The Children Of Herakles By Euripedes

TRANSLATED BY HENRY TAYLOR, ROBERT BROOKES
Translated by Quaker poet Henry Taylor this is a play about war and the effects of war within the state. Herakles, the legendary hero cursed from birth, was never permitted a triumphant homecoming. Here, his descendants continue the effort to return home, seeking asylum from the persecution of the king who had imposed on Herakles the famous twelve labors. While it pursues concepts of deep moral grandeur, it ends with a denouement of astonishing physical and ethical brutality, and affords Euripides a severe comment on what he believed was the decline of the Athenian character.

1981 83 PP. Cloth

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Crystelle Mourning

BY EISA NEFFATARI ULEN
No quaker content, but West Philly is certainly becoming QuakerLand! With her well-employed fiance and a comfortable life in New York City, Crystelle has a life most young professionals would envy. She has come a long way from the rough Philadelphia neighborhood where she grew up. But she hasn't left the past behind her. A ghost from her West Philly days continues to haunt her -- the spirit of her high school sweetheart Jimmie, who she watched get gunned down one unforgettable night years ago. Emotionally distraught from her unsettling memories and the suspicion she may be pregnant, Crystelle goes back to her old neighborhood to reconnect with friends and family.

Washington Sq Press 2007 207 PP. Paper

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The Dancer

BY NOLA TURKINGTON
Bau knows as many dances as there are seeds in a calabash rattle but she does not know the magic rainbull dance - only the rainmaiden knows that. Then drought seizes the land, a drought so terrible that Bau's grandmother sends her to the Tsodilo Hills in search of the reain maiden, for now Bau must dance as she has never deanced before, to bring rain to the Kalahari people.

Cloth

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Desert Father

In The Desert With Saint Anthony

BY JAMES COWAN
James Cowan's quest to understand the desert spirituality of St Anthony takes him to Egypt, to the monastery that still exists near the site of Anthony's hermitage, where he meets the monk who becomes his guide and mentor on the journey. He comes to regard Anthony and the colorful men and women who shared his lifestyle in the 4th through 7th centuries with affection and awe. Our modern efforts toward liberation may look different from theirs, he concludes, but the ultimate goal is no different, and Anthony remains a luminous model for anyone who passionately seeks to know God.

Shambala 2004 240 PP. Cloth

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Do You Remember Me?

A Father, A Daughter, And A Search For Self

BY JUDITH LEVINE
When her already difficult father begins to show signs of Alzheimer's, after his 50th wedding anniversary celebration his daughter is plunged into a new learning. At the same time he is loosing his memories and previous character, she is coming to remember and understand him and his place in the world as she never had before. She finds she is asking the question "what makes our self" and grounded in the history, society and politics of his earlier life ,forgotten and remembered, she gropes to find some answers.

Free Press 2004 310 PP. Cloth

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Dogs

BY NANCY KRESS
Quaker Nancy Kress has written a book about terrorism and biological warfare - When all the neighborhood dogs suddenly begin to attack their owners it turns out a mutated flu virus is the cause. Combining hard science with thoughtful narrative, this chilling tale of science fiction explores the complex relationships between dogs and their owners.

Tachyon publications 2008 280 PP. Paper

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Doing Nothing

A History Of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, And Bums In America

BY TOM LUTZ
Intrigued by the weird anger he felt towards his son setting up camp on his couch and doing nothing (in just the way he had also done nothing at that age) Lutz looks at the contrast between the Calvinist work ethic in America and its love of loafers and spongers. Though a serious study of spongers, this wry book is fun to read. Examines layabouts from Franklin to the Beats.

FSG 2007 384 PP. Paper

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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

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Douglass And Lincoln

How A Revolutionary Black Leader & A Reluctant Liberator Struggled To End Slavery & Save The Union

BY PAUL AND STEPHEN KENDRICK
The influence Douglass and Lincoln had on each other and on the nation altered the course of slavery and the outcome of the Civil War. Although Abraham Lincoln deeply opposed the existence of slavery, he saw his mission throughout much of the Civil War as preserving the Union, with or without slavery. Frederick Douglass, a former slave, passionately believed the war's central mission to be the total abolition of slavery. During their meetings between 1863 & 1865, and through reading each other's writings, they managed to forge a strong, mutual understanding and respect that helped convince Lincoln the war could not be truly won without black soldiers and permanent emancipation.

Walker 2008 306 PP. Paper

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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

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Early Morning

Remembering My Father, William Stafford

BY KIM STAFFORD
Writer, pacifist, teacher, and a literary mentor to many, William Stafford is one of the great American poets of the twentieth century. He published more than sixty-five volumes of poetry and prose. Before his death in 1993, he gave his son Kim the greatest gift and challenge: to be his literary executor. By piecing together a collage of his personal and family memories, and sifting through thousands of pages of his father's daily writing and poems, Kim illuminates a fascinating and richly lived life.

Graywolf Press 2002 296 PP. Cloth

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Ecological Intelligence

How Knowing The Hidden Impacts Of What We Buy Can Change Everything

BY DANIEL GOLEMAN
The bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence now brings us Ecological Intelligence, revealing the hidden environmental consequences of what we make and buy, and how with that knowledge we can drive the essential changes we all must make to save our planet and ourselves. Many products that are labeled "green" are a mirage, and there are wild inconsistencies in our response to the ecological crisis. Goleman claims we can reach a new age of competitive advantage through "radical transparency", enabling consumers to make smarter purchasing decisions and driving companies to rethink and reform their businesses.

Broadway Books 2009 276 PP. Cloth

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Eggs

SPINELLI
Eggs is a quirky and moving novel about two very complicated, damaged children. David has recently lost his mother to a freak accident, his salesman father is constantly on the road, and he is letting his anger out on his grandmother. Primrose lives with her unstable, childlike, fortuneteller mother, and the only evidence of the father she never knew is a framed picture. Despite their age difference (David is 9, Primrose is 13), they forge a tight yet tumultuous friendship, eventually helping each other deal with what is missing in their lives.

hachette 2007 4 HOURS Audio

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Endless Crusades

Women Social Scientists And Progressive Reform

BY ELLEN FITZPATRICK
This book examines the lives and careers of four American women--Sophonisba Breckinridge, Edith Abbott, Katharine Bement Davis, and Frances Kellor--who played decisive roles in early twentieth-century reform crusades. Breckinridge and Abbott used their educations in political science and political economy to expose the tragic conditions endured by the urban poor. Davis became the first superintendent of the New York State Reformatory at Bedford Hills and was a leading figure in prison reform. Kellor's sociological training gained her admittance to the smoke-filled rooms of national party politics and eventually to a high-ranking position in the Progressive Party.

Oxford University Press 1990 270 PP. Paper

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Enduring Hope

The Impact Of The Ramallah Friends Schools

BY PATRICIA EDWARDS-KONIC WITH MAX CARTER
"Enduring Hope" explores the impact of the Ramallah Friends Schools on students, alumni, teachers, staff, parents, the community, the Religious Society of Friends, and the wider world through first-person interviews and testimonies. The school is widely considered the best in Palestine and is a small beacon of hope in a desperate situation.

Friends United Press 2008 121 PP. Paper

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Evangelical Disenchantment

Nine Portraits Of Faith And Doubt

BY DAVID HEMPTON
looks at evangelicalism through the lens of well-known folk who once evangelical, but who later repudiated it. Recounts the faith journeys of 9 artists, social reformers, and public intellectuals including such diverse figures as George Eliot, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Vincent van Gogh, and James Baldwin. Within their highly individual stories, Hempton finds not only clues to the development of these particular creative men and women but also myriad insights into the strengths and weaknesses of one of the fastest growing religious traditions in the modern world.

Yale 2008 230 PP. Cloth

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Falling To Heaven

A Novel

BY JEANNE PETERSON
In 1954 Emma and Gerald Kittredge leave their secure Quaker community for a Tibetan town. Their neighbors are Dorje and Rinchen, and their sons. The arrival of Maoist soldiers shatters everything. Gerald is captured by the soldiers, leaving a pregnant Emma to rely on her Tibetan neighbors. Told in three distinct voices rich in their respective spiritual traditions, Falling to Heaven is ultimately a novel about faith: losing it and rediscovering it in places you'd never expect.

Thomas Dunne 2010 326 PP. Cloth

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The Fate Of Africa

From The Hopes Of Freedom To The Heart Of Despair; A History Of Fifty Years Of Independence

BY MICHAEL MEREDITH
Today, with few exceptions, African countries are effectively bankrupt, prone to civil strife, subject to dictatorial rule, weighed down by debt, and heavily dependent on Western assistance for survival. What went wrong? Focusing on the key personalities, events and themes of the independence era, Martin Meredith's magisterial history seeks to explore and explain the myriad problems that Africa has faced in the past half-century, and faces still. Acclaimed by reviewers and readers from across the political spectrum, The Fate of Africa is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how it came to this sad state.

Public Affairs 2006 752 PP Paper

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Fear And Yoga In New Jersey

BY DEBRA GALLANT
Nina a New Jersey yoga teacher, should be calmly guiding her high powered students through their savasanas and their chakras. Instead she is worried about...everything: the leaking fountain that caused a litigious students to slip and fall; her husband's job was outsourced to the Phillipines; and a hurricane is bearing down on her parents home in Florida. To complicate matters, her teenage son Adam is showing an interest in having a Bar Mitzvah-even though Nina, never a fan of her Jewish heritage, signed the family up at the local Unitarian Church.

St Martins 2008 256 PP. Cloth

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Feminist Family Values Forum

BY GLORIA STEINUM, ANGELA DAVIS, MARIA JIMENEZ, MILIANI TRASK
A forum given on Mothers day 1996, many contributions from Feminists well known and little known on family values from a feminist perspective.

Plain View Press 1996 130 PP. Paper

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The Fire Of His Genius

Robert Fulton And The American Dream

BY KIRKPATRICK SALE
From a leading environmentalist thinker, chairman of the Schumacher Society . Set against a brilliant portrait of a dynamic period in history, The Fire of His Genius tells the story of the fiercely driven man whose invention of the steam boat opened up America's interior to waves of settlers, created and sustained industrial and plantation economies in the nation's heartland, and facilitated the destruction of the remaining Indian civilizations. Probing Fulton's genius but also laying bare the darker side of the man -- and the darker side of the American dream -- Kirkpatrick Sale tells an extraordinary tale with deftness, zest, and unflagging verve.

Touchstone 2002 242 PP. Paper

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The Florist's Daughter

BY PATRICIA HAMPL
Her writing is well known to friends from gathering workshops on spiritual storytelling that have used "I Could tell you stories" and made that book a best seller for us. This book tells the story of her parents a debonair Czech father, whose floral work gave him entrée to St. Paul society, and her mother a distrustful Irishwoman with an uncanny ability to tell a tale. Written while her mother was dying, it is a telling of life's lived with passion and spirit that created and enriched her own.

Harcourt 2007 227 PP. Paper

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The Fountain Of Age

BY BETTY FRIEDEN
Struggling to hold on to the illusion of youth, Friedan wrote, we have denied the reality and evaded the new triumphs of growing older. We have seen age only as decline. In this powerful and very personal book, Betty Friedan charts her own voyage, and that of others, into a different kind of aging. Friedan found ordinary men and women, moving into their fifties, sixties, seventies, discovering extraordinary new possibilities of intimacy and purpose. In their surprising experiences, Friedan saw the idea that one can grow and evolve throughout life in a style that dramatically mitigates the expectation of decline and opens the way to a further dimension of "personhood."

Harper 1993 670 PP. Paper

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The Fragmentation Of The Church And Its Unity In Peacemaking

EDITED BY JEFFREY GROS AND JOHN D. REMPEL
SECONDHAND COPY -Good condition looks unread. Over the centuries churches have divided over the specific place of this peacemaking imperative in their lives and teachings. This volume offers deep, ecumenical discussion of the relationship of the church to its peacemaking mission from the standpoints of history and the contemporary context. Contributors representing ten major faith traditions address this crucial topic from the perspective of their own churches and explore pathways that could lead to the reconciliation of existing differences. One chapter is "The Peace Testimony of the Religious Society of Friends" by Thomas Paxson.

Eerdmans 2001 230 PP. Paper

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From The Ends Of The Earth

Passionate Plant Collectors Remembered In A Cornish Garden

BY CHRISTIAN LAMB
This is a beautiful and detailed book that should appeal to any gardener, quite quirky, but only occaisional references to the great Quaker plant collectors though it is dedicated to Joseph Bamks. Very English- or should I say Cornish.

Bene Factum 2004 223 PP. Cloth

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Gaia Song Of The Vanishing Tribe

BY MARK BERRY AND PAIGE DEPONTE
Not sure what to make of this huge book - it wasn't what I thought at all. Thirteen inches square, an inch thick with sepia photographs of natural landscapes, animals and people in New Guinea, Asia and Africa. Some incredible pictures - but also some rather out of focus or arty'ones, linked by poems printed a few words to a page. Food for thought, great for school projects or as posters? Gaia here stands for Global Arts In Action. Comes with CD of rather Trancy music! Was $59.95

GAIA 2001 MANY PAGES Cloth

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The Gilded Dinosaur

The Fossil War Between Cpe And Marsh And The Rise Of American Science

BY MARK JAFFE
The second half of the 19th century - the so-called Gilded Age -was also when scientists began finding dinosaur fossils across the western half of the nation. Could the answer to the history of life and the proof of evolution be found in these bones? That was the question two young American paleontologists - Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh - set out to answer. But what began as a friendly contestsoon turned into a bitter rivalry that would spill over into American science and politics and rage relentlessly for three decades. And despite his Quakerism, Edward Drinker Cope, like many of his colleagues, would prove to be ruthlessly competitive.

Three Rivers Press 2000 424 PP Paper

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The Global Citizen's Handbook

Facing Our World's Crises And Challenges

BY THE WORLD BANK
Not all Friends are fans of the World Bank but this book does have authoritative statistics on current global challenges such as AIDS, poverty, migration, CO2 emissions, and population pressures. Country comparisons, key social development indicators, including economic growth, life expectancy, infant mortality, safe water, population below the poverty line, and energy efficiency They are presented in clear maps, graphs, and photographs, the hard facts you need to know about the critical issues of our time and the consequences of inaction.

Collins 2007 144 PP. Paper

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God And I Broke Up

BY KATARINA MAZETTI
For all of her 16 years, Linnea has been a quiet loner. When she meets Pia, they become best friends. Whether the subject is guys, school, the afterlife, or politics, Pia is someone she can talk to about everything. But then Pia commits suicide. With self-deprecating candor, Linnea recounts the year following her friend's suicide as she struggles to heal her grief. Linnea's voice illuminates both her inner and outer selves, vividly portraying the difficulty of appearing to be a smart, savvy teen while inwardly feeling crushed by the loss of her soul mate. Her dilemma, told with honesty, grace, and often-unsettling wit, is sure to resonate with young readers. Translated from Swedish.

Groundwood 1995 127 PP. Paper

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God Is All Around

A Collection Of Inspirational Writings And Drawings

BY NANCY MCCORMICK AND ELLEN THOMAS
A collection of inspirational thoughts, prayers, stories, poems, pictures and songs from Nancy McCormick of Good News associates, an organization supporting individuals, who are called to non-institutional ministries in the arts and religion. Connected to North Western Evangelical Friends. Comes with a CD of thirteen songs.

Good News Associates 2006 48 PP.50 MIN Disk

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