Signature Books imprint: 43 books

Thirteenth Apostle

The Diaries of Amasa M. Lyman, 1832-1877

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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016

Originally from New Hampshire, Amasa Mason Lyman converted to Mormonism over the objection of his family at age nineteen. Compelled to leave home with a total of eleven dollars in his pocket, he ventured some 700 miles east to Ohio, where Joseph Smith told him to return east and serve a mission...

The Pre-Nicene New Testament

Fifty-four Formative Texts

by Robert M. Price
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006

In this monumental work, Professor Price offers an inclusive New Testament canon with twenty-seven additional sacred books from the first three centuries of Christianity, including a few of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi writings. Price also reconstructs the Gospel of Marcion and the lost Gospel...

Conflict in the Quorum

Orson Pratt, Brigham Young, Joseph Smith

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002

At a meeting of the LDS Quorum of the Twelve in 1860, one of the church’s senior apostles, Elder Heber C. Kimball, complained that “Brother Orson Pratt has withstood Joseph [Smith] and he has withstood Brother Brigham [Young] many times and he has done it tonight and it made my blood chill. It...

The Midwife

A Biography of Laurine Ekstrom Kingston

by Victoria D Burgess
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012

 After working all day at the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, twenty-one-year-old Laurine Ekstrom would return home to find that her parents had rearranged the furniture again to accommodate Rulon Allred, a homeopath, who used their home to assist women in giving birth. Charismatic and unconventional,...

Confessions of a Mormon Historian

The Diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997: Volume 3, Exile, 1980-97

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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018

Leonard Arrington (1917–99) was born an Idaho chicken rancher whose early interests seemed not to extend much beyond the American west. Throughout his life, he tended to project a folksy persona, although nothing was farther from the truth. He was, in fact, an intellectually oriented, academically...

Moth and Rust

Mormon Encounters with Death

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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017

In Mormonism we are sometimes seemingly casual about death: it’s a veil or a mission call to the spirit world. But our actual encounters with the reality of death inevitably change us in ways that are difficult to articulate. In this collection, Mormon writers wrestle with mortality and its aftermath....

Confessions of a Mormon Historian

The Diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997

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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018

Leonard Arrington (1917–99) was born an Idaho chicken rancher whose early interests seemed not to extend much beyond the American west. Throughout his life, he tended to project a folksy persona, although nothing was farther from the truth. He was, in fact, an intellectually oriented, academically...

An Intimate Chronicle

The Journals of William Clayton

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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1995

William Clayton is best remembered today for his hymns, especially “Come, Come Ye Saints.” But as one of the earliest Latter-day Saint scribes, he made intellectual as well as artistic contributions to his church, and his records have been silently incorporated into official Mormon scripture and...

In Sacred Loneliness

The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith

by Todd Compton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997

Beginning in the 1830s, at least thirty-three women married Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. These were passionate relationships which also had some longevity, except in cases such as that of two young sisters, one of whom was discovered by Joseph’s first wife, Emma, in a locked bedroom with...

Mormonism Unvailed

Eber D. Howe, with critical comments by Dan Vogel

by Eber D. Howe, Dan Vogel
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015

 Any Latter-day Saint who has ever defended his or her beliefs has likely addressed issues first raised by Eber D. Howe in 1834. Howe’s famous exposé was the first of its kind, with information woven together from previous news articles and some thirty affidavits he and others collected....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1990

 In this exciting and readable autobiography, one of the most colorful figures of the American frontier recounts his poverty-stricken childhood, his rowdy adolescence in Rocky Mountain mining camps, his unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Congress, and his stormy career in one of the leading councils of...

The Amazing Colossal Apostle

The Search for the Historical Paul

by Robert M. Price
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012

The story of Paul is one of irony, the New Testament depicting him at the martyrdom of Stephen holding the assassins' cloaks. Then this same Paul is transformed into the biblical archetype for someone suffering for their faith. He becomes so entrenched, it would appear that he had walked with the...

The Mysteries of Godliness

A History of Mormon Temple Worship

by David J. Buerger
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002

A veil of secrecy surrounds Mormon temple worship. While officially intended to preserve the sacredness of the experience, the silence leaves many Latter-day Saints mystified. What are the derivation and development of the holy endowment, and if these were known, would the experience be more meaningful?...
by Grant Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002

Over the past thirty years, an enormous amount of research has been conducted into Mormon origins—Joseph Smith’s early life, the Book of Mormon, the prophet’s visions, and the restoration of priesthood authority. Longtime LDS educator Grant H. Palmer suggests that most Latter-day Saints remain...
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