Ahead Of Her Time

Abby Kelly And The Politics Of Antislavery

BY DOROTHY STERLING
In the years before the Civil War, a young white woman from a Quaker background came to embody commitment to the cause of antislavery and equal rights for black people. Abby Kelley became the abolitionist movement's chief money-raiser and organizer and its most radical member.

Norton 1991 436 PP. Paper

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Ain't Gonna Study War No More

The Story Of America's Peace Makers

BY MILTON MELTZER
Revised from the 1985 edition Meltzer explores the long list of Americans who have refused to kill from colonial days to the present and includes concerns about nuclear arms and terrorism. The book is a good alternative history of America and the conflicts in which it has engaged. The book is full of inspiring life stories of conscientious objectors, some little known these days. A shiny library cloth edition of this great resource.

Random House 2002 304 PP. Cloth

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Albert Einstein

A Biography

BY MILTON MELTZER
Albert Einstein spent his life asking questions and searching for answers. In 1921 Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. He was not only a scientist, he was also a peace activist and a fighter for social justice. In this revealing biography-featuring black-and-white photographs-esteemed children's nonfiction author Milton Meltzer explores the life and work of one of the greatest scientists of all time.

Holiday House 2008 32 PP. Cloth

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All On Fire

William Lloyd Garrison And The Abolition Of Slavery

BY HENRY MAYER
Mayer maintains that William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), a self-made man of scanty formal education who founded and edited the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, not only served as the catalyst for the abolition of slavery, but inspired two generations of activists in civil rights and the women's movement. Through Garrison, tragically torn between pacifism and abolitionist advocacy, we also meet a rich pageant of great 19th-century historical figures, including Frederick Douglass, John Quincy Adams and Harriet Beecher Stowe. A consequential biography.

St Martins Griffin 2000 702 PP. Paper

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American Connections

The Founding Fathers. Networked.

BY JAMES BURKE
Using the unique approach that he has employed in his previous books, author, columnist, and television commentator James Burke shows us our connections to the fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence. Over the two hundred-plus years that separate us, these connections are often surprising and always fascinating. Burke turns the signers from historical icons into flesh-and-blood people: Some were shady financial manipulators, most were masterful political operators, a few were good human beings, and some were great men. The network that links them to us is also peopled by all sorts, from spies and assassins to lovers and adulterers, inventors and artists.

Simon & Schuster 2007 368 PP. Paper

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Amerigo

The Man Who Gave His Name To America

BY FELIPE FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO
n 1507 a world map was published with a new continent on it called "America," after the explorer and navigator Amerigo Vespucci. The map was a phenomenal success and when Mercator`s 1538 world map extended the name to the northern hemisphere of the continent. This is the story of how one side of the world came to be named not after Christopher Columbus, but after his friend and rival Amerigo Vespucci who excelled above all at self-invention and self-promotion.

Random House 2007 221 PP. Cloth

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Anne Frank

BY JOSEPHINE POOLE
What was Anne Frank like as a small girl, at home with her family and friends; at play and at school? And how did an ordinary little girl come to live such an extraordinary and tragically short life? In the first half of the book, we meet Anne growing up with her family in Germany. Then, we follow her flight to Holland to escape the Nazis; the German invasion and the gradual isolation, then outright persecution, of the Jewish population which forces the family into hiding; the years in the Secret Annex; and her last heart-breaking journey.

Red Fox 2006 40 PP. Cloth

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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 Anthologist

A Novel

BY NICHOLSON BAKER
Paul Chowder is trying to write the introduction to a new anthology of rhyming verse, but he's having a hard time getting started. The result of his fitful struggles is The Anthologist, Quaker novelist and thinker Nicholson Baker's brilliantly funny and exquisite love story about poetry. "Baker makes poetry seem as necessary as air, and his enthusiasm is likely to wake readers up to its marvelous possibilities" Margaret Quamme, The Columbus dispatch

S & S Paperbacks 2009 243 PP. Paper

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Backyard Birding

Using Natural Gardening To Attract Birds

BY JUKIE ZICKFOOSE
Backyard Birding show you how to lay out the welcome mat for feathered friends by considering all of their needs, including year-round water, food, shelter, and housing. Whether you're looking to create a hummingbird garden, install a water feature, create perches for birds, or simply let a corner of your property run wild, you'll find all of the inspiration and information you need here in Backyard Birding. Many black and white illustrations, or rather purple and white.

Skyhorse Publishing 2011 244 PP. Paper

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Bella Abzug

How One Tough Broad From The Bronx Fought Jim Crow And Joe Mccarthy....

BY SUZANNE BRAUN LEVINE, MARY THOM
For more than 50 years, Bella Abzug championed the powerless and disenfranchised, as an activist, congresswoman, and leader in every major social initiative of her time. Her political idealism never waning, Abzug gave her final public speech before the U.N. in March 1998, just a few weeks before her death. Presented in the voices of both friends and foes, of those who knew, fought with, revered, and struggled alongside her, this oral biography will be the first comprehensive account of a woman who was one of our most influential leaders.

FSG 2007 319 PP. Cloth

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Benjamin Dove

ERLINGS
As an adult, Benjamin Dove looks back on a childhood summer that changed his life forever. A summer when his new friend Roland, seemingly descended from the knights of the past, encouraged him to stand up for himself and for those he loves. It was a summer when he and his friends formed the Order of the Red Dragon that gave them a sense of identity and purpose in their turbulent world; a summer when innocent childhood games were torn apart by an almost inevitable tragedy.

North-South Books 2006 203 PP. Cloth

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The Best Of All Possible Worlds

A Story Of Philosophers, God, And Evil

BY STEPHEN NADLER
Liebniz arrived in Paris in 1672. He befriended France's two greatest philosopher-theologians Antoine Arnauld and Nicolas de Malebranche. The interactions of these 3 men would prove of great consequence for the development of modern philosophical and religious thought. Despite their wildly different views and personalities, the philosophers shared a single, passionate concern: resolving the problem of evil. Why is it that, in a world created by an all-powerful, all-wise, and infinitely just God, there is sin and suffering? Why do bad things happen to good people, and good things to bad people? This is the story of a clash between radically divergent worldviews.

FSG 2008 300 PP. Cloth

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Beyond The Spirit Of The Age

BY JONATHAN DALE
1996 Swarthmore Lecture on meeting the challenge of an increasingly polarized society through the renewal of social testimonies. Inspiring and spiritually rich call to action.

Britain Yearly Meeting 1996 135 PP. Paper

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Beyond The White House

BY JIMMY CARTER
This is the story of President Jimmy Carter's post-presidency, the most admired and productive in the nation's history. Through The Carter Center, which he and Rosalynn Carter founded in 1982, he has fought neglected diseases, waged peace in war zones, and built hope among some of the most forgotten and needy people in the world.

s & S 2007 6 CD'S Disk

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Beyond War (part 2)

Alternatives To War - Audio Cd

COMPILED BY DAVID FREUDBERG
Alternatives to War. Antiwar voices describe why they oppose using military force -- how nonviolence can be successful in promoting justice and even overthrowing dictators. An eye-opening proposal for truly "global education" is advanced by former UN Assistant Secretary General Robert Muller who emphasizes the many branches of our international human family. Lastly a look at decision-making among Quakers who do not follow "majority rules" but who try to reach consensus after reflecting deeply on spirit.

Human Media 2003 1 HOUR Audio

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Beyond War (part 1)

What War Really Means - Audio Cd

BY DAVID FREUDBERG
Is warfare a necessary evil -- or is it total madness? The true human costs of war are described by patients in a veterans hospital, the author of a history of bombing, a NY Times war correspondent and others Also The Quaker conscience: the social and political witness offered by members of the Society of Friends. Here Friends discuss pacifism and social equality and lastly Viktor Frankl, the late author of "Man's Search for Meaning" who recognized that only by clinging to a higher life purpose could he survive such an atrocity.

Human Media 2003 1 HOUR Audio

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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 Blogging Church

Sharing The Story Of Your Church Through Blogs

BY BRIAN BAILEY
The author is "web director" at Fellowship Church. His book is aimed at pastors, but Friends will also find it useful. It explains blogging and the associated technologies in simple terms and talks about its advantages and pitfalls for outreach and ministry. Bailey gives tips and examples of good blogging practice.

Jossey Bass 2006 199 PP. Paper

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Blue Arabesque

A Search For The Sublime

BY PATRICIA HAMPL
The author of "I could tell you stories" was mesmerized by a Matisse painting: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl. In Blue Arabesque, she explores the allure of this lounging woman, immersed in leisure, so at odds with the rush of the modern era. Her meditations give her insights into her own early life in Minnesota.

Harvest 2007 224 PP. Paper

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Brave Donatella And The Jasmine Thief

BY CAROLINE STRICKLAND, ILLUSTRATED BY DONALD HENDRICKS
Quaker author Caroline McAlister story is based on the Italian bridal tradition of wearing a sprig of jasmine on one's wedding dress. Duke Cosimo de' Medici loved beautiful flowers from far-off lands. So when an explorer delivers the magnificent jasmine plant all the way from India as a present he guards each leaf jealously. When the foolish gardener Antonio, determined to prove his love for Donatella, clips a sprig he is sent to prison. Now brave Donatella is his only hope for freedom. Ages 4-8

Charlesbridge 2010 32 PP. Cloth

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Broken English

Ohio Amish Mystery Series - #2

BY P. L. GAUS
The peaceful town of Millersburg, Ohio, in the heart of Ohio's Amish country, is rocked by the vicious murder of one of its citizens at the hands of an ex-convict. When a local reporter covering the story ends up dead as well, with the convict already behind bars, suspicion falls on David Hawkins, father of the first victim. But Hawkins is nowhere to be found, not even among the protective Amish colony that had taken him in as one of its own regardless of his shadowy past. Professor Michael Branden, Sheriff Bruce Robertson, and Pastor Cal Troyer set out to uncover the truth that seems so elusive in their otherwise quiet corner of the world. .

Plume 2000 214 PP. Paper

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The Broken Promises Of America Volume 1

At Home And Abroad, Past And Present, An Encyclopedia For Our Times, Volume 1: A-f

BY DOUGLAS DOWD
"The bitter truth is that although we have had every opportunity to become a truly wonderful society, we have failed to shed our past faults and are now evolving toward something the opposite of wonderful: The gap between our realities and our ideals, despite important changes now and again, widens to resemble the Grand Canyon."-from the preface. With 160 entries from arrogance to zoos, Douglas Dowd puts the U.S. back in its cage. The ultimate primer and reference work on what has gone wrong in our country. Biographical sketches from Kissinger to Sacco and Vanzetti, combined with solid analysis of horrific deeds provides the reader with an education like no other.

CC Press 2005 378 PP. Paper

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The Broken Promises Of America Vol. 2

At Home And Abroad G - Z

BY DOUGLAS DOWD
"The bitter truth is that although we have had every opportunity to become a truly wonderful society, we have failed to shed our past faults and are now evolving toward something the opposite of wonderful: The gap between our realities and our ideals, despite important changes now and again, widens to resemble the Grand Canyon."-from the preface. With 160 entries from arrogance to zoos, Douglas Dowd puts the U.S. back in its cage. The ultimate primer and reference work on what has gone wrong in our country. Biographical sketches from Kissinger to Sacco and Vanzetti, combined with solid analysis of horrific deeds provides the reader with an education like no other.

CC Press 2005 300 PP. Paper

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Brotherly Love

A Poem About William Penn

BY DANIEL HOFFMAN
A long poem which evokes William Penn's luminous vision of America and shows what has become of it as the intractable conflicts of our history-struggles over land, keeping faith with the Indians, the uses and abuses of power-threaten Penn's ideal. "Though grounded firmly in historical fact, [this poem] is very original in conception and quite effectively expresses the dreams and despairs of those who lived this history as well as our own contemporary need to understand the past as 'we clatter down the rigid rails into the future.'" - Library Journal.

University of Pennsylvania Press 2000 178 PP. Paper

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Captain Paul Cuffe's Logs And Letters, 1808-1817

A Black Quaker's "voice From Within The Veil"

BY PAUL CUFFE, EDITED BY ROSALIND WIGGINS
Paul cuffe was one of the few black Quakers of his day. Editor Rosalind Wiggins has collected this remarkable man's correspondence and ship's logs. She presents original manuscripts that tell the story of Cuffe's efforts to undercut the slave trade by forming a trading cooperative in Sierra Leone, thus linking the United States, England, and small West African nations. Wiggins shows the obstacles Cuffe faced: the War of 1812, a trade embargo, the network of African American organizations that provided him with help; and his concern for education within the black community.

Howard University Press 1996 528 PP. Cloth

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Cast A Blue Shadow

Ohio Amish Mystery Series - #4

BY P. L. GAUS
In this Amish mystery, a blizzard hits northern Ohio, devastating Millersburg College and the lives of many students & locals. Wealthy executive Juliet Favor, patron of the college, is found dead. The next morning Mennonite student Martha Lehman curls up in a fetal position outside her psychiatrist's office. Since she was involved with Juliet's son, she becomes the prime suspect. Professor Michael Branden and Sheriff Bruce Robertson must find the killer. The true victim, however, is Martha, whose troubled past costs her dearly, is doubly isolated as a Mennonite student. How she reconciles her past and finds a place in society is part of the puzzle to be solved.

Plume 2003 232 PP. Paper

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Castle Corona

CREECH, SHARON
In a departure for Creech, whose previous novels have all been set in the present day, the Newbery Medal winner offers a good-hearted, gently comic fairy tale set in feudal Italy. Using parallel stories that eventually dovetail, Creech introduces the Castle Corona's sheltered, slightly ridiculous royal family and Pia and Enzio, orphaned peasant children from the nearby village. Brief, cleverly paced episodes reveal that several fixtures of castle life--the king and queen's respective hermit advisors, and the court storyteller--subtly engineer Pia and Enzio's appointment as royal food tasters, for purposes linked to a stolen pouch found by the children.

HarperCollins 2007 285 PP. Cloth

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Charles Lathrop Pack

Timberman, Forest Conservationist, And Pioneer In Forest Education

BY ALEXANDRA EYLE
Charles Lathrop Pack (1857-1937) made his fortune from ruthlessly exploiting inherited forests in Michigan, then suddenly in 1908 he changed his spots and became a conservationist, donating large sums to preserving forests and studying them. As president of the American Forestry Association his methods were still a bit dictatorial and he left to found and fund the American Tree Association. He also founded what was to become the "Victory Garden" movement. A fascinating tale of a contradictory man.

Syracuse University Press 1994 312 PP. Cloth

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Checkpoints And Chances

Eyewitness Accounts From An Observer In Israel-palestine

BY KATHERINE MAYCOCK
Katharine Maycock went to the West Bank in October 2002 as a volunteer international observer based in Bethlehem for Quaker Peace and Social Witness, and she continued working there for a humanitarian agency into 2004. These are her luminous reports of being with people who live under military occupation, as they struggle with curfews, checkpoints, and sudden losses of home and livelihood.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2005 128 PP. Paper

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