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The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail

The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail

by Wallace Stegner

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner tells about a thousand-mile migration marked by hardship and sudden death—but unique in American history for its purpose, discipline, and solidarity. Other Bison Books by Wallace Stegner include Mormon Country , Recapitulation , Second Growth , and Women on the Wall .

Mormon Country

by Wallace Stegner

Where others saw only sage, a salt lake, and a great desert, the Mormons saw their “lovely Deseret,” a land of lilacs, honeycombs, poplars, and fruit trees. Unwelcome in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, they migrated to the dry lands between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada to establish Mormon country, a wasteland made green. Like the land the Mormons settled, their habits stood in stark contrast to the frenzied... (more)

The Folk of the Fringe

by Orson Scott Card

Only a few nuclear weapons fell. But in the chaos of famine and plague, there existed a few pockets of order. The strongest of them was the state of Deseret. The climate has changed, and the lake has filled up. There, on the fringes, brave, hardworking pioneers are making the desert bloom again.

Christmas Box

by Eve Merriam, Richard Thomas, Richard Paul Evans

Since it was first published, more than seven million people have been touched by the magic of The Christmas Box , a holiday classic that is as beloved in our time as A Christmas Carol was in Dickens's. When Richard Paul Evans wrote The Christmas Box , he intended it as a private expression of love for his two young daughters, Jenna and Allyson. Though he often told them that he loved them, he didn't feel... (more)

What's going on in there?Chuck Sackett

What's going on in there?

by Chuck Sackett

The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

by Brady Udall

If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head. As formative events go, nothing else comes close . With these words Edgar Mint, half-Apache and mostly orphaned, makes his unshakable claim on our attention. In the course of Brady Udall’s high-spirited, inexhaustibly inventive novel, Edgar survives not just this bizarre accident, but a... (more)

The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect

The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect

by Daphne Bramham

The Secret Lives of Saints paints a troubling portrait of an extreme religious sect. These zealous believers impose severe and often violent restrictions on women, deprive children of education and opt instead to school them in the tenets of their faith, defy the law and move freely and secretly over international borders. They punish dissent with violence and even death. No, this sect is not the Taliban, but... (more)

Joseph Smith: Presidential Candidate (Setting the Record Straight)

Joseph Smith: Presidential Candidate (Setting the Record Straight)

by Ph.D., Arnold K. Garr

Joseph Smith's campaign for President of the United States is one of the most fascinating, yet least understood, events in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. This book brings the Prophet's presidential run to life with timely insights into questions that have heretofore received little attention.

The mind and will of the Lord

UNCLE WILL AND THE FITZGERALD CURSEJOHN D FITZGERALD

Unkown

UNCLE WILL AND THE FITZGERALD CURSE

by JOHN D FITZGERALD

The third book, but chronologically the first, popular children's author John D. Fitzgerald wrote about his family and their move out west.

Taken by Storm

by Angela Morrison

Leesie Hunt has many rules: No kissing. No sex. No dating outside the Mormon faith. When Michael Walden—a deep-sea diver who lost his parents in a violent hurricane—arrives in town, Leesie sees someone who needs her. They fall for one another, even though his dreams are tied to the depths of the ocean and hers to salvation above. Will their intense chemistry be too strong to resist? Leesie and Michael must make... (more)

Doctrine and Covenants and Church History: Gospel Doctrine Teacher's ManualThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Doctrine and Covenants and Church History: Gospel Doctrine Teacher's Manual

by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Mormon Mythellaneous

by HUNTER

Discusses some Mormon Urban Legends, or, as the author calls some of them, "faith-promoting rumors." Discusses the history of various stories, their probable origins and veracity (or lack thereof). The author is a librarian who specializes in Mormon topics and sites a number of references in each chapter.

Lost Boy

by Brent W. Jeffs

In the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), girls can become valuable property as plural wives, but boys are expendable, even a liability. In this powerful and heartbreaking account, former FLDS member Brent Jeffs reveals both the terror and the love he experienced growing up on his prophet’s compound—and the harsh exile existence that so many boys face once they have been... (more)

Nightfall at Nauvoo

The Poet and the Murderer

by Simon Worrall

In The Poet and the Murderer , acclaimed journalist Simon Worrall takes readers into the haunting mind of Mark Hofmann, one of the most daring literary forgers and remorseless murderers of the late twentieth century. He was a young Mormon boy who loathed what he believed to be the hypocrisy of his faith, and who devised secret ways to infiltrate and undermine the church. Mark Hofmann began his career by... (more)

Papa Married a MormonJohn D. Fitzgerald

Papa Married a Mormon

by John D. Fitzgerald

Twenty-seventh WifeIrving Wallace

Twenty-seventh Wife

by Irving Wallace

Mormon Murders

by Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith

On October 15, 1985, two pipe bombs shook the calm of Salt Lake City, Utah, killing two people. The only link-both victims belonged to the Mormon Church. The next day, a third bomb was detonated in the parked car of church-going family man, Mark Hoffman. Incredibly, he survived. It wasn't until authorities questioned the strangely evasive Hoffman that another, more shocking link between the victims emerged... It... (more)

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The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail

by Wallace Stegner

Mormon Country

by Wallace Stegner

The Folk of the Fringe

by Orson Scott Card

Christmas Box

by Eve Merriam, Richard Thomas, Richard Paul Evans

What's going on in there?

by Chuck Sackett

The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

by Brady Udall

The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect

by Daphne Bramham

Joseph Smith: Presidential Candidate (Setting the Record Straight)

by Ph.D., Arnold K. Garr

The mind and will of the Lord

UNCLE WILL AND THE FITZGERALD CURSE

by JOHN D FITZGERALD

Taken by Storm

by Angela Morrison

Doctrine and Covenants and Church History: Gospel Doctrine Teacher's Manual

by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Mormon Mythellaneous

by HUNTER

Lost Boy

by Brent W. Jeffs

Nightfall at Nauvoo

The Poet and the Murderer

by Simon Worrall

Papa Married a Mormon

by John D. Fitzgerald

Twenty-seventh Wife

by Irving Wallace

Mormon Murders

by Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith

by Zane Grey