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The Last Runaway The Last Runaway (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 39,218 ratings — published 2013
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The Invention of Wings The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.26 — 331,263 ratings — published 2014
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A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons In Simplicity, Service, And Common Sense A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons In Simplicity, Service, And Common Sense (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 850 ratings — published 1998
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Plain Living: A Quaker Path to Simplicity Plain Living: A Quaker Path to Simplicity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 282 ratings — published 2001
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Flowers from the Storm Flowers from the Storm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 17,523 ratings — published 1992
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No Shame, No Fear (Quaker Trilogy #1) No Shame, No Fear (Quaker Trilogy #1)
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avg rating 3.73 — 1,161 ratings — published 2003
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The Quakers in America The Quakers in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 117 ratings — published 2003
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The Friendly Persuasion: A Classic American Saga of Family, Faith, and Love in the Revolutionary Era The Friendly Persuasion: A Classic American Saga of Family, Faith, and Love in the Revolutionary Era (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 989 ratings — published 1945
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.12 — 514 ratings — published 2017
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John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1) John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
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avg rating 3.87 — 83,428 ratings — published 2007
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Holy Silence: The Gift Of Quaker Spirituality Holy Silence: The Gift Of Quaker Spirituality (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 312 ratings — published 2005
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The Quiet Rebels: The Story of the Quakers in America The Quiet Rebels: The Story of the Quakers in America (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 58 ratings — published 1969
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.17 — 118,177 ratings — published 2000
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Quaker Spirituality: Selected Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality) Quaker Spirituality: Selected Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality)
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avg rating 3.95 — 122 ratings — published 1983
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The Messenger The Messenger (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 2,358 ratings — published 2012
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Quaking Quaking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 496 ratings — published 2007
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Delivering the Truth (Quaker Midwife Mystery, #1) Delivering the Truth (Quaker Midwife Mystery, #1)
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avg rating 3.69 — 900 ratings — published 2016
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The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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avg rating 3.69 — 369 ratings — published 2008
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The Arrow Over the Door The Arrow Over the Door (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.30 — 657 ratings — published 1998
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Four Doors to Meeting for Worship (Pendle Hill Pamphlets Book 306) Four Doors to Meeting for Worship (Pendle Hill Pamphlets Book 306)
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avg rating 4.35 — 46 ratings — published 1992
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Quaker Writings: An Anthology, 1650-1920 (Penguin Classics) Quaker Writings: An Anthology, 1650-1920 (Penguin Classics)
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avg rating 3.95 — 65 ratings — published 2010
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Mind the Light: Learning to See With Spiritual Eyes Mind the Light: Learning to See With Spiritual Eyes (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.04 — 76 ratings — published 2006
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 159,898 ratings — published 1958
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Quaker Testimony (Elizabeth Elliot Mystery #3) Quaker Testimony (Elizabeth Elliot Mystery #3)
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avg rating 3.24 — 111 ratings — published 1996
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The Light in Their Consciences: The Early Quakers in Britain, 1646–1666 The Light in Their Consciences: The Early Quakers in Britain, 1646–1666 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 14 ratings — published 2000
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The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.25 — 8 ratings — published 1996
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They Loved to Laugh They Loved to Laugh (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,446 ratings — published 1942
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Valiant Friend: The Life of Lucretia Mott Valiant Friend: The Life of Lucretia Mott (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 29 ratings — published 1990
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Godless for God's Sake: Nontheism in Contemporary Quakerism Godless for God's Sake: Nontheism in Contemporary Quakerism
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avg rating 4.09 — 65 ratings — published 2006
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Mothers of Feminism : The Story of Quaker Women in America Mothers of Feminism : The Story of Quaker Women in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.93 — 46 ratings — published 1997
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Forged in the Fire (Quaker Trilogy #2) Forged in the Fire (Quaker Trilogy #2)
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avg rating 3.82 — 478 ratings — published 2006
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Quaker Silence (Elizabeth Elliot Mystery #1) Quaker Silence (Elizabeth Elliot Mystery #1)
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avg rating 3.40 — 127 ratings — published 1992
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My American Eden My American Eden (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.64 — 50 ratings — published 2004
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The Unlikely Gunwharf Rats (St. Brendan #4) The Unlikely Gunwharf Rats (St. Brendan #4)
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avg rating 4.64 — 186 ratings — published 2024
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The Winter Rose The Winter Rose (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 2,589 ratings — published 2022
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What Comes After What Comes After (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 29,580 ratings — published 2021
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Quaker faith & practice Quaker faith & practice (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.47 — 156 ratings — published 2013
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The Dazzle of Day The Dazzle of Day (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 590 ratings — published 1997
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The Journal of George Fox The Journal of George Fox (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 183 ratings — published 1924
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The Inheritance (Secrets of the Shetlands, #1) The Inheritance (Secrets of the Shetlands, #1)
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avg rating 4.09 — 755 ratings — published 2016
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Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.46 — 26 ratings — published 1988
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The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 135 ratings — published 1971
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Encounter With Silence: Reflections from the Quaker Tradition Encounter With Silence: Reflections from the Quaker Tradition (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 54 ratings — published 1987
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The Spirit of the Quakers The Spirit of the Quakers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 57 ratings — published 2010
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Truth of the Heart: An Anthology of George Fox Truth of the Heart: An Anthology of George Fox (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 16 ratings — published 2007
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Our Life Is Love: The Quaker Spiritual Journey Our Life Is Love: The Quaker Spiritual Journey (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 36 ratings — published
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A Language for the Inward Landscape: Wisdom from the Quaker Tradition A Language for the Inward Landscape: Wisdom from the Quaker Tradition (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.57 — 7 ratings — published
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Redfield Farm: A Novel of the Underground Railroad Redfield Farm: A Novel of the Underground Railroad (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.07 — 3,882 ratings — published 2010
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“I was only beginning to enter into the infinite subtlety of Gregorian chant. It was - and remains - the only public prayer I have ever been able to engage in without feeling like a phony and a jackass. But then, one day in 1965 or so, it was simply abolished. With a stroke of his pen, Pope John XXIII - who had such good ideas about other things - declared that liturgy would henceforth be in the vernacular language of the people. That was, effectively, the end of Latin chant.

Then all those monks and nuns who had devoted hours and hours a day began to sicken and fall into depressions, but nobody noticed for a long time. Maybe, as I can well believe, the music toned up their systems in some mysterious way. Or perhaps chant really was a language that God understood. Faced with numerous liturgical scholas shrieking away in the new vernacular hymns, Divinity may have covered its ears and withdrawn, leaving the monks to pine. We parish musicians, illiterate in anything written after the 13th century, stumbled around trying to score liturgies for guitar and bongo drums, trying to make sense of texts like "Eat his body! Drink his blood!"

It wasn't because the music got so bad that I quit going to Mass, but it certainly was the beginning of my doubts about papal infallibility.”
Mary Rose O'Reilley, The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

Murray N. Rothbard
“Once a state has completely withered away, it is an extremely difficult task to re-create it, as Blackwell quickly discovered. If Blackwell had been under any illusions that the Quakers were a meek and passive people, he was in for a rude surprise. He was to find very quickly that devotion to peace, to liberty, and to individualism in no sense implies passive resignation to tyranny. Quite the contrary.”
Murray N. Rothbard, Conceived in Liberty Volumes I-IV

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