The Worship Kit

A Young Person's Guide To Quaker Worship

BY JOHN LAMPEN
John Lampen's latest book is for children and younger teenagers who attending Quaker Meeting. It will help you find a way to be calm and quiet in meeting; how to think about people you love in the silence; suggestions for getting help in the silence if you have troubles; ways of caring about world problems during worship; thoughts on listening, reading and speaking in meeting and ideas about what it is that we are worshipping. A British book but full of useful ideas that cross the Atlantic well.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2010 46 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

Emma's Poem

The Voice Of The Statue Of Liberty

BY LINDA GLASER, CLAIRE NIVOLA
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"...Who wrote these words? And why? In 1883, Emma Lazarus, deeply moved by an influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe, wrote a sonnet that was to give voice to the Statue of Liberty. Originally a gift from France to celebrate our shared national struggles for liberty, the Statue, thanks to Emma's poem, slowly came to shape our hearts, defining us for that time at least as a nation that welcomes and gives refuge to those who come to our shores.

Houghton Mifflin 2010 32 PP. Cloth

$17.00 (in stock)

Friends At The Bar

A Quaker View Of Law, Conflict Resolution, And Legal Reform

BY NANCY BLACK SAGAFI-NEJAD
George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends, admonished his followers against "going to law." In this fascinating, wide-ranging book, a Quaker lawyer explores the relationship between Quakers and the American legal system and discusses Friends' legal ethics. A highly influential group in the United States, both for their spiritual ideals of harmony, equality, and truth-telling, and for their activism on many causes, including abolition and opposition to war, Quakers have had many noteworthy interactions with the law.

SUNY 2012 254 PP. Paper

$24.95 (in stock)

Hidden On The Mountain

Stories Of Children Sheltered From The Nazis In Le Chambon

BY DEBORAH DURLAND DESAIX, KAREN GRAY RUELLE
Amazing book for 9 year olds and up. Looks at the famous French Village, Le Chambon, that sheltered and helped so many Jewish refugees in WW2. Told with diary extracts and black and white photos, maps and interviews of those helped and helping - almost all children- makes for a very moving and inspiring book that brings home the horrors of war and the holocaust in a way that shows a few brave ordinary people standing up for their what was right could make a difference. A large hardback tome, and cover seems prone to curl but a great book for school, Meeting Library or home.

Holiday House 2012 275 PP. Cloth

$24.95 (in stock)

The Quiet Book

BY DEBORAH UNDERWOOD AND RENATA LIWSKA
There are many kinds of quiet: Quiet can be delicate. Quiet can be thundering! Quiet can be sweet, and cozy. It will be up to the parent to talk about Quiet in Quaker Meeting Quiet, but this book has all sorts of other Quiet quite beautifully illustrated from deliberate quiet like "sisters asleep quiet" to the quiets you don't think have to think about like "lollipop quiet". I think this is unusually child appropriate for any age up to six or so.

Houghton Mifflin 2010 32 PP. Cloth

$12.95 (in stock)

Rachel Carson And Her Book That Changed The World

BY LAURIE LAWLOR, ILLUSTRATED BY LAURA BEINGESSNER
Once you are aware of the wonder and beauty of earth, you will want to learn about it, wrote Carson, the pioneering environmentalist and author of Silent Spring, the book that woke people up to the harmful impact humans are having on the planet.Rachel found many adventurous ways to study nature. She went diving to investigate coral reefs and tracked alligators through the Florida Everglades on a rumbling glades buggy. However, one of the bravest things she did was to write and publish Silent Spring, a book pointing out the dangerous effects of chemicals on the living world. Powerful men tried to stop publication of the book, but thankfully Rachel and her publishers persisted.

Holiday House 2012 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

Sources Of Light

BY MARGARET MCMULLAN
It's 1962, a year after the death of Sam's father--he was a war hero--and Sam and her mother must move, along with their very liberal views, to Jackson, Mississippi, her father's conservative hometown. Needless to say, they don't quite fit in. People like the McLemores fear that Sam, her mother, and her mother's artist friend, Perry, are in the South to "agitate" and to shake up the dividing lines between black and white and blur it all to grey. As racial injustices ensue--sit-ins and run-ins with secret white supremacists--Sam learns to focus with her camera lens to bring forth the social injustice out of the darkness and into the light.

Houghton Mifflin 2010 233 PP. Cloth

$16.00 (in stock)

Sugar Changed The World

A Story Of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, And Science

BY MARC ARONSON, MARINNA BUDHOS
When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran like a bright band from religious ceremonies in India to Europe's Middle Ages, then on to Columbus, who brought the first cane cuttings to the Americas. Sugar was the substance that drove the bloody slave trade and caused the loss of countless lives but it also planted the seeds of revolution that led to freedom in the American colonies, Haiti, and France. With songs, oral histories, maps, and over 80 archival illustrations.

Clarion 2010 166 PP. Cloth

$20.00 (in stock)

Awaken Your Senses

Exercises For Exploring The Wonder Of God

BY J BRENT BILL, BETH BOORAM
"With Awaken Your Senses, Brent Bill and Beth Booram have given us a superb resource for seeking the God of life through sensuous experience, a way of knowing that has been sadly neglected--and too often held suspect--by the church. How did a faith based on the claim that 'the Word became flesh' become so divorced from bodily, incarnate knowledge? Here is a beautiful book that will help us reclaim our bodies, our senses and our relationship with God."--Parker Palmer

IVP 2012 208 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

The Highest Frontier

BY JOAN SLONCZEWSKI
One of the most respected writers of hard SF, it has been more than ten years since Quaker Joan Slonczewski's last novel. Now she returns with a spectacular tour de force of the college of the future, in orbit. Jennifer Ramos Kennedy, a girl from a rich and politically influential family (a distant relation descended from the famous Kennedy clan), whose twin brother has died in an accident and left her bereft, is about to enter her freshman year at Frontera College. The world that Jenny is living in is one of the most fascinating and creative in contemporary SF, and the problems Jenny faces will involve every reader, young and old.

Tor 2011 443 PP. Cloth

$26.99 (in stock)

Emma Field Book Two

BY CAROL WILLIAMS
mn Emma Field, Book II, the young Canadian heroine of Book I has left home and now continues her adventures in the Hudson River Valley of New York State. Arriving as a teacher at the Nine Partners Boarding School, Emma soon becomes aware of the social inequalities of mid-19th century America. She is inspired by reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott at the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls. She then daringly assists the Quakers involved with freeing slaves on the Underground Railroad.

Carol Williams 2009 272 PP. Paper

$24.99 (in stock)

Emma Field Book One

BY CAROL WILLIAMS
Emma Field has dreams and desires that call her to go beyond her father's struggle to survive as an immigrant in a Quaker community in 1840's Canada. "Emma lived in a quiet world. Most of the sounds and all of the colors came from nature. She absorbed them like moss absorbing a spring rain. Emma Field - daughter of Jeremiah and the late Josephine, child of the land, child of a Methodist and Quaker community swept by the winds of Lake Ontario - knew where she belonged. The circles of her life were clearly defined. That gave her comfort. It also filled her with fear." an excerpt from the book.

Carol Williams 2007 309 PP. Paper

$24.99 (in stock)

The New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration In An Age Of Colorblindness

BY MICHELE ALEXANDER
"The New Jim Crow" was initially published with a modest first printing and reasonable expectations for a hard-hitting book on a tough topic. Now, ten-plus printings later, the long-awaited paperback version of the book is available. Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination--employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits are suddenly legal. We have sold 100's to Quakers already.

New Press 2012 336 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Just Moms

Conveying Justice In An Unjust World

COMPILED BY MELANIE SPRINGER MOCK, REBEKAH SCHNEITER
Conveying the principles and the practice of justice to young children is no small task.In this poignant, honest, and sometimes witty collection of stories, 27 mostly Quaker women share their adventures and misadventures modeling social-justice principles for their children and communities. Just Moms is about moms bending their own rules and redefining success as they work to raise kids who value peace, equality, truth, simplicity, and love. Just Moms is about finding hope in what looks like a perfect mess.

Barclay Press 2011 204 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

Open To New Light

Quaker Spirituality In Historical And Philosophical Context

BY LESLIE STEVENSON
This book is about "the meaning of life" or "the spiritual quest". It offers a selective and critical evaluation of some central strands of Western religious and philosophical thought over two and a half thousand years. It starts with Socrates' philosophy of life, and the Greek tradition of philosophy that he initiated. It gives its own "take" on the teaching of Jesus, and on the long and controversial history of Christianity. There is a chapter devoted to George Fox and the beginning of the Quaker movement. It recommends a non-literal interpretation of language about God, with some reference to Austin Farrer on "poetic truth". Sadly a tad expensive!

Imprint Academic 2012 182 PP. Paper

$34.90 (in stock)

Miles Lassiter (circa 1777-1850)

An Early African-american Quaker From Lassiter Mill, Randolph County, North Carolina

BY MARGO LEE WILLIAMS
Although antebellum African Americans were sometimes allowed to attend Quaker services, they were almost never admitted to full "meeting" membership, as was Miles Lassiter. His story illuminates the unfolding of the 19th-century color line into the 20th. Margo Williams had only a handful of stories and a few names her mother remembered from her childhood about her family's home in Asheboro, N Carolina. Her research would soon help her to make contact with long lost relatives and a pilgrimage "home" with her mother in 1982. Little did she know she would discover a large loving family and a Quaker ancestor--a Black Quaker ancestor.

Backintyme 2011 130 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

Writings Of J E Mcneil

Peace-work Quilt

BY J E MCNEIL
"an intrepid voyager through the world of peace and justice work".J E McNeil provides a profound articulation of her growth as a peace leader. Offers inspiration, laughter and hope.

CCW 2010 151 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Faith And Practice Of Canadian Yearly Meeting

BY CANADIAN YEARLY MEETING OF THE RELIGOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
Canada has previously used the British faith and Practice -for its "Faith" and added its own set of procedures as the "Practice". No wthe result of many years work and discernment sees their own Faith and Practice published.

Canadian YM 2011 250 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

Immoral Wars And Illegal Laws

History, Religion, Militarism And Peacemaking In The Human Rights Struggle For Palestinian Independence.

BY WILLIAM DURLAND
This is an account of personal experiences and observations on the ground in Israel and Palestine, and an analysis of the stubborn positions contributing to this seemingly insoluble conflict. Readers will find complete lists of all relevant international laws and violations of those laws, a review of all partition and resolution plans and proposals, and up-to-date, heart-rending descriptions of grass-roots, peacemaking efforts.Tie-ins to post 9-11 erosions in U.S. human rights ideals provide chilling and strongly relevant food for thought. Unabashedly controversial, this book is a passionate advocacy for peace with justice in the Middle East backed up by solid scholarship.

CreateSpace 2011 360 PP. Paper

$18.95 (in stock)

Quaker Note Cards

Friends Meeting House Washington, Dc

BY MEAGAN HEALY
A series of ten notecards from Quaker artist Meagan Healy. Ten designs of various aspects of the Meetinghouse in Washington DC, from the Benches to the sun dial. All are striking in their simple boldness, easily identifiable as Quaker images and taken from a book on the history of the Meetinghouse.

Minnie Moon Press 2011 10 CARDS Boxed

$15.00 (in stock)

The Apocryphal Jesus

Legends Of The Early Church

BY J K ELLIOTT
An abridged version of "The Apocryphal New Testament", which Elliott published in 1994. Designed for the general reader, clergy and student, the book collects the most interesting of the early Christian texts about Jesus that didn't make the Bible, ranging from stories of his birth in a cave, his childhood escapades, and his secret sayings, to his descent to the underworld, the torments of Hell, Saint Paul baptizing a lion, the death of Pontius Pilate, and many others.

Oxford Univ Press 2008 232 PP. Paper

$12.50 (in stock)

Living Our Testimony On Equality

A White Friends Experience. Php 415

BY PATIENCE SCHENCK
Proclaiming the importance of equality among peoples is far easier than living equality, day to day. Pat Schenck has dedicated years of study, self-examination, and experimentation to living racial equality in an unequal society. Writing openly and personally about her successes, failures, and discoveries, she shares her stories and offers wisdom to white Friends, in particular, who wish to create more diverse, welcoming, and fully supportive communities of all races in our meetings and in our lives. Discussion questions included.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2011 36 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Introduction To Quaker Testimonies

AFSC
Many newcomers to AFSC are drawn to the commitment to peace and social justice but may not be knowledgeable about the foundations of Quaker faith and practice that guide and infuse the work. In this booklet, AFSC seeks to distill and share the Quaker testimonies that underlie both what we do and how we aspire to do it. This book was inspired by a similar booklet created by San Francisco Friends School (which was itself modeled on one from Sidwell Friends School). If you purchase 10 or more price is $3

AFSC 2011 22 PP. Paper

0-10 $5.00, 10-50 $3.00, 50-100 $3.00, 100 or more $3.00 (in stock)

American Born Chinese

BY GENE LUEN YANG
A tour-de-force by rising indie comics star Yang, "American Born Chinese" tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters whose lives and stories come together with an unexpected twist in this action-packed modern fable.

Square Fish 2008 233 PP. Paper

$8.99 (in stock)

Folks, This Ain't Normal

A Farmer's Advice For Happier Hens, Healthier People, And A Better World

BY JOEL SALATIN
Salatin, hailed by the "New York Times" as "Virginia's most multifaceted agrarian since Thomas Jefferson [and] the high priest of the pasture" and profiled in the Academy Award nominated documentary "Food, Inc." and the bestselling book "The Omnivore's Dilemma," understands what food should be: Wholesome, seasonal, raised naturally, procured locally, prepared lovingly, and eaten with a profound reverence for the circle of life. And his message doesn't stop there. From child-rearing, to creating quality family time, to respecting the environment, Salatin writes with a wicked sense of humor and true storyteller's knack for the revealing anecdote.10% off RSP.

Center Street 2011 384 PP. Cloth

$23.69 (in stock)

Toby And The Secrets Of The Tree

BY TIMOTHEE DEFOMBELLE
A breathless, high-stakes quest to save the miniature world of the Tree and reunite loved ones unfolds with wit, suspense, and startling revelations in the sequel to the award-winning "Toby Alone." Illustrations.

2010 414 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

Sweet Fruit From The Bitter Tree

61 Stories Of Creative And Compassionate Ways Out Of Conflict

BY MARK ANDREAS
These are fascinating stories of how real people dealt with conflict situations - from wartime to the broken down car - by responding in unusual and creative ways that most of us would never think of. Some stories are intensely moving, some funny, some startling or surprising. They take place in the community, the workplace, the schoolyard, and the backyard. These stories show how each person came face-to-face with a challenge and found their own unique way to meet it. There are no recipes here, no set of steps-just raw experience unfolding with a richness that will keep you on the edge of your seat through the last page.

Real People Press 2011 302 PP. Paper

$16.50 (in stock)

The Big Fib

BY MELISSA ANDERSON
A young girl who breaks her mother's cookie jar learns that it is always better to tell the truth and face the consequences than deal with a tiny lie that keeps getting bigger and bigger.

Shadow Mountain 2010 32 PP. Cloth

$17.99 (in stock)

Fox And The Mountain

Creating Your Path To Abundance

BY SCOTT SIMSON
This unique allegorical novel imparts wisdom that is profound and clear. Fox decides he desires more in his life than chasing food each day. He wants to be free to stand in awe of the world that surrounds him and grow old in the company of those he loves. Readers will be transformed as Fox triumphs and struggles, learning the lessons necessary to conquer the mountain so he can reach his ultimate goal.

Preslyn 2011 144 PP. Paper

$14.99 (in stock)

Icky Sticky, Hairy Scary Bible Stories

BY JONATHON SCHKADE, TUESDAY MOURNING
his collection of poems shows how God works in the ugly, icky, gross world we live in. The poems are short funny takes of Bible stories interspersed with paraphrases of biblical wisdom.

Concordia 2011 125 PP. Cloth

$14.99 (in stock)