August 2022 Books

August 2022 Books

Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer

By Kate Clifford Larson. Oxford University Press, 2021. 336 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $18.99/eBook. If you’re curious to learn how a malnourished…

Reviewed by Judith Wright Favor

August 2022 Books

An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women’s Rights

By Marguerite Kearns. Excelsior Editions, 2021. 354 pages. $34.95/paperback or eBook. This title will likely draw readers with an interest…

Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson

August 2022 Books

These Walls Between Us: A Memoir of Friendship Across Race and Class AND Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel

By Wendy Sanford. She Writes Press, 2021. 328 pages. $16.95/paperback; $9.95/eBook. By Omri Boehm. New York Review of Books, 2021.…

Reviewed by Steve Chase

August 2022 Books

Reaching Beyond Prison Walls: Stories of Volunteer Visitors and the Prisoners They See

Edited and compiled by Eric Corson. Self-published, 2021. 254 pages. $23.95/paperback. This book gives some history of the Philadelphia-based nonprofit…

Reviewed by J. E. McNeil

August 2022 Books

Friending Rosie on Death Row

By Judith Favor, with Rosie Alfaro. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 470), 2021. 34 pages. $7.50/pamphlet. The Pendle Hill pamphlet Friending…

Reviewed by Sharlee DiMenichi

August 2022 Books

Quakers and Their Meeting Houses

By Chris Skidmore. Liverpool University Press, 2021. 176 pages. $75/hardcover. FJ readers can use code ADISTA5 for 30% off at…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

August 2022 Books

Within Our Grasp: Childhood Malnutrition Worldwide and the Revolution Taking Place to End It    

By Sharman Apt Russell. Pantheon, 2021. 336 pages. $28.95/hardcover; $13.99/eBook. “The power of a story can change the world.” The…

Reviewed by Margaret Crompton

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Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer

August 1, 2022

An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women’s Rights

August 1, 2022

These Walls Between Us: A Memoir of Friendship Across Race and Class AND Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel

August 1, 2022