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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
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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)
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)
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)
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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)
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
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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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
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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)
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
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BY RUFUS JONES This is a reprint of Rufus Jones' examination of first-hand experience of God.
Wipf & Stock 1909 518 PP Paper
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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
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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)
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)
New England And Maryland, West Indies And Bermuda
Sessions 2001 391 PP. Paper
$45.00 (low stock)
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
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)
BY FRIENDS GENERAL CONFERENCE, PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING, ETC One of every tract we carry!
Tract
$25.00 (backorder)
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)
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)
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)
EDITED BY CHUCK FAGER Papers from the 1997 Quaker Peace Roundtable.
Pendle Hill 1997 369 PP. Paper
$11.95 (in stock)
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)
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
$55.00 Availability checked Mar 19th 10:39am CDT