November 2024 Books

November 2024 Books

Idlewild: A Novel

By James Frankie Thomas. The Overlook Press, 2023. 400 pages. $28/hardcover; $18/paperback; $16.20/eBook. Nell and Fay first speak before the…

Reviewed by Trevor Brandt

November 2024 Books

The Low Road: A Novel

By Katharine Quarmby. Unbound, 2023. 400 pages. $22.95/hardcover; $15.99/eBook. The Low Road by Katharine Quarmby, a Quaker at Hampstead Meeting…

Reviewed by Laura Barrosse-Antle

November 2024 Books

And This Shall Be My Dancing Day: A Novel

By Jennifer Kavanagh. Roundfire Books, 2023. 192 pages. $16.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Emma, the protagonist of And This Shall Be My Dancing…

Reviewed by Michele Sands

November 2024 Books

A Tender Time: Quaker Voices on the End of Life

By Patricia M. Nesbitt and Kristin Camitta Zimet. Baltimore Yearly Meeting, 2024. 212 pages. $18/paperback. “What happens when we die?”…

Reviewed by Brad Sheeks

November 2024 Books

A Friend in Deed: The Life of Henry Stanley Newman

By Maggie Waldman. Orphans Publishing, 2023. 260 pages. £30 (about $39)/hardcover; $20.99/eBook. If your first reaction to this title is…

Reviewed by Martin Kelley

November 2024 Books

Where Are the Fellows Who Cut the Hay?: How Traditions from the Past Can Shape Our Future

By Robert Ashton. Unbound, 2024. 256 pages. $22.95/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. On a First-day morning in 2016, Robert Ashton sat in the…

Reviewed by Max L. Carter

November 2024 Books

Toward a Holy Ecology: Reading the Song of Songs in the Age of Climate Crisis

By Ellen Bernstein. Monkfish Book Publishing Company, 2024. 160 pages. $17.95/paperback or eBook. “The first step toward ecological repair,” advises…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

November 2024 Books

Deep Hospitality: Reflections on Welcome to the Quaker Community

By Rhiannon Grant. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 487), 2024. 34 pages. $7.50/pamphlet or eBook. Does your Quaker meeting long to…

Reviewed by Diane Randall

November 2024 Books

Sketches from Behind Prison Walls

Illustrated by Rein Kolts, introduction and commentary by Devon M. Kurtz. Quaker Institute for the Future, 2024. 104 pages. $40/hardcover;…

Reviewed by Signe Wilkinson

November 2024 Books

Standing Up to Hate: The Charlottesville Clergy Collective and the Lessons from August 12, 2017

Edited by Michael Cheuk. Nurturing Faith, 2023. 138 pages. $20/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Standing Up to Hate is raw in two senses…

Reviewed by Abigail E. Adams

November 2024 Books

Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

By Tiya Miles. Penguin Press, 2024. 336 pages. $30/hardcover; $15.99/eBook. There are already quite a few exceptional biographies of Harriet…

Reviewed by Mike Fallahay

November 2024 Books

The Woolman Way: A History of John Woolman School

By Lisa Frankel and Catherine Lenox. Self-published, 2023. 402 pages. $24.95/paperback. As a longtime teacher and administrator at a Friends…

Reviewed by Brad Gibson

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Idlewild: A Novel

November 1, 2024

The Low Road: A Novel

November 1, 2024

And This Shall Be My Dancing Day: A Novel

November 1, 2024