Mormonism category: 1202 books
by Tad R. Callister
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 4, 2017
In The Infinite Atonement, Brother Tad R. Callister offers us what may be the most comprehensive yet understandable treatment of the Atonement in our day. He thoughtfully probes the infinite scope of this “great and last sacrifice,” describing its power and breadth and explaining how it redeems...
by Brent W. Jeffs, Maia Szalavitz
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
In the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), girls can become valuable property as plural wives, but boys are expendable, even a liability. In this powerful and heartbreaking account, former FLDS member Brent Jeffs reveals both the terror and the love he experienced...
Under the Banner of Heaven
A Story of Violent Faith
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2004
This extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 people still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like...
I Sailed to Zion
True Stories of Young Pioneers Who Crossed the Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
I swung myself up the gangplank amidst the waving handkerchiefs of my school-mates who were bidding me goodbye. I remember standing still, holding on to the railing as the boat glided out into the wide, soft darkness. I stood my ground without a tear until I saw a sweet, tear-stained face come into view....
by Roberta Flake Clayton
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
These are the life stories of Mormon girls, young women, mothers, and grandmothers who traveled to Arizona by covered wagons and by train. These women drove teams and knitted socks while their men trailed the cattle. They settled the Arizona Strip and along the Little Colorado, San Pedro, Gila, and...
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...
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...
by Larry H. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
When he was sixteen years old, Larry Miller came home one summer night to find all his possessions sitting in three bags on the porch of his darkened house. The door was locked. From those troubled and humble beginnings rose a man whose influence has touched, according to reliable pollsters, more than...
by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1882
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1882
The Faith-Promoting Series is a sequence of narratives published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The narratives were geared toward the young men and women of the church and customized to include true and exciting stories from the lives of exemplary Latter-day Saints, because of the...
Saving Alex
When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
When Alex Cooper was fifteen years old, life was pretty ordinary in her sleepy suburban town and nice Mormon family. At church and at home, Alex was taught that God had a plan for everyone. But something was gnawing at her that made her feel different. These feelings exploded when she met Yvette,...
Prophecy and Modern Times
Finding Hope and Encouragement in the Last Days
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
From the national bestselling author of The Naked Communist, The Naked Capitalist, and The 5000 Year Leap comes Prophecy and Modern Times, the decisive guide to understanding God’s messages and finding hope in the modern era.
“Prophecy is not poetry. It is history in reverse.”—W. Cleon...
by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement. It was first published in March 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr. as The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi. According to Smith, the book was originally written in otherwise...
Devil's Gate
Owning the Land, Owning the Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Devil’s Gate—the name conjures difficult passage and portends a doubtful outcome. In this eloquent and captivating narrative, Tom Rea traces the history of the Sweetwater River valley in central Wyoming—a remote place including Devil’s Gate, Independence Rock, and other sites along a stretch...
by Robert V. Remini
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2002
Robert Remini's work on the Jacksonian epoch has won him acclaim as well as the National Book Award. In Joseph Smith, he employs his keen insight and rich storytelling gift to explore one of the period's major figures. The most important reformer and innovator in American religious history, Joseph...