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52 Activities To Help You And Your Kids Discover The Wonders Of Nature
BY JENNIFER WARD AND SUSIE GHAHREMANI Packed with activities to help kids discover the wonders of nature, this collection offers alternatives to electronic games and gets kids and caregivers outside. Each activity presents a project meant to promote exploration, stimulate imagination, and heighten a sense of wonder. "There may be no better way to ensure the well-being of the natural world tomorrow than to introduce children to its many small wonders today. Through a series of accessible activities designed to engage young minds and all five senses, this book reminds us of - even celebrates - the magic to be found right outside our own back doors." - Todd Christopher
Trumpeter Press 2008 153 PP. Paper
$14.00 (low stock)
And Other Inappropriate Longings Of My Indiana Childhood
BY PHILIP GULLEY We are transported to 1970's Danville, Indiana, the everyone-knows-your-business town where Gulley still lives today, to witness the uproarious story of Gulley's young life, including his infatuation with his comely sixth-grade teacher, his dalliance with sin-eating meat on Friday and inappropriate activities with a mannequin named Ginger - and his checkered start with organized religion.
HarperOne 2009 200 PP. Cloth
$21.99 (in stock)
BY MOURID BARGHOUTI Mourid Barghouti spent thirty years in exile shuttling among the world's cities; separated from his family for years at a time; never certain whether he was a visitor, a refugee, a citizen, or a guest. As he returns home to Palestine for the first time since the 6 day war, Barghouti crosses a wooden bridge over the Jordan River into Ramallah and is unable to recognize the city of his youth. A tour de force of memory and reflection, lamentation and resilience, I Saw Ramallah is a deeply humane book, essential to any balanced understanding of today's Middle East.
Vintage 2003 208 PP. Paper
$12.95 (low stock)
The Life Of Abby Kelley Foster
BY MARGARET HOPE BACON SECONDHAND COPY. Slightly torn jacket. Good condition Written in the lively and accessible style well known to readers of Bacon's books Abbey Foster comes alive as the prototypical Quaker activist, strong enough to discipline even her fiery anti-clerical husband Stephen Foster (not the song writer). After her first important speech on slavery the hall was burned down, but she continued on to a life of uninterrupted and principled work on behalf of the rights of African Americans and women.
Thomas Y Crowell Co 1974 235 PP. Cloth
$12.00 USED - availability checked Mar 18th 3:39am CDT
BY DAISY NEWMAN Serenity discovers love and her Friendly heritage.
FUP 1975 314 PP. Paper
$20.00 (low stock)
BY BILL HARLEY Get ready to shake, rattle, roll, strum, howl and sway with Bill as he serenades kids and families with his characteristic silliness, hilarity, and poignancy on his newest musical recording "I Wanna Play". The 12 new songs on "I Wanna Play", including the long-awaited and much-loved Barbie's Head is Missing, are hilarious, sweet, silly and touching, and have a world music feel.
Round River Records 2007 48 MIN Disk
$15.00 (low stock)
BY JOSEPH SLATE A runaway slave still has his ankle chain. As long as it remains, and as long as the Big Man hunts him, he'll never truly be free. Rescuing an orphaned slave child from certain capture gives him the strength to keep moving on, and miraculously, the child's love and gratitude are all that is needed to destroy the shackle once and for all. Ages 6-8.
Putnam 2008 32 PP Cloth
$16.99 (backorder)
BY VIRGINIA KROLL, ILLUSTRATED BY DEBRA REID-JENKINS LESSON IN A BOOK AVAILABLE! This book invites children to experience God more fully in their daily lives.
Eerdmans 1994 32 PP. Paper
$8.50 (in stock)
BY LINDA ZUCKERMAN, ILLUSTRATED BY JON J. MUTH Here is the rare book that not only expresses a parent's love for their child, but offers a hope for what that love will become. It begins with a wish at bedtime, as parents hold their children tight and hope their love will cradle them, safe and sound. It continues through the day their children have grown up, proud and strong, and can pass that love on to someone else. This is a book that goes beyond a parent's "I love you" to the generous wish that our children will make the world a better place.
Scholastic 2006 32 PP. Cloth
$16.99 (in stock)
BY GWENYTH SWAIN, ILLUSTRATED BY RONALD HIMLER "A moving story of hope and love, woven around a Christmas hymn. In an author's note, Swain explains how, in 1933, a girl named Annie Morgan sang the title song to John Jacob Niles, a collector of folksongs, at a revival in Murphy, NC. The fictionalized tale that follows describes how Annie mourns for her mother: `I still can't figure how she could have died in spring, when there's so much life just bursting from the ground and the tree branches.' She and her itinerant preacher father wander the country, speaking to any folks who will listen to them. Annie composes a song to express her religious questions, which she sings to a crowd. . This book is a treasure."-School Library Journal
Eerdmans 2003 32 PP. Cloth
$16.00 (in stock)
BY COLMAN MCCARTHY This is the story of one man's passion for peace education, as seen during one semester in six schools where risk-taking students found themselves challenged and inspired by an unconventional course and by a man who believes that if we don't teach our children peace someone else will teach them violence.
Orbis 2002 140 PP Cloth
$18.00 (low stock)
Let The Truth Be Told
BY WALTER DEAN MYERS Ida B. Wells was an extraordinary woman. Long before boycotts, sit-ins, and freedom rides, Ida B. Wells was hard at work to better the lives of African Americans. An activist, educator, writer, journalist, suffragette, and pioneering voice against the horror of lynching, she used fierce determination and the power of the pen to educate the world about the unequal treatment of blacks in the United States. Walter Dean Myers tells the story of this legendary figure, which blends harmoniously with the historically detailed watercolor paintings of illustrator Bonnie Christensen. For ages 9-12
HarperCollins 2008 37 PP. Cloth
The Story Of Rosa Parks
BY FAITH RINGGOLD If a bus could talk, it would tell the story of a young African-American girl named Rosa who had to walk miles to her one-room schoolhouse in Alabama while white children rode to their school in a bus. It would tell how the adult Rosa rode to and from work on a segregated city bus and couldn't sit in the same row as a white person. It would tell of the fateful day when Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white man and how that act of courage inspired others around the world to stand up for freedom. In this book a bus does talk, and on her way to school a girl named Marcie learns why Rosa Parks is the mother of the Civil Rights movement. Ages 8-12.
Aladdin 2003 32 PP. Paper
$7.99 (low stock)
Rediscovering Grace In An Ungracious World
BY JAMES MULHOLLAND AND PHILIP GULLEY In If Grace Is True, pastors Philip Gulley and James Mulholland revealed their belief that God will save every person. They now explore the implications of this belief and its power to change every area of our lives. They attempt to answer one question: If we took God's love seriously, what would our world look like? Gulley and Mulholland argue that what we believe is crucial and dramatically affects the way we live and interact in the world. Beliefs have power. The belief in a literal hell, where people suffer eternally, has often been used by the Church to justify hate and violence, which contradict what Jesus taught about love and grace. The authors present a new vision.
HaperSanFrancisco 2005 288 PP. Paper
$14.95 (in stock)
Why God Will Save Every Person
BY PHILIP GULLEY AND JAMES MULHOLLAND If Grace is True is a challenging book for many Christians. The authors' personal experience of God's grace leads them to reject the view that God will save only some people and the rest will be damned. "Gulley and Mulholland's stirring manifesto on the central role of universalism in Christianity will provoke traditionalists and encourage new ways of thinking about the nature and purpose of the Christian faith." - Publishers Weekly
HarperCollins 2004 225 PP. Paper
$13.95 (in stock)
Rediscovering The Values Of Jesus
BY PHILIP GULLEY Noted and eloquent Quaker, Philip Gulley's latest theological volume in his "if" series, in which Gulley puts the Christ back in Christian. "What IF Christians actually began to take their Christ seriously?" The answer to that question could change the world. - Shane Claiborne. "Filled with memorable, insightful and revealing stories. I recommend it." - Marcus Borg.
HarperOne 2010 224 PP. Cloth
$23.95 (in stock)
A Book About The World's People
BY DAVID SMITH, ILLUSTRATED BY SHELAGH ARMSTRONG "To make the idea of a world of 6.2 billion people more understandable, Smith suggests that children imagine the population of the world as a village of just 100 people. That's one person representing 62 million people in the real world. Surprising, even shocking statistics follow.. Each double-page, picture-book spread relates a few consciousness-raising facts about such topics as nationalities, food, language, and religion. .Armstrong's large acrylic paintings, nice complements to the text, look like stained glass windows, with blocks of intense color outlined in thick black lines. This highly informative book will get kids thinking and asking questions." - Booklist
2002 32 PP. Cloth
$18.95 (low stock)
BY JACQUELINE WOODSON A new young love is special and rare, but the world around Ellie and Miah doesn't see it like that. After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions. Will their love survive? An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. A BCCB Blue Ribbon Book.
Speak 1998 181 PP. Paper
$6.99 (in stock)
Or, The Poem Of Force - Php 91
BY SIMONE WEIL Originally written in 1940 after the fall of France, this essay may be read as an indirect commentary on that event, which symbolized extreme modern force.
Pendle Hill Pamphlet Paper
$6.50 (low stock)
Monastic Wisdom For Seekers Of Light
BY JOAN CHITTISTER An ancient alphabet of spiritual values that will help readers experience peace and love in the midst of distractions and deadlines, during life's daily routine and in its defining moments.
Orbis 2000 142 PP. Cloth
$18.00 (backorder)
A Guide To Our Wisdom Traditions
BY HUSTON SMITH "In lucid and captivating prose, Smith, the dean of world religionists, conducts readers on a whirlwind tour of the beliefs, practices and experiences of the world's religious traditions. Smith explores the major features of these religions by combining his own worlds with passages from the sacred texts of each. .The words and images of this book continually remind us that the world's faiths are not stagnant pools of decaying values but dynamic and vibrant waters from which their practitioners daily drink. .If one buys only one of the number of recent introductions to world religions, this should be it."- Publishers Weekly
HarperSanFrancisco 1995 256 PP. Paper
$24.95 (low stock)
Raising
WRIGHT, MARGUERITE
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$15.95 (in stock)
A Child's Book About Understanding And Celebrating Each Other
BY CINDY GAINER As a gentle introduction to diversity for the young reader, this book discusses features of different races, body size, talking, listening, feelings and cooperation. Children discover that even though people are different, they can enjoy being together and learning about each other. Color illustrations. Ages 4-8.
Free Spirit 1998 48 PP. Cloth
$12.95 (in stock)
Audio Cd
BY LARRY THOMASSON Blues, country blues, and folk--with influences from bluesman Jimmy Reed to Little Feat--can be found in Larry Thomasson's music. This singer-songwriter's husky voice and acoustic guitar take you into that timeless time of the moment. Larry is a greatly missed member of Central Philadelphia Meeting.
Gunther 2005 AUDIO CD Audio
$20.00 (in stock)
Prayers For Our Children
BY MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN, ILLUSTRATED BY BRIAN COLLIER "A wide-ranging collection of prayers. Divided into five sections, including 'Prayers for Special Occasions' and 'Prayers for Struggle and Strength,' these meditations display a deep sense of spirituality as well as a challenge to empowerment for children through prayer. While many collections celebrate God and the wonders of life and creation, Edelman extends her devotions specifically to address the needs of youth at risk, unsure and in fear, and to provide hope for them." - School Library Journal.
Hyperion 2002 90 PP. Cloth
$19.99 (in stock)
The Future Of Quaker Ministry, Swarthmore Lecture 1992
BY BRENDA CLIFFT HEALES AND CHRIS COOK What is the Quaker understanding of "ministry"? The 1992 Swarthmore Lecturers believe that Meeting for Worship is the soul of Quakerism, that the soul's health determines quality of life, and that from the life flows ministry. Images and Silence reflects the two main approaches to God which appear in traditional theology. Brenda has written about the relationship between images, religious experience and worship, and Chris about the imageless aspect of God described by mystics. These are two sides of the same coin, or two views of the same mountain. A choice between them is impossible, as both operate in different ways at different times in our lives.
Britain Yearly Meeting 2008 130 PP. Paper
Representing Quakers In American Culture, 1650-1950
BY JAMES EMMETT RYAN Since their arrival in the American colonies in the 1650s, Quakers' spiritual values, social habits and their example - whether real or imagined-has served as a religious conscience for an expanding nation. Spanning four centuries, Imaginary Friends takes readers through these representations of Quaker life in a range of literary and visual genres, from theological debates, missionary work records, political theory, and biography to fiction, poetry, theater, and film. It illustrates ways that these "imaginary" Friends have offered a radical model of morality, piety, and anti-modernity against which the evolving culture has measured itself.
University of Wisconsin 2009 285 PP. Paper
$26.95 (in stock)
A Contemporary Quaker Reader
EDITED BY BRENT BILL From essays about the "mystery at the core of all being" to a murder mystery by Irene Allen, Imagination and Spirit offers some of the "best of the best" of contemporary Quaker nonfiction and fiction, with a brief biography of each author. Includes selections from writings of popular twentieth and twenty-first century Quaker writers: Thomas Kelly, Douglas Steere, D. Elton Trueblood, James Michener, Jessamyn West, Jan de Hartog, Daisy Newman, Tom Mullen, Richard Foster, Phil Gulley, Scott Russell Sanders, Elizabeth Gray Vining, Elfrida Vipont Foulds, and David Yount.
Friends United Press 2002 240 PP. Paper
$19.00 (in stock)
BY STEVIE DAVIES While digging the grave of her Quaker mother, Olivia discovers a crushed skeleton in a scolds' bridle. She unearths the skeletons' identity and, by so doing, explores her own identity and the lives of early Quaker women. The book reads like an historical detective novel and is based on the research Stevie Davies undertook for her factual (and excellent) history of 17th century religious women Unbridled Spirits.
Women's Press 2000 228 PP. Paper
$9.00 (low stock)
A Citizen's Guide To Hope In A Time Of Fear
BY PAUL ROGAT-LOEB What keeps us going when times get tough? How do we act to create a more humane world, no matter how hard it seems? How do we offer models of involvement for our students when many feel their actions cannot matter? The Impossible Will Take a Little While gathers stories and essays of engagement that range across nations, eras, and political movements. These visionary and eloquent voices include Maya Angelou, Marian Wright Edelman, Jim Hightower, Jonathan Kozol, Tony Kushne r, Nelson Mandela, Alice Walker, Cornel West, Parker Palmer , Howard Zinn, Wendell Berry, Scott Russell Sanders, Walter Wink, Jim Wallis, Joanna Macy, Amos Oz, and Desmond Tutu.
Basic Books 2004 422 PP. Paper
$15.95 (low stock)
