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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ex-church members Mormon Church Biography Forced marriage United States Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Mormon Church Mormon Church Controversial literature Mormon fundamentalism Mormon women United States Biography Polygamy United States Smith, Joseph 1805-1844Ulrich, 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 ULRGay, Heather
Summary: "Straight off the slopes and into the spotlight, Heather Gay is known to dish God's honest truth. Whether as a businesswoman, mother, or television personality, Heather is unafraid to blaze a new trail; even if at the isolation of her family, friends, and church. Heather was born and bred Mormon. Growing up in Utah, not even the snow-capped mountains could draw attention from the state's most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GAY, HEATHER GAYVan 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 VANLaake, Deborah.
Summary: A look at modern Mormon society, describing personal struggle between religious faith and personal integrity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.3 LAAHammari, Kimiko Christensen
Summary: Make Mondays the best night of the week! With a full year of prepared family nights that correlate directly with the 2016 Primary theme, this book is the perfect solution for busy families everywhere. For each week, you’ll find a complete lesson written for you, plus songs, scriptures, ideas for treats, and activity options for younger and older children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CFI, an imprint of Cedar Fort, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 248 HAMPark, 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 PARVan Noord, Roger
Summary: A skeptical follower of James Jesse Strang once wrote: "No man can serve two masters. You cannot serve a temporal king and a republican government at the same time. The thing is preposterous." And yet, under Strang, such a system survived in Michigan for six years. This book traces the life and assassination of King Strang, the extraordinary Mormon leader who, in the 1850s, created a literal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STRANG, JAMES JESSEMyer, Caitlin
Summary: "A literary memoir of one woman's journey from wife to warrior, in the vein of breakout hits like Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle. At thirty-six years old, Caitlin Myer is ready to start a family with her husband. She has leftbehind the restrictive confines of her Mormon upbringing and early sexual trauma and believes she is now living her happily ever after . . ....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pubilshing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MYER, CAITLIN MYEHarline, 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 HARKrakauer, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 289.33 KRAWilliams, Elizabeth Whitney.
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.E. Jewett 1905
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1 available in Local Author, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, ELIZABETH WHITNEY Williams1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, ELIZABETH WHITNEY Williams
2 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 921 WILLIAMS, ELIZABETH WHITNEY WIL
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 WILRhodes, Ron.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.3 RHOAllen, Samantha
Summary: Allen takes us on a cross-country road-trip stretching all the way from Provo, Utah to the Rio Grande Valley to the Bible Belt to the Deep South. Her motto for the trip: "Something gay every day." Making pit stops at drag shows, political rallies, and hubs of queer life across the heartland, she introduces us to scores of extraordinary LGBT people working for change, from the first openly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 ALLBeam, 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 BEABushman, Richard L.
Summary: The core of Mormon belief was a conviction about actual events. The test of faith was not adherence to a certain confession of faith but belief that Christ was resurrected, that Joseph Smith saw God, that the Book of Mormon was true history and not philosophy, and that Peter, James, and John restored the apostleships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.309 BUSAbanes, Richard.
Summary: An overview of Mormonism in America details its inception in 1830, which was considered a movement of radical zealots, to its acceptance in today's society, and reveals the many controversies and scandals that surround the religion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Four Walls Eight Windows 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.309 ABAStrang, James Jesse
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1854
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.492 STR1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.492 STR
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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 289.3 KrakaCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.33 KRASummary: 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 MORJeffs, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 JEFFS, RACHEL JEFChabot, Shersta
Summary: "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam... and a moonbeam, a clear stream, and calm sea! Jesus wants me for a bright star to twinkle high above guiding all seekers to find Him by sharing God's great love!"--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CFI, an imprint of Cedar Fort, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 241.5 CHAJessop, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 289.3092 JESDenton, Sally
Summary: "A shocking massacre in 2019 sparks a probing investigation into the strange, violent history of a polygamist Mormon outpost in Mexico. A harmless, unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen in northern Mexico on November 4, 2019. In a massacre that produced international headlines, nine people were killed and five others gravely injured. The victims were members of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 DENSingular, Stephen.
Summary: As the self-proclaimed prophet of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, a sect of Mormonism based in southern Utah, Warren Jeffs held sway over thousands of followers for nearly a decade. In addition to coercing young girls into polygamous marriages with older men, Jeffs reputedly took scores of wives himself. The media were shunned, creating a hidden community where polygamy was prized above...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008