteley, Sarah Neufeld, Pietro Amato, Jenny Whiteley, Burke Carroll, Jennifer Gillmor, Beth Washburn and more. Nine songs and six spoken word recordings.

Borealis Recordings 2007 2 CD'S Disk

$15.00 (in stock)