Crash

BY JERRY SPINELLI
Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy (Penn Webb) and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family. Ages 10-13.

Knopf 1997 162 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Crazy For God

How I Grew Up As One Of The Elect, Helped Found The Religious Right, And Lived To Take All (or Almost All) Of It Back

BY FRANK SCHAEFFER
By the time he was 19, Frank Schaeffer's parents, Francis and Edith Schaeffer, had achieved global fame as bestselling evangelical authors and speakers, and Frank had joined his father on the evangelical circuit. He would go on to speak before thousands in arenas around America, publish his own evangelical bestseller, and work with such figures as Pat Robertson & Jerry Falwell. But all the while he felt increasingly alienated, precipitating a crisis of faith that would ultimately lead to his departure-even if it meant losing everything. A fascinating insider's look at the American evangelical movement and a deeply affecting personal odyssey of faith told with honesty, empathy, and humor

Da Capo 2007 410 PP. Paper

$16.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Creating A World Without Poverty

Social Business And The Future Of Capitalism

BY MUHAMMAD YUNUS
The founder of the microlending pioneer, the Grameen Bank, outlines his vision for a new business model, which he calls Social Business, that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world improving real wealth, healthcare, education and the environment for all. He tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today.

Public Affairs Books 2008 261 PP. Cloth

$26.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Creating Spaces

Exploring Our Spiritual Journeys Through Drama

BY CAROLINE JONES
This pack contains material for six reflective drama sessions and guidelines on how to use them. The material can be used for one-off sessions or as a series of six over a weekend or number of weeks. Each session lasts two hours and has a similar structure and style of exercise, but a different theme. The themes are the six basic elements of drama: sound and silence, movement and stillness, light and darkness. By using simple, meditative drama techniques the sessions provide an opportunity for a small group to share some aspects of their spiritual journeys.

Britain Yearly Meeting 1994 42 PP. Paper

$3.50 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Creating The Beloved Community

A Journey With The Fellowship Of Reconciliation

BY PAUL DEKAR
This history of the FOR in the USA shows that its members have been practical dreamers, both imagining a more peaceful world and working to realize the dream.. Creating the Beloved Community grows out of the author's 40-year involvement with the peace movement, including experience as a founder of the peace studies program at McMaster University. Dekar has combined personal acquaintance with FOR and careful research to produce a history both passionate and thorough history of the organisation and its work.

Cascadia 2005 326 PP. Paper

$23.95 (in stock)

Creating True Peace

Ending Violence In Yourself, Your Family, Your Community And The World

BY THICH NHAT HANH
"This newest [book by Naht Hanh] is filled with meditations and practices for individuals and families; since relatively few people choose monasticism as a lifestyle, the practice of household peace through deep listening and loving speech is eminently useable. Moreover, as Nhat Hanh shows in his stories and examples of working with people in conflict, such techniques underlie peace in the political arena as well. Written in Nhat Hanh's characteristically soothing way, this is a practical and basic book of his profound and comprehensive teachings, especially for families with children." - Publishers Weekly

Free Press 2004 224 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Creation

Master Illustrator Series

BY GENNADY SPIRIN
Creation pairs the text of the biblical story ( the New International Version) with the masterful artistry of illustrator Gennady Spirin. His meticulous attention to detail and selection of dramatic color unveils the story of creation with clarity and expression. The format mirrors stained glass windows for the most part and seeks to convey the mystery and majesty in Creation.

Zonderkidz 2008 32 PP. Cloth

$14.99 (in stock)

Creative Conflict Resolution

More Than 200 Activities For Keeping Peace In The Classroom

BY WILLIAM J. KREIDLER
Teachers learn creative and constructive responses to conflicts occurring in any K-6 class. Offers over 20 conflict resolution techniques with examples, 14 reproducible worksheets, and over 200 class-tested activities and cooperative games.

Scott, Foresman 1984 216 PP. Paper

$18.95 (in stock)

Creative Listening

Quaker Dialogue

BY CLAREMONT MONTHLY MEETING
Suggestions for leaders aiming to deepen interpersonal relations and spiritual life among members of a religious body through the sharing of meaningful experiences in fellowship groups.

Claremont MM 1991 18 PP. Paper

$3.50 (in stock)

Creature Conversations

True Stories From The Gulf Of Mexico And Beyond

BY SHARON FITZPATRICK
Slightly psychic and intensely dedicated to peace and environmental activism, the author shares true exchanges with ants, birds, spiders, dogs and even a few humans. Mostly set in 2008, these occurrences exemplify the subtle connections among all beings, including our perceptions of the place held in common.

SF 2011 156 PP. Paper

$6.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Creeds And Quakers

What's Belief Got To Do With It? - Php 377

BY ROBERT GRISWOLD
Quaker spiritual authority lies not in creeds - but in the direct communion between individual Friends and the Divine Spirit. The pamphlet asserts that Friends too often hold Quaker testimonies as ideals, as ends in themselves, rather than as fruits of the Spirit. Without spiritual grounding, testimonies become creeds. In the absence of the profound authority of a faith that defies verbal comprehension and words, the historic Quaker witness to the world is in danger.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2005 35 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Cress Delahanty

BY JESSAMYN WEST
Set in rural California in the 1940s, this novel first published as four short stories, wittily portrays an adolescent girl navigating pivotal moments of growing up between ages 12 and 16. West is equally insightful about the eternal problems of parent and grandparenthood, how raising children transforms a marriage, and how death touches a family. An afterword discuses her writing career.

Feminist Press 2006 340 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

Crooked Run

Poems

BY HENRY TAYLOR
Henry Taylor is a Quaker poet, the fifth generation clerk of Goose Creek Meeting who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for his book A Flying Change. In Crooked Run his poems focus on a sense of place. In the midst of suburban deveopment, he looks back at the earlier people and places with sadness, humor, and a profound sense of loss.

Louisiana State University Press 2006 62 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

Crossing Bok Chitto

A Choctaw Tale Of Friendship & Freedom

BY TIM TINGLE, ILLUSTRATED BY JEANNE ROREX-BRIDGES
Martha Tom, a young Choctaw girl, knows better than to cross Bok Chitto, but one day - in search of blackberries - she disobeys her mother and finds herself on the other side. A tall slave discovers Martha Tom. A friendship begins between Martha Tom and the slave's family, most particularly his young son, Little Mo. Soon afterwards, Little Mo's mother finds out that she is going to be sold. The situation seems hopeless, except that Martha Tom teaches Little Mo's family how to walk on water to their freedom.

Cinco Puntos Press 2006 30 PP. Cloth

$10.95 (in stock)

Crossing Bok Chitto

A Choctaw Tale Of Friendship & Freedom

BY TIM TINGLE, ILLUSTRATED BY JEANNE ROREX BRIDGES
Martha Tom, a young Choctaw girl, knows better than to cross the river, but one day-in search of blackberries-she disobeys her mother and finds herself on the other side. Thus begins the story about seven slaves who cross the big river to freedom, led by a Choctaw angel walking on water! Crossing Bok Chitto documents a part of history that is little-known: the relationship between the Choctaws-members of a sovereign nation-and the slaves who lived in Mississippi during that time before the Civil War, before the Choctaws were forced out of Mississippi to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears.

Cinco Puntos 2006 38 PP. Paper

$8.95 (in stock)

Crossroad (9934)

Quest For Contemporary Rites

MAHDI
secondhand- FAIR CONDITION. SUBTITLE "The Quest for Contemporary Rites of Passage". Thinkers and activists from many orientations and traditions are now coming together to explore ways to reconstitute rites of passage as a form of community healing for our public and personal ills. Crossroads is a comprehensive collection of over fifty cutting-edge writings on diverse aspects of the transition to adulthood.

OPEN COURT 1996 449 PP. Paper

$6.50 USED - availability checked Feb 8th 1:48pm EST

Crusade Against Slavery (8110)

Friends, Foes, And Reforms, 1820-1860

BY LOUIS FILLER
SECONDHAND COPY, good condition paperback that probably looked a bit messy even when new. Sounds like an interesting tome, but I think the author comes at the issues from a very Conservative angle that may lead to greater insight but isn't what folks or at least Quakers often get to read, and I am afraid I haven't read it myself.

Reference Publications 1986 389 PP. Paper

$4.00 USED - availability checked Feb 8th 1:48pm EST

Crystelle Mourning

BY EISA NEFFATARI ULEN
No quaker content, but West Philly is certainly becoming QuakerLand! With her well-employed fiance and a comfortable life in New York City, Crystelle has a life most young professionals would envy. She has come a long way from the rough Philadelphia neighborhood where she grew up. But she hasn't left the past behind her. A ghost from her West Philly days continues to haunt her -- the spirit of her high school sweetheart Jimmie, who she watched get gunned down one unforgettable night years ago. Emotionally distraught from her unsettling memories and the suspicion she may be pregnant, Crystelle goes back to her old neighborhood to reconnect with friends and family.

Washington Sq Press 2007 207 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Cultures Of Peace

The Hidden Side Of History

BY ELISE BOULDING
Quaker sociologist Elise Boulding offers an eminent collection of essays that emphasizes her study of civil society over the past fifty years. While most media and academic attention focuses on the extreme violence in today's society, Elise Boulding notes an equally significant presence of cultures and societies of peace. Here, in a volume that represents a life's work, she revisits her theme of the connection of family, community, and government and offers enriching perspectives and advice on how to fuel the process of peace.

Syracuse University Press 2000 348 PP. Paper

$24.95 (in stock)

The Curious Garden

BY PETER BROWN
One boy's quest for a greener world... one garden at a time. While out exploring one day, a little boy named Liam discovers a struggling garden and decides to take care of it. As time passes, the garden spreads throughout the dark, gray city, transforming it into a lush, green world. This is an enchanting tale with environmental themes and breathtaking illustrations that become more vibrant as the garden blooms. Red-headed Liam can also be spotted on every page, adding a clever seek-and-find element to this captivating picture book.

Little, Brown 2009 40 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time

BY MARK HADDON
An autistic boy tries to solve a mystery that involves the death of his neighbors dog. A good read as they say- and it opens a window to the autistic mind.

Vintage Books 2004 240 PP. Paper

$14.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Cutting Into The Meatpacking Line

Workers And Change In The Rural Midwest

BY DEBORAH FINK
Quaker Deborah Fink draws both on interviews and on firsthand experience working on the production floor of a pork-processing plant. She weaves a fascinating account of the meatpacking industry's history in Iowa - a history, she notes, that has been experienced differently by male and female, immigrant and native-born, white and black workers. Indeed, argues Fink, these differences are a key factor in the ongoing creation of the rural working class. She looks within rural midwestern culture itself to examine the class, gender, and ethnic contradictions that allowed-indeed welcomed-the meatpacking industry's development.

Chapel Hill 1998 235 PP. Paper

$32.95 (in stock)

Daddy, Papa, And Me

BY LESLIE NEWMAN, CAROL THOMPSON
Board book. Rhythmic text and illustrations with universal appeal show a toddler spending the day with its two Daddies. From hide-and-seek to dress-up, then bath time and a kiss goodnight, there's no limit to what a loving family can do together.

Tricycle Press 2009 20 PP. Cloth

$7.99 (in stock)

Daily Notes To God

BY NOEL PALMER
A member of Westbury meeting and the recorded Minister of the Mannhattan Monthly Meeting. In 1991 Noel Palmer published a collection of his morning reflections for every day of the year, encouraging his readers to add their own daily reflections and prayers to his. This 20th anniversary re-publication of Pastor Palmer's prayerful reflections once again invites readers to join him on a journey throughout the entire year, stopping at the beginning of each day to raise their minds and hearts to God in prayer.

Eme 2011 134 PP. Paper

$9.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Daily Readings From Quaker Spirituality

EDITED BY EDWARD CELL
A fine introduction to Quaker thought with nearly 70 one-page spiritual writings by prominent Friends. Contributors range from Fox, Woolman, Nayler and Penn to Kenneth Boulding, Thomas Kelly, Rufus Jones, and Jessamyn West. Ideal for inquirers or as a daily devotional for seasoned Friends.

Templegate 1987 96 PP. Paper

$4.95 (in stock)

The Dance Between Hope And Fear

BY JOHN CALVI
Questions and answers, poetry and prayers about healing and being a healer.

Southeastern Yearly Meeting 1992 23 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

The Dancer

BY NOLA TURKINGTON
Bau knows as many dances as there are seeds in a calabash rattle but she does not know the magic rainbull dance - only the rainmaiden knows that. Then drought seizes the land, a drought so terrible that Bau's grandmother sends her to the Tsodilo Hills in search of the reain maiden, for now Bau must dance as she has never deanced before, to bring rain to the Kalahari people.

Cloth

$4.00 (in stock)

Dancing With God Through The Storm, Book

Mysticism And Mental Illness

BY JENNIFER ELAM
This is a book length expansion of Elam's pamphlet on the same subject. "As a person who has experienced both mysticism and mental illness, I can testify to the large opening this book provides. May you read it and be similarly opened!" - A project participant.

Way Opens Press 2002 189 PP. Paper

$7.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Dancing With God Through The Storm

Mysticism And Mental Illness - Php 344

BY JENNIFER ELAM
Elam explores the connection of mysticism to mental illness in this moving essay. Included are the stories of many Friends describing their experience of mysticism, as well as reproductions of the authors' paintings. NOTE She also has a book with exactly the same title published in 2002-see separate listing.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1999 48 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

The Dandelion Seed

BY JOSEPH ANTHONY & CHRIS ARBO
The humble dandelion. By roadside, mountainside, in flower beds, lawns and woods it flowers every month of the year throughout the world, a fitting symbol of life. Its journey is a bit like our journey, filled with challenge, wonder and beauty. This popular, simple book is beautiful and touching.

Dawn Publications 1997 32 PP. Paper

$8.95 (in stock)