Pennterra

BY JUDITH MOFFETT
A Quaker colony in space! But it is a strange planet they have landed on, and complications arise as more colonists arrive from Earth unwilling to accept the empathic warnings of the planets native life, the Hrossa. But be warned there is a strange sexual subtext to the book although that is all explained at the end. This is a reissue of the long out of print original edition

Fantastic Books 2009 288 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Pictures From An Expedition

BY DIANE SMITH
Told through the reminiscences of scientific illustrator Eleanor Peterson, Pictures from an Expedition is set in 1876 and tells of a diverse band of adventurers heading west to the desolate badlands of Montana to work on a dinosaur fossil dig. The story recounts the experiences of this field crew as they argue over theories of evolution and contend with rival scientists. I thought Quakers featured in the book, but haven't spotted any yet - however it is a good book!

Penguin 2002 276 PP. Paper

$2.00 (in stock)

Plain Language

BY BARBARA WRIGHT
Set on the plains of Eastern Colorado in the 1930s, Plain Language is a novel about identity-that loosely knit but interconnected net of memories, dreams and aspirations that makes up who we are-and how identity is challenged by marriage, injury, secrets, and misconceptions of the past. Virginia Mendenhall, a Quaker from North Carolina, is thirty-three years old when she gives up everything and travels to Colorado to marry Alfred Bowen, a cattleman who is struggling to make his ranch succeed during the Dust Bowl. "Plain Language is an exceptional novel about the power of memory and desire....Wright takes us into the life of a passionate Quaker woman." -Ursula Hegi

Simon & Schuster 2003 352 PP. Paper

$13.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Porch Talk

Stories Of Decency, Common Sense, And Other Endangered Species

BY PHILIP GULLEY
In this collection of stories told from his own life experiences, Gulley's musings on such topics as leisure, marriage, faith, enjoyment, and more hold an earthy wisdom that reminds us of what we hold dear, and what's truly important in life. These stories reflect the kind of conversations Gulley overheard in his youth, in a time when neighbors gathered on front porches across America, a glass of lemonade in hand, the sounds of crickets buzzing in the air, and lazy stories spilled from lips from generation to generation.

HarperOne 2009 170 PP. Paper

$13.99 (in stock)

Putting Away Childish Things

A Novel Of Modern Faith

BY MARCUS BORG
Borg explores modern (and old) Christian ideas in a novel. Kate is a popular professor a small midwestern town. She loves her job, is happy with her personal and spiritual life. Then things start to go wrong. A job offer, but at the same college as an old flame. In the classroom, students ask for her views on the Bible, & homosexuality -answering honestly she finds herself a target of outraged parents. This novel is an engaging way for readers to learn about the important issues dividing Christians today. Along the way, we join with the characters to ask the hard questions such as what does the Bible really teach? Who is Jesus? What is the nature of faith today?

HarperOne 2011 386 PP. Paper

$14.99 (in stock)

A Quaker Christmas Four Novellas

(the Romancing America Series)

BY LAURALEE BLISS, RAMONA CECIL, RACHAEL PHILLIPS,CLAIRE SANDERS
Four seasonal romantic novellas with a Quaker theme from four different authors: A Quaker run Inn for weary travelers receives a troublesome guest; how to cope with an untimely death in a Quaker community; Will Keturah's love of fun prevent her from finding a Quaker husband; and at a very difficult time Susanna has to step into her husband's shoes in the Underground Railway. Its what Quaker romantics have been waiting for for years, a great step forward from the Amish Romances currently so popular.

Barbour 2011 352 PP. Paper

$7.99 (in stock)

Quaker Summer

A Novel

BY LISA SAMSON
When Heather Reeves wrecks her Suburban outside Baltimore, Maryland, two elderly Quaker women come to her rescue. Inspired by their radical lives, Heather experiences a summer of awakening and grace. "Samson's unflinching exploration of childhood bullying, as well as inner-city poverty and drug culture, are rivaled only by her portrayal of the soul-desiccating acquisitiveness in which many Christians engage.... Unlike many Christian novelists, Samson does not tidily resolve every single problem her heroine faces, but instead paints an emotionally and spiritually luminous portrait of a soul beckoned by God." - Publishers Weekly

Thomas Nelson 2007 320 PP. Paper

$14.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Ramona

BY HELEN HUNT JACKSON
Along with Uncle Tom's Cabin, Ramona is regarded as one of the 19th century's great ethical novels. Ramona is the fictional love story of a beautiful, illegitimate Scots-Indian orphan and the handsome and courageous Indian Alessandro. Persecuted and betrayed by individuals and the government, Ramona and Alessandro struggle and flee. Their love is portrayed in dramatic and classical terms, while the tragedy of their lives is the tragedy of their people who endure brutal poverty and the loss of their land. Along with the non-fiction book A Century of Dishonor, This was part of Jackson's efforts to promote the rights of Native Americans.

Signet Classic 1988 362 PP. Paper

$5.99 (in stock)

Rebekah's Journey

BY ANN BELL
Quaker women in the eighteenth century were known as the First Women Feminist. Their strength in spite of tremendous adversity has been an inspiration to generations to come. Due to traumatic family circumstances, Rebekah Bradford is forced to sign an indentured servant contract to leave her home in London and work for a Philadelphia Quaker family. Rebekah's journey through life takes her from servanthood, to wife and mother and businesswoman during a period when Quakers were struggling to maintain their identity as the colony attempted to find its place in history that was often in stark conflict with its founder, William Penn. An Amazon Breakthrough Novel Quarter finalist.

Kays Crossing 2010 409 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Robot Novels, Caves Of Steel, Naked Sun (110)

BY ISAAC ASIMOV
Some nice Science Fiction hardbacks - not that quakerly - but these and murder mysteries do seem to be popular among Friends!. These books are all in pretty good condition hardback with tidy dustjackets. Science Fiction Book Club Editions.

Various Publishers 1957 404 PP. Cloth

$15.00 USED - availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST

Room Temperature

BY NICHOLSON BAKER
A young house husband is feeding his baby daughter from a bottle. The book is a 20 minute reverie of his thoughts in that cozy place. He reflects on peanut butter, air nozzles in airplanes and the microscopic interactions of love - among other things.

Vintage 1984 116 PP. Paper

$10.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Sails On The Horizon

A Novel Of The Napoleonic Wars

BY JAY WORRALL
In 1797 Napoleon Bonaparte is fighting England on land and sea. 25 year-old Charles Edgemont is 2nd lieutenant aboard the British ship Argonaut. When orders come for the Argonaut to attack, he leads his gun crews bravely-until the deaths of the other officers elevate him to commander. For refusing to yield to enemy fire, Charles is promoted, becoming wealthy beyond his wildest dreams. Yet upon his return home, his newfound riches prove no help when it comes to winning the heart of Quaker Penelope Brown, who regards war as sinful and soldiers as little better than murderers. Changing Penelope's mind may just be the hardest battle Charles has ever fought and it could change his life.

Random House 2006 284 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Saving Erasmus

A Novel

BY STEVEN CLEAVER
A modern-day Jonah tries desperately to save the small town of Erasmus only to discover that he, himself, is the one who needs saving. "Saving Erasmus had me hooked from the very first page. Clever, witty, and profound, everything a good book should be." - Philip Gulley

Paraclete 2007 182 PP. Cloth

$21.95 (in stock)

Sheppard Lee

Written By Himself

BY ROBERT MONTGOMERY BIRD, INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER LOOBY
A quite amazing novel of 1836 recently rediscovered. An idle man in Pennsylvania discovers how to take over the bodies of those just dead and live their lives. He moves around searching for happiness and wealth as brewer, slave, moneylender, madman, and many more, including pious Quaker philanthropist! The book gives a vivid portrait of early American life in Philadelphia and the social conditions and attitudes.

New York Review of Books 1842 425 PP. Paper

$16.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

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)

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)

The Sugar Wife

A Play

BY ELIZABETH KUTI
"The Sugar Wife, a play by British playwright Elizabeth Kuti, features an Irish Quaker couple struggling with issues involving slavery, the morality of wealth and marriage in 1850s Dublin. The award winning play has been performed in London and Dublin. `The childless Hannah Tewkley devotes herself to work with the poor of the city while her husband Samuel tends to a thriving business dealing in tea, coffee, and sugar. The basic dichotomy of the play is how dependent these otherwise good people are for their material prosperity on the enslavement of others.'" - Chuck Fager

Theatre Communications 2005 96 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

The Theory Of Clouds

BY STEPHANE AUDEGUY
Akira Kumo survived the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima. Now he has the world's largest collection of literature on clouds & meteorology, which he hires Virginie Latour to catalog. As they work, he tells her stories of those who devoted their lives to clouds: the English Quaker who first classified clouds, the painter who became obsessed with painting clouds, and the 19th-century amateur meteorologist Richard Abercrombie, a photographer who may have created the only definitive catalog of clouds-but only one copy exists, and it has never been seen. Kumo sends Virginie to London to track down this fabled work, a quest both surprising & wondrous, where love forms & transforms lives.

Harvest Books 2008 272 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Tunnell's Boys

BY TONY JUNKER
"For one who loves both sailing and the history of Quaker Philadelphia, Tunnell's Boys brings alive a time, a place, and a culture which I have lived in through my imagination. An exciting and absorbing human drama which kept me turning the pages." - Margaret Hope Bacon "With pro-war hysteria rising around him, a young pacifist man with a history of brawling embodies the yearnings and contradictions of those around him. Like Tony Junker's adventurous protagonist, I found myself challenged anew: when to fight and by what means?" - George Lakey

iUniverse 2005 298 PP. Paper

$18.95 (in stock)

Una (880)

A Novel

MARY RAINES
As new SECONDHAND COPY. UNA'S pampered, insignificant life in WWII Germany revolves around her husband, a retired film director. When he is suddenly framed by the Nazis, she and her spoiled twelve-year-old granddaughter must flee to the woods. Stripped of everything that had formed her identity, UNA is forced to start her life all over again in a harrowing and often brutal struggle for survival. UNA is one of the few books featuring an older woman as the heroine.

LCL 2010 342 PP. Paper

$9.00 USED - availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST

The Used World

BY HAVEN KIMMEL
"It was mid-December in Jonah, Indiana, a place where Fate can be decided by the weather, and a storm was gathering overhead." Haven Kimmel opens a world where big hearts are frequently broken and sometimes repaired; where the newfangled and the old-fashioned battle it out in daily encounters both large and small; where wondrous things unfold just beneath the surface of everyday life; and where the weather is certainly biblical and might just be prophetic. Astonishing for what it reveals about the human capacity for both grace and mischief, "The Used World" forms a trilogy with Kimmel's two previous novels, "The Solace of Leaving Early" and "Something Rising (Light and Swift)".

Simon & Schuster 2008 352 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Virginia Exiles

The American Revolution Tests Quaker Principles In This Romantic Novel

BY ELIZABETH GRAY VINING
This fictional account of a true incident reflects the timeless conflict between individual rights and revolutionary excess. In 1777 Caleb Middleton of Philadelphia is furious that his Quaker father has closed the family-owned iron foundry rather than permit its products to be used for military purposes in the Revolutionary War. A believer in Independence, Caleb is insulted when he is then arrested for disloyalty by the government he supports and is exiled, without trial or even formal charge, to rural Virginia along with 19 other Quakers also falsely accused of disloyalty. He falls in love with Loveday Parry and eventually returns to Philadelphia a wiser man.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 2002 328 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Voyageurs

A Novel

BY MARGARET ELPHINSTONE
Voyageurs is the story of the quest of an early 19th century English Quaker to find his sister in the wilderness of North America. Elphinstone has written both a well-researched Quaker book and a riveting adventure story. Mark Greenhow, the main character, faces challenges to his beliefs as he journeys through a world of roughneck fur traders, British spies, and embattled Native Americans. The author presents each of Mark's inward struggles sympathetically and authentically. The book is peopled with complex characters that stay with you. This book is both a thoughtful exploration of one person's ability to maintain a Quaker identity in the midst of many challenges and a page turner.

Canongate 2005 466 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Year Of Grace

A Novel

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
Margaret Hope Bacon, author of many Quaker related books, brings us a poignant and courageous tale of an elderly, but active, Quaker woman coming to terms with her own mortality in the final year of her life. The author has created a truly inspirational character whose spiritual life, based on a strong Quaker foundation, is reflected at the culmination of her earthly life in a remarkable 'year of grace.' "Beautifully written, this story of a spirit and action-filled last adventure will speak to many conditions, from that of us "oldies" nearing the end of our own journey, to that of the 'youngies' just finding the trail. Bacon reminds us all how adventurous old age can be!"-Boulding

Quaker Press of FGC 2002 200 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

The Yellow House

BY PATRICIA FALVEY
"The Yellow House" delves into the passion and politics of Northern Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century. Not in any way predictable. Eileen O'Neill's family is torn apart by religious intolerance and secrets from the past, but she is determined to reclaim her ancestral home and reunite her family. Eileen works for the family business of the Sheridan's, a Quaker family that do not discriminate between Catholic and protestant and she catches the attention of their son Owen.

Center Street 2010 339 PP. Cloth

$21.99 (in stock)