America Street

A Multicultural Anthology Of Stories

EDITED BY ANNE MAZER
A collection of short stories about growing up in a diverse society features the writing of Toni Cade Bambara, Duane Big Eagle, Robert Cormier, Langston Hughes, Gish Jen, Francisco Jimenez, Mary K. Mazotti, Toshio Mori, Grace Paley, and others.

Persea 1993 152 PP. Paper

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American Colonies

The Settling Of North America

BY ALAN TAYLOR
Transcending the usual Anglo-centric version of our colonial past, this book recovers the importance of Native American tribes, enslaved Africans, and the rival empires of France, Spain, the Netherlands, and even Russia in the colonization of North America. Moving beyond the Atlantic seaboard to examine the entire continent, "American Colonies" reveals a pivotal period in the global interaction of peoples, cultures, plants, animals, and microbes. In a vivid narrative, Taylor draws upon cutting-edge scholarship to create a timely picture of the colonial world characterized by the interplay of freedom and slavery, opportunity and loss. Many references to the role played by Quakers.

Penguin 2002 544 PP. Paper

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American Nonviolence

The History Of An Idea

BY IRA CHERNUS
"Thoroughly researched, brilliantly argued and elegantly written. . .This book will be at the center of debate as to whether and what kinds of nonviolence can be effective in our time."-Walter Wink Ira Chernus surveys the evolution of the powerful idea of nonviolence from the Colonial Era up to today, focusing on representative movements (Anabaptists, Quakers, Anarchists, Progressives) and key individuals (Thoreau, Reinhold Niebuhr, Dorothy Day, A.J. Muste, King, Barbara Deming), including non-Americans like Mohandas Gandhi or Thich Nhat Hanh, who have helped form the idea of nonviolence in the United States. American Nonviolence offers an essential guide for both students and activists.

Orbis 2004 248 PP. Paper

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American Primitive - Poems

BY MARY OLIVER
Fifty early poems - primitive in the sense of wilderness, the special American wilderness, and themed on nature, and human yearning and love set in that primitive wilderness.

Back bay Books 1983 88 PP. Paper

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American Quakers

Perspectives On History

BY WILLIAM COLEMAN
William Coleman provides an introduction and selected primary source documents on the origins of Quakerism, the Quakers in Colonial America, matters of conscience, and writings by and about Quakers in American literature. Through letters, journals, artwork and essays, the reader will learn of the execution of Mary Dyer, the roles of George Fox, William Penn, Lucretia Mott, Levi Coffin, and others who were significant Friends.

Discovery Enterprises 1998 66 PP. Paper

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The Americas That Might Have Been

Native American Social Systems Through Time

BY JULIAN GRANBERRY
The Americas That Might Have Been is a professional but layman-accessible, fact-based, nonfiction account of the major Native American political states that were thriving in the New World in 1492. Granberry considers a contemporary New World in which the glories of Aztec Mexico, Maya Middle America, and Inca Peru survived intact. He imagines the roles that the Iroquois Confederacy of the American NE, the powerful city-states along the Mississippi River in the Midwest and SE, the Navajo Nation and the Pueblo culture of the Southwest, the Eskimo Nation in the Far North, and the Taino Arawak chiefdoms of the Caribbean would play in American and world politics in the 21st Century.

Univ of Alabama 2005 204 PP. Paper

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Amish Grace

How Forgiveness Transcends Tragedy

BY DONALD KRAYBILL, STEVEN NOLT, DAVID WEAVER-ZERCHER
On Monday morning, October 2, 2006, a gunman entered a one-room Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. He tied up and shot ten girls killing five and leaving the others critically wounded. He then shot himself as police stormed the building. His motivation? "I'm angry at God for taking my little daughter," he told the children before the massacre. The blood was barely dry on the schoolhouse floor when Amish parents brought words of forgiveness to the family of the one who had slain their children. This book explores the many questions this story raises about the religious beliefs and habits that led the Amish to forgive so quickly.

Jossey-Bass 2010 267 PP. Paper

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Anarchy And Christianity

BY JACQUES ELLUL
Ellul here defines anarchy as the nonviolent repudiation of authority. He looks at the Bible as the source of anarchy (in the sense of nondomination, not disorder), working through the Old Testament history, Jesus' ministry, and finally the early church's view of power as reflected in the New Testament writings.

Eerdmans 1988 109 PP. Paper

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And Tango Makes Three

BY JUSTIN RICHARDSON AND PETER PARNALL, ILLUSTRATED BY HENRY COLE
"Tango has two daddies in this heartwarming tale, inspired by actual events in New York's Central Park Zoo. Two male penguins, Roy and Silo, 'did everything together. They bowed to each other....They sang to each other. And swam together. Wherever Roy went, Silo went too....Their keeper... thought to himself, 'They must be in love.' Cole's endearing watercolors follow the twosome as they frolic affectionately...When the keeper discovers an egg that needs tending, he gives it to Roy and Silo, who hatch and raise the female. The keeper says, 'We'll call her Tango, because it takes two to make a Tango.'" - Publishers Weekly

Simon & Schuster 2005 32 PP. Cloth

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And To Think That We Thought We'd Never Be Friends

BY MARY ANN HOBERMAN, ILLUSTRATED BY KEVIN HAWKES
In rhyming verse that's a deliberate homage to Dr. Seuss, poet and picture book author Mary Ann Hoberman takes on quarreling and its consequences, and shows how turning fighters into friends leads to greater peace. It all starts with a fighting brother and sister, who make up with the help of another sibling. When the family begins fighting with their noisy neighbors, it's music that brings them together. Soon the whole town is marching in a parade, and eventually the parade swells to include the whole country, and even the animals. By the end of this optimistic picture book, the whole world is united in friendship.

Dragonfly Books 2003 32 PP. Paper

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Angel Child, Dragon Child

BY MICHELE MARIA SURAT
Ut comes to America from Vietnam, leaving her mother behind due to a shortage of funds. At school in America things are made worse by insensitive classmates but when they learn of her problems the students run a fair to raise the money for Ut's mother to join her family.

Scholastic 1989 40 PP. Paper

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An Angel For Solomon Singer

BY CYNTHIA RYLANT
An inspiring book for ages 4 - 8. A lonely New York City resident finds companionship and good cheer at the Westway Cafe where dreams can sometimes come true.

Scholastic 1996 32 PP. Paper

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Angelina Grimke

Voice Of Abolition

BY ELLEN TODRAS
Based on her diaries, letters, and other primary sources, this biography follows an intense and sometimes difficult woman from childhood to her career as a reformer, her passionate courtship and marriage with abolitionist Theodore Weld, her later life of service to the cause in spite of chronic ill health.

Linnett 1999 178 PP. Cloth

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Angels Watching Over Me

BY JULIA DURANGO, ILLUSTRATED BY ELISA KLEVEN
Based on a beloved spiritual, this book features Durango's expanded text, bursting with childlike exuberance, coupled with a cheerful mix of media images by acclaimed "New York Times" Best Illustrator Kleven, to create an ideal lullaby. Full color. a beautiful nondenominational paean to creation and the Earth's many blessings.

Simon & Schuster 2007 32 PP. Cloth

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Anger

Wisdom For Cooling The Flames

BY THICH NHAT HANH
"Some of Hanh's suggestions cut refreshingly against the grain. He dissents, for example, from the popular therapeutic wisdom to 'express our anger:' when we beat a pillow to get rid of our feelings, he insists we are merely 'rehearsing' our anger, not 'reducing' it. Hanh reminds us that anger begins and ends with ourselves: we may feel that we are mad at our wife or son, but really we are the direct objects of our rage. An expansive vision that lifts this book out of the self-absorbed self-help pile." -Publishers Weekly

Riverhead 2002 227 PP. Paper

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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

A Year Of Food Life Paperback

BY BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. With her characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet.

Harper Perennial 2008 386 PP. Paper

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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Audio Version

A Year Of Food Life

READ BY THE AUTHORS: BARBARA KINSOLVER, STEVEN L. HOPP AND CAMILLE KINGSOLVER
Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet. 14.5 hours, 12 compact discs.

HarperAudio 2007 14.5 HOURS Audio

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Annals Of The Early Friends (78)

Second Series

EDITED BY FRANCES ANN BUDGE
SECONDHAND COPY. Fairly nice condition, spotting on blue cover (coffee?) but good inside. Second Series reprinted from Friends Qtly examiner. Has biographies of Richard Davies, Isaac and Mary Penington, Alexander Jaffray, William Crouch, John Whiting, John Burnyeat, Thomas Chalkey.

Henry Longstreth: Philadelphia 1880 174 PP. Cloth

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Anne Frank

BY JOSEPHINE POOLE
What was Anne Frank like as a small girl, at home with her family and friends; at play and at school? And how did an ordinary little girl come to live such an extraordinary and tragically short life? In the first half of the book, we meet Anne growing up with her family in Germany. Then, we follow her flight to Holland to escape the Nazis; the German invasion and the gradual isolation, then outright persecution, of the Jewish population which forces the family into hiding; the years in the Secret Annex; and her last heart-breaking journey.

Red Fox 2006 40 PP. Cloth

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Anne Frank And Etty Hillesum

Inscribing Spirituality And Sexuality

BY DENISE DE COSTA
De Costa approaches Anne Frank largely from a psychoanalytical perspective and emphasizes the act of writing as a function in the development of adolescent self-identity. For Etty Hillesum her focus is on how writing establishes a philosophy of life-a faith-that grows from a position of duality and paradox. The author's assessments of the written legacy of two victims of genocide makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how the Holocaust affected individual lives.

Rutgers University Press 1998 304 PP. Paper

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Anne Hutchinson

A biography profiling the life of Anne Hutchinson, aPuritan exiled from Massachusetts for her beliefs in 1638. Includes source notes and timeline, Very nice, well written and well illustrated book, part of the Signature lives series. Age 9+.

Compass Point Books 2007 112 PP. Paper

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Answering Terror

Responses To War And Peace After 9/11/01

EDITED BY SHARON HOOVER
Answering terror is an anthology of the articles and letters in Friends Journal following the 911 attacks. From the statements of the big Quaker Yearly Meetings and organizations, to the protracted correspondence on Scott Simon's rejection of pacifism, these writings show how America and the world could have responded to 911 in a more positive manner. Includes writing by Pamela Haines, George Lakey, Marcelle Martin, Charlie Clements, Lyle Tatum, Keith Helmuth, Paul Buckley, John Paul Lederach, Mary Lord, Stephen Cary, and Jeanne Lohman.

Friends Publishing Corporation (Friends Journal) 2006 223 PP. Paper

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Answering That Of God In Our Children

Php 315

BY HARRIET HEATH
"Seeing my child as a wonderer with the potential of growing into goodness expands my understanding of that child and defines my role as a parent or caregiver. I can be a loving guide rather than only a strict authority figure or only a loving companion. The stories in this pamphlet, drawn from life, illustrate the wondering that our children do and the role it opens for us who live and work with them." - Harriet Heath.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1994 39 PP. Paper

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Answering The Call To Heal The World

Php 383

BY PATIENCE SCHENCK
There is a role for each of us to play in healing the wounds of the world and bringing into being the wholeness that is possible in God's creation. But where do we begin? This pamphlet invites us to explore our unique gifts and the hungers of our hearts, to discover our own calling in this sacred work. In a wise and intimate conversation with her readers, Patience Schenck walks us through the life of a leading: hearing a call, testing our discernment, overcoming the obstacles to faithfulness, finding the support we need, and finally recognizing when our work is done.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2006 34 PP. Paper

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Antislavery In Ontario, 1833-1877

The Light Of Nature And The Law Of God

BY ALLEN STOUFFER
From its beginnings in the early 19th century, the Canadian anti-slavery movement was centered in Ontario, they sought to enlist public support in the growing international crusade by organizing antislavery societies, and, through other institutions such as the Elgin Association, Canadian abolitionists responded to the immediate needs of the often destitute fugitive slaves who crossed the border. He shows that the leaders of Canadian anti-slavery were mostly immigrants from Britain who had been deeply involved in antislavery in their homeland. Much mention of Canadian (and US) Quakers.

Louisiana State Univ Press 1992 267 PP. Cloth

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Antoinette Brown Blackwell

A Biography

BY ELIIZABETH CAZDEN
This first biography of the 19th-century feminist and first American woman to be ordained a Christian minister is steeped in family correspondence, contemporary newspaper accounts, and Blackwell's own work. Cazden follows Blackwell from her student days at Oberlin, through her feminist activity on the lecture circuit with Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony, to her marriage to Elizabeth Blackwell's brother Samuel (on condition he would share household responsibilities while she worked) and rearing of five daughters.

Feminist Press 1983 315 PP. Paper

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Any Approaching Enemy

A Novel Of The Napoleonic Wars

BY JAY WORRALL
The second novel about Charles Edgemont, a ships captain during the Napoleonic war. He is married to a pacifist Quaker though this is not a theme in this book as it was in the first volume. Jay Worrall, the author, was born into a military family but raised as a Quaker. During the Vietnam War he worked with refugees in the Central Highlands of that country, and afterwards taught English in Japan. Worrall has also worked to develop innovative and humane prison programs, policies, and administration.

Random House 2007 288 PP. Paper

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Apocalypse Of The Word

BY DOUGLAS GWYN
Gwyn emphasizes the apocalyptic perspective behind George Fox's declaration that "Christ has come to teach his people himself" and describes how it affected Fox's view of preaching, worship and Church order. This work helps explain the urgency of the message that sparked the early Quaker movement. "This highly readable work develops the religious thought of George Fox in new and fresh ways and constitutes a major contribution to early Quaker research." - Dean Freiday.

Friends United Press 1986 241 PP. Paper

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Apology For The True Christian Divinity

BY ROBERT BARCLAY
A reprint of Barclay's translation of his Latin Apology into English, which was first published in 1678. A "full explanation and vindication of Quaker principles and doctrines." Includes an introduction by Licia Kuenning. Preferred by many to the modernized English of the Dean Freiday edition.

Quaker Heritage Press 2002 536 PP. Cloth

$24.00 (in stock)

The Apple - Pip Princess

BY JANE RAY
With sumptuous artwork, Jane Ray tells an original fairy tale of a humble princess whose love for nature's beauty restores a kingdom. Once there was a kingdom full of laughter, happiness, trees, and birdsong. But when the queen dies, the land becomes quiet and barren, and everyone is filled with sadness. What will make the kingdom bloom again? Can Serenity, the youngest of three princesses, bring hope and life back to her kingdom with a single apple pip - a precious seed left to her by her mother? This original fairy tale is brought to life and exquisitely illustrated by the internationally renowned Jane Ray.

Candlewick 2008 32 PP. Cloth

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