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SFM Library Holdings-Author Listing SFM Library Holdings-Author Listing Author Last Name Author First Name Title Cat ID Author ID PH # Bible: King James Version, Super Giant Print Edition LP Bi Book of Discipline 1927, The (Philadelphia) QFM Ph1927 Faith & Practice, Philadelphia 1972 (2 copies) QFM Ph1972 Faith and Practice 1961 (Philadelphia) (2 copies) QFM Ph1961 Faith and Practice, New England 1930 QFM NEfp1930 Faith and Practice, New England 1985 (6 copies) QFM NEfp1985 Faith and Practice, New England 2014 (interim) QFM NEfp2014i Faith and Practice, New England: 1872 QFM NEfp1872 Faith and Practice,New England 1966 (4 copies) QFM NEfp1966 Geneva Bible, 1560 Edition, The BI Gen March Magic Med Mar New England Yearly Meeting of Friends 2003: Mary Lord, Keynote Med Ne2003 New English Bible, The BI New Pretty Planet; Long Time a Sun (Audiotape) Med Pre Quaker Faith and Practice 1995 (Britain) QFM Br1995 Quakerism: A View from the Backbenches QFC Misc Quiet Revolution 2003, A Med Qui Rise Up Singing: Bears and Bear Hugs (Audiotapes: 6) Med Risb Rise Up Singing: Everything Possible (Teaching Tapes) (Video) Med Rise Thursday, August 13, 2015 Page 1 of 56 Author Last Name Author First Name Title Cat ID Author ID PH # Swahili Hymn (Kenyan visitors 7/00) (audiotape) Med Swa Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition RG Wec Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus RG Wer Witches of Eastwick, The (video) Med Wit A Kempis Thomas Imitation of Christ, The (see JCC Ak for additional copy) SP Ak A Kempis Thomas Imitation of Christ, The (see SP Ak for additional copy) JCC Ak Abbott Margery Post Certain Kind of Perfection, A QAF Abb Abbott Margery Post Christianity & the Inner Life: 21st Century Reflections on the Words of Early PH 402 Friends Abbott Margery Post Experiment in Faith, An PH 323 Abbott Margery Post Quaker Views on Mysticism PH 375 Abbott, et al Margery Post Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers) RR Abb Abbott, et al Margery Post Walk Worthy of Your Calling: Quakers and the Travelling Ministry QFC Abb Achtemeier Paul Interpretation - Romans: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching BI-N Ac Ackerman et al Peter Force More Powerful, A PE Ack Adede Rose Joel Litu: Pioneer African Quaker PH 243 AFSC Help Increase The Peace PE AFS AFSC Introduction to Quaker Testimonies, An QFC AFS AFSC Nameless to Nameless: The Material Aids Program of the AFSC (Video) Med AFS AFSC Search for Peace in the Middle East PE AFS AFSC Speak Truth to Power (2 copies) PE AFS AFSC Spirited Engagement: Stories of the AFSC (2 copies) Med AFS Thursday, August 13, 2015 Page 2 of 56 Author Last Name Author First Name Title Cat ID Author ID PH # AFSC Waging Peace (video for) DVD Med AFS AFSC Who Shall Live?: Man's Control Over Birth and Death (2 copies) DD AFS AFSC With Our Own Eyes: Youth Delegation to Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Video) Med AFS Ahamed, trans. Syed Vickar Q'uran, The SC Aha Ahmad Mirza Masroor True Love for the Holy Prophet (2 copies) SC Ah Alexander Horace Everyman's Struggle for Peace PH 74 Alexander Horace G. Gandhi Remembered PH 165 Alexander Nancy C. Practicing Compassion for the Stranger PH 271 Ali, trans. Abdullah Yusuf Qur'an, The SC Al Alighieri Dante Divine Comedy, The - Hell JCC Ali Alighieri Dante Divine Comedy, The - Paradise JCC Ali Alighieri Dante Divine Comedy, The - Purgatory JCC Ali Allen Rosamund Richard Rolle, The English Writings JCC All Ambler Rex Light to Live By: An Exploration of Quaker Spirituality SP Amb Ambler Rex Light Within, The: Then and Now PH 425 Ambler Rex Truth of the Heart: An Anthology of George Fox QAF Amb America Press Peace on Earth (Pacem in Terris) study guide RR Ma2 American Bible Society, pub. Good News for a New Age BI Abs American Bible Society,pub. Good News for Modern Man (4 copies) BI Abs Andrews Elsie Marioon Facing and Fufilling the Later Years PH 157 Anshen Ruth Nanda Believing Humanism, A: Gleanings by Martin Buber SP An Thursday, August 13, 2015 Page 3 of 56 Author Last Name Author First Name Title Cat ID Author ID PH # Apsey Lawrence S. Following the Light for Peace PE Aps Arnold J. Henrich Discipleship JCC Arn Augsburger Myron S. Expanded Life,The SP Au Augustine St. Thomas City of God, The JCC Aug Augustine St. Thomas Confessions of St. Augustine, The SP Aug Ayers et al Tess Essential Guide to Lesbian and Gay Weddings The RE Ay Bach Marcus Challenge of Change, The JCC Ba Bacon Margaret Hope Henry J. Cadbury: Scholar, Activist, Disciple PH 376 Bacon Margaret Hope Let This Life Speak: The Legacy of Henry Joel Cadbury QC Bac Bacon Margaret Hope Mothers of Feminism QHI Bac Bacon Margaret Hope Quiet Rebels, The QHI Bac Bacon Margaret Hope Valiant Friend: The Life of Lucretia Mott (see QBM Bac for additional copy) QC Bac Bacon Margaret Hope Valiant Friend: The Life of Lucretia Mott (see QC Bac for additional copy) QBM Bac Bacon, ed. Margaret Hope Wilt Thou Go On My Errand? Three 18th Century Journals of Quaker Women QBM Bac Ministers Baillie John Diary of Private Prayer ME Bai Baillie John Diary of Readings, A JCC Bai Baltzell E. Digby Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia QHI Bal Barbour Hugh Margaret Fell Speaking PH 206 Barbour Ian G. When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers or Partners? JCC Bar Barbour et al Hugh Early Quaker Writings A Bar Barbour et al Hugh Quakers, The (see QFC Bar for additional copy) QHI Bar Thursday, August 13, 2015 Page 4 of 56 Author Last Name Author First Name Title Cat ID Author ID PH # Barbour et al Hugh Quakers, The (see QHI Bar for additional copy) QFC Bar Barclay, ed. William Gospel of Matthew, The, Vol. 1 BI-N Bar Barclay, ed. William Gospel of Matthew, The, Vol. 2 BI-N Bar Barclay, ed. William Letters to the Corinthians, The BI-N Bar Barnett Walter Homosexuality & The Bible PH 226 Bedeau Hugo Civil Disobedience: Theory and Practice PE Be Bell Ruth Changing Bodies, Changing Lives, 3rd edition QED Bel Bello Walden Visions of A Warless World (2 copies) PE Bel Bender Sue Plain and Simple MI Be Benson Lewis Catholic Quakerism SP Be Berquist Jon L. Surprises by the River: The prophecy of Ezekiel BI-O Be Berry Wendell Unsettling of America, The QAF Be Best James S. Another Way to Live PH 218 Bieber Nancy Communion for a Quaker PH 331 Bien Peter Mystery of Quaker Light, The PH 384 Bien Peter On Retiring to Kendal (and Beyond): A Literary Excursion PH 368 Bien Peter Tempted by Happiness: Kazantzakis' Post-Christian Christ PH 253 Bien Peter Words, Wordlessness, and the Word PH 303 Bill J. Brent Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality QFC Bil Bill, ed. J. Brent Imagination and Spirit: A Contemporary Quaker Reader QFC Bil Birchard Bruce Burning One-ness Binding Everything, The PH 332 Thursday, August 13, 2015 Page 5 of 56 Author Last Name Author First Name Title Cat ID Author ID PH # Birkel Michael Engaging Scripture: Reading the Bible with Early Friends SC Bir Birkel Michael Mysticism and Activism: Learning from John Woolman QAF Bir Birkel Michael Near Sympathy, A: The Timeless Quaker Wisdom of John Woolman (3 copies) QBM Bir Birkel Michael Silence and Witness QHI Bir Birkel et al Michael Lamb's War, The: Quaker Essays to Honor Hugh Barbour QHI Bir Bittle William G. James Naylor: The Quaker Indicted by Parliment QBM Bi Blakney, trans. Raymond B. Meister Eckhart JCC Bla Blom Dorothea Art and the Changing World PH 183 Blom Dorothea Art Responds To The Bible PH 197 Blom Dorothea Encounters with Art PH 128 Blom Dorothea Life Journey of a Quaker Artist, The PH 232 Blom Dorothea Prophetic Element in Modern Art, The PH 148 Bloom Harold Book of J, The ME Bl Blumenfeld et al Warren J. Looking at Gay and Lesbian Life RE Bl Boardman Elizabeth Jelinek Phoenix Trip, The - Notes on a Quaker Mission to Haiphong QAF Bo Boehme Jacob Way to Christ, The (Bath edition, 1775) JCC Bo Boff Leonardo Ecclesiogenesis JCC Bof Bonnke Ministries Richard From Minus to Plus: The Epic of Christ's Cross (Video) Med Bon Bonpane Blase Guerillas of Peace: on the air PE Bon Borg Marcus J. Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time JCC Bor Boring M. Eugene Interpretation - Revelation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching BI-N Bo Thursday, August 13, 2015 Page 6 of 56 Author Last Name Author First Name Title Cat ID Author ID PH # Borton Joan C. Drawing from the Women's Well RE Bor Borton Lady After Sorrow: An American Among the Vietnamese PE Bor Borton Lady Sensing the Enemy QAF Bor Boss-Kooperman Gayle Christ is Our Peace, Biblical Foundations for Peacemaking JCC Bos Boswell John Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality RE Bos Boulding Elise Born Remembering PH 200 Boulding Elise Children and Solitude PH 125 Boulding Elise Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History PE BouE Boulding Elise Family As A Way Into The Future, The PH 222 Boulding Elise My Part in the Quaker Adventure QC BouE Boulding Kenneth Evolutionary Potential of Quakerism, The PH 136 Boulding Kenneth Mending the World PH 266 Boulding Kenneth Practice of the Love of God, The PH 374 Boulding Kenneth Prospering of Truth, The QC BouK Boulding Kenneth There is a Spirit, The Nayler Sonnets MI BouK Boulding et al Kenneth On Peace Research PH 153 Bouquet A.C. Comparative Religion RR Bo Bourke Vernon J. Pocket Aquinas, The JCC Bou Boyd Malcom Are You Running With Me Jesus? JCC Boy Boyle Beth Ellen Words of Conscience PE Boy Brecher, et al Jeremy Global Village or Global Pillage? How people around the world are challening Med Bre corporate globalization Thursday, August 13, 2015 Page 7 of 56 Author Last Name Author First Name Title Cat ID Author ID PH # Brinton Anna Toward Undiscovered Ends PH 62 Brinton Anna Cox Wit and Wisdom
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