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In Utah Territory in the 1880s, the United States seems determined to crush the Mormon Church, with polygamy as the central issue. The polygamous Storm family find themselves being torn apart and scattered in the attempt to survive this unfair conflict. Church leaders are on the run, wives are being forced to testify against husbands, good men are going to jail without a fair trial, Church property is being confiscated by determined U.S. Marshals,...
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[Bishop's bride series] volume 2
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English
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The honeymoon is officially over as Andrew McCammon scrambles to staff the recently combined ward and juggle the compelling needs of its members, as well as his fledgling marriage, while Jeanette struggles to fill Andrew's deceased wife's shoes.
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University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
c1982
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English
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Jedediah Morgan Grant was a man who knew no compromise when it came to principles--and his principles were clearly representative, argues Gene A. Sessions, of Mormonism's first generation. His life is a glimpse of a Mormon world whose disappearance coincided with the death of this "pious yet rambunctiously radical preacher, flogging away at his people, demanding otherworldliness and constant sacrifice." It was "an eschatological, pre-millennial world...
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Fourth Nephite volume 1
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English
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When he jeopardizes his football scholarship, high school student Kaleo is transported from present-day Salt Lake City to early nineteenth-century Palmyra, New York, where he meets the Prophet Joseph Smith and learns for himself the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon.
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Passion River Films
Pub. Date
c2012.
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English
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Dozens of Utah DVD retailers attracted unwanted attention from Hollywood heavyweights when, in the name of conservative family values, they began sanitizing films of sex, nudity, profanity, and violence. Outraged over the unauthorized editing of their work, prominent filmmakers began to speak out, thrusting the two groups into an intense legal, theoretical, and moral battle that would last six years before coming to a shocking conclusion.
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English
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Brad Armstrong has just completed his first semester of college. The eighteen-year-old is looking forward to spending the holidays with his family. But as he enters his parents' home something doesn't feel right. A devastating tragedy quickly turns into a nightmare when police detectives find it impossible to come to any other conclusion--except that Brad is a cold-blooded murderer.
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Agreka
Pub. Date
c2000.
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English
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Orson Hyde was chosen as an original member of the Council of the Twelve in 1835, when the Mormon Church first organized this governing body. Orson's most well-known accomplishment was as a Mormon missionary to Jerusalem (1840-1842) to dedicate the land for the return of the Jews. Civil authorities in Jerusalem invited the development of a five-acre hillside garden, in honor of Orson Hyde, which was completed in 1979.Participating in the Mormon drama...
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University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
c1987.
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English
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Viewing Clayton as a representative disciple, Allen examines the effect of the Mormon faith on the lives of disciples who, as followers, were the solid building blocks of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
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Deseret Book
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English
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Following a series of misadventures trying to get to Nauvoo on an airplane with several nieces and nephews, Sheri Dew writes that she was ready to scrap the trip and just go home. A simple statement by her niece restored her perspective: "Aunt Sheri, if life were easy, it wouldn't be hard." The fact is, life is hard-but that's okay. If we learn to turn to the Lord, he can make our burdens light. Distinguishing between burdens (the stuff mortality...
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Promontory
Pub. Date
c2006.
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English
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Pure Gold is a collection of letters, memoirs, photographs and personal interviews that have been skillfully woven into an engaging and revealing glimpse in the inner workings of a one-of-a-kind man. Packed with more than eighty years of life's lessons and adventures, Pure Gold is the perfect book for anyone looking to tap into his own mother lode of gold as found in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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