Signature Books imprint: 43 books
Thirteenth Apostle
The Diaries of Amasa M. Lyman, 1832-1877
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...