A Stone Bridge North

Reflections In A New Life

BY KATE MALOY
In her mid-50s, writer Maloy moved from Pittsburgh to norty out of a confining urban existence and into a simpler, more joyous life. she looks through changed eyes at her past at childhood anxieties, family disaffections, failed marriages, late motherhood, restless boredom, and, paradoxically, a native talent for joy. She learns that she has been guided by faith even when she thought she had none. She begins to discern purpose and design both in her stories and in the light by which she sees them, a light refracted through a Quaker lens that searches for the sacred in all people.REDUCED TO $6.00.

Counterpoint 2002 313 PP Cloth

$6.00 (low stock)

The Stonecutter

A Japanese Folk Tale

BY GERALD MCDERMOTT
Tasaku was a lowly stonecutter, but he was very happy in his work - until one day a royal prince passed by in a magnificent procession. Then Tasaku wished aloud that he too might have power and wealth, and the spirit in the mountain heard him. A wonderful for story about learning the power of your own life.

Puffin Books 1978 32 PP. Paper

$5.99 (in stock)

Stones Into Schools

Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, In Afghanistan And Pakistan

BY GREG MORTENSEN
Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003 and recounts his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan, as well as his work after the huge earthquake that shook the area in 2005. He tells of the unique ways he has built relationships with Islamic clerics, militia commanders, and tribal leaders even as he was dodging shootouts with feuding Afghan warlords and surviving an 8-day abduction by the Taliban. He shares for the first time his broader vision to promote peace through education and literacy.

Viking 2009 448 PP. Cloth

$26.95 (in stock)

Stop The Next War Now

Effective Responses To Violence And Terrorism

EDITED BY MEDEA BENJAMIN AND JODIE EVANS
Stop the Next War Now is a reflective look and call to action to end violence, by acclaimed peace activists, experts, and visionaries, including Eve Ensler, Barbara Lee, Arianna Huffington, Janeane Garafalo, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Hong Kingston, and many more. The book shares expert insight on the issues and powers-that-be that encourage war, including the media, politicians, global militarization, and the pending scarcity of natural resources. A powerful, smart, and passionate work, this book aims to educate and reflect on the effectiveness of peace movement activities and offer hope-through shared ideas and action steps - to transform a culture of violence to a culture of peace.

Inner Ocean Press 2005 256 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Stories From Kenya

Php 319

BY TOM & LIZ GATES
The authors lived and worked in a Quaker mission hospital in rural West Kenya.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1995 40 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Stories Of The Courage To Teach

Honoring The Teacher's Heart

BY SAM INTRATOR
A groundbreaking book of stunning insight and wise words, this work speaks as no other can: teacher to teacher and heart to heart, one life at a time. The warm, practical, funny, and moving true stories collected in this volume will provide inspiration and hope to teachers everywhere in the struggle to reclaim the courage to teach. "The teachers featured in this anthology have all, at various junctures, been on the verge of exhaustion, and the book is, in many ways, a sustained meditation on how they've sought to regain their emotional and spiritual strength."--Teacher Magazine

Jossey-Bass 2007 337 PP. Paper

$18.95 (low stock)

The Story Of Frog Belly Rat Bone - Paperback

BY TIMOTHY BASIL ERING
Once upon a time, in a gray endless place called Cementland, there lived a boy who wished to find a treasure. After searching through piles of toaster ovens and wet smelly socks, he spies a box filled with specks and a note that says, "Put these wondrous riches in the earth and enjoy." Horrified to learn that thieves are after his treasure, the boy scrounges in the junkyard and conjures a scarecrow-like creature to stand guard: Frog Belly Rat Bone, king and protector of the specks. Tim Ering's surreal artwork and hand-lettered text exude all the whimsy of an inspired imagination - and the wonders of a natural world that awaits discovery, even in Cementland.

Candlewick 2008 48 PP. Paper

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The Story Of Quakerism (300)

BY ELIZABETH BRAITHWAITE EMMOTT
SECONDHAND COPY. Torn binding, intact with yellowing pages Complete with a fold out panorama of London at the time of the early Friends and 15 other illustrations, this overview of Friends history up to WWI was the standard history of the time.

Central Education Committee, London 1916 217 PP. Cloth

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The Story Of Quakerism In Scotland 1650-1950

BY GEORGE BURNET AND WILLAIM MARWICK
The history of the Society of Friends in Scotland has often been confined to occasional articles in periodicals and passages in Friends journals. Within this book the reader can learn more about the story of three hundred years of Scottish Quakerism. This Movement has never had a lot of followers, nevertheless it gave the Society its first theologian in the person of Robert Barclay.

The Lutterworth Press 2007 230 PP. Paper

$37.50 (low stock)

The Story Of Ruby Bridges

BY ROBERT COLES, ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE FORD
"Please, God, try to forgive those people. Because even if they say those bad things, They don't know what they're doing." This is the true story of an extraordinary 6-year-old who helped shape history when she became the first African-American sent to first grade in an all white school. This moving book captures the courage of a little girl standing alone in the face of racism. "Ford's moving watercolor paintings...capture the...warmth of Ruby's family and community, the immense powers against her, and her shining inner strength." - Booklist

Scholastic 2004 32 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

A Story Of Suffering And Hope

Lessons From Latino Youth

BY EILEEN MCNERNEY
In 1993, a 16 year-old was shot and killed behind Sister Eileen McNerney's residence. Sr. McNerney gathered support and began St. Joseph's Workshop in 1995, a successful, non-profit continuing education project for mostly Latino young men and women in crisis. The stakes were high and the future often seemed grim as she let them teach her about life, theirs and hers. Who ministered to whom? Was it the youth, surrounded by love, who were transformed or their love that transformed her?

Paulist Press 2005 176 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Storyteller's Companion To The Bible

New Testament Women

EDITED BY DENNIS SMITH AND MICHAEL WILLIAMS
This volume is intended to help the reader retell Bible stories so that young people and adults can discover the layers of meaning within each story. Each chapter begins with the Bible verses, provides comments on the verses and a 'parallel' story which retells the story in such a way that new understandings are uncovered. An excellent resource for First Day School or for an unusual Bible study course.

Abingdon 1999 208 PP. Cloth

$22.00 (low stock)

Strategies For Successful Career Change

Finding Your Very Best Next Work Life

BY MARTHA MANGELSDORF
The idea of work as a straight path from graduation to retirement has become a thing of the past. Today, many people change careers once or more in their working lives. To help individuals prepare for such transitions, journalist and Quaker Martha Mangelsdorf prompts readers to ask, What's missing from my work life? What do I want to accomplish before I die? How do I gain perspective while at my current job? - while addressing practical considerations such as family and finances. She has run extensive counseling for the unemployed with her local Meeting.

Ten Speed Press 2009 214 PP. Paper

$16.99 (in stock)

Streams Of Living Water

Celebrating The Great Traditions Of Christian Faith

BY RICHARD FOSTER, FOREWARD BY MARTIN MARTY
Foster's roundup of six great traditions of Christian spiritual practice- contemplative, holiness, charismatic, social justice, evangelical, and incarnational-are grounded in straightforward profiles of biblical and modern characters whom Foster considers exemplars of these traditions (the prophet Amos and John Woolman, for example, are featured in the chapter on social justice).

HarperSF 1998 424 PP. Blank

$15.00 (low stock)

Strong Is Your Hold

With Cd Of Poems

BY GALWAY KINNELL
Here is the eleventh book of poems by Galway Kinnell, whom the New York Times has called "one of the true master poets of his generation." In this striking and various collection, he gives us poems of intermingling with the natural world, love poems and evocations of sexuality, poems about his father, his children, poet friends, poet heroes, and mythic figures. Included also is "When the Towers Fell," his stunning requiem for those who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11.The book's title derives from Walt Whitman's "Last Invocation": "Strong is your hold O mortal flesh, / Strong is your hold O love."

Houghton Mifflin 2006 66 PP.+ CD Cloth

$7.50 (in stock)

Students Resolving Conflict

Peer Mediation In Schools (2nd Edition)

BY RICHARD COHEN
The second edition of this great resource by Quaker Richard Cohen. His experience is that if you give students the power to take control of situations and some training they can resolve even large scale conflicts peacefully. This is a step by step guide to designing, implementing, and operating a successful peer mediation program at school.

Goodyear Books 2005 283 PP. Paper

$19.95 (low stock)

Studies In Mystical Religion

BY RUFUS JONES
This is a reprint of Rufus Jones' examination of first-hand experience of God.

Wipf & Stock 1909 518 PP Paper

$35.00 (in stock)

Subway Sonata

BY PATRICIA LAKIN AND HEATHER MAIONE
The downtown subway ride to work can be a chore-or it can be an inspiration, as it is for four different creative minds in this unusual tale for readers 5 to 8. Paul, an unpublished writer, notices an immigrant boy; Rachel, a composer, is entranced by the rhythms and bustle of the subway; Carlos, a choreographer, is moved by a one-armed man singing Spanish songs to himself; and Maria, a painter, is impressed with the magnanimity of a white-turbaned woman quoting scripture. The impressions of the trip find expression as the story explores the frustrations and sudden breakthroughs of the creative process. Was $22.95

Millbrook 2001 32 PP. Cloth

$5.00 (low stock)

Sufferings Of Early Quakers - Yorkshire

BY JOSEPH BESSE
"Ever since it appeared in 1753, Joseph Besse's Collection of Sufferings of the People called Quakers has been the first port of call for anyone interested in 17th century Quakerism at a local level. . . . Besse drew together the most interesting or indicative examples of what individual Quakers had suffered for the Truth between approximately 1650 and 1689." - Michael Gandy.

Sessions 2001 176 PP. Paper

$38.00 (in stock)

Sufferings Of Early Quakers - Westmorland

Cumberland, Durham & Northumberland, Isle Of Man, Lancashire

BY JOSEPH BESSE
"Ever since it appeared in 1753, Joseph Besse's Collection of Sufferings of the People called Quakers has been the first port of call for anyone interested in 17th century Quakerism at a local level. . . . Besse drew together the most interesting or indicative examples of what individual Quakers had suffered for the Truth between approximately 1650 and 1689." - Michael Gandy. Four volumes available.

Sessions 2001 330 PP. Paper

$30.00 (low stock)

Sufferings Of Early Quakers - America

New England And Maryland, West Indies And Bermuda

BY JOSEPH BESSE
"Ever since it appeared in 1753, Joseph Besse's Collection of Sufferings of the People called Quakers has been the first port of call for anyone interested in 17th century Quakerism at a local level. . . . Besse drew together the most interesting or indicative examples of what individual Quakers had suffered for the Truth between approximately 1650 and 1689." - Michael Gandy. Four volumes available.

Sessions 2001 391 PP. Paper

$45.00 (low stock)

Sufferings Of Early Quakers - London

And Middlesex 1655 To 1690

BY JOSEPH BESSE
Ever since it first appeared in 1753 Besse's collection of sufferings of the people called Quakers has been the first port of call for anyone interested in seventeenth century Quakerism. Contains the most interesting or illustrative examples of what individual Quakers suffered in ways like fines or imprisonment for their Quaker faith. Sessions are reprinting the original text by area. Indexed by Place and name.

Sessions 1753 176 PP Paper

$30.00 (low stock)

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)

Super Tract Packet

BY FRIENDS GENERAL CONFERENCE, PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING, ETC
One of every tract we carry!

Tract

$25.00 (backorder)

Support For Our True Selves

Nurturing The Space Where Leadings Flow - The 2007 Backhouse Lecture

BY JENNY SPINKS
Jenny Spinks speaks about nurturing leadings and growing into her individual potential. She argues that if we can be our true selves, open to being led minute by minute by the Spirit, we will live in a way that cares for the earth. Often there is clutter that gets in the way and blocks connection. This lecture looks at ways Quakerism offers to consciously/actively support our true selves and nurture the space where leadings flow and at how the freedom to express emotion in committed spiritual F/friendships helps clear the clutter and nurture leadings. The author contends that the Religious Society of Friends' role is to uphold and support us in nurturing this process.

Australia Yearly Meeting 2007 54 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Surfing On The Sea Of Faith

The Ethics And Religion Of Don Cupitt

BY NIGEL LEAVES
Surfing is divided into three parts. The first looks at Cupitt on 'Ethics after God', the second 'Cupitt's Idea of Religion' and the third 'The Sea of Faith Networks'. The first two parts will be useful reading for those who never got round to reading beyond The Sea of Faith. In the 3rd section he gives a potted history of the origins and development of SoF movement around the world especially in the writings of David Hart, Stephen Mitchell, Anthony Freeman, Lloyd Geering, Graham Shaw, Hugh Dawes and John Spong.

Polebridge 2005 194 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Sustaining Our Spirits

Women Leaders Thriving For Today And Tomorrow

BY DARLYNE BAILEY, KELLY MCNALLY KONEY, MARY ELLEN MCNISH, RUTHMARY POWERS, AND KATRINA UHLY
A handbook for the life journey of women who are leaders. Based on responses to a wide ranging survey, the authors share tales and techniques learned in real life by women striving to lead satisfying lives as women and successful leaders. Rooted in research and with perspectives rarely examined in such depth.

NASW Press 2008 132 PP. Paper

$24.99 (in stock)

Sustaining Peace Witness In The 21st Century

EDITED BY CHUCK FAGER
Papers from the 1997 Quaker Peace Roundtable.

Pendle Hill 1997 369 PP. Paper

$11.95 (in stock)

The Sutras Of Abu Ghraib

Notes From A Conscientious Objector In Iraq

BY AIDAN DELGADO
As the planes hit the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Aidan Delgado was in the process of enlisting in the U.S. Army Reserve. Two years later, he arrived in Iraq with the 320th Military Police Company. As he witnessed firsthand the brutality of the occupation and the abuse of unarmed Iraqis, Delgado came to believe that war was immoral and ran counter to his Buddhist principles. He turned in his weapon and began the long process of securing conscientious objector status. His book is urgent reading for anyone who cares about American ideals overseas, and for all those who understand why peace is patriotic.

Beacon Press 2008 224 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Swarovski Crystal Heart On Gold Plated Rope Chain

CRAFTED BY LIZ PERCH
Capri blue Swarovski crystal heart on 18 gold plated rope chain. Swarovski crystals are the finest crystal beads in the world, and these hearts sparkle for evening wear but also work with a sweater or tee during the day. US postage included.

Liz Perch HEART Boxed

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