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Sacred Liberty: America’s Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom

By Steven Waldman. HarperOne, 2019. 416 pages. $28.99/hardcover; $12.99/eBook.

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning

By George Lakey. Melville House, 2018. 224 pages. $16.99/paperback; $13.99/eBook (title available December 2018). In June 1934 Quaker biblical scholar…

Reviewed by Steve Chase

The Girl Who Saved Yesterday

FJ Review: "Elements of it will resonate with anyone who has felt loss, and perhaps the message will be clear to children that we must not bury our sorrows and losses, but must remember and cherish them."

Reviewed by Anne Nydam

Canned and Crushed

By Bibi Belford. Sky Pony Press, 2015. 192 pages. $14.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 8–12. This novel could serve as…

Reviewed by Eileen Redden

Dorothea’s Eyes: Dorothea Lange Photographs the Truth

By Barb Rosenstock, illustrated by Gérard DuBois. Calkins Creek, 2016. 40 pages. $16.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 8–12. I have always…

Reviewed by Hina Fathima

Can Sophie Change the World?

By Nancy Elizabeth Wallace, illustrated by Aura Lewis. Chronicle Books, 2022. 32 pages. $16.99/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 3–5. This…

Reviewed by Karen Clark

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

The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

By Frances FitzGerald. Simon & Schuster, 2017. 752 pages. $35/hardcover; $20/paperback; $14.99/eBook. Frances FitzGerald offers a spectacular sweep of the…

Reviewed by Zae Asa Illo

Becoming Curious: A Spiritual Practice of Asking Questions

By Casey Tygrett. IVP Books, 2017. 192 pages. $16/paperback; $15.99/eBook. Got faith? Then why question? Now there’s a question, and…

Reviewed by Rob Pierson

Experiences: Life at a Continuing Care Retirement Community

By Residents of Kendal at Longwood. Peggy and Allan Brick Publishers, 2015. 167 pages. $12/paperback. Alan Walker’s essay “Quakers and…

Reviewed by Peter Bien