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October 2018 Books

Giving Up Something Good for Something Better

By Sister Alegria del Senor and Sister Confianza del Senor (Beth Blodgett and Prairie Naoma Cutting). Amigas Press, 2017. 362…

Reviewed by Seres Kyrie

November 2018 Books

Primitive Christianity Revived and Primitive Quakerism Revived

Primitive Christianity Revived. By William Penn, translated into modern English by Paul Buckley. Inner Light Books, 2018. 115 pages. $25/hardcover;…

Reviewed by Max L. Carter

January 2019 Books

This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement

By Sarah Azaransky. Oxford University Press, 2017. 296 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $23.99/eBook. The story of the Civil Rights Movement is almost…

Reviewed by Isaac Barnes May

August 2019 Books

Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion

By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove. IVP Books, 2018. 192 pages. $20/hardcover; $19.99/eBook. ack in 1968, I was a 13-year-old seeker and new…

Reviewed by Steve Chase

November 2019 Books

Forgotten Occupation: Life in the Syrian Golan after 50 Years of Israeli Occupation

Edited and published by Al-Marsad Arab Human Rights Centre in Golan Heights, 2018. 144 pages. Free PDF download at golan-marsad.org/publications.

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

November 2019 Books

Money and Soul: Quaker Faith and Practice and the Economy

By Pamela Haines. Christian Alternative Books, 2019. 80 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook.

Reviewed by Steve Chase

December 2019 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II

By Andrea Warren. Margaret Ferguson Books, 2019. 224 pages. $22.99/hardcover. Recommended for ages 10 and up.

Reviewed by Ann Birch

January 2020 Book Reviews

The Magnificent Journey: Living Deep in the Kingdom

By James Bryan Smith. IVP Books, 2018. 176 pages. $22/hardcover; $21.99/eBook.

Compiled by Karie Firoozmand

March 2020 Book Reviews

How Far Have You Traveled?

By John Calvi. True Quaker Press, 2019. 236 pages. $14.95/paperback.

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

May 2020 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf

What Miss Mitchell Saw

By Hayley Barrett, illustrated by Diana Sudyka. Beach Lane Books, 2019. 40 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 4–8.

Reviewed by Paul Buckley