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February 2017 Books

New England Wakes and On the Grand Account

By Clint Hull. Self-published, 2015. 283 pages. $14.95/paperback. This volume contains two stories of seventeenth-century New England; the first one…

In Brief review by Karie Firoozmand

February 2019 Books

Quakers: The Quiet Revolutionaries

Directed by Janet P. Gardner. Gardner Documentary Group, 2018. 108 minutes. See Quakersthefilm.com for more information. Friend Janet Gardner and…

Books In Brief: Review by Karie Firoozmand

February 2019 Books

Poems from the Myst

By Michael Resman. Zumbro River Press, 2018. 176 pages. $7.40/paperback; $0.99/eBook. Deep sharing is a gift, and Michael Resman is…

Books In Brief: Review by Karie Firoozmand

February 2019 Books

The Beauty Queen of Bonthe and Other Stories of West Africa

By Gregory A. Barnes. FriendsPress, 2018. 194 pages. $12/paperback. It was a pleasure to read some of this collection and…

Books In Brief: Review by Karie Firoozmand

February 2019 Books

We Face the Dawn: Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson, and the Legal Team That Dismantled Jim Crow

By Margaret Edds. University of Virginia Press, 2018. 424 pages. $29.95/hardcover or eBook; $24.95/paperback. Friend Margaret Edds, a journalist by…

Books In Brief: Review by Karie Firoozmand

February 2019 Books

Living on Automatic: How Emotional Conditioning Shapes Our Lives and Relationships

By Homer B. Martin and Christine B.L. Adams. Praeger, 2018. 187 pages. $37/hardcover or eBook. Quaker doctor Christine B.L. Adams…

Books In Brief: Review by Karie Firoozmand

February 2017 Books

Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions

By Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka. Fordham University Press, 2016. 256 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $19.99/eBook. Here is a memoir written in 1960 but…

In Brief review by Karie Firoozmand

February 2017 Books

Resolving Difference—in our ways of speaking about God or the ultimate reality

By Rex Ambler. Quaker Universalist Group Pamphlets (number 35), 2016. 28 pages. £2/pamphlet (see qug.org.uk). North American Friends are familiar…

In Brief review by Karie Firoozmand

February 2017 Books

Words

By Harvey Gillman. The Friend Publications, 2016. 56 pages. $9/paperback (available from QuakerBooks). British Friend Harvey Gillman deserves to be…

In Brief review by Karie Firoozmand

February 2017 Books

Spiritual Steps on the Road to Success (Revised Edition)

By Linda Seger. Haven Books, 2015. 279 pages. $14.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Friend Linda Seger takes on the ever-relevant questions of personal…

In Brief review by Karie Firoozmand