The Soul Of Politics

Beyond 'religious Right' And 'secular Left'

BY JIM WALLIS, DIANE STERLING, EDITED BY GARY WILLS
Wallis' work in Washington's poorer areas combining faith and politics is the basis for his contribution to this book, which seeks to unite left and right in a genuine attempt to help correct social wrongs.

Harcourt 1995 327 PP. Paper

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The Squirrel Wife

BY PHILLIPA PEARCE
The green people in the woods are feared by all -- all except swineherd Jack, who dares to venture into the forest to answer a cry for help. Jack's heroism unveils the true nature of the green people and earns him an idyllic life with a woman he loves. But can they survive the ignorance around them? Magical storytelling and luminous woodland scenes easily transport readers to another time and place.

Candlewick 2007 32 PP. Cloth

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Stepping In The Light

Life In Joy And Power

BY HOWARD MACY
"The world is literally dying for lack of the Quaker way in action. If you want to get serious about practicing the Quaker way with joy and gusto in the current hour, read the life-giving words Howard sets before us in these pages." (from the foreword by Jack Kirk). Stepping in the Light gathers together Howard Macy's articles written for Quaker Life magazine from 1979-2006. His gift of prophetic insights touched with authentic humor makes for a wonderful read. Perfect for individual enjoyment and reflection, as well as group contemplation and study.Was $20.00

Friends United Press 2007 153 PP. Paper

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The Stonehook Schooner

BY JUDITH CHRISTINE MILLS
Matthew, a young boy, goes sailing with his father to experience the fading trade of stonehooking in action. When a storm suddenly strikes, Matthew has the chance to prove his courage and be quick-thinking, which results in a new opportunity.

Key Porter Books Ltd. 1995 32 PP. Paper

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A Story Of Suffering And Hope

Lessons From Latino Youth

BY EILEEN MCNERNEY
In 1993, a 16 year-old was shot and killed behind Sister Eileen McNerney's residence. Sr. McNerney gathered support and began St. Joseph's Workshop in 1995, a successful, non-profit continuing education project for mostly Latino young men and women in crisis. The stakes were high and the future often seemed grim as she let them teach her about life, theirs and hers. Who ministered to whom? Was it the youth, surrounded by love, who were transformed or their love that transformed her?

Paulist Press 2005 176 PP. Paper

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Strong Is Your Hold

With Cd Of Poems

BY GALWAY KINNELL
Here is the eleventh book of poems by Galway Kinnell, whom the New York Times has called "one of the true master poets of his generation." In this striking and various collection, he gives us poems of intermingling with the natural world, love poems and evocations of sexuality, poems about his father, his children, poet friends, poet heroes, and mythic figures. Included also is "When the Towers Fell," his stunning requiem for those who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11.The book's title derives from Walt Whitman's "Last Invocation": "Strong is your hold O mortal flesh, / Strong is your hold O love."

Houghton Mifflin 2006 66 PP.+ CD Cloth

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Suburban Safari

A Year On The Lawn

BY HANNAH HOLMES
As a nature and science writer, Holmes has wallowed in any number of ecosystems. None of these explorations has been more surprising, nor more downright addictive, than the world she discovered outside her back door. This book recounts a year she spent immersed in the lives her out-back neighbors; the squirrels, birds, oaks, and more. An amusing and engrossing piece of writing that reminds us that the natural world is all around us.

Bloomsbury 2005 262 PP. Paper

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The Sugar Wife

A Play

BY ELIZABETH KUTI
"The Sugar Wife, a play by British playwright Elizabeth Kuti, features an Irish Quaker couple struggling with issues involving slavery, the morality of wealth and marriage in 1850s Dublin. The award winning play has been performed in London and Dublin. `The childless Hannah Tewkley devotes herself to work with the poor of the city while her husband Samuel tends to a thriving business dealing in tea, coffee, and sugar. The basic dichotomy of the play is how dependent these otherwise good people are for their material prosperity on the enslavement of others.'" - Chuck Fager

Theatre Communications 2005 96 PP. Paper

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Teaching Nonviolence

Audio Cd

BY DAVID FREUDBERG
Swimming in a sea of violent imagery from popular culture, where do today's children receive reinforcement for the skills of peacefully resolving conflict? This popular NPR documentary takes listeners to a toy store where Nancy Carlson-Paige, peace education professor at Leslie University, analyzes war toys. Then we attend an inner city Boston elementary school which has adopted Peacegames, a curriculum based on non-competitive play and community service. Also, we visit a public high school outside Washington where author Colman McCarthy teaches a daily Peace Studies class.

HumanMedia 2005 1 HOUR Audio

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To Live A Truer Life

A Story Of The Hopedale Community

BY LYNN GORDON-HUGHES, ILLUSTRATED BY LINDRO
The Hopedale Community was founded in 1841 by Adin and Lucy Ballou and others who wanted to try a new way of living, based on their understanding of the teachings of Jesus and the will of God. They called themselves Practical Christians' because they intended to put their religion into practice in their daily lives. The Practical Christians believed in a radical form of non-violence called Christian non-resistance, which rejected not only war and capital punishment, but all authority based on force. This book accompanies a young member of the community as she delivers mail to the diverse inhabitants and witnesses the way that they live their beliefs.

Blackstone Editions 2003 32 PP. Cloth

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To The Mountaintop

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Mission To Save America: 1955-1968

BY STEWART BURNS
In a striking departure from earlier books, Burns focuses on King's biblical faith and spiritual vision as fundamental to his political leadership. King is not portrayed as a lone exalted hero, but as the heart of a fabric of principled leadership that stretched from his closest colleagues to the movement's foot soldiers on the streets. This book stresses his shaping by other leaders - heroic figures such as Bayard Rustin, Ella Baker, James Bevel, Bob Moses, and Marian Wright Edelman - and his conflicted relationships with John and Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.

HarperSanFrancisco 2005 502 PP Paper

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Together In Love

Faith Stories Of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, And Transgender Couples

COMPILED AND EDITED BY ROBERTA SHOWALTER KREIDER
Twentysix couples share their personal stories of faithfulness to God and each other. Also included are stories and poems by parents, spouses, and friends of LGBT persons. The authors come from a wide variety of religious denominations and from locations in the U.S. and Canada. The book is an invitation to take a serious look at what it is like to grow up gay or transgender in a society that scorns and rejects people of diverse sexual orientation. This new collection is compiled by the editor of From Wounded Hearts. "These stories reflect love, compassion, tenderness, spiritual strength of those who have struggled through, pain, rejection, and suffering to wholeness."-Rev. Pomeroy

Strategic Press 2002 360 PP. Paper

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Toward A Tenderer Humanity And A Nobler Womanhood

African American Women's Clubs In Turn-of-the-century Chicago

BY ANNE KNUPFER
During the Progressive Era, over 150 African American women's clubs flourished in Chicago. Through these clubs, women created a vibrant social world of their own, seeking to achieve social and political uplift by educating themselves and the members of their communities. In politics, they battled legal discrimination, advocated anti-lynching laws, and fought for suffrage. In the tradition of other mothering, in which the the community shares in the care and raising of all its children, the club women established kindergartens, youth clubs, and homes for the elderly.

NYU 1997 209 PP. Paper

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Turning To Earth

Stories Of Ecological Conversion

BY F. MARINA SCHAUFFLER
Turning to Earth charts the course of "ecological conversion". It looks at the conversion Stories of environmental activists and writers about how they came to hold those beliefs. Those featured include Quaker Scott Russell Sanders and also Edward Abbey and Alice Walker. This is a book that integrates spirituality, environmentalism and literary criticism and sheds a fascinating new light on all of them.

University of Virginia Press 2003 161 PP. Paper

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Twentieth-century Global Christianity

A People's History Of Christianity, Volume 7

EDITED BY MARY FARRELL BEDNAROWSKI
A specific focus and intent of this final volume of A People's History of Christianity is to delve behind the global phenomenon of Christianity to glimpse some of the very rich and dynamic lifeways within it. Ranging over the whole century and across several continents, the scholars in this volume probe Christians' creative encounters with popular culture, liturgy and spirituality, social change and Marxism, intrareligious and interreligious dialogue, and changes in gender expectations and roles. Includes 50 illustrations, maps, bibliographies, and an 8-page color gallery.

Fortress Press 2008 350 PP. Cloth

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Virtuous Lives

Four Quaker Sisters Rem

SALITAN, LUCILLE/ PE
"These women were passionate, dynamic, and full of conviction...Engaging and quick reading that should appeal to students in women's studies, Quakerism, and New England history". -- Library Journal

Continuum 1994 180 PP. Paper

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Voices Of American Indian Assimilation And Resistance

Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, And Victoria Howard

BY SIBHAN SENIER
Between 1879 and 1934, the United States government made a concerted effort to dissolve tribes by dividing communally-held lands and forcing American Indians to adopt Euro-American practices. This book focuses on three remarkable women: white writer and activist and Quaker by marriage, Helen Hunt Jackson, , and political activist Sarah Winnemucca, whose Life Among the Piutes is believed to be the first Native American woman's autobiography; and Victoria Howard, the Clackamas Chinook storyteller who worked with Melville Jacobs in 1929 to transcribe hundreds of narratives, ethnographies, and songs.

Red River 2001 256 PP. Paper

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Voices Of Protest!

Documents Of Courage And Dissent

EDITED FRANK LOWENSTEIN, SHERYL LECHNER, ERIK BRUUN
Collected here are more than 300 documents-essays, letters, newspaper articles, court decisions, song lyrics, poetry, cartoons, and more-that represent seven main categories of protest: Civil Rights; National Self-Determination; Economic Justice; Environmental Conservation; Religious Freedom and Morality; Peace and War; and International Political Freedoms. A small sampling of the entries includes Seneca Falls Declaration of Women's Rights; Martin Luther King, Jr.'s letter from a Birmingham jail; Quakers Joseph Besse and Job Scott...

Workman 2007 557 PP. Cloth

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We Do (823)

A Celebration Of Gay And Lesbian Marriage

BY AMY RENNERT; FOREWORD BY GAVIN NEWSOM
When San Francisco's mayor, Gavin Newsom, ordered City Hall to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples on February 12th, thousands of gays and lesbians from around the world lined up to take their vows, inspiring other cities to follow suit. As intense public debate continues, We Do is an intimate portrait of these history-making weddings. The result is a touching album of happy couples, from the two lesbians who've been together 51 years to dads with babes in arms. A joyful celebration, We Do stands witness to the fact that we are all created equal in love.SECONDHAND COPY in almost new condition.

Chronicle Books 2004 143 PP. Paper

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We Felt Their Kindliness

An American Family’s Afghan Odyssey (1949-1951)

EDITED BY OS CRESSON
Rebecca & Osborne Cresson lived in Afghanistan for 2 years with their daughter, Wetherill (8) and son, Os (7). Osborne taught math in high school and Rebecca taught elementary school. They believed that a practical way to build world peace is for families to go and live among people whose ways differ from their own. While teaching and homemaking, visiting and traveling, Osborne recorded the scene with a camera and Rebecca with pen and paper. This is a glimpse of the Afghan people, only a few years after their country started to admit foreigners. Although the materials are over 50 years old, the culture described is still present in Afghanistan today.

EPP 2002 252 PP. Paper

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What Is Gnosticism?

BY KAREN KING
King shows how historians have been misled by ancient Christian polemicists who attacked Gnostic beliefs as a "dark double" against which the new faith could define itself. Having identified past distortions, she is able to offer a new and clarifying definition of Gnosticism. Her book is thus both a thorough and innovative introduction to the twentieth-century study of Gnosticism and a revealing exploration of the concept of heresy as a tool in forming religious identity.

Belknap Press 2005 368 PP. Paper

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When Race Becomes Real

Black And White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories

EDITED BY BERNISTINE SINGLEY
Only through frank and tough conversation, Singley tells us, can America hope to realize its goals of justice and racial equality. This collection opens that much needed honest dialogue, exploring a wide range of racial experiences in relation to a myriad of topics: from crime and religion to humor, history, and desire. The book demonstrates the progress that can be made when our ingrained wariness on the subject of race is abandoned, and we instead confront the issue openly and personally.

S Illinois Univ Press 2002 335 PP. Paper

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While They're At War

The True Story Of American Families On The Homefront

BY KRISTIN HENDERSON
The Quaker author, a member of Friends Meeting of Washington, is married to a Navy chaplain who has served with the Marines in Afghanistan and Iraq. The author focuses on two very different women, Marissa Bootes and Beth Pratt, as their husbands leave for Iraq and they both experience intense indoctrination into life alone.

Houghton Mifflin 2006 336 PP. Cloth

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Whirlwind Of Life

The Story Of Emilia Fogelklou

BY MALIN ANDREWS
This is an abbreviated English language version of a best selling Swedish book. Emilia Fogelklou became a Quaker after involving herself in many of the issues of her time like suffrage, psychology, modern theological thinking. It was not a well known religion in Sweden, but she searched long and hard. She was a mystic who was also an active worker for peace and justice with AFSC in the ruins of Europe after WW2. This is a lively book about an inspiring and unusual Friend who also spent time In America

Britain Yearly Meeting 2004 208 PP. Paper

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White Collar Hobo

The Travels Of Whiting Williams

BY DANIEL A WREN
Whiting Williams was a proponent of Social Gospel. In 1920 he took a leave of absence from a managerial position in the Hydraulic Steel Co. to study firsthand the working conditions in various countries and workers' attitudes. Speaking French, German, Spanish, and Italian, he worked as a laborer in coal mines, railroad shops, shipyards, and oil refineries under an assumed name in the U.S., Europe, and Central and South America. Afterwards he consulted and lectured writing books such as "What's on the Worker's Mind, By One Who Put On Coveralls to Find Out" . No Q connections, but an interesting man.

Iowa State Univ. Press 1987 165 PP. Cloth

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Who Fights? Who Cares?

War And Humanitarian Action In Africa

BY ALEXANDER DE WAAL
Africa faces huge political and humanitarian challenges. More than 16 countries are stricken by war or serious instability; the shadow of genocide looms over central Africa; natural and man-made disasters threaten the lives and livelihoods of millions. The authors of this set of essays were kept anonymous as the best means of obtaining pertinent and incisive analysis for the consultation 'humanitarian and political challenges in Africa' held in Kilgali, Rwanda in 1999.

Africa World Press 2000 243 PP. Paper

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William Penn And Our Liberties

BY WILLIAM COMFORT
First published in 1947, this book looks at Penn's life and his contribution to the drafting of the founding document of American Independence and to Religious Liberty.

Philadelphia YM 1975 146 PP. Paper

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Windows For The Crown Prince

Akihito Of Japan

BY ELIZABETH GRAY VINING
In 1946, Japanese Emperor Hirohito selected Quaker Elizabeth Gray Vining to be a tutor for the Crown Prince, the future Emperor Akihito, a position she held for 4 years. She was eventually to be a tutor to most of the Imperial Family, including Empress Nagako. After returning to the U.S., she maintained a close, lifelong relationship with the family. This is her story of the "Windows" she tried to open for the future emporer.

Tuttle 2000 320 PP. Paper

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The Winter Road

BY TERRY HOKENSON
17 year-old Willa's Quaker mother is away. Still distressed by the death of her brother, Willa feels she needs to prove herself. When Uncle Jordy's drinking threatens to disrupt her mother's workshop tour of remote native villages, Willa jumps in his plane and flies the cold Canadian route alone to pick her up.

Front Street 2006 174 PP. Cloth

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A Woman Of Salt

BY MARY POTTER ENGEL
A Woman of Salt is a complex novel that confronts the dangers of introspection and the healing power of imagination. In a crisis brought on by a call to her from her dying mother it chronicles the spiritual journey of a tormented woman searching for rest, the story of a forty-year struggle of a skeptic and religious runaway whose fate is haunted by a longing for God that she resists at every turn.

Counterpoint 2001 238 PP. Paper

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