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43) The last runaway
Author
Language
English
Description
Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
Author
Series
Publisher
Christian Alternative Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
ix, 74 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Fell was an inspiring and practical leader in the early Quaker movement in 17th-century England. Remembered as the wife of George Fox, her writings have been largely forgotten. This book brings them to life again, with excerpts and reflections structured around the four testimonies that have continued to shape Quaker witness to this day: Simplicity, Truth, Equality and Peace. To do this, Joanna Godfrey Wood follows each passage with a modern...
Author
Series
Candy apple books. Main series volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
174 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
With Brianna Blake, the most popular girl in middle school, leading the race for student council president, accidental candidate Callie Singer doesn't think she has a chance to win until a humiliating incident caused by Brianna leads Callie to come back fighting.
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
52 pages : illustrations, map, facsimiles ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This publication aims to identify members of the Society of Friends in Scotland prior to 1700 and the Scots origins of many of the Quakers who settled in East New Jersey in the 1680s."--Introduction.
53) Quaker silence
Author
Publisher
Villard Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
210 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Washington Square Press trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Growing apart from his college friends in spite of annual reunions in Las Vegas, English literature professor Elliot West is shaken by the death of the most charismatic member of the group and quickly learns that the man was not who he claimed to be and had a dark influence on all of their lives. By the author of The Legacy. Original. 40,000 first printing.
Author
Series
Nantucket legacy volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six long years ago, Captain Reynolds Macy sailed away from his bride, looking forward to the day when he would return to Nantucket Island with a ship's hold full of whale oil. But when that momentous day finally arrives, Ren soon discovers that everything has changed in his absence. Everything. Suzanne Woods Fisher welcomes readers back to the Quaker community on Nantucket Island for a riveting love story full of unexpected moments.
58) Quaker summer
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Heather Curridge is coming unhinged. And people are starting to notice. What's wrong with a woman who has everything--a mansion on a lake, a loving son, a heart-surgeon husband, and soapstone countertops--yet still feels miserable inside? Yet when Heather spends the summer with two ancient Quaker sisters and a crusty nun in a downtown homeless shelter, she suddenly finds herself at a crossroads.
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