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In Brief: A Quaker’s View of Gendlin’s Philosophy

By Harbert Rice. Embudo Valley Press, 2020. 126 pages. $14.99/paperback; $7.99/eBook. Eugene Gendlin was a twentieth-century philosopher whose work and…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

Dog Medicine: How My Dog Saved Me From Myself

By Julie Barton. Think Piece, 2015. 221 pages. $14.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. It’s hard to prioritize whom to recommend this book to:…

Compiled by Karie Firoozmand

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

In Brief: Whisperwood: A Confederate Soldier’s Story of War and Conscience

By Van Temple. Self-published, 2020. 376 pages. $16.99/paperback; $1.99/eBook. Anderson Flowers Temple was a real person and a Confederate soldier…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

This Changes Everything

Directed by Avi Lewis, written and narrated by Naomi Klein. Klein Lewis Productions, 2015. 89 minutes. $9.99 to buy or…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

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

In Brief: In the Light of Silence

By Linda Carrillo. Resource Publications, 2020. 264 pages. $47/hardcover; $27/paperback or eBook. Writing a novel is one of the trickiest…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

Memories of the Quaker Past: Stories of Thirty-seven Senior Quakers

Edited by Christine Ayoub. Xlibris, 2014. 361 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $19.99/paperback; $3.99/eBook. This volume of excerpted and transcribed interviews is another…

Compiled by Karie Firoozmand

Where Do Dreams and Dreaming Go? White and Black

Where Do Dreams and Dreaming Go? A Palestinian Quaker in America By May Mansoor Munn, edited by Ann Walton Sieber.…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

In Brief: Choosing Life: My Father’s Journey in Film from Hollywood to Hiroshima

By Leslie A. Sussan. Self-published, 2020. 350 pages. $16.99/paperback; $4.99/eBook. This is a book with a complicated origin. For the…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand