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The Guided Life: Finding Purpose in Troubled Times
By Craig Barnett. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2019. 80 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. What does it signify to live a…
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Jerry Mizell Williams
December 2020 Books: Young Friends Bookshelf
The Slave Who Went to Congress
By Marti Rosner and Frye Gaillard, illustrated by Jordana Haggard. NewSouth Books, 2020. 32 pages. $18.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 8–12.…
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Jerry Mizell Williams
April 2021 Books
Seeking Union with Spirit: Experiences of Spiritual Journeys
By Fiona Gardner. James Backhouse Lecture, 2020. 52 pages. $14/paperback; $8.99e/Book. As Quakers, we seek to be in union with…
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Jerry Mizell Williams
May 2021 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf
For Beautiful Black Boys Who Believe in a Better World
By Michael W. Waters, illustrated by Keisha Morris. Flyaway Books, 2020. 40 pages. $18/hardcover; $14/eBook. Recommended for ages 6–10. Recurring…
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Jerry Mizell Williams
Quaker Book Reviews
Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
By Michael Eric Dyson. St. Martin’s Press, 2020. 240 pages. $25.99/hardcover; $13.99/eBook. The murder of George Floyd, which became a…
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Jerry Mizell Williams
May 2022 Books: Young Friends Bookshelf
In the Name of Emmett Till: How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow
By Robert H. Mayer. NewSouth Books, 2021. 224 pages. $19.95/hardcover; $12.95/eBook. Recommended for ages 12–18. Unsung adolescent heroes of the…
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Jerry Mizell Williams
June/July 2022 Books
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
By Heather McGhee. One World, 2021. 448 pages. $28/hardcover; $18/paperback; $12.99/eBook. In the United States, one of the most vital…
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Jerry Mizell Williams
December 2022 Books: Young Friends Bookshelf
Evicted!: The Struggle for the Right to Vote
By Alice Faye Duncan, illustrated by Charly Palmer. Calkins Creek, 2022. 64 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 9–12. Etched…
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Jerry Mizell Williams
May 2023 Books: Young Friends Bookshelf
Itzel and the Ocelot
By Rachel Katstaller. Kids Can Press, 2022. 40 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $12.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 3–7. To craft this culturally rich…
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Jerry Mizell Williams
March 2019 Books
Quakers in Bolivia: The Early History of Bolivian Friends
By Emma Condori Mamani. Publicaciones CALA, 2017. 117 pages. $20/paperback. When in 1919 Friends undertook missionary work in Bolivia, it…
Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams
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