The Friendly Persuasion
10 best books like The Friendly Persuasion (Jessamyn West): Mama's Bank Account, Meet Me in St. Louis, All This, and Heaven Too, Raintree County, Mrs. Miniver, The Journal of George Fox, Thee, Hannah!, Thy Friend, Obadiah, Plain Living: A Quaker Path to Simplicity, Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality
Author | Kathryn Forbes |
ISBN | 0156563770 |
This is the "novel" which forms the basis for the play and movie "I Remember Mama" written by John Van Druten. It is little more than a series of vignettes, but they are realistic as well as heart-warming and not unduly sentimental.
It tells the story of the hardscrabble existence of a Norwegian...
Author | Sally Benson |
ISBN | 1891442260 |
There are times when a film does a more enjoyable job with a book than the book does for itself. "Meet Me in Saint Louis" is one of the great old movie musicals, and probably provided the best performance ever given by Judy Garland. The book, on the other hand, is nothing extraordinary in the genre of happy-old-time-family...
Author | Rachel Field |
ISBN | 1556524919 |
This number-one bestselling novel is based on the true story of one of the most notorious murder cases in French history. The heroine, Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, governess to the children of the Duc de Praslin, found herself strangely drawn to her employer; when the Duc murdered his wife in the most...
Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his lifefrom the love affairs of his youth in Indiana, to the battles of the Civil War, to the politics of the Gilded Age, to his homecoming as schoolteacher, husband, and father. Shawnessy is the epitome of the place and period...
Author | Jan Struther |
ISBN | 0156631407 |
Ok finished the book. One final thought to complete the review. Mrs. Miniver did have something rather excellent to say on marriages and social life. She said that there was often one of a pair that you liked less than the other, or that one of them would always outshine the other (don't we all know couples...
The Journal of George Fox
Author | George Fox |
ISBN | 0913408247 |
George Fox's record of his life and ministry is a Christian classic. Its pages chroncile not only Fox's spiritual travial when he heard a voice that said, "There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition," but his years of ministry and gathering a people for Christ who became known as the...
Author | Marguerite de Angeli |
ISBN | 0385075251 |
A quick read about a Quaker family living in Philadelphia just before the civil war. We look into the day to day life of this family and meet the people who come to sell door to door. I have heard of a muffin man but had not come across a pepper pot lady before and still can't quite imagine what she was selling,...
Author | Brinton Turkle |
ISBN | 0140503935 |
An interesting story about a seagull that befriends or follows around a little boy, Obadiah. Everyone notices and teases him and the boy doesn’t like it, but when the bird is not there, Obadiah misses him.
I didn’t think the artwork was especially Caldecott worthy. The story is simple and...
Plain Living: A Quaker Path to Simplicity
Author | Catherine Whitmire |
ISBN | 1893732282 |
I was surprised how powerful the concepts in this book were - i love how well articulated the topic of spirituality and the connection to simplicity was and saw connections between my faith with a denomination I wasn't that familiar with before.
A good practice for new years...
"Before...
Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality
Author | J. Brent Bill |
ISBN | 1557254206 |
People of all faiths and backgrounds are drawn to silence. They yearn for it in these busy and difficult times, but often, when silence becomes available, we don't know what to do with it. For centuries, Quakers have taught that when we are silent, God grants us insights, guidance, and spiritual understanding...
Author | Robert Lawrence Smith |
ISBN | 0688172334 |
The most valuable aspect of religion," writes Robert Lawrence Smith, "is that it provides us with a framework for living. I have always felt that the beauty and power of Quakerism is that it exhorts us to live more simply, more truthfully, more charitably."Taking his inspiration from the teaching of...
Author | Terry Alford |
ISBN | 0195054121 |
With a single shot from a pistol small enough to conceal in his hand, John Wilkes Booth catapulted into history on the night of April 14, 1865. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln stunned a nation that was just emerging from the chaos and calamity of the Civil War, and the president's untimely...
Author | Marguerite Henry |
ISBN | 0970561806 |
Apparently, Quakers don't believe in art...I never knew this. Its considered evil I guess. So ironically, "Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin" is about a Quaker boy who loves art.
Ben does his utmost to study art, even behind his family's back. He cuts pieces of Grimalkin's fur to make paint...
Author | L.M. Montgomery |
ISBN | 0517605171 |
Mark Twain prolaimed Anne Shirley "the most moving and delightful" and "dearest" heroine since the immortal Alice." Millions of readers young and old, in countries all over the world, have agreed; particularly those hovering on the brink of their teens have followed her dauntless leadership into...
Author | Jan de Hartog |
ISBN | 0689104820 |
"I am George Fox," said the fair-haired stranger. "May the Lord bless thee and awaken thee, Margaret Fell."
His eyes went on searching hers. They were blue like a sailor's and of an odd shape and rather slanted.
It was at this moment Margaret Fell's life took a strange and dramatic turn. For...
Author | Elswyth Thane |
ISBN | 1568494777 |
The youngest generation of the Richmond Spragues are involved in the vivid drama of the World War I and II years.
The twins, Calvert and Camilla, are the hero and heroine who travel from Williamsburg, Virginia to London and through Europe as their loves are challenged by the chaotic war years...
Author | Gilbert Morris |
ISBN | 0310243025 |
A powerful novel of honor, forgiveness, and unquenchable faith--set at the end of the Civil War. Quentin Larribee is a surgeon, but in the confusion at the end of the Civil War, his healing hands brought death to an enemy soldier. To ease his troubled conscience, he visits the man’s impoverished widow,...
Author | Anthony Trollope |
ISBN | 0192817167 |
The year 1874 saw the conclusion in London of a much publicized court case involving an unlikely pretender to an English baronetcy. Trollope responded to the public's interest in scandal with this novel, which traces the claim of a shadowy figure to the marquisate of Brotherton. The novel is full of...
Author | Herbert Jenkins |
ISBN | 0850461405 |
3.5 stars. This is a witty, somewhat fluffy British romance written in 1918. There's a meet-cute: Patricia Brent, a secretary in her twenties, lives in a boarding house with a bunch of rather catty gossips. One night she overhears a couple of them snidely commenting on her lack of dates. Incensed, she...
In the winter of 1890 a six-year-old boy arrives in the Canadian town of Balfour with a square of oil-cloth sewn on his coat bearing this inscription: 'This is Ludar Prentice.' He was to join his father that he had never met, and that no one in town had ever heard of. Fortunately, some kind citizens stepped...
Author | The Arbinger Institute |
I want to submit a summary of this book first and then I will come back in and submit my response:
The Choice, by the Arbinger Institute is a refreshing new approach to self-betterment. It puts the responsibility back onto the right person, ourselves. The authors attribute our responsiveness...