After Sorrow

An American Among The Vietnamese

BY LADY BORTON
Borton was an administrator for AFSC in Quang Ngai Province, one of the few Americans to work in both South and North Vietnam during the war. From 1987-1993, she again lived in Vietnam. This memoir is about the village women she lived with at that time, women who were so involved in the terrors of the war, and their puzzling new lives now in the rapidly westernizing Vietnam.

Kodansha 1995 304 PP. Paper

$9.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Coming From The Silence

Quaker Peacebuilding Initiatives In Northern Ireland 1969-2007

BY ANN LE MARE, FELICITY MCCARTNEY
'Coming from the Silence' describes the work of four major projects and a number of smaller initiatives taking place between 1969 and 2007. It sets the work in a wider Quaker context and analyses it from an international development perspective. Quaker House Belfast, Ulster Quaker Service Committee, the Centre for Neighbourhood Development, and the Quaker Peace Education Project in Derry are covered in depth and a general chapter refers to a variety of smaller initiatives by Friends.

Barringtons of York (Sessions) 2010 185 PP. Paper

$18.50 (out of stock but can be backordered)

For More Than Bread (323)

An Autobiographical Account Of 22 Years At Afsc

BY CLARENCE PICKETT
SECONDHAND, fair condition hardback with no dust jacket. First edition, A great history of the work of AFSC into the 1950's by its former General Secretary. From America to Europe and Russia and to Palestine. With many personal anecdotes. )

Little Brown 1953 433 PP. Cloth

$7.50 USED - availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST

Friends In Deed

50 Years Of Quaker Service Australia

BY HEATHER SAVILLE
The inspiring and moving story of a small group of people who wanted to change the world, one step at a time. With a passionate sense of commitment and a filing system in a couple of boxes, a few Australian Quakers began a fifty-year journey to build a respected international aid organisation known today as Quaker Service Australia. Capturing the struggles of people who live their beliefs, and the evolution of development thinking over half a century, Friends in deed faces the difficult questions that confront many NGOs. How effective is our work? Are we helping those who need it most? How can we learn from our mistakes? Friends in deed offers some answers, and a reason to hope - and act.

AYM 2009 343 PP. Paper

$26.00 (in stock)

The Genuine Article (7223)

A Historian Looks At Early America

BY EDMUND S MORGAN
An interesting collection of essays on the history of early America, that somehow includes Andy Warhol but omits Quakers - even William Penn. Useful for its Southern and slavery sections, and if you read carefully about "Puritans" you can also learn much, not least about "Bundling", an unusual approved method of testing a marriage before the vows. SECONDHAND COPY- HARDBACK WITH dUSTJACKET BOTH IN NICE AND FAIRLY NEW LOOKING CONDITION.

NORTON 2004 309 PP. Cloth

$5.50 USED - availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST

Go Into All The World

A Centennial Celebration Of Friends In East Africa

EDITED BY HERBERT & BEATRICE KIMBALL
There is little in print on Quakers in Africa, so this large format book of Friends in East Africa makes a useful basic introduction and valuable addition to any Meeting's library. The book includes a brief description of the current 19 yearly meetings in the area, as well as history and biographies of notable African Quakers in the past 100 years.

Friends United Press 2002 140 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed

The Story Of The Village Of Le Chambon And How Goodness Happened There

BY PHILIP HALLIE
Quietly, peacefully and in full view of the Vichy government and a nearby division of the Nazi SS, Le Chambon's villagers and their clergy organized to save thousands of Jewish children and adults from death. This book's beauty is that it really happened.

HarperSF 1994 303 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Notes From Ramallah, 1939

BY NANCY PARKER-MCDOWELL
From the first letter written on board the ship Rex, Notes from Ramallah, 1939 shows an adventurous young American Quaker woman headed for the Arab world and neighboring lands before World War II. Woven throughout the letters and journal entries from Nancy Parker McDowell's year as a teacher at Ramallah Friends Girls School are images of the Palestinian people under British occupation. From accounts of pulling students out of the line of gunfire to stories of teaching baseball to her students, her notes reveal the full breadth of the Palestinian culture.

Friends United Press 2002 133 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Over The Highest Mountains

A Memoir Of Unexpected Heroism In France During World War Ii

BY ALICE RESCH-SYNNESTVEDT
"Heroism took many forms during the Holocaust. The ordinary decency of a few people - exhibited in the most difficult circumstances - was a flickering flame of light in a world of all-consuming darkness. This moving, almost exuberant memoir of one young Norwegian woman who worked with the Quakers from 1939 to 1945, gives us an outsider's glimpse into the transit camps and the deportation trains that was the world the Jews in France during the Shoah. She guides us through the religious integrity and human solidarity that led her to side with the victims, and not with their oppressors. One is grateful for such a memoir, more grateful for such a person." - Micheal Berenbaum

Intentional Productions 2005 268 PP. Paper

$17.95 (in stock)

Quakers & Nazis

Inner Light In Outer Darkness

BY HANS SCHMITT
Describes Quakers' attempts to mitigate the suffering among not only victims of Nazism but Nazi sympathizers in Austria and Lithuania as well. Virtually all the Berlin Quakers hid Jews during the war and opposed the Nazis even after they lost their jobs and were harassed by the Gestapo. Risking their lives, the Friends persisted in efforts to alleviate suffering. How should a Quaker behave in a meeting for worship with a policeman present? Spies didn't stop Friends in worship from openly criticizing Hitler, but they did imprison some Friends

University Of Missouri Press 1997 298 PP. Cloth

$44.95 (in stock)

Time Will Make Things Clear

The Story Of Stephen Yang, Chinese Quaker

BY PATRICK WOOD
"In his long and inspiring life in China, [Yang] has lived through many changes and much upheaval which has had a profound effect on him and both challenged and strengthened his Quakerism and pacificism. In turn he, as a Christian doctor and teacher dedicated to the service of his fellow countrymen and women, has undoubtedly influenced many, even thought the majority would deny any religious belief." - From the Preface

Sowle 1999 144 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Two Weeks In May 1945

Sandbostel Concentration Camp And The Friends Ambulance Unit (illustrated With Photographs)

BY CLIFFORD BARNARD
An account of the author's experience with one of the Friends Ambulance Units as it grappled with the relief of a concentration camp in 1945. This has much relevance for today, whether in terms of Kosovo, or in the accounts of the German helpers who reflect on their experience 54 years ago.

Quaker Books 1999 132 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

Unlocking Horns

Forgiveness And Reconciliation In Burundi

BY DAVID NIYONZIMA AND LON FENDALL
The compelling story of David Niyonzima's personal experience with the violence and chaos of central Africa. The book offers a message of hope and healing in the midst of tribal strife. David Niyonzima is superintendent of Burundi Yearly Meeting of Friends.

Barlcay Press 2001 129 PP. Paper

$12.95 (in stock)