Glamorous Powers

BY SUSAN HOWATCH

1988 408 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

God

Stories

EDITED BY MICHAEL CURTIS
In a fresh approach to an age-old discussion, an editor of the Atlantic Monthly collects twenty-five short stories by eminent writers about spiritual experiences of all sorts. With works by John Updike, Philip Roth, Louise Erdrich, James Joyce, Flannery O'Connor, James Baldwin, Alice Munro, and more, God: Stories offers insight, solace, and pleasure not only to the faithful but to seekers - and to those who simply love fine stories. "Challenging the mind and exhilarating the soul . . . [this] rare and precious collection" (Susannah Heschel) explores the human dimensions of spirituality from the comic to the passionate, the skeptical to the mystical and beyond.

Mariner Books 2003 416 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Gravitys Rainbow

BY THOMAS PYNCHON
In the mid-1960s, the publication of Pynchon's V and The Crying of Lot 49 introduced a brilliant new voice to American literature. Gravity's Rainbow, his convoluted, allusive novel about a metaphysical quest, published in 1973, further confirmed Pynchon's reputation as one of the greatest writers of the century.

penguin Classic 2005 768 PP. Paper

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Gregor And The Curse Of The Warmbloods (underland Chronicles

BY SUZANNE COLLINS
As the plague in The Underland spreads, Gregor begins to understand his role in the Prophecy of Blood, and must summon all of his power to stop the biological warfare that is spreading a plague through the Underland. "Non-sexist, non-racist, Collins provides mayhem and violence, but the abhorrence of the outcome promotes the wisdom of non-violence enough to satisfy thrill seeking children as well as their pacifist parents." -Lynn Cope.

Scholastic 2006 358 PP. Paper

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Hannah Coulter

A Novel

BY WENDELL BERRY
"Ignorant boys, killing each other," is just about all Nathan Coulter would tell his wife, friends, and family about the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945. Life carried on for the community of Port William, Kentucky, as some boys returned from the war and the lives of others were mourned. In her seventies, Nathan's wife, Hannah, has time now to tell of the years since the war. In Wendell Berry's unforgettable prose, we learn of the Coulter's children, of the Feltners and Branches, and how survivors "live right on." "Atmospheric and quietly moving." - Kirkus Reviews

Counterpoint 2005 208 PP. Paper

$14.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Highest Frontier

BY JOAN SLONCZEWSKI
One of the most respected writers of hard SF, it has been more than ten years since Quaker Joan Slonczewski's last novel. Now she returns with a spectacular tour de force of the college of the future, in orbit. Jennifer Ramos Kennedy, a girl from a rich and politically influential family (a distant relation descended from the famous Kennedy clan), whose twin brother has died in an accident and left her bereft, is about to enter her freshman year at Frontera College. The world that Jenny is living in is one of the most fascinating and creative in contemporary SF, and the problems Jenny faces will involve every reader, young and old.

Tor 2011 443 PP. Cloth

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Home - A Novel

BY MARILYNNE ROBINSON
Companion to Robinson's "Gilead", "Home" takes place concurrently in the same town, this time in the household of Rev. Robert Boughton. Glory Boughton has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Her brother, Jack - the family's prodigal son, gone for 20 years - comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with trouble. A ne'er do-well, Jack still remains Boughton's most beloved child. Brilliant, lovable, & wayward, Jack forges an intense bond with Glory and engages painfully with his godfather & namesake. "Home" is a moving & healing book about families, family secrets, and passing generations, about love & death & faith.

Picador 2009 325 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Home To Harmony - Mass Market Edition

BY PHILIP GULLEY
Welcome to Harmony ... In this acclaimed inaugural volume in the Harmony series, master storyteller and Friend Philip Gulley draws us into the charming world of Quaker pastor Sam Gardner in his first year back in his hometown ministering to his flock of outrageous eccentrics. Quakers and family members portrayed in this book convey the essence of small town life with humor and wisdom.

Avon 2006 237 PP. Paper

$7.99 (in stock)

Hometown Tales

BY PHILIP GULLEY
In this sequel to his immensely popular bestseller "Front Porch Tales," Gulley envelops readers once again in a rare world of plainspoken and honest values, gathered around the enduring themes of the great spiritual virtues.

HarperOne 2007 224 PP. Paper

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I Take Thee, Serenity

BY DAISY NEWMAN
Serenity discovers love and her Friendly heritage.

FUP 1975 314 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

In Hovering Flight

A Novel

BY JOYCE HINNEFELD
This novel by a longtime attender (at LeHigh Valley MM) and Pendle Hill sojourner is about Scarlet (34) who has come home for the passing of her famous mother, the bird artist Addie Kavanaugh. Addie has in fact chosen to die at the home of her dearest friend, Cora. Many great reviews in the national press, a wonderful lyrical first novel.

Unbridled Books 2009 263 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

In The Electric Eden (7223)

Stories

BY NICK ARVIN
SECOND HAND BOOK. reasonably good condition. Writer and former engineer Nick Arvin layers his knowledge of technology, mechanical design, and human character into a collection of emotionally riveting stories. With a subtle hand he transports readers through history and across America to ten poignant and utterly unforgettable places: a traffic accident in the middle of the heartland; the electrocution of Topsy the elephant at Coney Island at the turn of the century; the backyard of an old recluse; a Marine Corps practice invasion of the Florida beaches...

Penguin 2003 207 PP. Paper

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In This Hospitable Land

1940-1944

BY LYNMAR BROCK
An engrossing and gripping story of a family surviving the horrors of the Second World War escaping into the south of France. It keeps your attention with the challenges to both farm to live and then to have to go into the Resistance when the Gestapo comes looking for the family. The brave Protestants of the region put their own lives at risk to save the family. From the auther of Must thee fight.

BookSurge 2008 416 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Iodine

A Novel

BY HAVEN KIMMEL
Trace Pennington is a senior at University in Indiana. Living with her dog, in an abandoned farmhouse that lacks heat and a shower, Trace is in her final semester. But once she enters Professor Jacob Matthias Archetypal Interpretation of Literature class, she turns her intense focus solely on him, dropping her classes and even abandoning her dog to move in to his place. as she digs into Jacobs past to discover why his first marriage ended, her own past bubbles to the surface, forcing her to face painful memories and truths. Haven Kimmel is a Quaker & author of Girl Named Zippy.

Free Press 2009 223 PP. Cloth

$4.00 (in stock)

Iron Finns

BY MICHAEL RESMAN
After his father's death in an underground iron mine, Matti replaces him on the timbering crew. His uncle promises to get him a safe job above ground in exchange for allowing Socialists to meet at the family farm and plot to win to the 1920 governor's race. Matti finds danger, love and loss while learning a trade and developing his spiritually. Author Michael Resman is a Quaker, and with Finnish and American ancestor's who worked in mines like these, he brings a broad perspective to this tale.

North Star Press of St. Cloud 2008 276 PP. Paper

$12.95 (in stock)

Ishq And Mushq (88)

BYY PRIYA BASIL
SECONDHAND paperback, in scuffed condition. British, described thusly:-Sensuous generational novel about a Sikh mother whose secret past corrodes her life with tragic consequences for all - by a 29 year old first time author.

Doubleday 2007 397 PP. Paper

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Jayber Crow

The Life Story Of Jayber Crow, Barber Of The Port William Membership

BY WENDELL BERRY
Jayber Crow is another story of the community of Port William and the lives of its citizens. Jayber is an orphan, returned to the town. his status as barber and bachelor place him simultaneously at its center and on its margins. A born observer, he hears much, watches carefully, and spends 50 years learning its citizens by heart. As the 20th century moves inexorably forward, swallowing rural towns, Port William turns in upon itself. Integrity is key to the stories and lives of its inhabitants and to Jayber's love of Mattie Keith.

Counterpoint 2000 363 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

Just Shy Of Harmony

BY PHILIP GULLEY
Sam Gardner's second year as minister in quaint and charming Harmony, Indiana, is fraught with trials and incidents, a crisis of faith, a marital catastrophe, and a church elder's ill-hatched scheme to scramble scripture with eggs. But a loving heart and a strong sense of humor is almost certain to see Sam through . . . even if all of Harmony is expecting a miracle on easter morning.

HarperSanFrancisco 2006 255 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

Just Shy Of Harmony

BY PHILIP GULLEY
"Gulley, easily evangelical fiction's funniest man, turns in something just shy of a real novel in Just Shy of Harmony--as opposed to the loose collections of sermons and stories he's published in the past. This time out, Gulley's alter ego, Quaker minister Sam Gardner, decides that he no longer believes in God. His reason? A pretty good one: nothing ever gets done, and he fritters away his 60-hour weeks on discussions about church gymnasiums [etc.].... Then a woman in the congregation is stricken with leukemia, and all the backbiters and gossipers rally to her cause. Sam's gloom lifts with his renewed faith in humankind." -Publisher's Weekly, starred review

HarperSanFrancisco 2004 256 PP Paper

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The Known World

A Novel

BY EDWARD JONES
In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book Award finalist, tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with unusual discipline. But when death takes him unexpectedly, his widow, Caldonia, can't uphold the estate's order and chaos ensues. In a daring and ambitious novel, Jones has woven a footnote of history into an epic that takes an unflinching look at slavery in all of its moral complexities.

Amistad 2004 432 PP Paper

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The Lark In The Morn

BY ELFRIDA VIPONT
In 1940's England, 12-year-old Kit, growing up as the youngest and "untalented" child of a musical Quaker family, finally discovers where she fits in. This is the first of two novels full of wisdom and charm about Kit Haverard's emerging vocation as a singer, richly set in the fascinating English Quaker world of the mid-twentieth century-with its silent meetings, committees and mission work, diligent cultivation of knowledge and the arts, and seeking of the light within.

Bethlehem Books 1948 196 PP. Paper

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The Lark On The Wing

BY ELFRIDA VIPONT
17-year-old Kit has known for some time that both her heart and her future are in singing. Reluctantly she takes practical cousin Laura's advice and trains as a secretary to work with her father, but doggedly continues to study as much singing as she can on her own. Now, at a crossroads, she is determined to trust herself and follow her inner conviction. Set in the 1940s and filled with warmth and insight, this sequel to The Lark in the Morn continues the adventures of that 'dratted little Quaker' as she spreads her wings and lets her heart, mind and voice take flight.

Bethlehem Books 1950 232 PP. Paper

$12.95 (in stock)

Life Goes On

A Harmony Novel

BY PHILIP GULLEY
Squarely in the crosshairs of the Church's heresy hunters, can Pastor Sam survive? It's a madcap year in Harmony, Indiana, as Sam Gardner struggles through his fourth year as pastor of the Harmony Friends Meeting.

HarperOne 2005 256 PP. Paper

$12.95 (in stock)

The Lost Swords (102)

Endgame

BY FRED SABERHAGEN
Some nice Science Fiction hardbacks - not that quakerly - but these and murder mysteries are pretty popular among Friends!. These books are all in pretty good condition hardback with tidy dustjackets.

Various Publishers 1992 378 PP. Cloth

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The Married Land (1272)

BELL, CHARLES
SECONDHAND COPY. Hardback in poor condition; the cover binding is quite loose. The first in a trilogy, The Married Land is a fictitious novel about heredity and origin. It follows a married couple who return to their native homes to care for ailing relatives. Lucy Woodruff, the wife, goes back to her childhood Quaker home in Pennsylvania. The author, Charles Bell, did extensive research in his construction of these families, including taking inspiration from the journals of his own fore-bearers.

Houghton Mifflin 1962 430 PP Cloth

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The Memory Of Old Jack

BY WENDELL BERRY
First published in 1974 - ninety two year old Jack, living in a hotel in Port William, Kansas in the early 1950's reflects back constantly on his life and the deep relationship with his farm and his land as well as his fierier youth, his courtship of his wife and their barren marriage.

Counterpoint 1999 176 PP. Paper

$14.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Must Thee Fight?

BY LYNMAR BROCK
As the British army comes closer to Philadelphia during the American Revolution Thomas, a Quaker, grapples with the conflict between his faith and the duty that now seems to be of the utmost necessity. When he and his two best friends join the Edgmont militia, they all promise to take care of one another, no matter what happens. But war is nothing at all as any of them imagined and when terrible tragedy strikes, Thomas finds himself having to re-confront his deepest beliefs and worst fears. Some readers have said they found the book unsuitable for younger readers.

Booksurge 2007 302 PP Paper

$15.99 (in stock)

Ninth Ward

BY JEWELL PARKER RHODES
Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. She doesn't have a fancy house like her uptown family or lots of friends like the other kids on her street. But what she does have is Mama Ya-Ya, her fiercely loving 82 year old caretaker, wise in the ways of the world and able to predict the future. With Katrina fast approaching, it's up to Lanesha to use her considerable hope and strengthto try and bring them and others through the storm.

LB 2010 217 PP. Cloth

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Notes From An Exhibition

A Novel

BY PATRICK GALE
This British novel is about a family struggling with the death of the gifted, bi polar artist who is the mother of the family. Only the father's staunch Quaker beliefs give them any chance of withstanding her destructive influence and the suspicion that they came second to her art. The reader becomes a detective, piecing together the clues of her life, as artist, lover, mother, wife and patient. The story takes them from today's Penzance to 1960s Toronto to St Ives in the 1970s. What emerges is a story of enduring love, and of a family which weathers tragedy, mental illness and the intolerable strain of living with genius.

Harper 2007 375 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

A Patch Of White (32161)

BY ARUN GANDHI
SECONDHAND BOOK, Margaret Hope Bacons copy. Hardback copy in pretty good condition, with dustjacket. Scarce book, first printing from Bombay 1969. Born in 1934 in Durban, South Africa, Arun is the fifth grandson of India's legendary leader. Like many Indians, he was demeaned by Europeans for not being white, ostracized by Africans for not being black, and subject to racially motivated violence from extremists in both groups. Gandhi considers himself to be a Hindu but expresses universalist views A patch of white is about life in prejudiced South Africa

Thackers 1969 191 PP. Cloth

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