Claudette Colvin Twice toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
In 1955, a teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be nine months later, Claudette found herself shunned by classmates and dismissed by community leaders. Undaunted, a year later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle, the case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South. Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, this is the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure.
Square Fish, 2011, 160 pp., paperback $9.99 Sale and Remaindered Books
Notes from an Exhibition A Novel by Patrick Gale
A British family wrestles with the unexpected death of the gifted, bipolar artist who is the mother of the family. Only the father’s staunch Quaker beliefs give them any chance of withstanding her destructive influence and the suspicion that they came second to her art. The story of the mother’s life as an artist, lover, parent, wife, and patient is pieced together from the clues of family memories and reactions to her sudden death. What emerges is a story of enduring love, and of a family which weathers tragedy, mental illness, and the strain of living with genius.
Harper, 2007, 375 pp., paperback $6.50
Human Smoke The Beginnings of World War II, The End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker
This is an extraordinary testament to pacifism from Quaker novelist and essayist Nicholson Baker. In a staccato, chronological chain of newspaper and diary reports, with brief comments of his own, Baker covers the period from 1842 to 1941. Was it inevitable that wars would occur? Could events have transpired peacefully, or at least differently? Baker provides contemporary reports of events and leaves it to the reader to decide. Many Quakers (and their work for peace) are included. “In Human Smoke, Nicholson Baker turns his unrivaled literary talents to pacifism. . . . Baker’s book is truly original.” — Chalmers Johnson
Simon and Schuster, 2008, 566 pp., hardback $8.00
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The Soul Of Politics: Beyond “Religious Right” and “Secular Left” by Jim Wallis
Windows for the Crown Prince: Akihito Of Japan by Elizabeth Gray Vining
Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family’s Journey From Slaveholders To Civil Rights Leaders by Mark Perry
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