Mormonism category: 1202 books
Joseph Smith
Rough Stone Rolling
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and attract thousands of followers before his violent death at age thirty-eight. Richard Bushman, an esteemed...
Leaving the Saints
How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Leaving the Saints is an unforgettable memoir about one woman’s spiritual quest and journey toward faith. As “Mormon royalty” within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Martha Beck was raised in a home frequented by the Church’s high elders—known as the apostles—and her existence...
The Book of Mormon Girl
A Memoir of an American Faith
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
From her days of feeling like “a root beer among the Cokes”—Coca-Cola being a forbidden fruit for Mormon girls like her—Joanna Brooks always understood that being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints set her apart from others. But, in her eyes, that made her special;...
The Accidental Terrorist
Confessions of a Reluctant Missionary
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Finalist for the 2015 Association for Mormon Letters Award
“This just may be my favorite true-life amazing-but-true tale—never has threatening an aircraft been funnier or more thought-provoking.” —Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother and Homeland
“I devoured the more than...
Keep Sweet
Children of Polygamy
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Best Selling Author, Dr. David Perrin, co-authored Keep Sweet with Debbie Palmer so that readers could understand what it would be like to be a young girl growing up in the polygamous Mormon community of Bountiful. Winner of the 2005 Vancity Prize for the best book published in British Columbia on women's issues.
by John G. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Brigham Young was a rough-hewn New York craftsman whose impoverished life was electrified by the Mormon faith. Turner provides a fully realized portrait of this spiritual prophet, viewed by followers as a protector and by opponents as a heretic. His pioneering faith made a deep imprint on tens of thousands of lives in the American Mountain West.
by Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.
When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two...
by Robert Alan King
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
A Biography of False Prophet Warren Steed Jeffs and a History of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) by Robert Alan King is a biography that examines Warren Jeffs and the history of the FLDS Church. It is a historical account of polygamy, adultery, and child molestation...
by Leonard J. Arrington
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Brigham Young comes to life in this superlative biography that presents him as a Mormon leader, a business genius, a family man, a political organizer, and a pioneer of the West. Drawing on a vast range of sources, including documents, personal diaries, and private correspondence, Leonard J. Arrington...
Model Mormon
Fighting for Self-Worth on the Runway and as an Independent Woman
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
FROM INTERNATIONAL MODEL TO PUBLIC SPEAKER AND TEMPLE DRESS DESIGNER, ROSIE HAS NOT HAD A QUIET JOURNEY.
When sixteen-year-old Rosemary Card left Salt Lake to become a model, she had no idea what awaited her in New York City. As her career took her around the globe over the next two years,...
by Robert M. Price
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
This book is a series of papers presented mainly at the Book of Mormon Round Table. It lays out a case for considering the Mormon scripture as the work of Joseph Smith in the nineteenth century not an ancient document written by various Israelites in ancient America. But author Robert M. Price argues...
Love Times Three
Our True Story of a Polygamous Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
From a familythat inspired Big Love’s story of Bill Henricksonand his three wives, this first-ever memoir of a polygamous family captures theextraordinary workings of a unique family dynamic, and argues forthe acceptance of plural marriage as an alternative lifestyle. Readers ofCarolyn Jessop’s...
by Elna Baker
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
"A wickedly funny debut. Baker is both self-absorbed and generous, whip-smart and naïve; she apologizes for none of it."—People
It's lonely being a Mormon in New York City. Every year, Elna Baker attends the New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance. This year, her Queen...
Prophet's Prey
My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the conviction of Warren Jeffs, the maniacal prophet of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), comes the page-turning, horrifying story of how a rogue sect used sex, money, and power disguised under a façade...