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Book Reviews: May 2012

Peace on Earth: Poems and Prayers for Peace By Sophie Piper. Illustrated by Giuliano Ferri. Lion UK, 2011. 48 pages. $9.99/Hardcover.…

Lisa Rand, Michelle McAtee, Jim Foritano, Vickie LeCroy, Alison James, Tom Farley, Sandy Farley, Dee Cameron, Lucinda Hathaway, David Austin, Gwen Gosney Erickson, Emmy Gay, Meagan Healy, Rosalie Dance

Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration

By Christine Montross. Penguin Press, 2020. 352 pages. $28/hardcover; $18/paperback (available in July); $14.99/eBook. Why does the United States have…

Reviewed by Rosalie Dance

Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City

By Wes Moore with Erica L. Green. One World, 2020. 320 pages.  $28/hardcover; $18/paperback; $4.99/eBook.   In April of 2015, I…

Reviewed by Rosalie Dance

American Refuge: True Stories of the Refugee Experience

By Diya Abdo. Steerforth Press / Truth to Power, 2022. 176 pages. $16.95/paperback; $11.99/eBook. American Refuge contains stories retold by…

Reviewed by Rosalie Dance

In Brief: Tears of Gold: Portraits of Yazidi, Rohingya, and Nigerian Women

By Hannah Rose Thomas. Plough Publishing House, 2024. 136 pages. $49.95/hardcover; $29.99/eBook. This full-color book contains Hannah Rose Thomas’s portraits…

Reviewed by Rosalie Dance

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June/July Books 2012

A Lively Faith: Reflections on Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative) By Callie Marsh. FGC QuakerPress, 2011. 102 pages. $14.95/paperback. Reviewed…

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Books January 2013

Ending Cycles of Violence: Kenyan Quaker Peacemaking Response after the 2007 Election By Judy Lumb. Producciones de la Hamaca (Belize)…

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Books April 2013

Why Can’t We Talk? Christian Wisdom on Dialogue as a Habit of the Heart by John Backman. Skylight Paths Publishing,…

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Educating for Insurgency: The Roles of Young People in Schools of Poverty

By Jay Gillen. AK Press, 2014. 178 pages. $15.95/paperback; $10.99/eBook. A forward by civil rights leader Bob Moses gives Educating…

Reviewed by Rosalie Dance