Christian-Alternative/Quaker Quicks Britain, 2023, 78pp
a modern view of the positives and negatives
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On This Page
On this page you will find books on Quaker basics, exciting new books and the full Quaker Books Catalogue.
Quakers 101
| Quakers Do What! Why? | |
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| Rhiannon Grant | $30.00 |
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Quaker Quicks, Britain, 2020, 73pp Covers all the bases, wriiting in a friendly and accessible style. Great for enquirers or new-comers. |
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OUR NEW AND EXTENDED VERSION OF READINGS!!
ON THESE ISLANDS I runga i nga motu nei
QUAKER FAITH & PRACTICE IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
The newly updated and extended QUAKER FAITH AND PRACTICE from Quakers
in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024, 256pp Illustrated $25
New Books
| BEING A QUAKER - A Guide FOR NEWCOMERS | |||||||
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Discovering Quakers, Britain, 2024, 174pp Third Edition, Revised and Updated- New online references & new resources Everything you ever wanted to know about Quakers and afraid to ask! An ideal gift to a new comer
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| THE WORLD IN A SENTENCE | |
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| Sue Williams | $25.00 |
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Pendle Hill Pampphlet 486, US, 2024, 29 pp " Every once in a while someone says something that stops me in my tracks" Author gives examples of this in her thirty years peace making around the world
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FORGING BELOVED COMMUNITY WITH FRIENDS |
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| Bridget Moix | $26.00 |
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Pendle Hill Pamphlet 488, US, 2024, 24pp In a world wrought by lies, injustice and violence how do we seek "That of God in Everyone" when we are so deeply divided from one another by fear and pain? |
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A QUEER GIFT StePPING BEYOND THE MINDSET |
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| Rainbow Quakers | $15.00 |
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Rainbow Quakers Group, The Regious Society of Friends in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024 71pp The authors of this, the Quaker Lecture 2024, are all part of the Rainbow Group, a network of LGBTQIA+Quakers in Aotearoa New Zealand. These writings represent the lived experience and individual understandings of the authors |
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WAIT AND WATCH SPIRITUAL PRACTICE, REHEARSAL, AND PERFORMANCE
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| John Andrew Gallery | $25.00 |
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Pendle Hill Pamphlet 485, US, 2024, 30pp Using the analogy found in theatre, music concerts and sports, describes how Meeting for Worship or Worship for Business can develop seven skills to transform |
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A TENDER TIME Quaker VOICES ON THE END OF LIFE
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| Patricia M Nesbitt & Kristin Camitta Zimet | $64.00 |
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Baltimore Yearly Meeting, US, 2024, 212pp
Collection of Quaker voices, historical and contemporary, that explores practical, emotional and spiritual aspects of aging and dying well. End of life decisions are discussed.
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| George AND THE FLYING FOXES | |
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| Christine Hayes | $30.00 |
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Compositions by Carn, Britain, 2024, 105 pp, Illustrated
For young people. Inspired by a true story, Story of George Fox and the Quakers. It begins with the hasty arrival of some lads involved in a fight into the Meeting House and how it was resolved ......
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WHY SILENCE?
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| Brian Holley | $17.00 |
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The Kindlers, Britain, 2016, 64pp Offers a collection of spiritual practices to help overcome what is blocking us to a deepening "soul silence" From the popular Kindler series
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| DO QUAKERS PRAY? | |
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| Jennifer Kavanagh | $29.00 |
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Christian Alternative Quaker Quicks, Britain, 2023, 64 pp From the very popular Quaker Quick Series. What is prayer and when and how Quakers might pray
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| James McCarthy | $17.00 |
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The experience of silent worship, waiting, listening, described by fifty Quakers
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| Quaker Meeting and Me / Taku Noho Ki Te Hui Tūhauwiri |
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| InNER HEALING, INNER PEACE a QUAKER PERSPECTIVE |
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| John and Diana Lampen | $30.00 |
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From the popular Quaker Quicks Series. What do Quakers have to offer when there is pain and distress, in body, mind and Spirit? Includes practice exercises readers can do for themselves
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Quaker Quest, Britain, 2022, 38pp From the popular Twelve Quakers series. Twelve Quakers tell how they relate to their communities, what being Friends together means to them, in all their diversity and warmth
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ThE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF QUAKER SPIRITUALITY: LIGHT IN THE CONSCIENCE |
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| David Johnson | $25.00 |
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Pendle Hill Pamphlet 483. US, 2023, 27pp
First Quakers rediscovered the early Christian experience that we can access divine guidance through our conscience |
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Hypocrisy, RACISM, AND SELF INTEREST On the path to reparations |
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| Mary Watkins | $25.00 |
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Pendle Hill Pamphlet 489, US, 2024, 38pp Quaker complicity with slavery (1657-1776) and White Supremacy
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| IN SEARCH OF HOPE | |
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| Joanna Godrey Wood | $26.00 |
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Christian Alternative/Quaker Quicks, London, 2024, 84 pp From the very popular Quaker Quicks series. A vibrant practical book which draws on the roots of Quaker tradition to provide immediate and useful spiritual help in these challenging times |
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God's ways, not our ways: A dissident Quaker response to disability |
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| Jackie Leach Scully | $27.00 |
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2024 Backhouse Lecture from Australia Friends, 63pp Looks at Quaker Testimony. From person and family experience, challenging Quakerrs to help build a world more incusive of difference and diversity
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| THE PROMISE OF RIGHT RELATIONSHIP |
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| Pamela Haines | $30.00 |
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Christian Alernative/Quaker Quicks, Britain, 2024, 79pp Challenges us to reach for right relationships, in all aspects of our lives. Do we nourish ourselves and others, strive for equality, simplicity, peaceful? as our pathway forward
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The Quaker Books Catalogue
NOTSO HOTSO
Farrar Strauss, US, 2001, 92pp Illus Hardbound
Why do bad things happen to good dogs?
$2.00
ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
Quaker Books, London, 2019, 143pp
2019 Swarthmore Lecture. Looking at Quaker's contemporary witness to climate change, its spiritual roots & today
$23.00
ON THESE ISLANDS I runga I nga motu nei Quaker Faith & Practice in Aotearoa New Zealand
Quakers Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024, 256pp Illus
Update and additions to previous edition of 2003 Book of readings from Quakers in Aotearoa New Zealand
$25.00
ONE CAREGIVER'S JOURNEY WITH DEMENTIA
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 477, US, 2022, 28pp
How a Quaker found deep peace & joy through a spiritual dimension during her journey with her husband who was diagnosed with dementia
$25.00
OPEN FOR TRANSFORMATION Being Quaker
Quaker Books, Britain, 2014, 113pp
2014 Swarthmore Lecture. To be vibrant and useful we need to be clear about what we are and what we are not.
$37.00
OPEN TO NEW LIGHT: Quakers and Other Faiths
Christian Alternative/Quaker Quicks, UK, 2023, 83pp
Quaker Quicks series. Relates Quaker history & faith to other faiths and the relationships between them
$30.00
OPENINGS TO THE INFINITE OCEAN
Quaker Books, Britain, 2020, 79 pp
2020 Swarthmore Lecture. In pandemic, climate emergency and right wing populism is that enough? What do we do?
$23.00
PEACEFUL PIGGY YOGA
Albert Whiteman, US, 2008, Illus CLOTH
from the Peaceful Piggy Meditation series- children of ages can use yoga for peace in relationships
$5.00
PEACEFUL WORLD, A
Aotearoa New Zealand Yearly Meeting, 2016,36pp
2016 NZ Quaker Lecture. How can we make it so?
$13.00
PENDLE HILL: A Place to Be and Become
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 464, US, 2020, 32pp
Historian of Pendle Hill tells the history. Focus on study and contemplation, closure of resident program and the future?
$18.00
PERCEIVING THE TEMPERATURE OF THE WATER
Britain Yearly Meeting, Britain, 2022, 143pp
2022 Swarthmore Lecture. Black woman Quaker asks how can we address white priviledge & racism. Includes the Lecture, workshops & responses
$28.00
PERSONALITY AND PLACE: The Life and Times of Pendle Hill
Plain Press, US, 2014, 499pp
The story of a Quaker Centre for study and contemplation
$5.00
PLAIN LIVING: A Quaker Path To Simplicity
Sorin Books, US, 2001, 192pp
More than simplicity, an unprogrammed tradition daily reader in style of Quaker F & Practice
$30.00
Plain Talk about Dying: The Spirtual Effects of Taking My Father off Life Support
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 479, US, 2023, 25pp
Understanding spiritual repercussions of such decisions may help us to prepare or better support each other
$25.00
PRACTICAL MYSTICISM, A
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 453, US, 2018, 36pp
How Quaker process opens us to the prompting of the Divine. 12 Friendly practices deepen our worship in business
$18.00
PRACTICAL MYSTICS
Quaker Quicks, Christian Alternative, UK, 2018, 70pp
Are Quakers mystics? What does that mean? How does that translate into how we are and what we do in the world?
$26.00
PROMISE OF RIGHT RELATIONSHIP, THE
Christian Alternative/Quaker Quicks, UK, 2024, 79pp
Challenges us to reach for right relationships in all aspects of our lives, do we nourish ourselves & others, strive for equality, simplicity, peaceful? as our pathway forward
$30.00
PROPHET AGAINST SLAVERY:Benjamin Lay: A Graphic Novel
Beacon Press, US, 2021,118pp Illus
Graphic novel.Lester's raw visual approach perfectly delivers. Using shocking guerrilla theater tactics Lay is a compelling figure against slavery
$37.00
PROTECTING FRIENDS HOUSE
Wellington Monthly Meeting, NZ, 54pp Illus
The story of the seismic strengthening of the Wellington Meeting House with illustrations
$25.00
PUSHING AT THE FRONTIERS OF CHANGE
Quaker Books, London, 2012, 100pp
A memoir of Quaker involvement with homosexuality
$20.00
QUAKER FAITH & PRACTICE IN AOTEAROA NZ (free copy for $5 post as new edition now)
NZYM, New Zealand, 2003, 177pp
Quaker Faith and Practice book of New Zealand readings
$5.00
QUAKER FAITH AND PRACTICE paperback
Britain Yearly Meeting, 2013 (5th Edition)
The book of Christian discipline of the YM of the Relig. Socy. of Friends in Britain.
$53.00
QUAKER FAITH AND PRACTICE: hardback
Britain Yearly Meeting (5th edition) 2013
The book of Christian discipline of the YM of the Relig. Socy. of Friends in Britain.
$54.00
QUAKER IN POLITICS
Christian Alternative, UK, 2023, 82pp
Establishes the roots of political activisim in Quakerism surveying the political involvement of Quakers today
$27.00
QUAKER MEETING AND ME/TAKU NOHO KI TE HUI TUHAUWIRI
2022, Illus
A guide for children to Quaker Meeting for Worship/Maori and English/simple, lovely colour illustrations/all ages/pocket size
$Free
QUAKER SHAPED CHRISTIANITY How Jesus story and the Quaker way fit together
Christian Alternative, US and Britain, 2022, 80pp
On how to approach the Bible, the challenges of Universalism, the story of Jesus in a readable theology fitting Christianity & Quakerism together
$30.00
Quaker Testimony:What We Witness to the World
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 481, US, 2023, 34pp
Explores some historic and more recent roles played by testimonies, how havde gthings changed, and the dangers to Quakerism
$25.00
QUAKER WORSHIP: Reflections and explorations
The Kndlers, Britain, 2024, 61pp
The experience of silent worship, waiting, listening, described by fifty Quakers
$17.00
QUAKER: Roots and Branches
Christian Alternative, Britain, 2018, 64pp
First of a planned series, links the contemporary concerns of Friends with rich heritage of the Quaker past
$25.00
QUAKERISM: the basics
Routledge Taylor and Francis, US, 2021, 195pp
From well known Quaker scholar. Accessible & engaging introduction to history & diverse Quaker approaches and ideas
$32.50
QUAKERS AND SCIENCE
Christian Alternative, UK, 2023, 87pp
Strikingly original contribution to science and religion debate and the distinctive approaches that Quaker scientists have bought including social justice
$28.00