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BookMusings: March 2016 eNewsletter Posted by QuakerBooks of FGC Staff on March 10, 2016 Image credit: Marta Rusek BookMusings is the official eNewsletter of QuakerBooks of FGC. Each issue highlights books and themes carefully selected by bookstore staff for your enjoyment, as well as information about sales and other unique opportunities available to our readers. Below is the introductory text and table of contents. View the complete eNewsletter online or as a PDF.   Dear Friend, Spring is fast approaching – that wondrous time of growth and expansion. QuakerBooks is pleased to offer our March reading suggestions that will nurture your personal growth and expansion....

Friends Journal Suggests: March 2016 Posted by Piper Lewis on March 9, 2016 The folloowing are books Friends Journal Reviewed in their March 2016 edition. Read a bit more on the wonderful texts Friends Journal picked to review or highlight in their 'In Brief' section:       A True Friend to China: The Friends Ambulance Unit 'China Convoy', 1945 - 1951 by Jack Jones Editor Andrew Hicks Providing a rare view into daily life in China between 1945 and 1951 A True Friend to China details the experiences of Jack Jones a transport director of the Friends Abulence Unit who worked in West China. A prolific...

Ellen's Corner: Our Life Is Love: The Quaker Spiritual Journey Posted by Ellen Michaud on March 7, 2016 The winds blowing in off the Pacific Ocean at Serra Point were wild. Hummingbirds, their feathers gleaming in the morning light, made short hops from flowering shrubs to nests high in the surrounding trees. Tiny lizards ran belly-to-the-ground from rock to rock. Thirty-foot box elders waved their branches, and the sun, which was directly overhead, baked the sandy path on which I stood, eyes half closed, totally relaxed, and deeply centered. I’d come here to a Franciscan retreat center in the hills...

Ellen’s Corner: This Is an Uprising Posted by Ellen Michaud on February 10, 2016 The winds roared out of the Adirondacks, across Lake Champlain, and into the north woods that surround my cottage in the mountains of Vermont. Darkness had fallen quickly, snow pelted the windows, and the sturdy little cottage shook.  I stepped over the dog and added a log to the fire. It was the perfect night to curl up in my reading chair with a good book. And that’s what I planned to do. On the table next to my chair was This Is an Uprising: How...

BookMusings: February 2016 eNewsletter Posted by QuakerBooks of FGC Staff on February 10, 2016 Image credit: Marta Rusek BookMusings is the official eNewsletter of QuakerBooks of FGC. Each issue highlights books and themes carefully selected by bookstore staff for your enjoyment, as well as information about sales and other unique opportunities available to our readers. Below is the introductory text and table of contents. View the complete eNewsletter online or as a PDF. Dear Friend, We love books. Hopefully, you do too! QuakerBooks has books that make excellent presents to express your affection. QuakerGifts has Fair Trade crafts and goods if you're looking for that...