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Jessop, Carolyn

Summary: Chronicles one woman's courageous flight to freedom with her eight children, and her account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 289.3092 JES

Krakauer, Jon.

Summary: Traces the 1984 murder of a woman and her child by fundamentalist Mormons, exploring the belief systems and traditions that mark the faith's most extreme factions and what their practices reflect about the nature of religion in America.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 289.3 Kraka

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.33 KRA

Jessop, Carolyn

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2007

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 289.3092 Jes

Jeffs, Rachel

Summary: "In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it. Born into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Rachel Jeffs was raised in a strict patriarchal culture...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 JEFFS, RACHEL JEF

Jeffs, Rachel

2 holds on 2 copies

Summary: The daughter of the self-proclaimed prophet of the FLDS Church describes the abusive patriarchal culture in which she was raised by sister wives and dominating men and discusses how her father remains a powerful influence on his followers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFS, RACHEL JEF

Krakauer, Jon.

Summary: Few, if any, outsiders gain a peek inside the shrouded, secretive compounds of Mormon Fundamentalists. However, after years of painstaking research, Jon Krakauer has composed a shocking and insightful picture of these communities. He also provides commentary on the heinous murder carried out by polygamists Ron and Dan Lafferty.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House audio 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 289.33 KRA

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