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1) Nauvoo
Author
Publisher
Raymont
Pub. Date
c1982.
Language
English
Description
The saga of a city of exiles and the passions that built and destroyed it.
Author
Series
Kade family saga volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The compelling story of the Kade family continues, written by a master story teller. Danger and intrigue mount as the Kades' son, James, strives to shield the Prophet Joseph from assassination. Join the Kades in all the color and pageantry, intrigue and suspense, of old Nauvoo. Its legacy as a place of promise will stir your heart and kindle an excitement in church history.
Author
Series
[Millennial story] volume 1
Publisher
Wellspring
Pub. Date
c1986.
Language
English
Description
Novel, set in Nauvoo, Illinois in 1844, centers around the persecution of the Mormons and encompasses the assassination of Joseph Smith.
Author
Series
Barrington family saga volume 3
Publisher
Covenant
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Eleanore and James must face the pain of being left behind as their friends travel westward, leaving them behind with a sick child.
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
c1971.
Language
English
Description
In May 1839, Prophet Joseph Smith and his followers--driven out of New York, Ohio, and Missouri--established a Mormon settlement on the fever-ridden swamps of Commerce, Illinois. Three years later, the holy city they called Nauvoo had become the largest city in Illinois--about four times the size of Chicago. Nauvoo had its own militia, it's own newspaper, and the members of the Church of the Latter Day Saints were the most powerful voting block in...
6) The ruby
Author
Series
Bracelet volume 4
Publisher
Covenant
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"When Charlie Mae meets Spencer, a boy her age, and his grandmother, she is astonished at their kindness. She should have guessed they were Mormons. Pa had been lying all that time when he had said that Mormons were wicked. Pa was the wicked one, he and her brothers burned houses and shot people. She didn't want to live with thieves and liars and cook their meals anymore. She would leave this place someday and find a better life, no matter what the...
Author
Series
Standing on the promises volume 3
Publisher
Bookcraft
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
In book three of the Standing on the Promises trilogy, the black Saints come full circle as Aidan Gray looks down Parley Street in Nauvoo, where Elijah Abel and Jane Manning James walked more than 160 years earlier. Here we meet Ab Howell, Monroe Fleming, Ruffin Bridgeforth, and more African-American Latter-day Saints who laid a lasting foundation of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His gospel. This astonishing story of loyalty in the face of trials,...
Author
Series
Truth seeker volume 3
Publisher
Bonneville
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
In the final book of the True Seeker series, newly married and deeply in love, Besty and Jeff Chadwick are called to serve a mission in historical Nauvoo. There, they are faced with more than just learning how to be great missionaries. Are their testimonies and love strong enough to stand up under life-threatening situations? Things become even more complicated when they meet Roxcy Culhase, a mysterious young widow who is searching for a new life...
Author
Series
Work and the glory volume 5
Language
English
Description
Volume 5 is a season of rejuvenation for the Mormons as, after the horrors of the Missouri persecutions, they find refuge across the Mississippi River in Illinois, where they establish the city of Nauvoo. Despite ongoing trials, they feel that God has granted them this season of relief, hope and joy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Signature
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When A Little Lower than the Angels appeared in 1942, its author and recent Brigham Young University graduate Virginia Sorensen was overwhelmed by the positive national attention. Clifton Fadiman, writing for The New Yorker, noted how "convincingly [she] explores . . . the tragic, comic, and grotesque problems of plural marriage."Set in Nauvoo, Illinois, she tells the story of a single family, a woman and her Mormon husband, loosely based on her in-laws...
Author
Series
[Williams family chronicles] volume 4
Publisher
Deseret
Pub. Date
c1988.
Language
English
Description
Ruth is torn as to whether she will join her family in Nauvoo or stay in Quincy Illinois.
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