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Book reviews for Western Friend are generally about 600 words long. Our reviews typically answer the questions: 1) What is this book about? 2) How did it strike you? and 3) Why should Friends care?
The Light That Is Given – Patricia Dallmann (2024)
Essays of engagement with scripture and early Quaker writers
Frog Song – Megan Hollingsworth (2024)
A love poem for endangered species; illustrations by Bonnie Gordon-Lucas
An Invitation to Quaker Eldering – Elaine Emily, et al. (2022)
A guide to enrich and nourish the practice of eldering among Friends
Mark V: The Opera – Derek Lamson (2022)
A comic-novel telling of Jesus, demons, and pigs; illustrations by John Williams
Busara Road – David Hallock Sanders (2019)
The novelized story of an 11-year-old witness to Kenyan independence struggles