Christian-Alternative/Quaker Quicks Britain, 2023, 78pp
History and beliefs in very readable format from well known Quaker writer and tutor
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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 | $15.00 |
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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
THE WORLD IN A SENTENCE
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 486, 2024, US, 29pp
"Once in a while someone says something that stops me in my tracks" Author gives examples of this in thirty years of her work in peacebuilding around the world
$25.00
THIS WE CAN SAY: Australian Quaker Life, Faith and Thought
Australia Yearly Meeting, 2004, 352pp Illus
Australian Faith and Practice
$52.00
TO BE BROKEN AND TENDER: A Quaker theology for today
Western Friends, US, 2010, 242pp
Quaker history and theology- willingness to risk being tender and broken allows the Light to move within us
$41.00
TOUCHED BY GOD in Quaker Meeting
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 338, US, 1998, 32pp
Title says it all
$6.95
TRANSCENDING NEOLIBERALISM
Aotearoa New Zealand Yearly Meeting, 2017,32pp
2017 Quaker Lecture. Moving from a state of denial to progressive transformation
$14.00
TRAVELING IN THE DARK: A MEMOIR
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 482, 2023, US, 25pp
Uses metaphors to bring understanding of her own darkness and our spiritual journeys and the importance of being unique rather than having to conform
$25.00
TRUTH OF THE HEART
Quaker Books, London, 2007, Revised Edition 202pp
examines writings of George Fox& puts them into day's context and develops our spirituality- very popular
$40.00
TUNING IN
Friends Council on Education, US, 2009, 144pp
Mindfulness in teaching and learning, a collection of essays for teachers by teachers
$5.00
TWELVE QUAKERS
Quaker Quest, Britain, 2022, 38pp
From the popular Twelve Quaker series. Twelve Quakers tell how they relate to their communities, what being Friends together means to them, in all their diversity &warmth
$15.00
TWELVE QUAKERS AND DEATH
Quaker Quest, Britain,2017, 40pp
Latest in series. Quakers and eternal life, attitude to death and coping with loss
$13.00
TWELVE QUAKERS AND EQUALITY
Quaker Quest, Hampstead Meeting, Britain, 2007, 40pp
Twelve Quakers reflect on their experience of Equality
$10.00
TWELVE QUAKERS AND EVIL
Quaker Quest, Hampstead Meeting, Britain, 2006, 36pp
Twelve Quakers reflect on their experience of Evil
$10.00
TWELVE QUAKERS AND JESUS
Quaker Quest, Hampstead Meeting, Britain, 2007, 35pp
Twelve Quakers reflect on their experience of Jesus
$10.00
TWELVE QUAKERS AND PACIFISM
Quaker Quest, Hampstead Meeting, Britain, 2005, 36pp
Twelve Quakers reflect on their experience of Pacifism
$10.00
TWELVE QUAKERS AND PRAYER
Quaker Quest, Britain,2015, 40pp
The latest in this popular series. Short focussed discussions on various Quaker beliefs and practices
$10.00
TWELVE QUAKERS AND SIMPLICITY
Quaker Quest, Hampstead Meeting, Britain, 2006 35pp
Twelve Quakers reflect on their experience of Simplicity
$10.00
TWELVE QUAKERS AND TRUTH
Quaker Quest, Britain, 2013, 40pp
From a great series. Short and to the point about Quaker beliefs
$10.00
TWELVE QUAKERS AND WORSHIP
Quaker Quest, Hampstead Meeting, Britain, 2004 32pp
Twelve Quakers reflect on their experience of Worship
$10.00
UNAPOLOGETIC; why despite everything Christianity can still make emotional sense
Faber and Faber, London 2012, 224pp
Muscular counter attack against Richard Dawkins showing that belief need not mean abandoning intelligence
$19.00
UNEXPECTED HERO, AN
Createbooks, NZ, 2014, 145p (online teachers resource available)
A 12 year old in rural NZ district has to make a speech in public, on WW1 pacifist Archibald Baxter, good idea?
$16.00
WAIT AND WATCH Spiritual Practice, Rehearsal, and Performance
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 485, 2024, US, 30pp
Using the analogy found in theatre, music concerts & sports, describes how Meeting for Worship or Worship for Business can develop seven skills to transform
$25.00
WALK HUMBLY, SERVE BOLDLY
Inner Light Books, US, 2018, 466pp
Modern Quakers as everyday prophets. As did early Quakers we have choice to move from focus on us to The Light
$60.00
WALKING WITH THE BIBLE
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 474,US, 2022,43pp
2020 American Friends hosted a series of speakers on the role the Bible plays in their lives and resulting queries
$22.00
WHAT CANST THOU SAY?
Quaker Books, London, 1980 (republished 2007), 88pp
Swarthmore Lecture 1980. Towards a Quaker Theology
$20.00
WHAT DO QUAKERS BELIEVE?
Quaker Quicks, Christian Alternative, UK, 2019, 70pp
Crucial questions answered clearly, straightforwardly and without jargon; Good Introduction
$25.00
WHAT WE KNOW, WHAT WE SAY AND WHAT WE DO
Yearly Meeting, New Zealand, 2015, 31pp
2015 Quaker Lecture. Economic decisions are moral decisions. Poverty in New Zealand
$10.00
WHAT WE STAND ON
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 429, US, 2014, 29pp
Calls Quakers to account for how well we face the seeds of war within our own lives
$14.00
WHY I AM A PACIFIST
Quaker Quicks, Christian Alternative, UK, 2018, 74pp
Short clear comprehensive explanation of pacifism that covers all the bases & doesn't shy away from difficult questions
$26.00
WHY SILENCE? Revisiting the foundations of Quaker worship
The Kindlers, Britain, 2016, 64pp
Offers a collection of spiritual practices to help overcome what is blocking us to a deepening "soul silence"
$17.00
WITH A TENDER HAND: a resource book for eldership and oversight
Quaker Books, Britain, 2015, 432pp
Quaker Life commissioned this comprehensive handbook to provide confident Eldership and Oversight
$42.00
WORDS OUT OF SILENCE
Ekklesia, Britain, 2019, 155pp
A Quaker writer using poetry and prose on a journey of how to respond to turmoil in today's world
$32.00