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January 2023 Books
January 2023 Books
The Quaker Scout: Testimony of a Civil War Non-Combatant of the Woodlawn Antislavery Colony
By Jonathan Roberts, presented by Martha Claire Catlin. Quaker Heron Press, 2022. 320 pages. $19.99/paperback. First published in 1891 in…
Alla Podolsky
January 2023 Books
The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning
By Resmaa Menakem. Central Recovery Press, 2022. 384 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $18.95/paperback or eBook. This unusual book is difficult to describe.…
Alla Podolsky
January 2023 Books
The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened
By Bill McKibben. Henry Holt and Company, 2022. 240 pages. $27.99/hardcover; $17.99/paperback; $14.99/eBook. Bill McKibben is best known as an…
Alla Podolsky
January 2023 Books
Hillbilly Quaker
By Jennifer Elam. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 475), 2022. 32 pages. $7.50/pamphlet. Jennifer Elam learned as a child who was…
Alla Podolsky
January 2023 Books
“Put It Down on Paper”: The Words and Life of Mary Folsom Blair, A Fifty-Year Search
By Phil Primack. Loom Press, 2022. 232 pages. $20/paperback. Phil Primack takes the reader on a journey of discovery as…
Alla Podolsky
January 2023 Books
Between the Listening and the Telling: How Stories Can Save Us
By Mark Yaconelli. Broadleaf Books, 2022. 206 pages. $24.99/hardcover; $22.99/eBook. For my last Friends Journal book review, of Within Our…
Alla Podolsky
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The Quaker Scout: Testimony of a Civil War Non-Combatant of the Woodlawn Antislavery Colony
January 1, 2023
The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning
January 1, 2023
The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened
January 1, 2023