The Actor's Way

A Journey Of Self-discovery In Letters

BY BENJAMIN LLOYD
A fictional series of letters between Andy, an anguished young New York City actor, and Alice, his Quaker grade-school acting teacher. "The Actor's Way" explores the struggles of a young actor, the actor/director relationship, the challenges and pitfalls of teaching art in universities, ageism and issues of concern to the elderly, and techniques for teaching realistic acting. The author is a member of Haverford Meeting, and in this complex book one thread is the link of creativity and spirituality through the Quaker Meeting.

Allworth Press 2006 215 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

Adam Of The Road

A Puffin Modern Classic

BY ELIZABETH JANET GRAY (ELIZABETH GRAY VINING)
The Newbery Medal-winning story of Adam, a medieval English son of a wandering minstrel, who finds himself alone and searching for his father and his dog.

Puffin Books-Penguin Group 2006 317 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

Almost Friends - Paperback

BY PHILIP GULLEY
The 7th Harmony book. It's summer in Harmony, but not everything is as sunny as the weather. The good citizens are stirring up trouble as usual. Pastor Sam Gardner must take a leave of absence from the Meeting to take care of his ailing father. But when spunky pastor Krista Riley comes to fill his position, the quirky Quakers seem to fall in love with her, and it begins to look like Sam's sabbatical may be permanent. Krista's resilience is put to the test when Dale Hinshaw and Fern Hampton begin to question whether a woman can faithfully lead their flock, and it looks like the resulting tiff might just be the undoing of Harmony Friends Meeting. Will Sam come to the rescue.

HarperOne 2006 215 PP. Paper

$12.95 (in stock)

American Born Chinese

BY GENE LUEN YANG
A tour-de-force by rising indie comics star Yang, "American Born Chinese" tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters whose lives and stories come together with an unexpected twist in this action-packed modern fable.

Square Fish 2008 233 PP. Paper

$9.99 (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)

Autumn's Brightness

BY DAISY NEWMAN
Recently widowed, Diligence (Dilly) finds herself confronted with a friendship she is not sure she is ready to continue with even though he, Durand, is attentive, attractive and someone she cannot forget. Another Kendal novel that will capture the reader as 52-year-old Dilly's life unfolds.

Friends United Press 1991 250 PP. Paper

$12.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Back Bench

A Novel

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
It's 1837, and fourteen-year-old Quaker Myra Harlan's mother has died, forcing her to leave her home and family in the country to live in Philadelphia. Shocked by the racism she sees all around her and caught in the aftermath of the Orthodox-Hicksite split in the Religious Society of Friends, Myra longs for her mother and struggles to make friends until she finds the Female Anti-Slavery Society, Lucretia Mott, Sarah Douglass, and - ultimately - herself.

Quaker Press of FGC 2007 127 PP. Paper

$13.00 (in stock)

Birdsong

A Novel Of Love And War

BY SEBASTIAN FAULKS
This novel is at once a magnificently erotic love story and a savagely powerful evocation of the carnage of World War I. A young Englishman, devastated by his tragic love affair with a married Frenchwoman, joins the army in 1916 and finds himself behind German lines, transformed into both death's agent and its dispassionate witness.

Vintage 1993 482 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

Blue Arabesque

A Search For The Sublime

BY PATRICIA HAMPL
The author of "I could tell you stories" was mesmerized by a Matisse painting: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl. In Blue Arabesque, she explores the allure of this lounging woman, immersed in leisure, so at odds with the rush of the modern era. Her meditations give her insights into her own early life in Minnesota.

Harvest 2007 224 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Broken English

Ohio Amish Mystery Series - #2

BY P. L. GAUS
The peaceful town of Millersburg, Ohio, in the heart of Ohio's Amish country, is rocked by the vicious murder of one of its citizens at the hands of an ex-convict. When a local reporter covering the story ends up dead as well, with the convict already behind bars, suspicion falls on David Hawkins, father of the first victim. But Hawkins is nowhere to be found, not even among the protective Amish colony that had taken him in as one of its own regardless of his shadowy past. Professor Michael Branden, Sheriff Bruce Robertson, and Pastor Cal Troyer set out to uncover the truth that seems so elusive in their otherwise quiet corner of the world. .

Plume 2000 214 PP. Paper

$4.75 (in stock)

Cast A Blue Shadow

Ohio Amish Mystery Series - #4

BY P. L. GAUS
In this Amish mystery, a blizzard hits northern Ohio, devastating Millersburg College and the lives of many students & locals. Wealthy executive Juliet Favor, patron of the college, is found dead. The next morning Mennonite student Martha Lehman curls up in a fetal position outside her psychiatrist's office. Since she was involved with Juliet's son, she becomes the prime suspect. Professor Michael Branden and Sheriff Bruce Robertson must find the killer. The true victim, however, is Martha, whose troubled past costs her dearly, is doubly isolated as a Mennonite student. How she reconciles her past and finds a place in society is part of the puzzle to be solved.

Plume 2003 232 PP. Paper

$4.75 (in stock)

Change Of Heart

GULLEY, PHIL
The fifth full-length novel in the beloved Harmony series reunites readers with the quirky, lovable cast of characters in Harmony, Indiana.

Harper San Francisco 2005 247 PP. Paper

$12.95 (in stock)

The Christmas Scrapbook

A Harmony Story

BY PHILIP GULLEY
The Quaker storyteller presents a heartwarming tale for the holidays on the real gifts people give one another.

HarperSanFrancisco 2005 96 PP. Cloth

$12.95 (in stock)

Clouds Without Rain

Ohio Amish Mystery Series - #3

BY P. L. GAUS
Clouds without Rain begins with a fatal accident involving an Amish buggy and an eighteen-wheeler. Professor Branden grows suspicious about the true nature of the crash, especially when the trustee for the dead Amish man's estate disappears a few days later. Branden sets out to find a link between the crash and a spate of other disturbing events: Amish teenagers robbing buggies on dusty lanes, land swindles involving out-of-town developers, and a bank official gone missing.

Plume 2001 203 PP. Paper

$4.75 (in stock)

Cress Delahanty

BY JESSAMYN WEST
Set in rural California in the 1940s, this novel first published as four short stories, wittily portrays an adolescent girl navigating pivotal moments of growing up between ages 12 and 16. West is equally insightful about the eternal problems of parent and grandparenthood, how raising children transforms a marriage, and how death touches a family. An afterword discuses her writing career.

Feminist Press 2006 340 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time

BY MARK HADDON
An autistic boy tries to solve a mystery that involves the death of his neighbors dog. A good read as they say- and it opens a window to the autistic mind.

Vintage Books 2004 240 PP. Paper

$14.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Dead Lie Down

BY SOPHIE HANNAH
Sold in England as a murder (that may not have been a murder) mystery, over here it is just classed as fiction, but from page 130 of this thriller, a lot of the action revolves around a very accurately described Quaker Quest event in Friends House, London. There is also some swearing (even about George Fox) and it's an unusual book all around. I note Oprah seems to like it!

Penguin 2010 470 PP. Paper

$15.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Diligence In Love

BY DAISY NEWMAN
This is the fourth book in the series of Quaker related Novels. Kendal is again the setting of Daisy Newman's book and familiar as well as new readers will find her work refreshing and interesting. Friendly faces join us in meeting Vaughn Hill as she discovers Kendal and its intriguing residents. This is a simply told, beautifully characterized novel about a sophisticated advertising woman, who found much to learn and admire among the Quakers-and saved her marriage from disaster.

FUP 1992 252 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

Diligence In Love (31065)

BY DAISY NEWMAN
Scruffy dust jacket covering good condition reading copy and first edition of this well known Quaker novel. Subtitled "A novel about Quakers and a restless advertising woman". This is an ex library copy.SECONDHAND BOOK

Doubleday 1951 253 PP. Cloth

$6.00 USED - availability checked May 21st 3:40am EDT

Dope Thief

A Mystery

BY DENNIS TAFOYA
By a member of Doylestown Meeting and partially set in Doylestown. Not a typical Quaker book, and the guys use harsh language on occasion, but with an ultimately redemptive theme. Ray and his best friend, Manny find DEA windcheaters in a thrift store. Posing as DEA agents they rob small time drug dealers of small amounts of money, but inevitably things go wrong and with a big crime gang after him, Ray wants out and reflects on how he came to this life he now despises.

Minotaur Books 2009 291 PP. Cloth

$24.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Dreamer

BY PAM MUNOZ, PETER SIS
From the time he is a young boy, Neftall hears the call of a mysterious voice. Even when the neighborhood children taunt him, and when his harsh, authoritarian father ridicules him, and when he doubts himself, Neftall knows he cannot ignore the call. Under the canopy of the lush rain forest, into the fearsome sea, and through the persistent Chilean rain, he listens and he follows. Combining elements of magical realism with biography, poetry, literary fiction, and sensorial, transporting illustrations, Pam Muroz Ryan and Peter Sis take readers on a rare journey of the heart and imagination. Ages 9-12

Scholastic 2010 371 PP. Cloth

$17.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Duchess And The Dragon

A Novel

BY JAMIE CARIE
A disgraced duke must flee his homeland disguised as an indentured servant. When he reaches Philadelphia, he is cared for by Quaker Serena Winter, whose mission is to care for the sick. She becomes intrigued by this mysterious figure.

B&H Publishing Group 2008 294 Paper

$14.99 (in stock)

Emma Field Book 1 As Pdf

WILLIAMS, CAROL

2011 309 PP. E Book

$10.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Emma Field Book One

BY CAROL WILLIAMS
Emma Field has dreams and desires that call her to go beyond her father's struggle to survive as an immigrant in a Quaker community in 1840's Canada. "Emma lived in a quiet world. Most of the sounds and all of the colors came from nature. She absorbed them like moss absorbing a spring rain. Emma Field - daughter of Jeremiah and the late Josephine, child of the land, child of a Methodist and Quaker community swept by the winds of Lake Ontario - knew where she belonged. The circles of her life were clearly defined. That gave her comfort. It also filled her with fear." an excerpt from the book.

Carol Williams 2007 309 PP. Paper

$24.99 (in stock)

Emma Field Book Two

BY CAROL WILLIAMS
mn Emma Field, Book II, the young Canadian heroine of Book I has left home and now continues her adventures in the Hudson River Valley of New York State. Arriving as a teacher at the Nine Partners Boarding School, Emma soon becomes aware of the social inequalities of mid-19th century America. She is inspired by reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott at the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls. She then daringly assists the Quakers involved with freeing slaves on the Underground Railroad.

Carol Williams 2009 272 PP. Paper

$24.99 (in stock)

Emmaus Readers

When an eclectic group of nine friends--fiction-readers and professors at Calvin College in Michigan--came together weekly to wrestle with great contemporary novels, they were surprised to discover how much spiritual meat they found. Together, the self-described Emmaus Readers read P.D. James, Ron Hansen, Ian McEwan, Yann Martel, Oscar Hijuelos, Frederick Buechner, and several others, across a variety of genres: historical fiction, fantasy, graphic novels, science fiction, and mystery.

Paraclete Press Paper

$7.95 (in stock)

Every Last Cuckoo - Paperback

BY KATE MALOY
This new novel by Quaker writer Maloy explores the landscape and Quaker faith in the life of 75-year-old Sarah. Overcome by her husband's death, Sarah finds her house becoming a refuge for wayward souls. "The motley assortment of characters, many of whom have been touched by violence, deliver passionate apostrophes on peace and justice, and together Sarah and her boarders discover unseen beauty in the landscape, uncover hidden talents and develop a nurturing, healing community. Maloy's wordplay and startling nature imagery enchant." - Publishers Weekly

Algonquin Books 2009 304 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Eye In The Door

BY PAT BARKER
Pat Barker returns to the World War I era with The Eye in the Door, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize for 1993. It is the spring of 1918. On the battlefields of France, a mammoth German offensive threatens the English army with defeat. In England itself, a beleaguered government and panic-stricken, vengeful public seek scapegoats. Two groups are targeted for persecution and prosecution: pacifists and homosexuals. Many are jailed, others lead dangerous double lives; and "the eye in the door" becomes a symbol of the paranoia that threatens to destroy the very fabric of British society.

,Plume 1995 288 PP. Paper

$16.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Falling To Heaven

A Novel

BY JEANNE PETERSON
In 1954 Emma and Gerald Kittredge leave their secure Quaker community for a Tibetan town. Their neighbors are Dorje and Rinchen, and their sons. The arrival of Maoist soldiers shatters everything. Gerald is captured by the soldiers, leaving a pregnant Emma to rely on her Tibetan neighbors. Told in three distinct voices rich in their respective spiritual traditions, Falling to Heaven is ultimately a novel about faith: losing it and rediscovering it in places you'd never expect.

Thomas Dunne 2010 326 PP. Cloth

$9.00 (in stock)

Flowers From The Storm

BY LAURA KINSALE
Something different! Voted by some as one of the top 10 romance novels of all time. The "rakehell" the Duke of Jervault comes upon hard times and a mental breakdown and is befriended by a plain Quaker girl, Maddy Timms...Could it be his redemption and her big romance...

Avon 1992 553 PP. Paper

$7.99 (in stock)