Grant, 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 GRAEves, Rosalyn
Summary: Elizabeth Bertelsen dreams of becoming an astronomer, but for her such dreams are as unreachable as the stars she so deeply adores. As a Mormon girl, her duty is to her family and, in a not too far away future, to the man who will choose to marry her. When she unexpectedly finds herself in Colorado, she is tempted by the total eclipse of the sun that is about to happen-- and maybe even meeting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EVESummary: After assuming the identity of a small town sheriff, an outlaw and his brother take on a devious Army officer who wants to steal land from Mormon settlers; on a quest to become the most notorious bandits in the West, two outlaw brothers unwittingly become heroes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hen's Tooth Video 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN TRIHenry, Katie
Summary: Ellis Kimball, sixteen, whose anxiety disorder causes her to prepare for the imminent end of the world, meets Hannah, who claims to know when it will happen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HENEvenson, Brian
Summary: When Rudd, a troubled teenager, embarks on a school research project, he runs across the secret Mormon ritual of blood sacrifice, and its role in a 1902 murder committed by the grandson of Brigham Young. Along with his newly discovered half-brother, Rudd becomes swept up in the psychological and atavistic effects of this violent, antique ritual.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVEHarrison, Mette Ivie
Summary: "Linda Wallheim, who is increasingly jaded with the Mormon church, has begun marriage counseling with her bishop husband, Kurt, hoping to reconcile their household and philosophical disagreements. On other days, Linda occupies herself with happier things, like visits to see her five grown sons and their families. When Linda's eldest son, Joseph, tells her his infant daughter's babysitter, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARSummary: Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANGHarrison, Mette Ivie
Summary: Mormon bishop's wife Linda Wallheim is stunned to learn her son Kenneth has gotten engaged to a young woman from a polygamous family. Naomi Carter may have left the religion she grew up in, but the Carters will still be the Wallheims' in-laws once Kenneth and Naomi are married. Stephen Carter, Naomi's father and the patriarch of the Carter clan, invites the Wallheims over to the Carter family...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARMcClure, Marcia Lynn
Summary: "Youthful beauty, naive innocence, a romantic imagination thirsting for adventure--an apt description of Vaden Valmont, who would soon find the adventure and mystery she had always longed to experience--in the form of a man--a somber recluse, Ransom Lake"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCStone, Laura
Summary: Adam Young is a devout Mormon whose life is all planned out for him, by both his strict father and his church. He follows the path they've established for him, going off to his mission in Barcelona, Spain, and realizes that his life may not follow the trajectory already chosen for him. His mission companion, Brandon Christensen, is a handsome, enthusiastic practitioner on the surface. But as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlude Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOWeisgarber, Ann
Summary: In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, to return home from his travels as a wheelwright. It is now the depths of winter, Samuel is weeks overdue, and Deborah is getting worried. Deborah lives in Junction, a tiny town of seven Mormon families scattered along the floor of a canyon, and she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2019
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Summary: "Utah, 1888. Mormon country. As Sister Deborah awaits her husband's long-anticipated return home, a stranger arrives at her doorstep, and with him, trouble. Although this man is a fellow Latterday Saint, he wouldn't be here in the bitter month of January if he weren't on the run from something terrible. And where he goes, lawmen are sure to follow. Lawmen who wouldn't think twice about burning...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WEIHawker, Olivia
Summary: "1857. Three women -- once strangers -- come together in unpredictable Utah Territory. Hopeful, desperate, and willful, they'll allow nothing on Earth or in Heaven to stand in their way. Following the call of their newfound Mormon faith, Tamar Loader and her family weather a brutal pilgrimage from England to Utah, where Tamar is united with her destined husband, Thomas Ricks. Clinging to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HAWSummary: Henry Heath, a grieving lawman whose daughter has recently died, is assigned custody of the ghoulish Jean Baptiste, a notorious robber of 300 graves. Against the perilous Utah desert terrain, the contempt of an entire community, and his own prejudice, Heath must somehow keep a marked man alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Monterey Media 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Redemption 2011Bray, Carys
Summary: "The six members of the Bradley family have always been close. But in the wake of a tragedy that leaves a hole in the very center of their lives, they suddenly find themselves coming apart. Claire, a convert to the Mormon faith, is so shattered by what'shappened that she can't even bring herself to get out of bed. Her husband, Ian, however is more secure in his belief that everything happens...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRAEbershoff, David.
Summary: The story of Ann Eliza Young's crusade against polygamy interwines with a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EBECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction EbeJohnson, Craig
Summary: When a lost Mormon boy wanders into Absaroka County, Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire teams up with feisty deputy Victoria Moretti and longtime friend Henry Standing Bear on a high plains scavenger hunt that leads them to a violent interstate polygamy group.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Johnson 2013Bartley, D. A.
Summary: Detective Abish Taylor left Utah for a reason, but with her husband's passing she's come home to reconnect with her family. Now she's serving as the sole police detective in the small town of Pleasant View. When the quiet Mormon suburb in the Wasatch Mountains is shaken by a macabre death-- with the hallmarks of a sacred ritual dating back to the days of Brigham Young-- Abbie uncovers the dark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARDallas, Sandra.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DALDuchovny, David
Summary: "A sprawling story about a Mormon homesteading family in Southern California"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUCHarrison, Mette Ivie
Summary: "The Mormon church may have disavowed the polygamy it became so famous for in the 19th century, but for some Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints, "plural marriage" isn't just ancient history. Mormon bishop's wife Linda Wallheim is stunned to learn her son Kenneth has gotten engaged to a young woman from a polygamous family. Naomi Carter may have left the religion she grew up in, but the Carters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHopkins, Ellen
Summary: After the death of her abusive father and loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn runs away, desperately seeking peace, as her younger sister, a sophomore in high school, also tries to put the pieces of her life back together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2013
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Summary: When a lost Mormon boy wanders into Absaroka County, Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire teams up with feisty deputy Victoria Moretti and longtime friend Henry Standing Bear on a high plains scavenger hunt that leads them to a violent interstate polygamy group.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHQuinn, Cate
Summary: ""I had the right husband-and the wrong wives." -One of Blake Nelson's widows The Dry meets The Handmaid's Tale in this fascinating story of wife and death. Against the wishes of his family and the laws of the elders of the Mormon church, Blake Nelson hasadopted the old polygamous ways and lives alone with his three wives, miles from anywhere, in rural Utah. Blake and his wives kept to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2021