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Books September 2014

Book reviews.

Staff

Ordinary Miracles: Awakening to the Holy Work of Parenting / Their Name Is Today: Reclaiming Childhood in a Hostile World (Books)

Ordinary Miracles: By Rachel S. Gerber. Herald Press, 2014. 145 pages. $12.99/paperback; $8.99/eBook.   Their Name Is Today: By Johann…

Reviewed by Tom and Sandy Farley

Rachel Carson and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America’s Environment

By Robert K. Musil. Rutgers University Press, 2014. 328 pages. $26.95/hardcover; $23.95/paperback; $15.98/eBook. Silent Spring author Rachel Carson is credited…

Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson

Faith and Experience in Education: Essays from Quaker Perspectives

Edited by Don Rowe and Anne Watson. Trentham Books, 2018. 256 pages. $41.95/paperback or eBook. As an early childhood teacher,…

Reviewed by Sharlee DiMenichi

Pendle Hill, A Place to Be and Become: Reflections on the First Ninety Years

By Doug Gwyn. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 464), 2020. 32 pages. $7.50/pamphlet. As we travelled we came near a very…

Reviewed by Diana Roose

Naomi “Omie” Wise: Her Life, Death, and Legend

By Hal E. Pugh and Eleanor Minnock-Pugh. McFarland & Company, 2022. 218 pages. $29.95/paperback; $17.99/eBook. Oh, listen to my story;…

Reviewed by J. Brent Bill

Friends and Comrades: How Quakers Helped Russians to Survive Famine and Epidemic

By Sergei Nikitin, translated by Suzanne Eade Roberts. Quacks Books, 2022. 385 pages. $15/paperback; $14.99/eBook. Reviewing Friends and Comrades was…

Reviewed by Steve Jenkins

Our Quaker Ancestors Owned Slaves

A search through one family’s genealogy.

David Marriott Morris with Eleanor Morris Cox

Melchior and Mistletoe

Edward Milligan

Ice Fisher

Helen Weaver Hom