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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints History Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Families Religious aspects Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Families Religious life Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Jr Smith, Joseph 1805-1844 Marriage Religious aspects Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Mormon Church Mormon fundamentalism Polygamy Religious aspects Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day SaintsUlrich, Laurel Thatcher
Summary: "A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never-before-told story of the earliest days of the women of Mormon "plural marriage," whose right to vote in the state of Utah was given to them by a Mormon-dominated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.309 ULRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 289.309 ULRGrant, Libbie
Summary: In 1827, in rural Pennsylvania, Emma Hale marries an itinerant treasure-digger who claims he can speak directly to God. In a few short years, Joseph Smith will found his own religion, gain tens of thousands of zealous followers and fracture Emma's life and faith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRAVan Sciver, Noah
Summary: "Decades in the making, an original graphic novel biography about the life of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Latter-Day Saints. In Joseph Smith and the Mormons, author and illustrator Noah Van Sciver, who was raised a Mormon, covers one of history's most controversial figures, Joseph Smith--who founded a religion which is practiced by millions all over the world. The book discusses...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, JOSEPH VANHarline, Paula Kelly.
Summary: The author delves deep into the diaries and autobiographies of twenty-nine polygamous women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, providing a rare window into the lives they led and revealing their views and experiences of polygamy, including their well-founded belief that their domestic contributions would help to build a foundation for generations of future Mormons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.835 HARArrington, Leonard J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf : distributed by Random House 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.309 ARRBeam, Alex.
Summary: "At thirty-nine years old, Smith went from charismatic leader to public enemy: how his most seismic revelation -- the doctrine of polygamy -- created a rift among his people [Church of Latter-day Saints]; how that schism turned to violence; and how, ultimately, Smith could not escape the consequences of his ambition and pride. American Crucifixion is a gripping story of scandal and violence,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.3092 BEACerny, Johni.
Contents: v. 1. Baden, Bavaria, Wuerttemberg -- v. 2. Saxon States, Silesia, Schleswig-Holstein, Westphalia ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1900
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.343 GUIPark, Benjamin E.
Summary: "An extraordinary story of faith and violence in nineteenth-century America, based on previously confidential documents from the Mormon Church. Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, often treated as fringe cultists or marginalized polygamists unworthy of serious examination. In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park excavates the brief, tragic life of a lost Mormon city,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.3 PARPratt, David H.
Contents: v. 1. Northern England/Province of York
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholarly Resources Inc. 1992
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3 PRAFitzpatrick, Doyle C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Heritage 1970
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 977.4 FITCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 921 STR1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 921 STR
Morebeck, Nancy Justus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HeritageQuest 2001
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.1 MORPark, Benjamin E.
Summary: "The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a profoundly divided faith that has nevertheless shaped the nation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Utilizing historical documents and interviews with scholars and churchmembers, this multi-part PBS documentary chronicles the formation and development of the Mormon Church.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MORJessop, 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