The Godbearing Life

The Art Of Soul Tending For Youth Ministry

BY KENDA CREASY DEAN AND RON FOSTER
Here is a book that deals directly with the concept and need for God and spirituality in the lives of adolescents and those who minister to them. The language and approach is more overtly Christain than many Friends are used to, but this is a helpful look at this issue.

Upper Room Books 2004 221 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

The Grasshopper's Song

An Aesop's Fable Revisited

BY NIKKI GIOVANNI
Every year the Grasshoppers sing and play their instruments and the Ants work in rhythm to the music. The crops come up smoothly, and the Ants bring in the harvest to the Grasshoppers' beat. But when winter comes, the Ants turn their backs on the Grasshoppers, and Jimmy Grasshopper finds this unfair. He hires lawyers to sue for a half share of the harvest and some respect. But will a jury of his peers (or at least other woodland creatures) agree about the worth of art?

Candlewick 2008 56 PP. Cloth

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Grayson Audiobook

BY LYNNE COX
It's five o'clock in the morning and still dark. Swimming outside the wave break off the Catalina coast, training for her next long-distance swim (she has already crossed the English Channel twice), 17-year-old Lynne Cox senses that something is following her. She worries that it might be a great white shark. Instead, it's a baby gray whale, separated from its mother. Lynne needs to leave the water to rest, but if she does, the calf will follow her onto shore and die. To save its life, she must reunite mother and calf in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean.

P.SoundBridge 3 DISCS Disk

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The Great Awakening

Seven Ways To Change The World

BY JIM WALLIS
Written and read by Jim Wallis. What will it take to solve the biggest issues of our time: extreme and needless poverty, global warming and environmental degradation, terrorism and the endless cycle of violence, racism, human trafficking, health care and education, and other pressing problems? While Washington offers only the politics of blame and fear, Jim Wallis, the man who changed the conversation about faith and politics, has traveled the country and found a nation hungry for a politics of solutions and hope. He shows us that a revival is happening, as people of faith and moral conviction seek common ground for change.

HarperAudio 2008 11 DISCS Disk

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Guide To Britain's Working Past

BY ANTHONY BURTON
This is a thorough guide to historical sites of industry in Britain, arranged by region. It features ample photographs and maps, information on access to sites, and historical background. Of interest are the many Quaker industrial entrepreneurs mentioned, including the Darby's of the industrial revolution and many Quakers who worked on the railroads.

W.W. Norton and Company 2003 190 PP. Paper

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Handy Farm Devices And How To Make Them

BY ROLFE COBLEIGH
This book, originally published in 1909, is a tribute to American ingenuity and innovation and a resource for today's homeowners working to become more self-sufficient. Illustrated with black and white drawings, here are 100's of clever ways to transform your home or farm, using scrap material and items readily available from the hardware store or lumberyard. Build a homemade water cooler, a folding chicken roost, a garden stool, a fruit picker, or a small bridge for crossing streams. Here too are a treadmill that can power a dairy separator and churn, a drinking fountain for chickens, a rig for moving large trees, a self-feeder for bees, and gates that lift over snowdrifts.

Skyhorse 1910 288 PP. Paper

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Have A Nice Doomsday

Why Millions Of Americans Are Looking Forward To The End Of The World

BY NICHOLAS GUYAT
At least 50 million Americans have come to believe that the apocalypse will take place in their lifetime. They're convinced that, any day now, Jesus will snatch up his followers and spirit them to heaven. The rest of us will be left behind to endure massive earthquakes, devastating wars, and the terrifying rise of the Antichrist. But true believers aren't sitting around waiting for the Rapture. They're getting involved in debates over abortion, gay rights, and even foreign policy. Are they devout or deranged? How far does their influence stretch? This is the Australian edition of a British tome by a Canadian.

Ebury Press 2007 312 PP. Paper

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Helen Hunt Jackson And Her Indian Reform Legacy

BY VALERIE SHERER MATHES
A detailed account of the last years of Jackson's life (1879-1885), when she struggled to promote the rights of American Indians, especially in California, displaced and dispossessed by the U.S. government. Jackson's efforts culminated in the publication of A Century of Dishonor, an indictment of the government's Indian policy, and the novel Ramona, a sympathetic portrayal of the plight of California's Mission Indians. Her second husband was a Quaker - William Sharpless Jackson.

University of Oklahoma 1997 235 PP. Paper

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Henry Climbs A Mountain Sale Book

BY D B JOHNSON
Henry wants to climb a mountain, and nothing is going to stop him. Then Sam, the tax collector, puts him in jail for not paying his taxes. Henry refuses to pay to a state that allows slavery. But being locked up doesn't stop Henry. He still gets to splash in rivers, swing from trees, and meet a stranger. This bear, modeled on the real Henry David Thoreau, roams free.

Houghton Mifflin 2003 32 PP. Cloth

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Hiroshima No Pika & Hellfire A Journey From Hiroshima

The Art Of Toshi And Iri Maruki

BY JOHN JUNKERMAN & NORIAKI TSUCHIMOTO
Hirohima no Pika is an animated film based on the famous book about a young girl and her family who live through the bombing. It is narrated by Susan Sarandon. Hellfire: a journey from Hiroshima is about the making of the Hiroshima murals, Virtually unknown in the west, they are as profound an antiwar work as Pablo Picasso's famous mural, Guernica. The monumental panels, which are actually painted upon traditional-style folding screens, took 30 years to complete, and provide a chilling look at the terror of nuclear war. With interviews and film of the artists at work. a message of hope from an unimaginable horror.

FRF 2005 83 MINS Dvd

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A History Of The End Of The World

How The Most Controversial Book In The Bible Changed The Course Of Western Civilization

BY JONATHAN KIRSCH
Ever since Revelation was first preached as the revealed word of Jesus Christ, it has haunted and inspired hearers and readers alike. Its mysterious author never considered that his sermon on the impending end times would last beyond his own life but his demonization of his enemies, his sanctification of revenge taking, and the notion that history must end in catastrophe, subsumed into the New Testament, can be detected in some of the worst atrocities and excesses of every age, including our own. For all of these reasons we ignore the book of Revelation, at our own peril.

HarperOne 2006 328 PP. Cloth

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Howard Kester

And The Struggle For Social Justice In The South 1904-1977

BY ROBERT FRANCIS MARTIN
Born in Virginia in 1904, Howard Kester was raised by his father, a merchant tailor and Klansman, and his religious mother. On a trip to Poland as a college student he saw a connection between the treatment of the Jews there and the treatment of minorities in America. His experience led him to become an activist and organizer, helping to start the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) in 1934, and to working with many groups on racial equality. His work was inspired by a combination of radical Christianity, Niebuhr's social gospel, and elements of Marxism (although he remained opposed to communism).

University Press of Virginia 1991 200 PP. Cloth

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Human Smoke (remainder)

The Beginnings Of World War Ii, The End Of Civilization

BY NICHOLSON BAKER
This is an extraordinary testament to pacifism from Quaker novelist and essayist Nicholson Baker. Here in a staccato, chronological chain of newspaper and diary reports, with brief comments or context of his own, Baker covers the period from 1842 to 1941. Was it inevitable that wars would occur? Could events have transpired peacefully or at least differently? Baker provides contemporary reports of events and leaves it to the reader to decide. Many Quakers (and their work for peace) are included. "In Human Smoke, Nicholson Baker turns his unrivaled literary talents to pacifism... Baker's book is truly original." - Chalmers Johnson. was $30.00in US edition-this is the British edition.

S&S 2008 576 PP. Cloth

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Hy Brasil

BY MARGARET ELPHINSTONE
Sidony Redruth is a young English woman who, after fraudulently winning a writing competition, is sent by her editor to write the first-ever travel book on Hy Brasil, a near mythical island somewhere in the Atlantic whose very existence has been a matter of debate as late as the nineteenth century. Elphinstone's plot takes the island location as its starting point, throws in some old-fashioned priracy, a lost treasure, modern-day drug smuggling, political intrigue, an active volcano and a tragic love affair. Told through Sidony's notes for her book, Hy Brasil is a compelling and magical adventure story. The author is a British friend.

McArthur 2002 438 PP. Paper

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An Imperfect Offering

Humanitarian Action For The Twenty First Century

BY JAMES ORBINSKI, M.D.
An Imperfect Offering is a deeply personal, deeply political book. With unstinting candor, Orbinski explores the nature of humanitarian action in the twenty-first century, and asserts the fundamental imperative of seeing as human those whose political systems have most brutally failed. He insists that in responding to the suffering of others, we must never lose sight of the dignity of those being helped or deny them the right to act as agents in their own lives. He takes readers on a journey to some of the darkest places of our history but finds there unimaginable acts of courage and empathy. Here he is doctor as witness; calling on others to meet their responsibility.

Walker Publishing 2009 448 PP. Paper

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In Praise Of Doubt

How To Have Convictions Without Becoming A Fanatic

BY PETER BERGER, ANTON ZIJDERVELD
As a culture and as individuals, we find it much easier to articulate what we are against than what we are for. In this book the authors show how we can have confidence in our convictions - in such ideals as democracy, human rights, equality under the law etc - without succumbing to the radical doubts of relativism and the certainties of fundamentalism. With new lenses for seeing the influence of modernism, relativism and fundamentalism they explore the roles of humor, doubt and social norms that let us have convictions without grasping them so tightly that we become fanatics.

HarperOne 2009 178 PP. Cloth

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Inspired Philanthropy

Your Step By Step Guide To Creating A Giving Plan, 2nd Edition

BY TRACY GARY, MELISSA KOHNER
Especially with less to give and more needing support Friends want to know how they can use their money to change the world for the better. This book shows how social change happens and how your monetary support - no matter how large or small - can make a difference. It shows how to create an individual family or Meeting "Giving plan" that will make your charitable giving catalytic. Through clear writing and substantive exercises, you can learn how to align your giving with your deepest values and thus help bring about the changes you want. Was $27.95

Jossey-Bass 2002 256 PP. Paper

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Invisible Darkness

Jean Toomer And Nella Larsen

BY CHARLES R LARSON
Linking these two biracial novelists Jean Toomer and Nella Larsen by their supposed disappearance from literature after publishing their early novels. He looks in some detail at Toomers troubled spiritual journey that led eventually to Quakerism and Larsen's quest for creative and personal fulfillment. He uses an innovative chronology to rewrite their lives as major African American literary figures.

University Press of Ohio. 1993 240 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

Iodine

A Novel

BY HAVEN KIMMEL
Trace Pennington is a senior at University in Indiana. Living with her dog, in an abandoned farmhouse that lacks heat and a shower, Trace is in her final semester. But once she enters Professor Jacob Matthias Archetypal Interpretation of Literature class, she turns her intense focus solely on him, dropping her classes and even abandoning her dog to move in to his place. as she digs into Jacobs past to discover why his first marriage ended, her own past bubbles to the surface, forcing her to face painful memories and truths. Haven Kimmel is a Quaker & author of Girl Named Zippy.

Free Press 2009 223 PP. Cloth

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Iraq

A Journey Of Hope And Peace

BY PEGGY FAW-GISH
From the fall of 2002 to the spring of 2004, Gish chronicles her Iraq experience with "Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT)", including a brief "Postscript." Here are stories of sleeping in a tent during bomb attacks, villages surrounded in razor wire, being deported out of Iraq, fighting for justice for Iraqi prisoners, being robbed, creating relationships with Iraqi citizens, and through it all - seeking the way of peace - the peace of Christ.

Herald press 2004 317 PP. Paper

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Israeli Pacifist

The Life Of Joseph Abileah

BY ANTHONY BING
For more than 50 years, Joseph Abileah, a violinist from Haifa, has worked for reconciliation between Arabs & Jews. An ordinary man made extraordinary by his unwavering commitment to nonviolent social change, he shows what is possible when antagonists in conflicts are not regarded as inhuman monsters but as potentially good people. This life of an Israeli pacifist is also a study of an alternative history of Israel, one that reflects the tensions between spiritual & political Zionism.

Syracuse Univ Press 1990 200 PP. Cloth

$3.50 (in stock)

Jane Addams

Freedoms Innovator

BY DEBORAH PARKS
Jane Adams was the daughter of a Quaker and a tireless campaigner and worker for the poor. This is a very nice biography, it is well written and well illustrated and I am surprised I had not seen it before in any Meeting House libraries. Also ideal for school projects.

Time Life Education 2006 128 PP. Cloth

$4.50 (in stock)

Journey Toward Freedom

The Story Of Sojourner Truth

BY JACQUELINE BERNARD
First published in 1967 and based on extensive primary research, this is an important book, as compassionately told as it is engrossing to read. Sojourner Truth was born a slave in 1797, gained her freedom some 30 years later, and at the age of 46 began a new life, traveling the country to preach about God and crusade against slavery. Known for her wit, her songs, and her great common sense, she electrified audiences as she championed women's rights, prison reform, and better working conditions.

Feminist Press 1990 267 PP. Paper

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Jump At The Sun

BY KIM MCLARIN
Grace an educated and accomplished modern woman, a child of the Civil Rights dream finds herself in a new house in a new city and in a new career for which she feels dangerously unsuited: a stay-at-home mom. Exploring both the highs and the lows of being a mother and how breaking the cycle of suffocation and regret is infuriatingly difficult, and absolutely necessary.

Morrow 2006 306 PP. Cloth

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The Kingdom Beneath The Waves

BY STEPHEN HUNT
From the author of The Court of the Air comes a hugely engaging, Victorian-style adventure, filled with perilous quests, dastardly deeds and deadly intrigue - perfect for all fans of Philip Pullman and Susanna Clarke Professor Amelia Harsh is obsessed with finding the lost civilisation of Camlantis, a legendary city from pre-history that is said to have conquered hunger, war and disease -- tempering the race of man's baser instincts by the creation of the perfect pacifist society. It is an obsession that is to cost her dearly.

Voyager 2008 553 PP. Paper

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The Last Generation

How Nature Will Take Her Revenge For Climate Change

BY FRED PEARCE
Since the last ice age, almost 13,000 years ago, humans have prospered in a stable, predictable climate. But our generation may be the last to be so blessed. Climate change from now on will not be gradual, maintains Pearce - nature doesn't do gradual. In the past, Earths climate switched from Arctic to tropical in three to five years. It can happen again. Nature is not fragile, the truth is the opposite. She is a wild and resourceful beast given to fits of rage.

Eden Project Books 2007 400 PP. Paper

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Let My People Go

African Americans 1804-1860 (the Young Oxford History Of African Americans, Vol 4)

BY DEBORAH GRAY WHITE
Explores what slavery was like for men, women, and children in white homes and plantations, but also shows how slaves created communities, how they fought back, and how they contributed to the system's decline. Even in rare "free" communities, the central goal of free African Americans, was to fight for the complete abolition of slavery. This sense of brotherhood, of community, speeded slavery's demise and still guides African American history today. Grade 5 & up

Oxford Univ Press 1996 144 PP. Cloth

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Let's Celebrate!

Canada's Special Days

BY CAROLINE PARRY
This unique resource describes more than 250 holidays and special days celebrated in Canada. Kids can learn about the origins and significance of each special day, and discover how it is celebrated. The book provides related activities for kids to do on their own or with friends, including games, crafts, science experiments, recipes, riddles, and songs - all designed so that children can learn by doing.A special feature of Let's Celebrate is the inclusion of holidays that were once celebrated in Canada but have gone into decline. Caroline Parry has carefully researched these holidays so that they can continue to be a part of Canadian life. The author is a Canadian Friend.

Kids Can Press 1987 256 PP. Paper

$3.00 (in stock)

Letter To A Godchild Concerning Faith

BY REYNOLDS PRICE
Price recounts how his life has been shaped by numerous and varied spiritual influences, from the Bible-story books his parents bought him before he could read, to the childhood days spent exploring dense woods near his home, to Sundays at church with his father and mother, his travels around the world to magisterial structures as various as St. Peter's and the old Penn Station, and years of study both in and out of the classroom. With no trace of self-pity, he explains how his faith grew and deepened when in 1984 after a life of robust health he suffered a cancer that eventually led to paralysis of his lower body.

Scribner 2006 112 PP. Cloth

$10.00 (in stock)

Lewis Mumford

A Life

BY DONALD MILLER
A great humanist and polyglot Lewis Mumford wrote 28 books and 1,000 or more articles on history, philosophy, literature, art, architectural criticism, and urban planning, peace and nuclear disarmament - always seeking to promote human values, community and his vision of a better tomorrow, This is a very full biography of a man whose personal life was perhaps not as well lived as it could have been.

University of Pittsburg Press 1989 625 PP. Paper

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