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  Fire of the Covenant

  The Story of the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies

  by Gerald N. Lund

  Share in the pathos and spiritual power of the handcart experience The author of the acclaimed historical fiction series The Work and the Glory brings another dramatic chapter in Church history to life in Fire of the Covenant, a novel about the 1856 Willie and Martin Handcart Companies. Elder Lund weaves his fictional characters into the tapestry of actual historical events helping us feel a part of the... (more)
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  The Work and the Glory: Book 2

  Like a Fire Is Burning

  by Gerald N. Lund

  great historical novel
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  The Work and the Glory: Book 1

  Pillar of Light

  by Gerald N. Lund

  One man’s remarkable vision; one family’s desperate struggle With more than two million copies of the nine-volume series in print since its initial release in 1990, The Work and the Glory is one of the most popular historical fiction series ever published by a religious publisher. Pillar of Light, volume one, is soon to be a major motion picture and will introduce this unforgettable story to a new generation... (more)
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  The Work and the Glory: Book 8

  So Great a Cause

  by Gerald N. Lund

  The Mormon faithful begin the long trek west in 1846 searching for their promised land. The trek proves more miraculous, challenging and costly than ever imagined. The trail is littered with human sweat, tears and graves. It is necessary for the Steeds to split up and hope for a sweet reunion at the trail's end.
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  The Kingdom and the Crown: Book 1

  Fishers of Men

  by Gerald N. Lund

  In an ancient land in a time foretold by prophets, a babe was born beneath a shining star. Thirty years later, Jesus of Nazareth began teaching a message of hope, peace, and love. He claimed to be the Son of God, and his words - and his life - would change the world. In Fishers of Men, the first volume in the new series The Kingdom and the Crown, best-selling author Gerald N. Lund transports us to the days of... (more)
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  The Work and the Glory: Book 3

  Truth Will Prevail

  by Gerald N. Lund

  Truth Will Prevail focuses on the years from 1836 - 1838. A time of remarkable and turbulent events in Church history is also a time of separation and reunion, commitment and apostasy, heartache and hope. Even as a growing spirit of apostasy permeates the Church's new home in Kirtland, Ohio, missionaries are sent overseas to England.
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  The Kingdom and the Crown: Book 2

  Come Unto Me

  by Gerald N. Lund

  A dramatic account of Christ's ministry, as seen through the eyes of those who would follow him. In Come Unto Me , volume 2 of the bestselling series The Kingdom and the Crown , Simeon of Capernaum wrestles with how to undo the damage wrought by his reluctant conversion to a man called Jesus of Nazareth. His determination to follow the teachings of the Master has cost the life of one friend and sent three... (more)
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  The Work and the Glory: Book 6

  Praise to the Man

  by Gerald N. Lund

  Written with a dramatic intensity and an eye for historical detail that thousands of readers have come to appreciate in previous volumes, Praise to the Man — volume 6 in the series The Work and the Glory — follows the story of the restored Church and of the ficitonal Steed family from the summer of 1841 to the summer of 1844. Several momentous events take place during this period in Church history: Nauvoo... (more)
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  The Work and the Glory: Book 9

  All is Well

  by Gerald N. Lund

  The Mormon faithful begin the long trek west in 1846 searching for their promised land. The trek proves more miraculous, challenging and costly than ever imagined. The trail is littered with human sweat, tears and graves. It is necessary for the Steeds to split up and hope for a sweet reunion at the trail's end.
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  The Work and the Glory: Book 4

  Thy Gold to Refine

  by Gerald N. Lund

  In Thy Gold to Refine, volume 4 in the series The Work and the Glory, the story of the fictional Steed family enters one of the stormiest and yet most inspiring periods in Church history. Picking up where volume 3 left off in the summer of 1838, this book finds the Steeds, (all but daughter Melissa and her family) happily reunited in Far West, Missouri, only to be thrown into a maelstrom of intense and tragic... (more)
• THE WORK AND THE GLORY - VOL 5 - A Season of JoyGerald N. Lund

  

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  THE WORK AND THE GLORY - VOL 5 - A Season of Joy

  by Gerald N. Lund

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  The Kingdom and the Crown: Book 3

  Behold the Man

  by Gerald N. Lund

  *Starred Review* Lund finishes his epic Kingdom and the Crown series with Behold the Man , following Fishers of Men (2000) and Come unto Me (2001). (Lund, a Mormon, is also the author of a nine-volume historical fiction series about the Mormon Church called The Work and the Glory .) Characters from the first two volumes, concerned with Roman oppression and Zealot rebellion, appear also in the conclusion,... (more)