100 New Testament Bible Stories For Children

BY JACKIE ANDREWS
Illustrated with clearly drawn, but slightly sacharine, watercolors, this serviceable collection retells stories from the New Testament of the Bible for readers 6 to 9 and younger listeners, from the annunciation of Jesus' birth to his crucifixion and resurrection, as well as Paul's ministry to spread the word of the gospels.

Testament Books 2003 206 PP. Cloth

$5.00 (in stock)

2008 Peace Calendar

BY SYRACUSE CULTURAL WORKERS
This is the 37th edition of this calendar, with an inspiring image for each month. Lady Liberty, a feisty cartoon character drawn by Sophie Goldstein, gives you information and contacts each month for getting involved in the 2008 electoral process.

Syracuse Cultural Workers 2007 13 PP. Calendar

$7.00 (low stock)

Africana Civil Rights

An A-z Reference Of The Movement That Changed America

BY KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH AND HENRY GATES
An A-Z reference to the civil rights movement that changed America, with entries on the participants, key ideas and events. Much useful information - though surprisingly little on Quakers (just a few paragraphs on Bayard Rustin).

Running Press 2004 528 PP. Paper

$9.50 (in stock)

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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The Baghdad Blog

BY SALAM PAX
In 2002, a young Iraqi calling himself Salam Pax began posting accounts of everyday life in Baghdad on to the Internet. Written in English, these blogs contained everything from musings on his CD collection to open criticism of Saddam's regime. Salam Pax's incisive and sharply funny diary entries soon attracted a worldwide readership. As the US-led force gathered to invade Iraq, Salam's diary became an extraordinary record of that event. The Baghdad Blog tells the story of the war in Iraq from inside that besieged country. It provides a gripping and wholly unique perspective on the conflict and its aftermath.

McArthur and Company 2003 206 PP. Paper

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Beggars In Spain

Sleepless Trilogy #1

BY NANCY KRESS
The first book in this Quaker science fiction writer's sleepless trilogy. In a world where the slightest edge can mean the difference between success and failure, Leisha Camden is beautiful, extraordinarily intelligent... and one of an ever-growing number of human beings who have been genetically modified to never require sleep. Was $13.95

Eon 2004 364 PP. Paper

$5.50 (in stock)

Benjamin West

The Context Of His Lifes Work With Particular Attention To Paintings With Religious Subject Matter: Includes 19 C Lists Of Paintings, Exhibitions Current Checklist And Sales Records Of His Major Religious Works

BY JOHN DILLENBERGER
The author of this book does not believe Benjamin West was a Quaker, though he was born to a Quaker family and raised as one. His religious views and ideas are explained and elucidated at length in the style of a University thesis, many black and white photos of West's paintings.

Trinity University Press 1977 237 PP. Cloth

$6.00 (in stock)

The Big Book For Peace And The Big Book For Our Planet

Audio Cassettes

BY VARIOUS ARTISTS
The Big Book for Peace edited by Ann Durrell is sadly out of print, but here on audio are recorded most of its poems and stories about many kinds of peace, peace among people living in different lands, among next-door neighbors, among people of different races, and among sisters and brothers. Understanding among those separated by their beliefs, and those separated by generations. Combined with the ecological stories and poems in Big Book for the Planet. Graet value for 3 hours of listening.

Media Books 1999 2 TAPES Audio

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The Biography Of A Germ, Lyme Disease

BY ARNO KARLEN
This is the story of Borellia burgdorferi (Bb for short), the bacterium responsible for Lyme disease, a disease many Quakers seem to have contracted! Arno Karlen tells the story from the germ's point of view; it must first reside in three different creatures -deer tick, mouse, and deer - before it is ready for said Friend. He shows how Bb and humans, which coexisted for millions of years on earth without meeting, became entangled through changes in human habits, technology, and land use.

Phoenix Books (UK) 2001 178 PP. Paper

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C. S. Lewis In A Time Of War

BY JUSTIN PHILLIPS
When, during the most desperate years of World War II, C S Lewis was asked by the BBC to give radio addresses about Christianity, he was dismissed by critics as a layman who was unqualified to tackle such weighty issues, but to the annoyance of some of his colleagues at Oxford, Lewis proved to be enormously persuasive and popular, his talks eventually being published as Mere Christianity, which ranks as one of the great classics of Religious Literature. This book is a fascinating look at a how these talks were created and the enthusiastic response they generated.

HarperOne 2006 336 PP. Cloth

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The Call To Conversion

Why Faith Is Always Personal But Never Private

BY JIM WALLIS
Faced with a growing gap between the rich and poor, bombarded by national security alerts that ratchet up our stress levels, taxed by a government that spends billions of dollars on war - where do we find hope? In this revised and updated edition of his classic, Jim Wallis insightfully critiques contemporary culture and politics, inspiring us with stories to convert our way of thinking and point to a solution to our current social and political dilemmas.

HarperCollins 2005 224 PP. Paper

$7.50 (in stock)

Captive Passage

The Transatlantic Slave Trade And The Making Of The Americas

BY THE MARINERS MUSEUM
Eight essays and 160 color illustrations of artifacts and_period artwork, examining the complex causes and legacies of the 400-year Atlantic slave trade. The book considers slavery's social and economic basis, why many African leaders facilitated the slave trade, and how enslaved African Americans forged their own cultures, which left indelible imprints on the Americas. The book also explores the impact of the harrowing Middle Passage of the crossing itself, the history of the abolitionist movement, and the struggle for justice. Very readable, new ways to see the institution of slavery. Was $21.95.

Smithsonian Institution 2002 208 PP. Paper

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Children Of Crisis

Selections From The Pulitzer Prize Winning Five-volume Children Of Crisis Series

BY ROBERT COLES
In the 50's Coles began studying and listening to American children. Here, heard often in their own voices, are America's 'children of crisis', African American children caught up in integration, The children of impoverished migrant workers in Appalachia, Children who moved from rural to urban communities, Latino, Native American, and Eskimo children, the children of America's wealthiest families confronting the burden of their own privilege. Reprinted together here are his five books written on those studies.

Little Brownand Company 2003 710 PP. Paper

$8.50 (in stock)

Christianity And The Social Crisis In The 21st Century

The Classic That Woke Up The Church

BY WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH
First published in 1907, this book outsold every other religious volume for three years and then became a mainstay for Christians and other religious people seriously interested in social justice, inspiring leaders such Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and Bishop Desmond Tutu, and inspiring a whole new social gospel movement. Has essays by modern social activist Christians like Jim Wallis, Phyllis Trible, Joan Chittister, Stanley Hauerwas, Cornel West on this books continuing legacy in todays Christianity.

HarperOne 2007 375 PP. Cloth

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Colonial Quaker Girl

Diary Of Sally Wister 1777-1778

EDITED MEGAN O' HARA
Excerpts from the Diary of Sally Wister a wealthy Philadelphia Quaker. With explanations of Events customs and words.

Blue Earth 1999 32 PP Cloth

$4.50 (in stock)

Companions Of Christ

Ignatian Spirituality For Everyday Living

BY MARGARET SILF
Popular British writer Margaret Silf unearths the gold mine of spiritual wisdom to be found in the legacy of Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits. Ignatian spirituality sets out an engagingly down-to-earth vision of connecting with God in everyday life. Neither a recipe for a privatized spiritual life nor an agenda imposed by someone else, the Ignatian vision is centered on companionship, which means literally to "share bread" with another. Perfect for those whose faith in God is flagging. Contains very practical teaching on imaginative scriptural meditation, spiritual discernment, and honest prayer.

Eerdmans 2004 114 PP. Paper

$7.00 (in stock)

Consider Love

Its Moods And Many Ways

BY SANDRA BOYNTON
From the sentimental to the soulful, this favorite by the well known author and illustrator - a Quaker according to Wikipedia - explores, in absolutely no depth whatsoever, the many curious modes of love. Now in a new, reduced, trim size.

Little Simon 2006 32 PP. Cloth

$2.50 (in stock)

Constructive Spirit

Quakers In Revolutionary Russia

BY DAVID MCFADDEN AND CLAIRE GORFINKEL, OVERVIEW BY SERGEIT NIKITIN
In the chaotic aftermath of WWI, the newly-formed American Friends Service Committee sent a team of six women to join their British counterparts who were helping refugees fleeing from Poland into Russia. Quaker workers stayed on through the famine and the early years of the Bolshevik revolution, providing innovative relief and reconstruction programs, all the while witnessing to Friends testimonies. Constructive Spirit includes dramatic first-hand narratives of their courageous adventures. It examines America's responses to the emerging Communist nation and issues of service, advocacy and witness that Quaker organizations are still trying to balance today.

Intentional Productions 2004 232 PP. Paper

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The Conversion Of Margaret Lucas (1701-1769)

BY MARGARET LUCAS
A powerful story in the voice of another age. She endured domestic abuse to follow her convincement and joined the peculiar people. Was $10.95! Now $5.00!

Rhwym Books 1997 77 PP. Paper

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Crucible

BY NANCY KRESS
The sequel to Crossfire, it has much less "Quaker" content. "Crucible" poses some of the tough questions of today: how do you choose sides amid entrenched enemies? What is morally right when it comes to biological engineering, especially in times of war? How do you overcome millennia of bloodshed and emerge unscathed?

Tor 2004 384 PP Cloth

$7.50 (in stock)

A Door Into Ocean (sale Copies)

BY JOAN SLONCZEWSKI
The author is a Quaker. Thousands of years in the future in a distant part of the galaxy, lies the planet Shora, entirely covered by a world-spanning ocean, it is inhabited by the Sharers, an all female race who reproduce by parthenogensis, without males. The Sharers are immensely sophisticated in the life sciences, but have eschewed all unnatural technology. Over millennia of isolation, they have developed a complex philosophical and ethical system, idealistic, communal, and pacifist... So begins a war, protracted and graphic, in which one side cannot fight because the concept is inconceivable in their philosophy...

Orb 2000 403 PP. Paper

$5.50 (in stock)

Douglass' Women

A Novel

BY JEWELL PARKER RHODES
A romantic novel based on the lives of Frederick Douglass and two women. His wife of 44 years, Anna Douglass, who was an illiterate free women who helped him escape to freedom and bore him five children. Also included is Ottilie Assing, a German-Jewish intellectual heiress who was Douglass' avid supporter, sometime secretary, and mistress for three decades.

Atria Publications 2002 358 PP. Cloth

$7.50 (low stock)

Dreaming By The Book

BY ELAINE SCARRY
"The Body in Pain," also by Scarry looks at how humans can bear to cause pain to each other, and has so many insights on human nature, peace, violence and creativity that it should be compulsory reading for all peace activists. In this book Scarry continues her meditation on the nature of creativity and examines how 'artists' create and convey meaning. Don't expect easy reading, but do expect some fascinating insights. Was $26.

Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2001 292 PP. Cloth

$4.50 (in stock)

Drinking The Rain

A Memoir

BY ALIX KATES SHULMAN
At fifty, the author left a city life filled with political activism, family, and literary community, and went to stay alone in a small cabin on an island off the Maine coast. Living without plumbing, electricity, or a telephone, she discovered in herself a new independence and a growing sense of oneness with the world that redefined her notions of waste, time, necessity, and pleasure. With wit, lyricism, and fearless honesty, Shulman describes a quest that speaks to us all: to build a new life of creativity and spirituality, self-reliance and self-fulfillment.

Penguin 1996 240 PP. Paper

$4.75 (in stock)

Dunant's Dream

War, Switzerland, And The History Of The Red Cross

BY CAROLINE MOOREHEAD
The first writer to gain access to the Red Cross archives, Moorehead traces its history and its relationship with some of the most barbaric regimes of the 20th century. A moving and authorised history by an author of real distinction that sheds light not just on the Red Cross but on the nature of humanity itself.

HarperCollins 1999 776 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

Each Leaf

Poems

BY SARAH & DAVID MOOK
A wonderful book of poems which arose out of a father's grief at the loss of his nine-year-old daughter. Sprinkled throughout the book are Sarah's drawings and writings, which are as poignant and graceful as her father's words. A fine tribute and a treasure of a book. Was $25.00! Now $16.00!

Mook 2000 61 PP. Cloth

$10.00 (in stock)

Elizabeth Fry - A Biography

BY JUNE ROSE
Elizabeth fry (1740-1845) is one of the best-known Quakers, mostly for her pioneering work in penal reform. This biography, based on a close reading of her journals, looks at her as a whole and complicated person. The tireless worker who was not always available to her own large family, was (for the time) (for the time) an extravagant and unorthodox Quaker. She also suffered from depression and became addicted to laudanum.

Britain Yearly Meeting 1994 218 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

The Essence Of The Gnostics

BY BERNARD SIMON
All religious traditions acknowledge that the world is imperfect where they differ is in the explanations for these imperfections. The Gnostics believed that the world is flawed because it was created in a flawed manner, thereby implicating the creator. This was considered profoundly blasphemous by early fellow Christians, and led to the sect's persecution. Equally at issue were the Gnostics' liberal views regarding sex, the role of women, and toleration of other faiths. This volume offers insight into this ancient, yet in many ways still surprisingly modern faith, and explores the reasons for its current renaissance.

Eagle Editions 2004 240 PP. Paper

$8.50 (low stock)

Everyone Can Win

Responding To Conflict Constructively (2nd Ed)

BY HELENA CORNELIUS, SHOSHANA FAIRE, ESTRELLA CORNELIUS
A completely revised and updated edition of the classic book on conflict resolution. Established as a leading text for numerous university courses on conflict resolution, in fields as diverse as police training, social welfare, counseling, psychology, teacher training, town planning and law. It offers techniques, examples and ideas for transforming conflict into an opportunity for positive change. Has case studies, cartoons, diagrams and high lighted boxes of the key points.

Simon and Schuster (Australia) 2006 251 PP. Paper

$7.00 (in stock)

The Fabric Of The Cosmos

Space, Time, And The Texture Of Reality

BY BRIAN GREENE
Brian Greene illuminates some of the most mysterious of concepts about space and time. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past? He uses these questions to guide us toward modern science's new and deeper understanding of the universe. He reveals our world to be very different from what common experience leads us to believe, and shows how cutting-edge developments in superstring and M-theory may reconcile the behavior of particles and black holes.

Knopf/QPB 2005 569 PP. Paper

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