Quakers In Fiction

Author : Liam McIlvanney
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487003760

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The Quaker by Liam McIlvanney Pdf

In the chilling new crime novel from award-winning author Liam McIlvanney, a serial killer stalks the streets of Glasgow and Detective Inspector McCormack follows a trail of devastating secrets to uncover the truth ... Glasgow, 1969. In the grip of the worst winter for years, the city is brought to its knees by a killer whose name fills the streets with fear: The Quaker. He takes his next victim — the third woman from the same nightclub — and dumps her in the street like rubbish. The police are left chasing a ghost, with no new leads and no hope of catching their prey. DI McCormack, a talented young detective from the Highlands, is ordered to join the investigation. But his arrival is met with anger from a group of officers on the brink of despair. Soon he learns just how difficult life can be for an outsider. When another woman is found murdered in a tenement flat, it’s clear the case is by no means over. From ruined backstreets to the dark heart of Glasgow, McCormack follows a trail of secrets that will change the city — and his life — forever.

Author : Lisa Samson
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781418568139

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Quaker Summer by Lisa Samson Pdf

Sometimes you have to go a little bit crazy to discover the life you were meant to live. 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--yet still feels miserable inside? When Heather spends the summer with two ancient Quaker sisters and a crusty nun running a downtown homeless shelter, she finds herself at a crossroads. Life turns upside down for Heather in a Quaker Summer. “One of the most powerful voices in Christian fiction, Samson delivers ...a staggering examination of the Christian conscience.” –Publishers Weekly

Author : Ann Turnbull
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015059214398

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No Shame, No Fear by Ann Turnbull Pdf

In England in 1662, a time of religious persecution, fifteen-year-old Susanna, a poor country girl and a Quaker, and seventeen-year-old William, a wealthy Anglican, meet and fall in love against all odds.

Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101606643

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The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier Pdf

New York Times bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard Tracy Chevalier makes her first fictional foray into the American past in The Last Runaway, bringing to life the Underground Railroad and illuminating the principles, passions and realities that fueled this extraordinary freedom movement. Honor Bright, a modest English Quaker, moves to Ohio in 1850--only to find herself alienated and alone in a strange land. Sick from the moment she leaves England, and fleeing personal disappointment, she is forced by family tragedy to rely on strangers in a harsh, unfamiliar landscape. Nineteenth-century America is practical, precarious, and unsentimental, and scarred by the continuing injustice of slavery. In her new home Honor discovers that principles count for little, even within a religious community meant to be committed to human equality. However, Honor is drawn into the clandestine activities of the Underground Railroad, a network helping runaway slaves escape to freedom, where she befriends two surprising women who embody the remarkable power of defiance. Eventually she must decide if she too can act on what she believes in, whatever the personal costs.

Author : Margery Post Abbott,Carl Abbott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429575303

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Quakerism: The Basics by Margery Post Abbott,Carl Abbott Pdf

Quakerism: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the history and diverse approaches and ideas associated with the Religious Society of Friends. This small religion incorporates a wide geographic spread and varied beliefs that range from evangelical Christians to non-theists. Topics covered include: Quaker values in action The first generations of Quakerism Quakerism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Belief and activism Worship and practice Quakerism around the world The future of Quakerism. With helpful features including suggested readings, timelines, a glossary, and a guide to Quakers in fiction, this book is an ideal starting point for students and scholars approaching Quakerism for the first time as well as those interested in deepening their understanding.

Author : Margaret Elphinstone
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802191519

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Voyageurs by Margaret Elphinstone Pdf

A Quaker’s faith is tested during the War of 1812 in this “stunning work of historical fiction” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Mark Greenhow, a naive and peaceful Quaker, lands on the shores of North America on the eve of the War of 1812, thinking only of finding the missing sister, a missionary whose adventurous spirit he has always admired. His pursuit begins by hitching a ride with the voyageurs who have canoed the rivers, transporting the tons of furs that feed the trade that has made the region a battleground of the French and British empires. Though Mark enters this brave new world with his conscience clean and his convictions sound, his encounters with a place and people he never could have imagined test his rigid upbringing. The backwoods of Canada have certainly led his sister astray; she has been excommunicated from the Society of Friends for running off with a non-Quaker. After her child is stillborn she runs again, deep into Indian country. On this increasingly desperate search, Mark finds himself among spies and domestic warriors, displaced natives, infidels, and the pious each engaged in their own battles to maintain their particular way of life. With Elphinstone’s crisp and effortless prose, coupled with her riveting, organic way with description, her fully drawn characters, and the history of the region, she “brings the landscapes and peoples of 1800s Canada back to thrilling life in her pacy, colorful and intelligent epic: the finest trip along these rivers since Brian Moore’s great Black Robe” (The Independent).

Author : Philip Gulley
Publisher : Convergent Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307955807

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Living the Quaker Way by Philip Gulley Pdf

A Publishers Weekly “Top 10 in Religion” selection. “This is nothing less than the gospel itself…a much-needed book.” —FR. RICHARD ROHR, OFM, Center for Action and Contemplation, Albuquerque, New Mexico “Living the Quaker Way is a treasure trove of practical wisdom about what it means to bear witness to our hope for a better world.” —Parker J. Palmer, author of Let Your Life Speak Philip Gulley invites us into a bracing encounter with the rich truths of Quakerism—a centuries-old spiritual tradition that provides not only a foundation of faith but also vision for making the world more just, loving, and peaceable by our presence. In Living the Quaker Way, Gulley shows how Quaker values provide real solutions to many of our most pressing contemporary challenges. We not only come to a deeper appreciation of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, and equality, we see how embracing these virtues will radically transform us and our world. Living the Quaker Way includes a 30-day spiritual practice that applies the Quaker tradition of Queries.

Author : Silas Weir Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Protestantism
ISBN : CHI:22354598

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Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by Silas Weir Mitchell Pdf

Author : James Emmett Ryan
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299231736

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Imaginary Friends by James Emmett Ryan Pdf

When Americans today think of the Religious Society of Friends, better known as Quakers, they may picture the smiling figure on boxes of oatmeal. But since their arrival in the American colonies in the 1650s, Quakers’ spiritual values and social habits have set them apart from other Americans. And their example—whether real or imagined—has served as a religious conscience for an expanding nation. Portrayals of Quakers—from dangerous and anarchic figures in seventeenth-century theological debates to moral exemplars in twentieth-century theater and film (Grace Kelly in High Noon, for example)—reflected attempts by writers, speechmakers, and dramatists to grapple with the troubling social issues of the day. As foils to more widely held religious, political, and moral values, members of the Society of Friends became touchstones in national discussions about pacifism, abolition, gender equality, consumer culture, and modernity. Spanning four centuries, Imaginary Friends takes readers through the shifting representations of Quaker life in a wide range of literary and visual genres, from theological debates, missionary work records, political theory, and biography to fiction, poetry, theater, and film. It illustrates the ways that, during the long history of Quakerism in the United States, these “imaginary” Friends have offered a radical model of morality, piety, and anti-modernity against which the evolving culture has measured itself. Winner, CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award

Author : Kathryn Erskine
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101042854

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Quaking by Kathryn Erskine Pdf

Goth girl Matt lives her life by simple rules: Stay under the radar, never go by Matilda (only Matt), and don't let anyone get too close. But everything changes when she moves in with a peaceful Quaker family in Pennsylvania. As the country fights a war in the Middle East, Matt fights her own personal war, battling bullies of her past and present and fighting to stand up for her belief in peace. Then violence erupts in town, and Matt finds that she will need to fight even harder to save the family she is starting to love.

Author : Molly Gloss
Publisher : Gallery / Saga Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1481498479

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The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss Pdf

Leaving a dilapidated Earth behind, Quakers across the globe pool funds and resources as they select colonists to send to a newly discovered planet to start life anew in this “miraculous fusion of…science fiction with unsparing realism and keen psychology” (Ursula K. Le Guin). In this “carefully conceived and deeply affecting” (The New York Times) novel, award-winning author Molly Gloss turns her attention to the frontiers of the future. A group of Quakers band together to abandon the ailing Earth, and travel to a settle a whole new world. The Dazzle of Day is their story. “The Dazzle of Day is a heartbreakingly good book...a rare dream of a book, passionate and lyric. The Dazzle of Day allows us to see our own world, our own present, more profoundly” (San Jose Mercury News).

Author : Brenda Bevan Remmes
Publisher : Quaker Cafe Novel
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1477822119

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The Quaker Café by Brenda Bevan Remmes Pdf

A free-spirited liberal marries into a conservative Quaker family and comes upon secrets from the past that threaten to destroy the racial harmony in the town.

Author : Thomas D. Hamm
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781101478103

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Quaker Writings by Thomas D. Hamm Pdf

An illuminating collection of work by members of the Religious Society of Friends. Covering nearly three centuries of religious development, this comprehensive anthology brings together writings from prominent Friends that illustrate the development of Quakerism, show the nature of Quaker spiritual life, discuss Quaker contributions to European and American civilization, and introduce the diverse community of Friends, some of whom are little remembered even among Quakers today. It gives a balanced overview of Quaker history, spanning the globe from its origins to missionary work, and explores daily life, beliefs, perspectives, movements within the community, and activism throughout the world. It is an exceptional contribution to contemporary understanding of religious thought. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Ann Turnbull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : London (England)
ISBN : 1844289354

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Forged in the Fire by Ann Turnbull Pdf

London 1665-66. With the Plague raging and the scent of smoke upon the wind, Will and Susanna, separated by class and distance, struggle to re-unite. Will has become a Quaker and broken with his father. Leaving Susanna behind, he travels to London. This is a story about how love and belief can overcome even the most terrifying twists of fate.

Author : J. Brent Bill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:30000087904862

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Imagination & Spirit by J. Brent Bill Pdf

A collection of essays, fiction, devotional works, and other writings by Quaker authors from the second half of the 20th century.