Orem Library

Esther, Josie, Phoebe, Tillie and Georgie will quickly endear themselves to readers of Palmyra, the latest novel from author Susan Evans McCloud. Set in the late 1820s and early 1830s, this novel centers around the lives of these five vibrant young girls, who find themselves working out their heartaches and shaping their lives in the midst of a community that is reacting to the teachings of a young Joseph Smith and his new religion. Told through Esther's...

Readers are presented with a rich and comprehensive account of the events preceding Joseph's visions--from the early years of the Smith family to the day the Church was restored. Taken together, these four first-person narratives will enable readers to experience the early life of Joseh Smith as never before--in his own words.

Ezekiel Johnson feels like he is losing his family-one by one. It is the 1820s, and years earlier, Ezekiel had fled his abusive stepfather and his loving, yet browbeaten mother-promising he would never return. He vowed that when he had a family they would be bound together in freedom, happiness, and love. But now this strange new Mormon religion seems to have captured the hearts of his wife and children-in spite of the rumors that surround it and...

American Prophet: The Story Of Joseph Smith offers a fascinating portrait of a man whose name has indeed been had for good and evil among all nations. As the church he founded on American soil has grown to a membership exceeding ten million in 160-plus countries around the globe, his work has been scrutinized, acclaimed, ridiculed, investigated, applauded, belittled, embraced, and rejected. His story is one of remarkable achievement as well as horrific...

For the first time in many years, all of the biographies written about Church Presidents by Francis M. Gibbons from Joseph Smith through Ezra Taft Benson are in print and available in an economical paperback format. Elder Gibbons, who has personally known several Church Presidents, was a secretary to the First Presidency for sixteen years and also served in both the First and Second Quorums of the Seventy.