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[2021]
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First edition.
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"It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next few months new bonds of friendship and love will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge among this unlikely cast of characters, each richly drawn and achingly human: a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American...
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"Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker who works tirelessly in Vichy France to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. After crossing the treacherous Pyřňes, Grace returns home to Oregon with a brother and sister whose parents were lost during the war. Though Grace and her husband love ⁹lias and Marguerite as their own, echoes of Grace's past and trauma from the Holocaust tear the Tonquin family apart. More than fifty years after they disappear,...
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Vagabond trilogy volume 02
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Description
"After being publicly flogged ten stripes on her bare back for speaking out against the minister at Hampton in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Quaker missionary Mary Tomkins is spirited away to the refuge of Newport, Rhode Island by her companions, Alice Ambrose, Anne Coleman, Edward Wharton, and George Preston. The Friends sail in Edward's boat the Sea Witch gaining the refuge of Newport, Rhode Island, by mid-May 1663. There the Society of Friends...
5) I am Quaker
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Pub. Date
1998
Description
A young Quaker explains the beliefs and practices of this religion.
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Nantucket legacy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Phoebe Starbuck has always adjusted her sails and rudder to the whims of her father. Now, for the first time, she's doing what she wants to do: marrying Captain Phineas Foulger and sailing far away from Nantucket. As she leaves on her grand adventure, her father gives her two gifts, both of which Phoebe sees little need for. The first is an old sheepskin journal from Great Mary, her highly revered great-grandmother. The other is a "minder" on the...
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Nantucket legacy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
In 19th Century Nantucket, a Quaker woman must choose between the man everyone expects her to marry -- or his seafaring cousin.
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Large print edition.
Description
"Sam Gardner has been pastor of Hope Friends Meeting for just four months when ninety-eight-year-old member Oilve Charles passes away. What's more shocking news is that Olive has left her entire estate--worth nearly one million dollars--to the meeting. At first the gift sounds to Sam like a godsend. Yet as word of the unexpected windfall spreads, it stirs up a storm of conflicting opinions among the church members as to how the money would best be...
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2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
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Thanks to an unexpected windfall, Sam Gardner's congregation (with the exception of a few malcontents) is eager to expand their meetinghouse. But before building can commence, the County Environmental Board and the Department of Natural Resources put the quietus on the plan. A colony of endangered Indiana bats have made the tree beside the meetinghouse, and the meetinghouse attic, their place of hanging, mating, and living, which poses a big problem...
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Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition trade paperback.
Description
"Knocked off her feet after twenty years in public health nursing, Iris Graville quit her job and convinced her husband and their thirteen-year-old twins to move to Stahekin, a remote mountain village in Washington State's North Cascades. They sought adventure; she yearned for the solitude of this community of eighty-five residents accessible only by boat, float plane, or hiking. "Hiking Naked" chronicles Graville's journey through questions about...
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