Christian-Alternative/Quaker Quicks Britain, 2023, 78pp
2023 Backhouse Lecture. Consider and challenge Friends to use the Internet and Social Media to act and communicate faith
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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
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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
RACE, SYSTEMIC VIOLENCE AND RETROSPECTIVE JUSTICE
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 465, US, 2020, 34pp
This unjust world is maintained by mis and dis information. The Black Quaker Project lays out queries to address this
$18.00
RADICAL HOSPITALITY
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 427, US, 2014, 35pp
Jesus centred invitation through inclusiveness and letting go of personal cravings
$14.00
RADICAL TRANSFORMATION Long Overdue for the Religious Society of Friends
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 476, US, 2022, Illus 37pp
The systems of White supremacy, racism, colonisation & capitalism prevent people of colour joining and remaining in Friends. This can change
$25.00
READING THE BIBLE AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME
Harper, US, 2001, 321pp
Taking the Bible seriously but not literally from "Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time" author
$35.00
REFLECTIONS FROM A SOLITARY MEETING FOR WORSHIP
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 469, US, 2021, 30pp
In COVID self isolaton author worshipped alone. When messages for his usual vocal ministry came he wrote them down
$22.00
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE-Insights and Stories from My Journey
Walnut Street Books, US, 2023, 218pp Illus
Interviews with and essays by Howard Zehr and for the first time details and photos from his personal journey
$40.00
RISE UP SINGING
Sing Out Publication, US, 2004
1200 spiral-bound songs, chords & words. Brilliant book!
$55.00
ROAD THAT TEACHES, THE
FGC, US, 2012, 152pp
Lessons in transformation through travel.Mindfulness through travel, including the author's visit to New Zealand
$5.00
ROOTED IN CHRISTIANITY OPEN TO NEW LIGHT
Woodbrooke, Britain, 2009, 115pp
Quaker spiritual diversity
$31.00
RUFUS JONES AND THE PRESENCE OF GOD
Christian Alternative/Quaker Quicks, UK, 2023, 79pp
Quaker Quicks series.Rufus Jones was a Quaker who controversially reshaped the way of thinking about God and humans and talks about his spiritual practices
$50.00
SAM PEEL A MAN WHO DID DIFFERENT- sale price to clear
Wells Local History Group, Britain, 2013, 149pp
Set against backdrop of early 1900's, Sam, motivated by strong Quaker faith, transformed lives and injustice
$5.00
SEARCH FOR TRUTH, THE
Aotearoa New Zealand Yearly Meeting (Quakers) 2022, 36pp
Aotearoa New Zealand Quaker Lecture 2022. Information, disinformation and the algorithms of social media
$15.00
SEEDS OF SILENCE
Christian Alternative, US and Britain, 2021, 306pp
Questions modern world addiction to instant gratification & leads us back to contemplative thinking. A Quaker classic
$40.00
SEEKING UNION WITH SPIRIT: EXPERIENCES OF SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS
Australia Yearly Meeting, Australia, 2020, 43pp
2020 Backhouse Lecture. How to integrate spiritual being in all aspects of our lives. A personal reflection to share
$16.00
SIMPLE FAITH IN A COMPLICATED WORLD,A
Christian Alternative Quaker Quicks, Britain, 2023, 59pp
Kate came from mainstream faith but struggled, tried science & psychology, then at low point found Quakers & a simple faith of Jesus and Love one another
$27.00
SIMPLE GIFTS
Copy Press, Nelson, NZ, 2019, 150pp Illus
NZ Quaker. Reflects on the joy of her quiet life. Only needs a few minutes to dip in- for images & ideas to ponder
$25.00
SNAKES AND LADDERS
Quaker Books, London, 2012, 105pp
2012 Swarthmore Lecture. A personal exploration of Quaker work on human rights at the United Nations
$20.00
SOUL OF SUPERVISION, THE- Sale Price to Clear
Morehouse, US, 2010, 204pp
Integrating practice and theory, and bringing a spiritual dimension to supervision
$10.00
SPIRIT-LED ELDERING
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 392, US, 2007, 35pp
Integral to our faith and practice
$18.00
STANDING IN THIS PLACE
Aotearoa New Zealand Yearly Meeting, 2014, 60pp
2014 Lecture. An example, how in NZ many Quakers have been involved in supporting Maori self determination
$10.00
STARS BENEATH US; Finding God in the evolving Cosmos
Fortress Press, US, 2015, 153pp
A Christian scientist brings faith & science together to inspire reading of the natural world in new ways & God
$5.00
STORIES OF BELONGING: A Journey Across Aotearoa
ANZYM (Quakers), NZ, 2021, 24pp
2021 Quaker Lecture. Leader of Inclusive Aotearoa Collective Tahono, for all Kiwis. She is an Islamic media spokesperson
$15.00
SUM: Forty Tales from the afterlives Audio CD
Cannongate, Britain, 2009
A new idea about heaven. Fills contemporary longing for a secular holy book
$5.00
TANGLED ROOTS
Quaker Book Sales, NZ, 2008, 63pp
Collection of poems by a New Zealand Friend
$5.00
TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD
Quaker Quicks, Christian Alternative, UK, 2019, 75pp
Quakers say we know not very much about God & are in a constant process trying to improve saying what we do know.
$25.00
TENDER TIME, A: Quaker Voices at the End of Life
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.
$64.00
TENDING SACRED GROUND: Respectful Parenting
Christian Alternative, US and Britain, 2022, 81pp
Quaker Quicks From a Quaker perspective shows how to cultivate respect, resilience, humility, connection, discernment and joy wider inclusion
$29.00
THAT CLEAR AND CERTAIN SOUND:Finding Solid Ground in Perilous Times
Christian Alternative/Quaker Quicks, US, 2021, 80pp
Meditations on being alive in these wonderful & perilous times encourages us to stay alert to truth even in unlikely places
$24.00
THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF QUAKER SPIRITUALITY: LIGHT IN THE CONSCIENCE
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 483, 2023, US, 27pp
First Quakers rediscovered the early Christian experience that we can access divine guidance through our conscience
$25.00
THE INNER LEVEL
Allen Lane, Britain, 2018, 325pp Hardback
From "The Spirit Level" - how to make more equal societies, reduce stress, restore sanity and improve wellbeing
$39.00
THE MEETING
Faber and Faber, London 2018, 103pp
Rachel & her deaf mother find a Quaker silent community but then war & a stranger changes all. A play.
$5.00