The Lemon Tree

An Arab, A Jew, And The Heart Of The Middle East

BY SANDY TOLAN
Required for Workshop 31. The Question of Palestine & Israel (Skip Schiel).In 1967, Bashir, a 25 year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family had fled 19 years earlier. To his surprise he was greeted by Dalia, a 19 year-old Israeli student, whose family fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home they began a rare friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and tested over the next 35 years in ways that neither could imagine on that summer day in 1967.

Bloomsbury 2007 362 PP. Paper

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Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed

The Story Of The Village Of Le Chambon And How Goodness Happened There

BY PHILIP HALLIE
Quietly, peacefully and in full view of the Vichy government and a nearby division of the Nazi SS, Le Chambon's villagers and their clergy organized to save thousands of Jewish children and adults from death. This book's beauty is that it really happened.

HarperSF 1994 303 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Let It Shine

Three Favorite Spirituals

BY ASHLEY BRYAN
With a kaleidoscope of color and cut paper, Ashley Bryan celebrates three favorite spirituals: "This Little Light of Mine," "Oh, When the Saints Go Marching In," and "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands." The power of these beloved songs simply emanates through his joyous interpretations. Come, sing, and celebrate!

Atheneum 2007 48 PP. Cloth

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Let It Shine - Poster

A Blazing Mandala Inspired By George Fox's Ocean Of Light

BY MITCHELL GOULD
Illustrator Mitchell Santine Gould has returned to the source of inspiration for many Friends with four posters that reflect our common values. Georgia O'Keefe inspired the lavish colors and the marching slogans are a tribute to Edward Hicks's Peaceable Kingdom paintings. Posters measure approximately 17x26 inches, printed with pigmented UltraChromer ink (archival rated at 100 years) on heavy matte paper. Magnets are 3.5 square. Let It Shine - a blazing mandala inspired by George Fox's ocean of light. This item will ship from QuakerBooks. Price includes postage.

Micthell Gould 2006 POSTER Blank

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Let This Voice Be Heard

Anthony Benezet, Father Of Atlantic Abolitionism

BY MAURICE JACKSON
Anthony Benezet (1713-84), recognized by the leaders of the antislavery movement as its founder, transformed Quaker antislavery sentiment into a broad-based transatlantic movement, he translated ideas from diverse sources - Enlightenment philosophy, African travel narratives, Quakerism and the Bible -into concrete action.. At the same time, Benezet's correspondents, included Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Rush, Abbe Raynal, Granville Sharp, and John Wesley and gave his ideas an audience in the highest intellectual and political circles.

Univ of Pennsylvania Press 2008 376 PP. Cloth

$45.00 (low stock)

Let Us See What Love Can Do

A Bible Study Based On Romans 12

BY ANNE THOMAS
Anne's usual sensitive and creative approach is applied here to Paul's "Letter to the Romans," for private meditation or group study.

Argenta 1986 50 PP. Paper

$4.00 (backorder)

Let Your Life Speak

Listening For The Voice Of Vocation

BY PARKER PALMER
A deep and compassionate guide to seeking your true calling in life by listening to the voice within. In this honest and compelling meditation, Friend Palmer reflects upon vocation, spirit and the life journey with a depth of insight that will touch anyone yearning for an authentic way of standing and serving in the world.

Jossey-Bass 1999 112 PP. Cloth

$18.95 (in stock)

Let Your Words Be Few

Symbolism Of Speaking And Silence Among Seventeenth-century Quakers

BYRICHARD BAUMAN
Reprinted from the Cambridge University Press original. Amid the spiritual and intellectual turmoil of seventeenth-century England, the Quakers emerged and grew into a distinct and enduring religious movement. This book offers a fresh and striking insight into early Quaker history through a study of their distinctive ways of speaking, which, together with their use of silence, served as a specific identifying feature of the movement..

Wheatmark 2008 180 PP. Paper

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Let's Celebrate!

Canada's Special Days

BY CAROLINE PARRY
This unique resource describes more than 250 holidays and special days celebrated in Canada. Kids can learn about the origins and significance of each special day, and discover how it is celebrated. The book provides related activities for kids to do on their own or with friends, including games, crafts, science experiments, recipes, riddles, and songs - all designed so that children can learn by doing.A special feature of Let's Celebrate is the inclusion of holidays that were once celebrated in Canada but have gone into decline. Caroline Parry has carefully researched these holidays so that they can continue to be a part of Canadian life. The author is a Canadian Friend.

Kids Can Press 1987 256 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

Let's Talk About Race

BY JULIUS LESTER, ILLUSTRATED BY KAREN BARBOUR
"This stunning picture book introduces race as just one of many chapters in a person's story. Beginning with the line, `I am a story,' Lester tells his own story with details that kids will enjoy, like his favorite food, hobbies, and time of day. Then he states, `Oh. There's something else that is part of my story.I'm black.' Throughout the narrative, he asks questions that young readers can answer, creating a dialogue about who they are and encouraging them to tell their own tales. He also discusses `stories' that are not always true, pointing out that we create prejudice by perceiving ourselves as better than others. .Lester's engaging tone is just right."- School Library Journal

Amistad 2005 32 PP. Cloth

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Letter To A Godchild Concerning Faith

BY REYNOLDS PRICE
Price recounts how his life has been shaped by numerous and varied spiritual influences, from the Bible-story books his parents bought him before he could read, to the childhood days spent exploring dense woods near his home, to Sundays at church with his father and mother, his travels around the world to magisterial structures as various as St. Peter's and the old Penn Station, and years of study both in and out of the classroom. With no trace of self-pity, he explains how his faith grew and deepened when in 1984 after a life of robust health he suffered a cancer that eventually led to paralysis of his lower body.

Scribner 2006 112 PP. Cloth

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Letters To A Young Doubter

BY WILLIAM SLOANE-COFFIN
In Letters to a Young Poet, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke advised to "be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves," for gradually, "you will live into the answers." These words have long struck renowned preacher and activist William Sloane Coffin as a wise way to view a growing and evolving life. In an exchange of letters over the months of an academic year, Coffin writes an imagined friend, a bright, young college student, answering his questions and giving his typically sage advice about problems of faith, the difficulties of personal life, and the ever-more confusing and complex problems of today's world.

Westminster John Knox Press 2005 200 PP. Cloth

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Letters To A Young Poet

BY RAINER MARIA RILKE, TRANSLATED BY M. D. HERTER NORTON
Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1903 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, still a fresh source of inspiration and insight, are accompanied here by a chonicle of Rilke's life that shows what he was experiencing in his own relationship to life and work when he wrote them.

W. W. Norton 2004 90 PP. Paper

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Letting Go Of Illusion, Engaging Truth, Healing!

BY NIYONU SPANN
Niyonu Spann's passion for equal rights permeates this lecture-booklet. Her poignant queries require soul searching. Booklet includes words to three of her songs sung a cappella at the lecture. This is the record of the 2007 Michener lecture.

Southeastern Yearly Meeting 2007 20 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Letting That Go, Keeping This

The Spiritual Pilgrimage Of Fritz Eichenberg - Php 353

BY PHILIP HARNDEN
Fritz Eichenberg, internationally known woodcut artist, has inspired a generation of Quakers and Catholics in their social witness. This author eloquently elucidates five important inspirations for the artist: animals, Lao-Tzu, Russian novelists, Quakers, and the Catholic Worker.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2001 38 PP. Paper

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Letting The Light Shine

A Quaker Guide To Using The Media

BY SIMON RISLEY
This resource focuses on reaching the media to publicize events in your meeting. Risley provides excellent advice on writing press releases, creating photo calls, making contacts, figuring out what's news worthy, handling interviews, evaluating what you've done, and advertising effectively. Though this is focused on a British audience, there is much fine advice for North American Friends here.

Britain Yealry Meeting 1996 57 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Levi Coffin

Quaker Breaking The Bonds Of Slavery In Ohio And Indiana

BY MARY ANN YANESSA
In this biography of the Levi Coffin, Mary Ann Yanessa tells yesterday's story and raises questions for today. With a brief look at Levi Coffin's early efforts against slavery in North Carolina and later in Newport (now Fountain City), Indiana, the book's major focus is on Coffin's abolitionist activities in Cincinnati from 1847 through the Civil War - and his work on behalf of freed slaves after the war.

Friends United Press 2001 74 PP. Paper

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Lewis Mumford

A Life

BY DONALD MILLER
A great humanist and polyglot Lewis Mumford wrote 28 books and 1,000 or more articles on history, philosophy, literature, art, architectural criticism, and urban planning, peace and nuclear disarmament - always seeking to promote human values, community and his vision of a better tomorrow, This is a very full biography of a man whose personal life was perhaps not as well lived as it could have been.

University of Pittsburg Press 1989 625 PP. Paper

$8.50 (in stock)

Liberty And Conscience

A Documentary History Of The Experiences Of Conscientious Objectors In America Through The Civil War

EDITED BY PETER BROCK
Although the act of conscientious objection entered modern consciousness most strikingly as a result of the Vietnam War, Americans have long struggled to reconcile their politics, pacifist beliefs, and compulsory military service. While conscientious objection in the twentieth century has been well documented, there has been surprisingly little study of its long history in America's early conflicts, defined as these have been by accounts of patriotism and nation-building. In fact, during the period of conscription from the late 1650s to the end of the Civil War, many North Americans refused military service on grounds of conscience.

Oxford University press 2002 194.PP Paper

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The Librarian Of Basra

A True Story From Iraq

BY JEANNETTE WINTER
"When war seemed imminent, Alia Muhammad Baker, chief librarian of Basra's Central Library, was determined to protect the library's holdings. In spite of the government's refusal to help, she moved the books into a nearby restaurant only nine days before the library burned to the ground. When the fighting moved on, this courageous woman transferred the 30,000 volumes to her and her friends' homes to await peace and the rebuilding of a new library....Winter artfully achieves a fine balance between honestly describing the casualties of war and not making the story too frightening for young children.... It is in the illustrations ... that Winter suggests the impending horror." - SLJ

Harcourt 2005 32 PP. Cloth

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Lies My Teacher Told Me

Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

BY JAMES LOEWEN
After surveying 18 leading American history texts the author found not one made a good job of making history interesting or memorable. Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our past. In this revised edition, packed with updated material, Loewen explores how historical myths continue to be perpetuated in today's climate and adds an eye-opening chapter on the lies surrounding 9/11 and the Iraq War. Thought provoking, nonpartisan, and often shocking.

Touchstone 2007 444 PP. Paper

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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)

A Life On The Road Less Traveled

The Story Of Parry Jones

AS TOLD TO DAFYDD JONES
Parry Jones grew up in Wales, becoming a conscientious objector in WW2. He joined the Friends Ambulance Unit working in London during the Blitz, then in China for 4 years, and finally India for 2 years before coming to America. He was accepted at Swarthmore College , married, and started a family, afterwards working in Pakistan in the mid-1950's before starting a career in teaching that lasted for 20 years. This book is his life story as told to his sons during 3 years of interviews, with countless revisions, and 2 years of editing.

Infinity 2008 146 PP. Paper

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The Life With God Bible

EDITED, WITH NOTES, BY RICHARD J. FOSTER, DALLAS WILLARD, WALTER BRUEGGEMAN ET AL.
In this major new Bible, the foremost names in Christian spirituality and biblical scholarship, including Richard Foster, Dallas Willard, Eugene Peterson and Walter Brueggemann, come together to provide a unique study Bible that rediscovers Scripture as living and active text of spiritual formation. NRSV translation. Originally published as the Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible.

HarperOne 2009 2048 PP. Paper

$24.99 (in stock)

Life-work

A Career Guide For Idealists

BY WILLIAM CHARLAND
Bill Charland, career counselor and employment training consultant, shows how to find meaningful work today by asking the right questions and listening carefully for the answers. The author takes a look at work-its history, meaning, and current trends. Drawing on biblical texts, as well as writings from Quaker and other religious and literary works, he shares stories of those who have found personal satisfaction in their work and offers practical guidance for the search.

Friends United Press 1999 216 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Life's Companion

Journal Writing As A Spiritual Quest

BY CHRISTINA BALDWIN
Laying the groundwork for journeys and journals this book is a great support to the long-standing Friends practice of keeping personal spiritual journals.

Bantam 1990 350 PP. Paper

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Lifesongs, Readings For Milestones

BY PINKY AGNEW
The oddly named Pinky is a New Zealander (not a relation of Spiro T) and specializes in celebrating weddings This is a great selection of poems from all ages but with maybe more living poets. Would be much better if it wasn't silver print on white and a cover that looks scuffed before it even gets scuffed - BUT this is a great anthology for milestone celebrations. Naming baby, to funerals.

Random House - New Zealand 2006 205 PP. Cloth

$4.00 (in stock)

Lift Up Thy Voice - Sale

The Grimke Family's Journey From Slaveholders To Civil Rights Leaders

BY MARK PERRY
"Sarah and Angelina Grimke were privileged [Quaker] white women from a powerful South Carolina slaveholding family who led the antislavery movement. Their nephews Archibald and Francis Grimke were former slaves who took the struggle into the twentieth century as the focus shifted to equal rights. Perry offers the fascinating family history of the Grimkes and the quintessential American racial pathologies that most slaveholders would have denied but which the Grimkes faced head-on. Using letters, speeches, diaries, and sermon s, Perry presents the personalities of messianic figures during a period of great religious and social foment."-Booklist

Penguin 2003 432 PP. Paper

$7.50 (in stock)

Lifting The White Veil

An Exploration Of White American Culture In A Multiracial Context

BY JEFF HITCHCOCK
This is an enlightening, and often revelatory work. The main focus is on the development and current characteristics of the white subculture in the United States. Hitchcock is white, married to a black woman, and worked many years in the field of diversity training and racial reconciliation. He gives white Americans the information they need to start to move beyond ingrained beliefs toward a clearer and more accurate understanding of our society and relations with other races. For those of us who would like to face and overcome the racial exclusiveness incorporated in our culture and traditions this book provides inspiration and tools to move that work forward.

Crandall, Dostie 2002 262 PP Cloth

$22.95 (low stock)

Light And Life In The Fourth Gospel

Php 79

BY HOWARD BRINTON
The philosophy and psychology of early Quakerism as derived by John's Gospel.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 36 PP. Paper

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