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Quaker Book Sales - New Books April to June 2011

New Books April - June 2011

PRICE $NZ	TITLE	AUTHOR	PUBLISHER	DESCRIPTION
13.50	"PRESENT" OF QUAKERISM: YOUNG ADULTS, THE	Stoph and Maia Hallward	Southeastern Yearly Meeting, US, 2010, 32 pp	How to connect with this important group
18.00	ANSWERING THE VIOLENCE:Encounters With Perpetrators	John Lampen	Pendle Hill Pamphlet 412, US, 2011, 40pp	The issues of reaching out in friendship to perpetrators- includes discussion questions
12.00	CHANGING THE PRISON SYSTEM	Tony Taylor	Aotearoa New Zealand Yearly Meeting, 2011, 60pp	2011 Quaker Lecture from Quaker professor of psychology
28.00	CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER	Thomas Merton	Image/Doubleday, US, 1969, 94pp	How peace contacted through meditation not to evade contemporary life, but directed out to positive change
32.00	DECISION MAKING & SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT	Nancy Bieber	Skylights, US, 2010, 197pp	Willingness, attentiveness and responsiveness with practical spiritual exercises and group discussion
14.00	DEEPLY ROOTED: Alive In The Spirit	Marcelle Martin	Southeastern Meeting, US, 2009, 32pp	Early Quakers presented a more radical alternative understanding of Christ and life in the Spirit so now?
23.50	EAARTH: Making A Life On A Tough New Planet	Bill McKibben	St Martins, US, 2011, 261pp	Eaarth is the new Earth- Important strands of environmental thought- a radical manifesto for our survivial
29.00	ETERNAL LIFE	John Selby Spong	Harper, US, 2009, 268pp	Spong talks about this important question in the new world he proposes to Christianity
17.00	EVOLUTIONARY POTENTIAL OF QUAKERISM REVISITED	Keith Helmuth	Chapel Street,Canada, 2011, 55pp	Kenneth Boulding & John Bellers gave so much to Quakerism and is revisited
27.00	FEEDING PEOPLE IS EASY	Colin Tudge	Pari Publishing, Italy, 2007, 160pp	A fresh approach that is entirely positive
16.50	GARDENER, THE	Sarah Stewart	Square Fish, US, A4 Format Illus	In 1930's Lydia is sent to live with her gloomy Uncle & sets out to make him smile- for children & adults
44.00	GREEN CHRISTIANITY	Mark Wallace	Fortress Press, US, 2010, 181pp and DVD included	5 Ways to a sustainable future and spirituality and Christianity needs to be part of it
21.00	HAVE SALT IN YOURSELVES	George Fox (arranged by T H S Wallace)	Foundation, US, 2010, 104pp	A Book of Quaker Psalms
31.00	HOLY WAY, THE: Practices for a Simple Life	Paula Huston	Loyala Press, US, 2003, 358pp	Finding a simple life in a world of chaos and complexity, the pull of God within, silence and contemplation
44.00	JOHN WOOLMAN AND THE AFFAIRS OF TRUTH	James Proud (Ed)	Inner Light Books, US, 2010, 310pp	The Journal writer's essays, epistles and ephemera
25.50	KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU, THE	Leo Tolstoy	White Crow, Britain, 2009, 318pp	Heard that before? Tolstoy reviewed his beliefs in middle age and presents many things Quaker can relate to
26.00	LARK IN THE MORN, THE	Elfrida Vipont	Bethlehem Books, US, 1948 (2007 Edition),196pp Illus	A classic Quaker children's story
23.00	MENNONITE IN A LITTLE BLACK DRESS	Rhoda Janzen	Atlantic Books, Britain, 2011, 262pp	Sometimes you have to go back (home) to move forward. Best seller. Back to what we wanted once to leave
13.50	NOTSO HOTSO	Anne Fine	Farrar Strauss, US, 2001, 92pp Illus Hardbound	Why do bad things happen to good dogs?
42.00	QUAKER WRITING:An Anthology 1650-1920	Thomas Hamm	Penguin,US, 2010, 370pp	By Quaker professor, on history and religious thought over three centuries
63.00	SHORT JOURNALS AND ITINERARY JOURNALS OF GEORGE FOX	Norman Penney (Ed)	Cambridge University Press, 1925 (reprint), 403pp	1)his wandering & persecution, 2)another his missionary work & 3)the other on Fox written by a companion
12.00	WE ARE LOVED LET US LOVE	Ben Pink Dandelion	Beacon Hill Friends House, US, 2010, 32pp	Quakers and the belief in Cosmopolitanism rather than using "them" and "us"