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His Favorite Wife: Trapped in Polygamy 81 reviews
Susan Ray Schmidt
Kassidy Lane Publishing LLC, 2006
Great Book!!!!
Susan told a remarkable story of her life as a child bride. It is truly amazing what these women and children have to go through and Susan takes you right into their world. Awesome book.
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Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites36 reviews
Chris Heimerdinger
Covenant Communications, 1989
These Tennis Shoes Rock!
Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites
A book by Chris Heimerdinger
The Tennis Shoes series is originally about a boy who travels back in time to an ancient civilization called the Nephites (a people whose writings make the "Book of Mormon", which is a book the religious people called "Mormons" or the "L.D.S." people base their beliefs). Armed with modern gadgets, the boy, named Jim, his sister ...
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Far from Home (Children of the Promise/Dean Hughes, Vol 3)24 reviews
Dean Hughes
Deseret Book Co, 1998
The story keeps getting better.
I'm amazed at how Dean Hughes keeps these books so interesting. By the time you finish this book, you will have read something like 1300+ pages of the same story, yet its still such an amazing one, and the interest level only increases. This series is the best of any that I have ever read. Volume # 3 involves some of the worst times of the war, and the suffering is painful to read at times, yet ...
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The Ferry Woman: A Novel of the Mountain Meadows Massacre13 reviews
Gerald Grimmett
Limberlost Press, 2004
Powerful work , A must read
When I heard about this book, I went to the Washington County, Library in Utah. I asked questions about the Mountain Meadow Massacre and the prima nd proper openly Mormon Librarian brought me more and more information on alleged crimes vs the Mormon Church. Not what I had asked for. I asked about Geral Grimmet and the response was "Oh him". This response peaked my interest even more. I am a New ...
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Approaching Zion (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol 9)15 reviews
Hugh Nibley
Shadow Mountain, 1989
Nibley at his most personal and most challenging to our normal mode of life
This is Hugh Nibley at his most personal and most challenging. Here he expresses his faith, insights, and commitment to trusting the Lord and taking his covenants most seriously. He hammers home again and again that we receive everything from the Lord and that we are blind to many of the blessings we have all around us. We refuse to take them because we are after the things of this world and ...
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Speaking the Truth in Love to Mormons19 reviews
Mark J. Cares
Wels Outreach Resources, 1998
Totally different approach
This book was SO eye-opening. I've read about 10 other Mormonism analysis books and I've had discussions with Mormons for over six months. This one is definitely the best book on the subject. This book changed everything for me. My eyes were suddenly opened to the idea that I was approaching witnessing entirely wrong. I was getting bogged down with logic and minutia and taking my focus away ...
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The Book of Mormon: A Reader's Edition20 reviews
University of Illinois Press, 2003
Best Edition on the Market!!
Wonderful Wonderful Edition!! I agree with the former missionary. This is a very user freindly edition of the BoM. The offical LDS Church Edition is very imposing and stark compared to this very inviting and easy on the eyes BoM format. Hand this edition to potential converts and they just might read the BoM. Why it took a secular university to put another Churche's Main Religious Text in a truly ...
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Harkening15 reviews
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
PublishAmerica, 2002
Poetic Prose
Carolyn Howard-Johnson's second novel "Harkening - A collection of Stories Remembered" is a poetic adventure. Johnson's skill with words, her poetic phraseology turns each narrative into a mini adventure that reads with the rhythm and tempo of a story poem. As with her first novel, "This is The Place" many of the short stories deal with bigotry and the cruelty words can inflict. Still the thread ...
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Believing Christ the Parable of the Bicycle and Other Good News15 reviews
Stephen E. Robinson
Deseret Book Co, 1992
Ever wish you could start over again.....
This book will explain how to get rid of the baggage you carry around with you that keeps you depressed and feeling like a failure. It will change your mind and your heart and fill it with hope. Don't give up on life until you've read it. It's one of the most influential books you will ever read.
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Shot in the Heart54 reviews
Mikal Gilmore
audible.com
An Incredible Book...
An incredible book. Raw. Brutal. Honest. Heart-wrenching. Profound. A well-written and amazingly conveyed story of a families personal tragedies that ended up affecting the world.
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Papa Married a Mormon13 reviews
John D. Fitzgerald
Zion Book Store, 1976
Little House on the Prarie ... in Mormon Country
This wonderful book is a perfect mix of the Little House on the Prarie and Great Brain books. What I found the most interesting was the equal treatment of Mormons, Catholics, Methodists, and even Agnostics in frontier Utah. In fact, there are both good and bad examples of each. The overall religious message of the book is that "all religions are but windows in the same church letting in the light ...
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Trust in the Lord: Reflections of Jesus Christ12 reviews
Deen Kemsley
Sweetwater Books, 2008
Meditations for Reflection, Redemption, and Release
Deen Kemsley's writing resonates with uplifting encouragement, inspiring challenge, and amazing insight in is new book "Trust in the Lord." He captures the heart of Christ's own thoughts as he reflects and shares intimate experiences of his own spiritual journey.
Kemsley invites the reader to recognize the Savior at the cross to receive a fresh vision of who Jesus is. He draws from his own ...
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Alliance8 reviews
Gerald Lund
Deseret Book Company, 2002
Absolutely wonderful!
"The Alliance" is defiantely one of the best books I've read (And I read ALOT of books. Can't help it). Having first read "The Work and the Glory" and "The Kingdom and the Crown" series by the same author, I was a bit surprised when I found that the book took place in the future, but it was absolutely wonderful. The moral issues explored were very interesting, and the plot was fast paced and ...
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Breathe Life into Your Life Story: How to Write a Story People Will Want to Read9 reviews
Dawn Thurston, Morris Thurston
Signature Books, 2007
Highly Recommended
I've purchased a few books in the personal history genre as gifts for friends and family. When I decided to start writing my own story, I reviewed what was available and then choose Morris Thurston's book. I'm glad I did. I'm rating this five stars even though I'm less than half way through the book so far. I do this in good conscience because I've already gained far more than I expected from ...
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The First Mormon Temple: Design, Construction, and Historic Context of the Kirtland Temple8 reviews
Elwin Clark Robison
Brigham Young University Press, 1997
The Book Itself is a Temple
Robison's insights into the the progression of the construction of the Kirtland temple are priceless windows into the most significant landmark in the timeline of mormon architecture. This is a great coffee table book for historic preservation buffs and mormoms alike that won't be put down!
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Hugh Nibley: A Consecrated Life9 reviews
Boyd Jay Petersen
Greg Kofford Books, 2002
Well-paced, sometimes choppy, but great overall.
I had more fun reading this book than any book I've read in a while. A reader who doesn't have knowledge of The Church of Jesus Christ (Mormon) to which Nibley belongs would probably not find this book interesting. However, for someone who is familiar with Nibley's many and varied writings this book is very entertaining and informative, much like Nibley himself. Criticisms of the book are the ...
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The Forgotten Carols (Book Only)8 reviews
Michael McLean
Deseret Book Co, 1991
Wonderful story
When I first sat down to listen to his audio of this book, my mind was filled with the business of the season. I was bored with listening to a story when so many other things were expected of me. Later I decided to stop buzzing around and relax and try listening again, and I am so glad that I did. It is truely a story of hope, a story of love and it brings Christmas Day so much closer to ...
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A World of Wisdom11 reviews
Amy Cox Jones
Salt of the Earth Press, 2007
Fantastic- Everyone should have this book!
I have had this book since it was published. It is not only informative, but provides an easy way to dip your cooking skills into the waters of whole food cooking in an easy and educational way. My favorites are Black Bean and Polenta Casserole, White Corn Tortilla Soup, Taco Salad, and Banana Muffins. I have to say that every recipe I have made has turned out well and been delicious. I love ...
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Tennis Shoes and the Seven Churches: Book One (Tennis Shoes Series, 5)12 reviews
Chris Heimerdinger
Covenant Communications, 1997
VERY GOOD BOOK!
I own all seven of the Tennis Shoes books and love and cherish each of them. I read this book for my book report and couldn't wait for the next report to start the next one, "The Lost Scrolls"! I am unhappy he titled this book, "The Seven Churches" because the Seven Churches are mentioned ONCE in the h\whole story. It should be "The Lost Scrolls Part 1". All in all I rate this book 100 out ...
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Nephi, Nephi, the Scriptures Are True8 reviews
Anita Wells, Neal Anderson
Shadow Mountain, 2004
Bedtime favorite
What a fun book! My kids can't get enough of it--we have to read it every night before going to bed now! Even my 2-year old gets into it. She loves the catchy rhymes. I would highly recommend the book--it makes a great gift!
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