Thirst - Paperback

BY MARY OLIVER
Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-two new poems, each exhibiting the power and grace that have become the hallmarks of Oliver's work. This volume includes poems on crickets, toads, trout lillies, bears; on greeting the morning, watching deer, and, finally, on lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet at the height of her power, considering the everyday in our lives and finding reasons to marvel at all around her.

Beacon Press 2007 88 PP. Paper

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Thirty Days With My Father

Finding Peace From Wartime Ptsd

BY CHRISTAL PRESLEY
Like many soldiers who returned home from Vietnam, Christal Presley's father was never the same. Christal learned to walk on eggshells, avoiding his deep depressions and outbursts of unspeakable rage. After she left home, she barely spoke to her father for thirteen years. In 2009 father and daughter entered into the Thirty-Day Project, a month of conversations in which nothing would be off limits, including the most difficult questions about Vietnam. In this gritty, heartwarming story of reconnecting through the most painful truths, a soldier and his daughter discover themselves and each other.

p, Health Communications 2012 244 PP. Paper

$14.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Thirty Essays On The Gospel Of Thomas

2nd Edition - Enlarged And Enhanced

BY HUGH MCGREGOR ROSS
Back in print in a new enlarged edition, these 30 essays by British Friend Hugh McGregor Ross are an essential companion to his classic translation of the Gospel of Thomas. The essays range widely and look at the ancient document itself, its history, at the person of Thomas and at the mystical community nurtured by the gospel. The author shows how this the Jesus and his words in this gospel links to the Jesus of the New Testament to giving one coherent message.

Evertype 2008 187 PP. Paper

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This Fire

Politics, Love And Other Small Miracles

BY JOHN MCCUTCHEON
"... When we gather 'round that fire there's no telling what stories might be told. Songs of love and politics, courage and forgiveness, parody and pathos, somehow they are not unrelated. When I gathered the songs for this collection they captured a small piece of time in a long life of trying hard to pay attention. They seemed to remind me of some small truths I've learned. If hard times can't have humor we won't survive them. If old love doesn't have some memory of youthful passion it, too, will fade. And the many stories of ordinary people responding to ugliness with beauty continue to fascinate and thrill me. Politics, love and other small miracles...all fueled by this same fire."

McCutcheon 2007 CD Disk

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This I Know Experimentally (044)

ELIZABETH WATSON
second hand- her rufus jones lecture of 1977.

FGC 1977 22 PP. Paper

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This Is Our House

BY MICHAEL ROSEN, ILLUSTRATED BY BOB GRAHAM
George has a house made from a big cardboard box, and he says that no one else at the playground can come in. Not Lindy, because George's house "isn't for girls," nor Freddie, because it "isn't for small people." Sophie can't come in because, George says, "This house isn't for people with glasses." But when George leaves his house for a moment, everyone piles in, and on his return, George gets a taste of his own medicine. Aided by Bob Graham's striking illustrations of an urban playground, Michael Rosen tells the tale of a little boy who makes a big discovery -- that letting everyone into his playhouse is a lot more fun than keeping them out.

Candlewick 2005 32 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

This Is Who I Am

Listening With Older Friends

BY THE COMMITTEE ON ELDERSHIP AND OVERSIGHT OF BRITAIN YEARLY MEETING
This book on spirituality and aging explores the wider implications of the entry into old age -- theological, spiritual, emotional, sociological. It is also a practical handbook to give guidance and confidence to Friends and meetings wanting to tackle a perceived gap in care of one another. This book presents a vision of what old age does and can contain, in its desolation and its richness, and encourages Friends in practical ways to step into that landscape, with all its discomforts, surprises and true riches.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2003 64PP Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

This Little Light Of Mine

ILLUSTRATED BY E B LEWIS
This book illustrates the traditional song beautifully with the expressions and actions of a joyful young African-American boy, who greets all he meets with kindness and warmth. The book ends with the boy meeting a downcast young man and inviting him to play and meet his friends. "In keeping with the refrain of the spiritual, light fills the pictures, brightening and warming the day and shining from the face of the boy and the people he meets." - Booklist

Simon & Schuster 2005 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

This We Can Say - Australian Quaker Life

Faith And Thought

BY AUSTRALIA YEARLY MEETING
Project started by Australian friends in 1993. This is an unusual Faith and Practice almost entirely consisting of quotations from modern Friends and minutes of Australia Yearly Meeting. Includes Advices and Queries and a short history of Australian Quakers.

Australia Yearly Meeting 2003 352 PP Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

This We Can Say (2000)

Talking Honestly About Sex

BY NINE FRIENDS FROM BRITAIN YEARLY MEETING
An attempt at a revision of the famous "Towards a Quaker view of sex." Comissioned by Quaker Home Service, they decided not to publish it and the nine friends involved published it themselves. As new paperback, with little evidence of use - but like all copies of this paperback beware of the brittle spine.SECONDHAND BOOK.

Nine Friends Press 1995 96 PP. Paper

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This Will Be Remembered Of Her

Stories Of Women Reshaping The World

BY MEGAN MCKENNA
In This Will Be Remembered of Her Megan McKenna juxtaposes biblical women and contemporary women, exploring the reasons why each has been remembered throughout time. In the end, her most important question is asked of readers: how will you be remembered?

Eerdmans 2010 200 PP. Paper

$15.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Thomas Janney (12)

Quaker Publisher Of Truth

GROSE, POLLY
An early emmigrant from Cheshire to Philadelphia Thomas Janney was a busy and committed Friend travelling widely in the ministry. SECONDHAND COPY. Appears unread, but has brittle spine from age and glue that is used.

Sessions of York 1995 80 PP. Paper

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Those Shoes

BY MARIBETH BOELTS, ILLUSTRATED BY NOAH JONES
to be wearing. But Jeremy's grandma tells him they don't have room for "want," just "need," and what Jeremy needs are new boots for winter. When Jeremy's shoes fall apart at school, and the guidance counselor gives him a hand-me-down pair, the boy is more determined than ever to have those shoes, even a thrift-shop pair that are much too small. But sore feet aren't much fun, and Jeremy comes to realize that the things he has - warm boots, a loving grandma, and the chance to help a friend - are worth more than the things he wants.

Candlewick 2007 40 PP. Cloth

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A Thousand Mornings

Poems

BY MARY OLIVER
In this latest collection, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life's work, the marshlands and coastline of her Massachusetts home. Oliver shares the wonder of dawn, the grace of animals, and the transformative power of attention. With startling clarity, humor, and kindness, these poems explore the mysteries of our daily experience.

Penguin 2012 77 PP. Cloth

$24.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Three Cups Of Tea

One Man's Mission To Promote Peace . . . One School At A Time

BY GREG MORTENS0N
Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan's treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools-especially for girls-that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth. As it chronicles Mortenson's quest, which has brought him into conflict with both enraged Islamists and uncomprehending Americans, Three Cups of Tea combines adventure with a celebration of the humanitarian spirit.

Penguin 2007 349 PP. Paper

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The Three Questions

Based On A Story By Leo Tolstoy

BY JON MUTH
When is the best time to do things? Who is the most important one? What is the right thing to do? When young Nikolai seeks counsel from Leo, the wise old turtle who lives in the mountains, he is sure Leo will know the answers to his three questions. But is Nikolai's own response to a stranger's cry for help that leads him directly to the answers he is looking for. Jon Muth combined his studies of Zen with his love for Tolstoy to create this profound, yet simple book about compassion and living in the moment.

Scholastic 2002 32 PP. Cloth

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Three Ravens & Two Widows

A Perspective On Controversy Among Friends - Php 401

BY RICHARD MACY KELLY
This essay is an intimate portrait of two women whose very different lives and characters were faithful responses to the challenges of loss, responsibility, love, and difficulty at different times and places in Quaker history. The author's mother, Lael Macy, and his grandmother, Madora Kersey, "sang" the same ballad of love and pain in very different lyrics. Using the metaphor of the ancient ballad, The Three Ravens, Richard Kelly invites us to explore how history and family traditions may limit our understanding of Truth or give us the strength and vision to see new possibilities in times when disagreements trouble our communities.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2009 36 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Thresholds Of Initiation (982)

BY JOSEPH HENDERSON
SECONDHAND COPY paperback in good condition. Proposes that initiation is a major archetype as evidenced in the major life initiations from childhood to adulthood and adulthood to maturity.

Chiron 2004 260 PP. Paper

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Through A Quaker Archway (11126)

A Treasury Of Contemporary Quaker Writings

EDITED HORACE LIPPINCOTT
Secondhand Copy. Hardback. No jacket, with discoloration on cover with library card envelope in fair condition. Pencil underlining on a few pages. Anthology of essays by 26 eminent Quakers of the first half of the 20th century from Cadbury and Trueblood to Hoover and Nixon, from Jessamyn West and James Michner to Biddle and Lippincott. The contributors reveal the wide range of political affiliation, business interests and religious language difficult to match from among today's Friends at this level of accomplishment.Two copies.

Sagamore 1959 290 PP. Cloth

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Through Flaming Sword

The Life And Legacy Of George Fox

BY ARTHUR O ROBERTS
Reissued and updated after fifty years this is Arthur Roberts spiritual biography of Fox together with a closer look at Fox's legacy, particularly his thoughts on Christian holiness and what should be the nature of a church. Causing much excitement in the blogosphere this is an inspiring book. The title comes from George Fox's desire for a kingdom of truth and love on this side of "the flaming sword of Eden".

Barclay Press 2008 143 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

Through My Eyes

BY RUBY BRIDGES, EDITED BY MARGO LUNDELL
"Bridges relates her story far more powerfully than has anyone else to date. After establishing a context for her place in the history of the Civil Rights movement, she lets her childhood memories, rather than her adult perceptions, drive the narrative, and emerges as an understandable and sympathetic young girl."-Horn Book

Scholastic 1999 63 PP. Cloth

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Thunder Rose

BY JERDINE NOLAN, KADIR NELSON
Born in the Wild West during a thunderstorm, Thunderstorm Rose is an unusually strong and resourceful child, can she stop a tornado though.

Harcourt 2007 32 PP. Paper

$7.00 (in stock)

Thundering Years (522)

JULIE TALLA JOHNSON
SECONDHAND COPY, readable but curling at the edges and recipient of coffee on some pages. Subtitle: Rituals and Sacred Wisdom for Teens. Shows teens how to harness the intense emotions and drives of the late-teen years using wisdom from cultures around the world. Includes exercises, personal and community rituals, and resources that show how to successfully navigate the Thundering Years without heading toward violence, drug abuse, and other self-destructive behaviors.\P,bINDU bOOKS

2000 252 PP. Paper

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Thy Friend, Obadiah

BY BRINTON TURKLE
The story of a New England Quaker boy's encounter with a seagull. A Caldecott Honor Book, and a "classic" Quaker children's story.

Penguin 1969 38 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying (8332)

SOGYAL RINPOCHE
SECONDHAND, readable condition. In the tradition of the bestselling Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, this inspirational guide presents 365 thought-provoking meditations on life, death, doubt, mindfulness, compassion, wisdom, and work.

Rider 1994 420 PP. Paper

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Time For Peace

BY JANET GANGULI
In the current world climate of violence, terrorism and war, it is critical for young people to study peace and the ways peace exists in the world. Geared toward readers in middle school Time for Peace takes a lively, fully illustrated and international approach to peacemaking. The author explores the roots of violence and true alternatives to force, as well as profiling many peacemakers. First Day Scool, classroom teachers, as well as parents, will find this an invaluable tool in working with young people.

Quaker Press of FGC 2003 64 PP. Paper

$4.50 (in stock)

Time On Two Crosses

The Collected Writings Of Bayard Rustin

EDITED BY DEVON CARBADO AND DONALD WEISE
Time on Two Crosses showcases the extraordinary career of this black gay civil rights pioneer. Spanning five decades, the book combines classic texts ranging in topic from Gandhi's impact on African Americans, white supremacists in Congress, the antiwar movement, and the assassination of Malcolm X, with never-before published selections on the call for gay rights, Louis Farrakhan, affirmative action, AIDS, and women's rights.

Cleis Press 2003 350 PP. Paper

$18.95 (in stock)

A Time To Heal

Protecting Children & Ministering To Sex Offenders

BY DEBRA HAFFNER, FOREWARD BY STEVE CLAPP
This important book provides the tools that faith communities need to : Determine under what circumstances, if any, a convicted sex offender may be involved in the congregation; Determine how to respond if someone in the congregation is accused of a sexual offense; Be sensitive to and supportive of persons in the congregation who have been victims of abuse; Develop and implement strategies that will keep children in the congregation save and which will prevent sexual abuse from happening. An important book for clergy, lay leadership in churches & synagogues, denominational executives, regional judicatory executives ,correctional officials, judges, parole officers and treatment providers.

Lifequest Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Time Will Make Things Clear

The Story Of Stephen Yang, Chinese Quaker

BY PATRICK WOOD
"In his long and inspiring life in China, [Yang] has lived through many changes and much upheaval which has had a profound effect on him and both challenged and strengthened his Quakerism and pacificism. In turn he, as a Christian doctor and teacher dedicated to the service of his fellow countrymen and women, has undoubtedly influenced many, even thought the majority would deny any religious belief." - From the Preface

Sowle 1999 144 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Timeless Quaker Wisdom In Plain Song

Selected Set To Music And Recorded By Paulette Meier

BY PAULETTE MEIER
Moved by Paulette Meier's inspiration, Quaker Press releases its first musical CD - a remarkable collection of 21 Gregorian chant-like songs of early Quaker texts. The words of George Fox, Margaret Fell, John Woolman, and others who may be new to you are sung in piercingly clear plainsong. You will receive the words in new ways. Sheet music to the songs, as well as background on the authors and Quaker themes of the quotations, are included as PDF on the disc. Hear sample tracks by following the link below, and see the reviews of Paulettes songs in the comment section below. DOWNLOAD THE CD from CD Baby at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/paulettemeier for $9.99.

Quaker Press of FGC 2010 37 MINUTES Audio

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