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Series
Great Brain books volume 7
Language
English
Description
In turn-of-the-century Mormon Utah, Tom's great brain comes up with eight more schemes, most of them concerned with earning money.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Gwen Ferris, who has been active in the church's Spanish ward, has befriended Gabriela Suarez, a young mother of three, whose husband has been deported to Mexico. One day, Gabriela leaves a phone message for Gwen that suggests she's in some sort of trouble, and that night, her strangled body turns up at a gas station. Gwen prevails on her good friend Linda to help bring Gabriela's killer to justice. Tension rises between Linda and her Mormon bishop...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In the predominantly Mormon city of Draper, Utah, some seemingly perfect families have deadly secrets. Inspired by an actual crime and written by a practicing Mormon, The Bishop's Wife is both a fascinating look at the lives of modern Mormons as well as a grim and cunningly twisted mystery. Linda Wallheim is the mother of five grown boys and the wife of a Mormon bishop. As bishop, Kurt Wallheim is the ward's designated spiritual father, and that...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
265 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A witty and probing travelogue through the landscapes associated with The Book of Mormon, it argues for taking The Book of Mormon seriously as work of American storytelling.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Free Press trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Story about leaving behind the innocence of childhood belief and embracing the complications and heartbreaks that come to every adult life of faith. Explores the author's journey through her faith, and the experience of being a Mormon.
Author
Series
Gwen Marcey novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"A secret from a grim page of American history threatens to destroy thousands of lives. Gwen Marcey was tops in her forensic field. Then cancer struck, her husband left, and her teenage daughter engaged in active rebellion. Gwen's best chance to start a new life was a temporary job in Utah reconstructing faces from an 1857 massacre site. The Mountain Meadows Interpretative Center asked Gwen to reconstruct the faces of three intact bodies that were...
12) What of the Mormons?: Including a short history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Author
Publisher
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Pub. Date
[1954]
Edition
[fifth edition Revised.
Physical Desc
230 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
14) His right hand
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The tight-knit Mormon community in Draper, Utah is thrown into upheaval when their ward's second counselor-- one of the bishop's right-hand men-- is found dead in an elaborately staged murder on church property. Linda Wallheim, the wife of the ward's bishop, is worried about Carl's grieving family. When the autopsy report reveals Carl Ashby was a biological female, Church officials and more concerned with hushing up the story than solving the crime....
15) True sisters
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
1856. Mormon converts Nannie, Louisa, Jessie, and Anne, all from the British Isles, travel in the Martin Handcart Company, making the 1,300-mile journey on foot from Iowa City to Salt Lake City, while enduring unimaginable hardships. Each woman will test the boundaries of her faith and learn the true meaning of survival and friendship along the way.
18) Charlotte's Rose
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
246 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As a twelve-year-old Welsh immigrant carries a motherless baby along the Mormon Trail in 1856, she comes to love the baby as her own and fear the day the baby's father will reclaim her.
20) City of saints
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A historical mystery set in 1930s Salt Lake City finds a rookie investigator and Mormon family man partnering with a foul-mouthed, vice-ridden former strikebreaker to solve the murder of a beautiful socialite.
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