People Once Were Welcome Here

BY STEVE DEASY
Steve Deasy is the Detroit-based performing songwriter who brought down the house at this year's FGC Gathering; A socially conscious writer in the tradition of Dylan and Seeger, but with the contemporary musicality of new folk, classic rock, pop, and jazz influences. This album, his newest, includes songs of peace, protest, and a tribute to John Woolman.

Red Cedar River Records 2010 11 TRACKS Disk

$15.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

A People's History Of Christianity

The Other Side Of The Story

BY DIANA BUTLER BASS
In the same spirit as Howard Zinn's groundbreaking work The People's History of the United States, Butler Bass's A People's History of Christianity brings to life the movements, personalities, and spiritual disciplines that have always informed and ignited Christian worship and social activism. In A People's History of Christianity, historian and religion expert Diana Butler Bass reveals an alternate history that includes a deep social ethic and far-reaching inclusivity: "the other side of the story" is not a modern phenomenon, but has always been practiced within the church. Quakers arrive on page 220.

HarperOne 2011 370 PP. Paper

$14.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)

A People's History Of The United States

1492-present

BY HOWARD ZINN
Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, this revised and updated edition of A People's History of the United States turns traditional textbook history on its head. Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American Indians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into this thorough narrative that spans American history from Christopher Columbus's arrival to an afterword on the Clinton presidency. "One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth." - Howard Zinn

Harper Perennial 2003 730 PP. Paper

$18.95 (in stock)

A Perfect Freedom

Religious Liberty In Pennsylvania

BY J. WILLIAM FROST
Frost uses a wide variety of historical sources to trace the development of religious freedom in Pennsylvania from the founding of the colony up to World War II. Quakers figure prominently throughout. "Given the importance of the Pennsylvania story to the development of religious liberty in America, it is surprising-as J. William Frost notes-that this story has received so little attention. Here, at last, we have the vital narrative offered in impressive and illuminating detail."-Edwin S. Gaustad, American Historical Review

Pennsylvania State Press 1990 220 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

A Persistent Peace

One Man's Struggle For A Nonviolent World

BY JOHN DEAR
A Persistent Peace, John Dear's autobiography, invites readers to follow the decades-long journey and spiritual growth of this nationally known peace activist, and to witness his bold, decisive, often unpopular actions before government officials, military higher-ups, and even hostile representatives of the Church. With heroes such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela, it should come as no surprise that John's activism has taken him to many places including war zones all over the world.

Loyola Press 2008 440 PP. Cloth

$22.95 (in stock)

Personal Companion (566)

HENDRIX AND HUNT
SECONDHAND COPY In good condition. Full title: The Personal Companion : Meditations and Exercises for Keeping the Love you Find by the happy couple writing team. Combining practical advice, humor, and enlightening wisdom, these daily meditations and exercises provide powerful insights that can help anyone create unlimited possibilities for finding -- and keeping -- love.Whatever your history, whatever your heartache, your dreams of finding a truly compatible mate are completely achievable, not through luck or extraordinary skill, but by taking daily steps toward inner growth and positive change.

Pocket Books 1995 365 DAYS Paper

$6.00 USED - availability checked Feb 8th 1:48pm EST

Peruginos Path, Renaisance Painter (84)

NANCY CLOUSE
SECONDHAND COPY-as new. A look for mid school kids at a renaisance painters world in Italy. Lots of painting for popes...

Eerdmans 1997 32 PP. Cloth

$3.50 USED - availability checked Feb 8th 1:48pm EST

Peter, Paul & Mary Magdalene

The Followers Of Jesus In History And Legend

BY BART EHRMAN
SECONDHAND COPY. HArdback in good condition. With a dustjacket. An engaging tour of the early Christian church, illuminating the lives of three of Jesus' most intriguing followers: Simon Peter, Paul of Tarsus, and Mary Magdalene. In this lively work, Ehrman separates fact from fiction, presenting complicated historical issues in a clear and informative way. A serious book but vibrantly written and leavened with many colorful stories, "Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene" will appeal to anyone curious about the early Christian church and the lives of these important figures.

Oxford University Press Cloth

$8.00 (in stock)

Philadelphia Friends Schools

BY FRIENDS COUNCIL ON EDUCATION WITH JANET CHANCE
In 1689, William Penn established a Friends Public School in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This book includes well annotated images from the 10 Friends schools founded in or near Philadelphia before the 20th century: Abington Friends School, Frankford Friends, Friends Central, Friends Select, George School, Germantown Friends, Greene Street Friends, Plymouth Meeting, William Penn Charter, and Westtown. Philadelphia Friends Schools tells the photographic story of an educational philosophy rooted in three centuries of faith and practice.

Arcadia 2009 127 PP. Paper

$21.99 (in stock)

Philena's Friendship Quilt

A Quaker Farewell To Ohio

BY LYNDA SALTER CHENOWETH
Fabric archeologist Chenoweth discovers the story behind a Quaker signature quilt made in Ohio, in 1853 to reveal not only the identity of the quilt recipient and details of her life and community but also the hidden design element created by the deliberate placement of names on the quilt's surface. The final chapter tells of the life of Philena Evaline Cooper born in Clearfield County, Pa, in 1822, until her death in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1915.

Ohio University Press 2008 104 PP. Paper

$22.95 (in stock)

The Phoenix Trip (10090)

Notes On Aquaker Mission To Haiphong

BY ELIZABETH JELINEK BOARDMAN
SECONDHAND. Paperback in reasonable condition. In March 1967, members of AQAG (A Quaker action Group) sailed to North Vietnam in the yacht Phoenix, carrying medical supplies for North Vietnamese wounded by American bombing. The protest generated wide media coverage. In the early seventies, AQAG, having abandoned its goal of transforming the Society of Friends, evolved into the Movement for a New Society, a self-styled "transformational network" which would play key role in the anti-nuclear movement of the 1970s.

Celo Press 1985 173 PP. Paper

$13.00 USED - availability checked Feb 8th 1:48pm EST

The Photographer

Into War-torn Afghanistan With Doctors Without Borders

BY DIDIER LEFèEVRE, EMMANUEL GUIBERT, FREDERIC LEMERCIER
A unique and literally stunning book, mixing contemporary black and white photos, with a comic strip. The book looks at the work of Doctors without Borders in Afghanistan in 1986, the period when the Russians tried to control the country. The relentless mountain scenery, the difficulty of movement or communication and ever present corruption and danger are portrayed only too well. A reminder of how complex the situation was and still is over there. 14 inches by 12 inches.

First Second 2009 267 PP. Paper

$29.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Picasso's War

The Destruction Of Guernica And The Masterpiece That Changed The World

BY RUSSELL MARTIN
In Picasso's War, Russell Martin weaves politics, history, art, and science into a stirring narrative of the monumental canvas that was to become the most important artwork of the 20th century. Pablo Picasso, enraged by Hitler's bombing of Guernica in Northern Spain on April 26, 1937, responded to the devastation in his homeland by beginning work on Guernica. In Picasso's War, Martin follows Guernica, the renowned masterwork, across decades and continents, crafting an engrossing story of a its impassioned creation and the struggle to find hope in the face of unspeakable acts of terror.

Plume 2002 274 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Picking Up The Pieces From Portugal To Palestine

Quaker Refugee Work In World War Ii - A Memoir

BY HOWARD WRIGGINS
As a conscientious objector prior to World War II, author Howard Wriggins joined the American Friends Service Committee. A young idealist who left his graduate studies in political science to assist refugees fleeing Hitler's madness, Wriggins batted out daily letters on an ancient Underwood portable to describe the cruel events he witnessed. He shares his experiences as he came to know numberless refugees and prisoners in Europe and the Middle East. Professor Wriggins has used his letters to tell a riveting personal story about the horrors of governmental persecution and the war to end it, in the midst of which idealism nevertheless persisted.

University Press of America 2004 258 PP. Paper

$48.50 (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)

A Piece Of Forever

BY LAUREL LEE GUGLER
A Piece of Forever begins where Catching Forever ended, with the story of Rose and her experiences being of Mennonite faith in a public school. In A Piece of Forever, Rose is forced to address the issue of warfare, and to examine her own feelings about violence and peace for the upcoming Remembrance Day assembly. While doing research for a school project, Rose learns how the effects of war have touched everyone around her. A member of Toronto Meeting.

Lorimer 2008 164 PP. Paper

$8.95 (in stock)

The Pigment Of Your Imagination

Mixed Race In A Global Society

BY JOY M. ZAREMBKA
Throughout the world arbitrary racial notions are used to define who is '"black" and who is "white" but the lines become blurred with people of mixed racial heritage. Friend Joy Zarembka and her brother Tommy -- who are featured on the front cover of the book -- share the same parents and have striking physical similarities, yet were labelled at birth with very different racial designations; Joy was described as "black" and her brother as "white." After extensive research in Britain, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Jamaica, Joy Zarembka explores the vastly divergent interpretations of racial identity. Zarembka leads us to a new understanding of racial identity.

Madera Press 2007 312 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Pillar Of Fire

America In The King Years 1963-65 Sale Paperback

BY TAYLOR BRANCH
The second volume of America in the King Years. The Book begins with the events preceding the "Birmingham spring," which took place in April and May of 1963 when young marchers, as Branch writes, "released collateral forces that drew them together. Seekers of the black vote in rural Mississippi, who literally could not move in 1963, rose to dominate the pivotal year of 1964." The volume ends with King's vow "to bring a voting bill into being" in Selma, Alabama.

Simon and Schuster 1998 746 PP. Paper

$7.50 (in stock)

Pink And Say

PATRICIA POLACCO
In a true story, Pinkus Aylee, a black Union soldier, finds Sheldon Curtis left for dead and carries him home to be tended by his mother, but when the two boys attempt to rejoin the Union troops, they are captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.

Philomel Books 1994 32 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

The Place Of Universalism In The Society Of Friends

BY DAN SEEGER
The author encourages Friends to share the "unity which universalism sees in the various religious faiths."

Quaker Universalist Fellowship 1984 16 PP. Paper

$3.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Places In Between

BY RORY STEWART
In January 2002, Rory Stewart survived a walk across Afghanistan by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. In this memoir, he writes about heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers, Taliban commanders and foreign-aid workers as he makes tangible the forces of tradition, ideology, and allegiance.

Harcourt 2004 299 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

The Plain Language Of Love And Loss

BY BETH TAYLOR
On November 16, 1965, Beth Taylor's idyllic childhood was shattered at age twelve by the suicide of her older brother Geoff. This memoir reflects on the meaning of death and loss for three generations of Taylor's family and their friends. Touching on the timely issues of bullying, child rearing, and non-conformity, she offers a rare look at growing up Quaker in the tumultuous 1960s that shows the more sober side of the decade's counterculture. This tender narrative is, on the surface, about Quakers and Quakerism in modern America. It is about one family's struggle to align its spiritual strivings with the realities of human limitations and the uncontrollability of circumstance.

Univ of Missouri 2009 160 PP. Paper

$19.95 (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)

Plain Living

A Quaker Path To Simplicity

BY CATHERINE WHITMIRE
This book is a collection of the sayings of Friends (ranging from Margaret Fell and Isaac Penington to Jan Hoffman and Patricia Loring) which speak to every aspect of living a spiritually centered and simple life. Topics explored include work, plain speech, money and resources, committed relationships, grief, fear, leadings, community, practicing non-violence, spirit-led service and inward simplicity. Each section is followed by queries. An excellent resource for study groups. "Plain Living will be a well-loved, well-thumbed book, touching on every aspect of our personal choices, as ... we try to walk the challenging walk of holy simplicity." - Elise Boulding

Sorin 2001 190 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

Plan B

Further Thoughts On Faith

BY ANNE LAMOTT
"I consider reading Anne Lamott a guilty pleasure. Maybe it's because she's so irreverent or because she's so funny or maybe because she is so unabashedly human in her writing. Her most recent book, a collection of essays which originally appeared on Salon.com is just as scatterbrained and heartwarming as her earlier Traveling Mercies. In this book, though, a constant theme is waking up each day with Bush in the White House and how she deals with that, how she maintains faith in this dark political time. She tells stories of her daily waking time: going to protest rallies, celebrating Thanksgiving with her son, all the while struggling to hear God in midst of the craziness." - Lucy Duncan

Penguin 2006 336 PP. Paper

$14.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Plan C

Community Survival Strategies For Peak Oil And Climate Change

BY PAT MURPHY
Concerns over climate change & energy depletion are increasing exponentially. Mainstream solutions still assume a panacea for our climate ills without seriously modifying our way of life. Plan C explores the risks in trying to continue our energy-intensive lifestyle & how each person's individual choices can dramatically reduce CO2 emissions. It offers specific strategies in the areas of food, transportation, & housing. One chapter analyzes Cuba's economic decimation when the USSR stopped oil exports in 1990 & provides a vision for a low-energy way of living. Plan C is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in a lower-energy, saner, sustainable lifestyle.

New Society Publishers 2008 304 PP. Paper

$19.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Plant A Seed Of Peace

43 Stories Of Peacemakers

BY REBECCA SEILING
This books features 43 short stories of the lives of peacemakers who were people of faith, specifically Mennonites and other Anabaptists. This book introduces young readers to some lesser-known but effective peacemakers, showing that the Kingdom of God - even the size of a mustard seed - is a powerful thing.

Herald Press 2007 114PP. Paper

$15.99 (in stock)

Planting The Good Seed

Letters From A Quaker Relief Workerr

BY ROBERT MCCOY
A young Quaker farmer spends three years in many parts of Europe doing relief work after WWII with the AFSC. Told in very detailed and fascinating letters home about life in an extraordinary period of world history, McCoy documents this time. He met his future wife in Germany and her short poem, "What is Love," appropriately ends the book. Many illustrations.

Wilmington College Peace Research Center 2007 330 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Planting The Trees Of Kenya

The Story Of Wangari Maathai

BY CLAIRE NIVOLA
Wangari Maathai, won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize as founder of the Green Belt Movement. She grew up in the highlands of Kenya, where fig trees cloaked the hills, fish filled the streams, and the people tended their bountiful gardens. But over many years, as more and more land was cleared, Kenya was transformed. When she returned home from college in America, she found the village gardens dry, the people malnourished, and the trees gone. She decided to inspire and enable the women of Kenya to replant the trees and restore the gardens and land - The Green Belt Movement, a movement that has now spread across the world.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

Play It Again

Favorite Songs (& One New Story) - Audio Cd

BY BILL HARLEY
One of Bill's most popular albums, a 'best of' with favorite songs from his earliest recordings and the new classic story about Charlene - the Skunk in the middle! Winner of a Parents' Choice Gold Award.

1999 53 MINUTES Audio

$15.00 (in stock)