Christian-Alternative/Quaker Quicks Britain, 2023, 78pp
examines writings of George Fox& puts them into day's context and develops our spirituality- very popular
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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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A COLLECTOR’S ITEM OR A BARGAIN OR BOTH!!
QUAKER FAITH AND PRACTICE, Britain Yearly Meeting
printed backwards eg when you lift the front cover you get the last page of the index upside down!!
Usual price $51 this special edition just $30!!
One only, so get in quick!! --email sales@books.quakers.nz
New Books
| OUR BIGGEST SELLER!! AGING AS A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE | |||||||
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| Lewis Richmond | $45.00 | ||||||
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Avery (Penguin) US, 2013, 243pp
Contemplative guide to growing older Has science, doctors and psychologists facts plus guided reflections
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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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| Quaker Testimony: What We Witness to the world | |
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| Paul Buckley | $25.00 |
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Pendle Hill Pamphlet 481, US, 2023, 34pp Explores some historic and more recent roles played by Testimonies, how have things changed, and the dangers to Quakerism |
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| Tending sacred Ground: Respectful parenting | |
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| Pamela Haines | $29.00 |
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Christian Alternative, Britain and US, 2022, 81pp Quaker Quicks series. From a Quaker perspective shows how to cultivate respect, resilence, humility, connection, discernment, and joy, with wider inclusion. |
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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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RESTORATIVE JUSTICE Insights and STORIES FROM MY JOURNEY
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| Howard Zehr | $40.00 |
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Walnut Street Books, US, 2023, 218pp Illustrated
The founder of Restorative Justice? Interviews with and essays by Howard Zehr, plus, for the first time, details and photos from his personal journey
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| ALL CREATION WAITS | |
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| Gayle Boss Illustrated by Sharon Spitz | $50.00 |
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Paraclette Press, US, 2023, 64 pp, Illustrated, Hardcover
Hear the refrain "The dark is not an end. It's a door. It's the way a new beginning comes" and reinforces the practice of waiting for creation something all ages can benefit from doing A delightfully illustrated Childrens Edition (5 to 10 year olds) of the story of Advent and the mystery and blessings of new beginnings. Although a Childrens Edition it would appeal to adults even recognising that it features only Northern Hemisphere animals |
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| QUAKERS IN POLITICS | |
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| Carl and Margery Post Abbott | $27.00 |
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Christian Alternative, UK, 2023, 82 pp A Quaker Quick. Establishes the roots of political activisim in Quakerism surveyingthe political involvement of Quakers today
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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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| QUAKERS AND SCIENCE |
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| Helen Holt | $28.00 |
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Christian Alternative, UK, 2023, 87pp From the Quaker Quick series. Strikingly orginal contribution to the science and religion debate and the distinctive approaches that Quaker Scientists have brought including social justice
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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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| EXPLORING ISAAC PENINGTON | |
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| Ruth Tod | $28.00 |
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Christian Alternative Quaker Quicks, Britain, 2023, 69pp Another in the excellent Quaker Quicks series. Seventeenth Century Quaker mystic, teacher and activist. Builds a bridge between his time and now with examples to explore the beliefs and habits that shape our lives |
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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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| OPEN TO NEW LIGHT Quakers and Other FAITHS |
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| Eleanor Nesbitt | $30.00 |
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Christian Alternative/Quaker Quicks, London, 2023, 83pp From the popular Quaker quicks series. Relates Quaker history and faith to other faiths, and the relationship between them |
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| RUFUS JONES and THE PRESENCE OF GOD | |
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| Helen Holt | $50.00 |
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Christian Alternative/Quaker Quicks, London, 2023, 79pp From the very popular Quaker Quicks series. Rufus Jones was a Quaker who controversally reshaped the way of thinking about God and humans. He talks also about his spiritual practices |
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"A GREETING OF THE SPIRIT" Spiritual Counseling and Creative Encounter |
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| Ben Tousley | $25.00 |
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Pendle Hill Pamphlet 484, US, 2023, 26pp Aotearoa New Zealand Quakers, 2022, 36pp The "soul frind/counsellor" can foster a relationship with your inner guide, nature, other people and the Spirit, with dreams, fragments and memories
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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
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 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
TWO BROTHERS
Black Swan, Britain, 2012, 621pp
Brothers growing up under the Nazis raised by the same parents, one is Jewish, his adopted brother is Aryan
$5.00
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
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
YOU DON'T HAVE TO SIT ON THE FLOOR
Seastone, US, 2002, 181pp
Making Buddhism part of your everyday life
$5.00