To Every Season

A Novel About the Eighteenth-Century Quakers in the Piedmont of North Carolina

By Nancy Learned Haines

To Every Season follows a fictionalized Quaker family in its pioneering journey dowTn the “Great Philadelphia Wagon Road” in the mid-1700s from Southeastern Pennsylvania to Piedmont North Carolina. Mary Jackson, a lively young Irish wife and mother, and her husband have a loving, joyful relationship. Life is hard, but also fulfilling as they clear their land, build their home, and raise their growing family. Shortly after they arrive, Mary answers the call to lead the women in her Quaker meeting, a role she struggles to fulfill with sensitive insight and loving care.

Too soon, their peaceful community is shattered when farmers rise in rebellion as Regulators, demanding an end to local government corruption. Some Quakers are disowned by the meeting when they join the uprising and a large group moves to Georgia, leaving Mary as the only strong voice among the remaining members of her Quaker meeting. Despite her efforts, the women of the meeting can only watch as the rebels become increasingly violent. Negotiations for a peaceful resolution are unsuccessful. The rebellion fails in a bloody battle.

            As the drumbeats of the American Revolution reach the Piedmont, the future of the Quaker community rests on Mary’s shoulders. Only the strength of her spiritual reserves will ensure her small Quaker meeting survives.

• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 262 pages;
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0997984813
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0997984811
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.66 x 8 inches

 

We Answered With Love: Pacifist Service in World War I 

The Letters of Leslie Hotson and Mary Peabody

By Nancy Learned Haines

In America, 1918 was a time of zealous patriotism. But not everyone believed in the rightness of war. Leslie Hotson’s conscience led him to go to France with the American Friends Service Committee to repair the wounds of war. Mary Peabody worked to change conditions at home as a radical socialist and anti-war activist. Both hoped that their love of mankind would lead them to living out their highest ideals.

          We Answered With Love is based on the letters of these two thoughtful young people, giving a personal perspective on the role of pacifists during the Great War and, at the same time, revealing a delightful, romantic story of friendship turning to love.

• Paperback: 412 pages
• Language: English
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9979848-0-4
• LCCN 2016954040
• Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches
• Price: $18.00
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Approved! A Story About Quaker Meeting for Business

By Nancy L. Haines, illustrated by Anne E. G. Nydam

How can children work cooperatively to make decisions? Approved! A Story About Quaker Meeting for Business tells of a group of children who want to donate the money they earned selling hot dogs at their Quaker meeting. The story uses simple, clear language and charming artwork to introduce Quaker process, highlighting

• The role of the clerk and recording clerk
• Reporting to meeting for business
• Participating in spiritual discernment
• Identifying the sense of the meeting
• Writing and approving minutes
• Working together as a community

          Approved! includes additional tools for Quaker meetings, schools, and camps to help children learn the basics of Quaker process including queries, a glossary, and a brief overview of junior meeting for business at Wellesley Monthly Meeting in Massachusetts.

• Paperback: 24 pages
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1532860137
• ISBN-13: 978-1532860133
• Dimensions: 7 x 0.1 x 10 inches
• Price: $12.00

 

Aprobado! Una Historia  Acerca de la Junta de Acuerdos  de los Cuáqueros

Escrito por Nancy L Haines

Ilustrado por Anne E G Nydam

Traducido por Kenya Casanova

          At the request of  Kenya Casanova of Cuba Yearly Meeting and Karen Gregorio of Santidad Yearly Meeting, Guatemala, both members of FWCC Section of the Americas Executive Committee, the book has been translated for  Spanish-speaking Quakers in Latin America and the United States.

• Paperback: 24 pages
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: tbd
• ISBN-13: tbd
• Dimensions: 7 x 0.1 x 10 inches
• Price: $12.00