For Heaven's Sake

BY SANDY EISENBERG SASSO, ILLUSTRATED BY KATHRYN KUNZ FINNEY
People said "for heaven's sake" to Isaiah a lot. Everyone talked about heaven. "Thank heavens." "Heaven forbid." But no one would say what heaven was or where to find it. After his grandfather died Isaiah was told that Grandpa had gone to heaven. Isaiah wondered exactly where and what heaven was. He became determined to find out, and sought answers from many different people. This charming story teaches that heaven is often found in the places where you least expect it. Ages 4-8.

Jewish Lights 1999 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

For The Blessings Of A Friend

BY SUSAN MCCRACKEN
In her ministry to freed black refugees from the South at the Kansas Freedman's Relief Association, Julia is caught between spiritual and physical passion in her relationship with Hosea, one of the refugees. God blesses Julia's Quaker ministry and eventually blesses her with a husband and children, something for which she had yearned. Historical fiction. Fourth in a series.

FUP 2001 158 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

For The Gift Of A Friend

BY SUSAN MCCRACKEN
Continues the story of Joshua and Rebecca as they face the challenges of life on the frontier of Iowa. Her faith in God sees Becky through many hardships and trials.

FUP 1996 193 PP. Paper

$4.50 (low stock)

The Forbidden Schoolhouse

The True And Dramatic Story Of Prudence Crandall And Her Students

BY SUZANNE JURMAIN
They threw rocks and rotten eggs at the school windows. Villagers refused to sell Miss Crandall groceries or let her students attend the town church. Mysteriously, her schoolhouse was set on fire-by whom and how remains a mystery. The town authorities dragged her to jail and put her on trial for breaking the law. Her crime? Trying to teach African American girls geography, history, reading, philosophy, and chemistry; trying to open and maintain one of the first African American schools in America. This account of the Crandall and her elegant white schoolhouse will give readers a glimpse of what it is like to try to change the world when few agree with you.

Houghton Mifflin 2005 160 PP. Cloth

$19.00 (low stock)

A Force More Powerful

A Century Of Nonviolent Conflict

BY PETER ACKERMAN AND JACK DUVALL
"These are powerful stories about truth overcoming lies, love dissolving evil and life eclipsing death. Nonviolent valor can end oppression, and the world of the 21st century will be safer, freer, and more humane if it heeds the lessons of this book." - Jimmy Carter

St Martins Press 2001 588 PP Paper

$21.95 (in stock)

The Force Of The Spirit

BY SCOTT RUSSELL SAUNDERS
The author reveals how the pressure of the sacred breaks through the surfaces of ordinary life - a life devoted to grown-up children and aging parents, the craft of writing and the natural world. Whether writing to his daughter and his son as each prepares to get married, or describing an encounter with a red-tailed hawk in whose form he glimpses his dead father, or describing a visit to an unprogrammed meeting for worship, Sanders registers, in finely tuned prose, the force of spirit.

Beacon 2000 175 PP Paper

$15.00 (low stock)

Forged In The Fire - Hardcover

BY ANN TURNBULL
London, 1665. Cast out by his father for becoming a Quaker, the newly independent Will travels from the countryside to London to earn a living. He and his beloved Susanna wait patiently to be reunited and, at last, married. But when Will is thrown into jail for his beliefs, the pair's future becomes uncertain. With the plague spreading closer and the scent of smoke on the wind, can their love still bring them together despite the most terrifying twists of fate? Will and Susanna's timeless romance continues in this powerful sequel to No Shame, No Fear.

Candlewick 2007 312 PP. Cloth

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Forgiving Justice

The 2000 Swarthmore Lecture, By The Quaker Governor Of Grendon Prison

BY TIM NEWELL
This book calls for a return to the consideration of spiritual values in the dynamics of community justice. What place has prison in our attempts to live the kingdom here on earth? This essay presents a detailed assessment of the British penal system and Friends testimony on criminal justice for today.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2000 120 PP. Paper

$16.00 (low stock)

Forty Ways To Raise A Non-racist Child

BY BARBARA MATHIAS
Divided into five age-related sections, ranging from preschool age to the teenage years, this book provides helpful and practical ways parents can teach tolerance and compassion and contains specific advice addressing the unique concerns of both white parents and parents of color.

HarperSanFrancisco 1996 176 PP. Paper

$12.00 (low stock)

Fostering Vital Friends Meetings

A Handbook For Working With Quaker Meetings

BY JAN GREENE AND MARTY WALTON
Growing from the common purpose of nurturing and encouraging meetings, this handbook provides carefully seasoned guidelines, tools and exercises that meetings can use to strengthen Quaker practice in a concise and user-friendly manual. Sections detail who, what, how and why people can be about the work of fostering vitality in Friends meetings everywhere.

Quaker Press of FGC 1999 128 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Foundations Of Liberal Quakerism

BY STEPHEN ANGELL
Liberal Quakerism is an authentic and often growing strand of the Religious Society of Friends, and it is rooted in developments on both sides of the great split which took place between "Hicksites" and "Orthodox" in 1827. Its historical and theological foundations have not been well understood. Going back over 200 years, he describes the witness of Friends… and the varieties of spirituality that have often underlain the liberal Quaker impulse, including rationalism, mysticism, universalism, and the Social Gospel. Finally, the author discusses possible future directions: Where might the liberal Quaker movement be heading in the twenty-first century?

Southeastern Yearly Meeting 2008 40 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Founding Faith

How Our Founding Fathers Forged A Radical New Approach To Religious Liberty

BY STEVEN WALDMAN
The author is editor at Beliefnet.com. In this book he vividly describes the very different religious development and beliefs of five Founders, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Washington and Madison and their influence on the first amendment and the idea of separation of church and state. He argues that neither side of the argument has accurately depicted its origins. He attempts to set the record straight, revealing the real history of religious freedom to be dramatic, unexpected, paradoxical, and inspiring.

Random House 2009 304 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

Four Branches Of Quakerism Map

Showing Geographical Distribution Of Meetings

BY SALLY RICKERMAN
A clever color map that shows the number of Quaker Meetings of each "flavor" in each state (and Canada) The four branches are unprogrammed, pastoral, Conservative and Evangelical Friends. Also available as a set of two with The Map of N American Yearly Meetings..

Troll Press 2010 MAP 11"X 17" Blank

$5.00 (backorder)

Four Doors To Meeting For Worship

Php 306

BY WILLIAM TABER
"Some people `find it' almost instantly when they attend their first Friends meeting for worship; as they settle into the silence they feel themselves gathered into a living Presence and they know they have come home at last. Others may experience their first Quaker worship as difficult and strange, but something keeps drawing them back until they gradually grown into a richer and richer experience of worship." -from the introduction. William Taber offers four doors, or ways to access, worship so as to experience the living Presence.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1992 31 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

The Fragmentation Of The Church And Its Unity In Peacemaking

EDITED BY JEFFREY GROS AND JOHN D. REMPEL
The gospel places peacemaking at the center of the identity of the Christian church. Over the centuries, however, churches have divided over the specific place of this peacemaking imperative in their lives and teachings. This volume offers deep, ecumenical discussion of the relationship of the church to its peacemaking mission from the standpoints of history and the contemporary context. Contributors representing ten major faith traditions address this crucial topic from the perspective of their own churches and explore pathways that could lead to the reconciliation of existing differences. One chapter is "The Peace Testimony of the Religious Society of Friends" by Thomas Paxson.

Eerdmans 2001 230 PP. Paper

$7.50 (low stock)

Fragmentos De Los Escritos De James Nayler

Based On Selections From The Writings Of James Nayler

EDITED BY BRIAN DRAYTON, SELECTED AND TRANSLATED BY SUSAN FURRY AND BENIGNO SANCHEZ-EPPLER
Translated into Spanish from a selection of Nayler's letters, pastoral writings and epistles. Includes Nayler's last testimony written two hours before his death ("There is a spirit which I feel, that delights to do no evil") and a biographical sketch.

New England Yearly Meeting & Mosher Book and Tract 2009 79 PP Paper

$8.50 (in stock)

Free At Last!

Stories And Songs Of Emancipation

BY DOREEN RAPPAPORT
Interweaving life stories with spirituals, work songs, blues lyrics, and poems, this is a compelling narrative recounting the experience of black Americans in the South from the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 through the dawn of the Civil Rights era in 1954. Drawing from true accounts, the author writes of hopes for equality dashed by new "legal" injustices, and of a climate of fear and uncertainty fueled by intimidation, lynchings, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan. But the author tells also of the courageous struggle to recreate family and community life, achieve economic independence, explore creative expression, and mount a successful legal challenge against segregation.

Candlewick 2006 63 PP. Paper

$7.99 (low stock)

Free Indeed

A Video Drama About Racism

FROM THE MENONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
A video that challenges white viewers to think about the privileges which come with being white in North America. A good discussion starter to begin the process of dismantling white racism

Mennonite Central Committee 1995 23 MIN. Video

$20.00 (backorder)

Freedom Of Simplicity

Finding Harmony In A Complex World

BY RICHARD FOSTER
Written in his warm, accessible style, this updated edition of Quaker Richard Foster's classic work on simplicity explores this discipline throughout Christian history and the Bible as well as examining simplicity in practice. Foster provides a way to rethink our priorities and to "seek first God's kingdom and his righteousness." He shows us how to live in harmony with the rich complexity of life while stressing the relation of simplicity to prayer, solitude, and all the Christian disciplines. With a new introduction and revisions throughout.

HarperOne 2005 272 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

Freedom Of Simplicity - Pocket Edition

BY RICHARD FOSTER
Stresses the relationship of simplicity to prayer, solitude, and all the Christian disciplines.

HarperSanFrancisco 1981 253 PP. Paper

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Freedom On The Menu

The Greensboro Sit-ins

BY CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD, ILLUSTRATED BY JEROME LAGARRIGUE
When four courageous black teens sat down at a lunch counter in the segregated South of 1960, the reverberations were felt both far beyond and close to home. This insightful story offers a child's-eye view of this seminal event in the American Civil Rights Movement. Connie is used to the signs and customs that have let her drink only from certain water fountains and which bar her from local pools and some stores, but still . . . she'd love to sit at the lunch counter, just like she's seen other girls do. Showing how an ordinary family becomes involved in the great and personal cause of their times, it's a tale that invites everyone to celebrate our country's everyday heroes, of all ages.

Penguin 2005 32 PP. Cloth

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Freedom Riders

1961 And The Struggle For Racial Justice

BY RAYMOND ARSENAULT
They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through the American South to challenge segregation in interstate transport. Their story is one of the most celebrated episodes of the civil rights movement, yet a full-length history has never been written until now. In these pages, acclaimed historian Raymond Arsenault provides a gripping account of six pivotal months that jolted the consciousness of America. Freedom Riders is a stunning achievement, a masterpiece of storytelling that will stand alongside the finest works on the history of civil rights.

Oxford University Press 2007 704 PP. Paper

$19.95 (backorder)

Freedom Roads

Searching For The Underground Railroad

BY JOYCE HANSEN
Maps, sidebars, contemporary documents, and a scene-setting painting start each chapter. Using scholarship, oral history, even heat cameras, the workings of the underground railroad are revealed as a series of linked, but individual responses to slavery. Lots of references to Quakers, Quakerism and Quaker beliefs included. For Ages 8-12.

Cricket Books 2003 166 PP. Cloth

$18.95 (low stock)

Freedom Struggle

The Anti-slavery Movement 1830-1865

BY ANN ROSSI
Freedom Struggle tells the story of the fight waged by many to end slavery in America. including Frederick Douglass, the Grimkes, Harriet Tubman, and John Brown, among others, and how members of the Underground Railroad helped slaves escape the South to the free states of the North. The slavery debate took over and divided the nation, becoming one of the primary issues of the Civil War and threatening to destroy the country. Ages 9 - 12.

National Geographic 2005 40 PP. Cloth

$7.50 (in stock)

Freedom Summer (paperback)

BY DEBORAH WILES, ILLUSTRATED BY JEROME LAGARRIGUE
"Wiles delivers her message incisively through the credible voices of her young characters, narrator Joe and his best friend, John Henry, whose mother works as housekeeper for Joe's family. Joe and John spend many hours swimming together in the creek because John is not allowed in the public pool, so on the day the Civil Rights Act is enacted, they visit the town pool together, excited about diving for nickels in the clear water. Instead they find a work crew, including John Henry's older brother, filling in the pool with asphalt. `John Henry's voice shakes. `White folks don't want colored folks in their pool.'' The tale ends on an upbeat if tenuous note."-Publishers Weekly

Aladdin 2005 32 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

A Fresh Look At The Gospels

BY MARY MORRISON
Not a Pendle Hill Pamphlet. Taken from the introduction to her book Approaching the Gospels together. This is short guide to Morrison's ideas on studying the New Testament.

Pendle Hill 1986 26 PP. Paper

$2.00 (low stock)

Fresh Winds Of The Spirit

BY ALAN KOLP
"Fresh winds of the spirit blows a fresh wind over the life and ministry of George Fox and its application to contemporary movements of the holy spirit. Alan Kolp has taken some of the most energetic phrases of Fox; like oceans of darkness, brokenness of the heart and Ocean of life to take a new look at spirituality in our day." -Richard Foster

Friends United Press 2007 143 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Friend

The Story Of George Fox And The Quakers

BY JANE YOLEN
First published over 30 years ago Friend: The Story of George Fox and the Quakers remains a timeless gift. It brings to light, for young and old Friends, the life and legacy of the founder of Quakerism. Fox was a larger than life personality in a turbulent period in English history. Jane Yolen's biography sets the context and chronicles Fox's spiritual development. Never released in a paperback edition, we are pleased to offer this new edition with a foreword by Larry Ingle. "Torn by war and wracked by uncertainty and doubt, the people of Fox's age wanted answers, and our author demonstrates those he offered." - Larry Ingle

Quaker Press of FGC 2005 192 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

The Friend

BY SARAH STEWART; ILLUSTRATED BY DAVID SMALL
In this autobiographical portrait, Stewart's spare text and Small's light-filled illustrations convey the shared loneliness felt by Belle, the daughter of wealthy parents who are never home, and Bea, the African American housekeeper who spends her days away from her own family caring for Belle and Belle's parents' opulent house. Bea ably tends to the home chores with Belle in tow (not always helping), then when she finishes she and Bea spend time together walking on the beach. In the absence of their own families, they form a visibly strong bond which culminates in Bea literally saving Belle's life. This is the story of love and care in the midst of the chasm of class and race.

Farrar, Straus 2004 48 PP Cloth

$16.00 (in stock)

A Friend Among The Senecas

The Quaker Mission To Cornplanter's People

BY DAVID SWATZLER
This account of a 1799 Quaker mission to a Seneca village in northwestern Pennsylvania is based on the journal of Henry Simmons and offers a captivating look at Seneca culture of the period-their festivals and games, division of labor, and fascinating cult of dreams that effected many of their actions. The perceptive Chief Cornplanter, realizing that his people must adapt to new social and economic patterns, welcomed the Quakers as teachers, not so much for their religion, but for their knowledge of agriculture.

Stackpole Books 2000 319 PP. Cloth

$24.95 (in stock)