The Omnivore's Dilemma For Kids

The Secrets Behind What You Eat

BY MICHAEL POLLAN
A version of Pollans classic work on how our food gets to us, what is in it, and how it is grown. Among his detective work he tracks animals and plants through the system. Very good value, with a new introduction and a Q & A section with the author, AND the text is divided up into bite sized segments with illustrations, fact boxes and explanatory diagrams. I think this is even better than the "adult" version.

Penguin 2009 298 PP. Paper

$9.99 (low stock)

On Angel Wings

BY MICHAEL MORPURGO, ILLUSTRATED BY QUENTIN BLAKE
"I bring you news of great joy. For tonight, in Bethlehem, a child has been born, a savior who is Christ the Lord." When the shepherds are invited to follow the star to visit the child, one young boy is told to stay and mind the flock. But the Angel Gabriel returns for him, taking the boy on a magical, memorable flight to be the first to witness the Christmas miracle. With a gently wry narration by Michael Morpurgo and expressive illustrations by the extraordinary Quentin Blake, this inviting, uplifting story is destined to become a holiday tradition.

Candlewick 2007 48 PP. Cloth

$8.99 (in stock)

On Beginning From Within (79)

BY DOUGLAS STEERE
SECONDHAND COPY. Nice condition, small war standard hardback. With bookplate of Howard McKinney. Five essays: Saint & society, The authority of the saint, New set of devotional exercises, Devotion and theology, Deaths illumination of life.

Harper and Brothers 1943 149 PP. Cloth

$15.00 USED - availability checked Mar 19th 3:39am CDT

On Being Grafted Into The Root

Beacon Hill Friends House Listen! Series

BY DEBBIE HUMPHRIES
Debbie Humphries talk began a series, with the theme the call to ministry. In the lecture she explored images of grafting and the growth of olive trees in both the Bible and the Mormon texts she grew up with. She uses these texts to illuminate her experience of the call to ministry.

Beacon Hill Friends House 2007 23 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

On Death And Dying

What The Dying Have To Teach Doctors, Nursers, Clergy, And Their Own Families

BY ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS
One of the most famous psychological studies of our time, this classic grew out of one of the author's interdisciplinary seminars on death. Sample interviews and conversations provide a better understanding of the effects which imminent death has on patients and their families.

Scribner 2003 284 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

On Hallowing One's Diminishments

Php 292

BY JOHN YUNGBLUT
A lifelong student of mysticism shares the experience of contemplative prayer in facing many forms of diminishment: birth defects, natural disasters, aging, and death itself.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1990 27 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

On Killing

The Psychological Cost Of Learning To Kill In War And Society

BY DAVE GROSSMAN
The good news, according to Grossman - drawing on dozens of interviews, first-person reports, and historic studies of combat, ranging from Frederick the Great's battles in the eighteenth century through Vietnam - is that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to kill. In World War II, for instance, only 15 to 25 percent of combat infantry were willing to fire their rifles. The provocative news is that modern armies, using Pavlovian and operant conditioning, have learned how to overcome this reluctance.

Back Bay Books 1996 400 PP. Paper

$15.95 (low stock)

On Living With A Concern For Gospel Ministry

BY BRIAN DRAYTON
"Brian Drayton has studied A Description of the Qualifications Necessary to a Gospel Minister by Samuel Bownas, and many Friends journals, internalizing their teaching and applying it to his own life and ministry. He is called to minister to ministers, to encourage, help, and yes, even admonish Friends who feel a gift for ministry arising within. Here is a book full of wisdom and advice on how to cherish, live with, and grow into the gift of ministry. It is well aimed at the specific temptations and opportunities of our own day, while incorporating those timeless truths with which a minister of any era must grapple." - Marty Grundy

Quaker Press of FGC 2005 196 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

On Meadowview Street

BY HENRY COLE
Caroline lives on Meadowview Street. But where's the meadow? Where's the view? There's nothing growing in her front yard except grass. Then she spots a flower and a butterfly and a bird and Caroline realizes that with her help, maybe Meadowview Street can have a meadow after all. Grades k-2.

GreenWillow 2007 32 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

On Noah's Ark

BY JAN BRETT
Jan Brett's intricate illustrations against a beautiful papyrus background make a stunning picture book of a favorite story, this time featuring Noah's granddaughter. As the floodwaters rise, she helps take the animals onto the ark and get them settled down. But it's not easy when giraffes are sleeping next to pandas and lions are curled up with turkeys. Finally the gentle rocking of the ark lulls them all to sleep until the waters recede and Grandpa Noah, his family, and all the animals leave the ark. This simple telling, combined with extraordinary illustrations of every animal imaginable, makes On Noah's Ark perfect for young and old.

Putnam 2003 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (low stock)

On Retiring To Kendal (and Beyond)

A Literary Excursion - Php 368

BY PETER BIEN
Retiring to Kendal is obviously one's final move before "and beyond." This leads the author to wonder whether death is an unmitigated calamity. Would it be better to live forever? Not, presumably, if debility were included. But what about eternal youthfulness and health? Guided by literary passages from Homer and Shakespeare to Kazantzakis and Cavafy, the author concludes, strangely, that death actually enhances life rather than negating it.

Pendle Hill 2003 27 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

On Stepping Out Of The Boat

BY TRAYCE PETERSON
Walking on water. That's not an image most of us think about often. Trayce Peterson opens up the challenges and possibilities of responding to the Light's invitation to walk away from our safe, comfortable boat using art and experience to illustrate her ideas.

Beacon Hill Friends House 2009 17 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

On The Contrary

A Reflection On The Universal Light Of Childhood

BY JOHN HEMMIMG
A meditative reflection on the universal light of childhood and our journey to wholeness.

Quaker Universalist Group (UK) 1996 25 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

On The Vocal Ministry

BY RUTH PITMAN
A helpful explanation of vocal ministry in the Quaker meeting for worship for those new to Quaker meeting.

Tract

$0.10 (in stock)

One

BY KATRYN OTOSHI
Blue is a quiet color. Red's a hothead who likes to pick on Blue. Yellow, Orange, Green, and Purple don't like what they see, but what can they do? When no one speaks up, things get out of hand - until One comes along and shows all the colors how to stand up, stand together, and count. As budding young readers learn about numbers, counting, and primary and secondary colors, they also learn about accepting each other's differences and how it sometimes just takes one voice to make everyone count.

KO Kids Books 2008 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

One City, Two Brothers

BY CHRIS SMITH, ILLUSTRATED BY AURELIA FRONTY
A folktale heard in synagogues, mosques and churches across Near East and beyond, the story of how the city of Jerusalem came to be has been passed along for hundreds of years. In this gorgeously illustrated book, storyteller Chris Smith shows how two brothers find peace by seeing themselves in each other. Chris Smith is a storyteller who has also worked with UNICEF and Oxfam on the West Bank and in Gaza. The power of traditional stories is a source of inspiration for Chris, and he wrote this book to combine his love of story with the wish for the people of Israel and Palestine to find peace.

Barefoot Books 2007 32 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

One Day The Soldiers

Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

One Explorer's Glossary Of Quaker Terms

BY WARREN SMITH, EDITED BY MAE SMITH-BIXBY, REVISED BY DEBORAH HAINES
REVISED AND UPDATED! For students and those new to Quakerism having trouble with the peculiar lingo of Friends "here are some of the words and phrases that keep cropping up in Quaker talk and writings, with some casual and completely unauthorized commentary" says the author Warren Smith. Brought into the 21st century, this revised book will be an invaluable aid for speaking and understanding Quakerese.

Quaker Press of FGC 1992 42 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

One Grain Of Sand

A Lullaby

BY PETE SEEGER, ILLUSTRATED BY LINDA WINGERTER
This is THE song that Pete Seeger has said he hopes to be remembered for, a story of parental love and the feelings of amazement at the beauty of the world and a commitment to justice that such love can give. The lyrics are beautifully illustrated and show a trip round the world looking at family love in scenes from the tropics to the ice caps of the world and back. Ages 4-9 (and up).

Megan Tingley 2004 32 PP Cloth

$15.95 (in stock)

One Heart And A Wrong Spirit

The Religioius Society Of Friends And Colonial Racism - The 2006 James Backhouse Lecture

BY POLLY DAKSI WALKER
"Although the original Quaker settlers held good intentions [in the United States], they were part of a larger system of colonial racism that legitimized the appropriation of Indigenous peoples and lands. Not only in the Americas, but also in colonized lands across the globe, a wrong spirit wrought devastation on all Indigenous peoples through a system of colonial racism." - the author, from the introduction In this lecture, Polly Walker draws on her Cherokee forebears and on interviews she conducted with Indigenous Australians to illustrate the damage and distress to Indigenous peoples caused by the continuing legacy of colonial racism in the United States and in Australia.

Australia Yearly Mtg. 2006 71 PP. Paper

$12.50 (in stock)

One Hen

How One Small Loan Made A Big Difference

BY KATIE SMITH MILWAY
One Hen tells the story of Kojo, who lives in an Ashanti village in Ghana and turns a small loan into a thriving farm. After his father died, Kojo had to quit school to help his mother collect firewood to sell. When his mother receives a loan from some village families, she gives a little money to her son. With this tiny loan, Kojo buys a hen. A year later, Kojo has built up a flock of 25 hens. With his earnings Kojo is able to return to school. Kojo's story is inspired by the life of Kwabena Darko, who as a boy started a tiny poultry farm just like Kojo's, which later grew to be the largest in Ghana. The final pages of One Hen explain the microloan system.

Kids Can Press 2008 32 PP. Cloth

$18.95 (in stock)

One Hundred Ways America Is Screwing Up The World

BY JOHN TIRMAN
At once serious-minded and satirical, John Tirman's 100 Ways America Is Screwing Up the World is an insightful, unabashed, entertaining, and distressing look at where we've gone terribly wrong-from the destruction of the environment to the promotion of abhorrent personal health and eating habits to the "wussification" of the free press-an alternately admonishing and amusing call to arms for patriotic Blue America.

HarperOne 2006 258 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

One More Time

Audio Cd

BY BILL HARLEY
Bill's second "Best of" recording, One More Time brings together some fan favorite songs along with some of Bill's. Like Play It Again this recording contains 1 new story: "Alicia and the Little Monster." This story has made the rounds at various storytelling festivals and Family Concerts, and has quickly become a favorite.

Round River Records 2006 CD Disk

$15.00 (low stock)

One Small Plot Of Heaven

Reflections On Family Life By A Quaker Sociologist

BY ELISE BOULDING
More than any other single book, this is an intelligent and sensitive manual for Quaker parenting and family life. Elise Boulding, noted sociologist and peace activist, talks about practicing peace making in family life and creating a colony of heaven, "a home of peace from which to help build a more peaceful world." Boulding speaks of children and solitude, the personhood of children, Friends testimonies in the home, families as centers of peace and love, Quaker foremothers as ministers and householders, reweaving the web of family life for lesbians and gays, the re-creation of relationship and the family as a small society. Boulding offers an inspiring vision for the family.

Pendle Hill 1989 225 PP. Paper

$12.50 (in stock)

One Thousand Tracings

Healing The Wounds Of World War Ii

WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY LITA JUDGE
When Lita Judge found hundreds of tracings of feet in her grandmother's attic, she was moved to discover the story behind them. One Thousand Tracings tells that story. In the aftermath of World War II, a family in America established contact with a family in Germany, and sent them a package of much-needed supplies, including shoes. The German family was extremely grateful and asked if their friends would help others in Europe. Soon foot tracings from all over the continent started pouring in to the modest Midwest farm. As the network of American families grew, hundreds of people were touched by this remarkable process. "A lovely book about generosity and compassion." - Karen Hesse

Hyperion Books 2007 40 PP. Cloth

$15.99 (in stock)

One World, Many Religions

The Ways We Worship

BY MARY POPE-OSBORNE
This book is a clear, fascinating introduction to world religions. "This exceptional handsome volume offers middle graders a thoughtful overview of major world religions..Points of controversy are met with candor and delicacy." - The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.

Alfred A. Knopf 1996 86 PP Cloth

$19.95 (low stock)

The One-straw Revolution

An Introduction To Natural Farming

BY MASANOBU FUKUOKA
Long out of print in the West - there was a limited availability edition from Friends Center in Rasulia India (whose ideas where much influenced by this book). This manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. Wendell Berry in his preface: "the book is valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical. It is an inspiring, necessary book about agriculture because it is not just about agriculture."

NYRB 2009 200 PP. Paper

$15.95 (low stock)

Oneness

Great Principles Shared By All Religions

BY JEFFREY MOSES
Reflecting the tenets of such world religions as Chrisitanity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Baha'i, this classic study gathers selections from the religious writings of the world to show the beliefs and universal truths they have in common.

Ballantine 2002 160 PP. Paper

$13.95 (low stock)

Only Passing Through

The Story Of Sojourner Truth

BY ANNE F. ROCKWELL, ILLUS. BY GREGORY CHRISTIE
"In this moving picture-book biography, Rockwell's quiet, searing words and Christie's dramatic full-page, acrylic paintings express the sorrow, anger, and strength of the woman who made herself Sojourner Truth."-Booklist

Dragonfly 2002 40 PP. Blank

$6.99 (low stock)

Open - Faith And Practice Of Freedom Friends Church

BY FREEDOM FRIENDS CHURCH
Freedom Friends Church in Salem Oregon is a "Uniting Meeting" founded in 2004. Since then it has received members by transfer from FGC, FUM and Evangelical Friends International, though a majority of its members are new to Quakerism. Their website says - "Teaching the ways of Friends is an important part of our mission. We set out to be Christ-centered, Quaker, and inclusive. We are semi-programmed, lightly pastoral and socially progressive. We believe in continuing revelation. Our Faith and Practice reflects all these things." The last 28 pages are a glossary.

Freedom Friends Church 2009 67 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)