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: Stevo and Bob are two friends fresh out of college who sport mohawks and blue hair, listen to hardcore music, and try to live up to their own anarchist ideals while figuring out what to do with their lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SLCSummary: 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 HENGay, 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 GAYRoberts, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 ROBEvenson, 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 EVESummary: In this follow-up to "God's Army," "States of Grace" tells the story of a homeless street preacher, a gang banger, an aspiring actress, and two young missionaries whose lives intersect in an unforgettable story of grace and hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Main Street Movie Co. 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STAWariner, Ruth.
Summary: The true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist family. Ruth Wariner was the thirty-ninth of her father's forty-two children. Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authorities turn a blind eye to the practices of her community, Ruth lives in a ramshackle house without indoor plumbing or electricity. At church, preachers teach that God will punish the wicked by destroying the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WARINER, RUTH WARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio WarinerHarrison, 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: She wore a yellow ribbon : Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled. 3 Godfathers: Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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 ANGSummary: This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 EAR3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 1
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Harrison, 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 STOVan Sciver, Noah
Summary: "Noah Van Sciver is haunted by the house at 133 ____ Street, or as his brothers rechristened it "One Dirty Tree." This sprawling dilapidated New Jersey house was his first home and the site of formative experiences. Growing up in a big, poor, Mormon family--surrounded by comic-books, eight siblings, bathtubs full of dirty dishes--Noah's childhood exerts a powerful force on his present day...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Uncivilized Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 VANWestover, Tara
Summary: The author recounts her life growing up with her survivalist Mormon family in Idaho. She lacked any formal education, but began to educate herself and taught herself enough to be admitted to Brigham Young University and then to Cambridge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bombora 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.7 WESDavis, Chris
Summary: At age thirty-two, Chris Davis had everything she was told that she wanted: a husband, two children, and a townhouse in the suburbs. The plan had been laid out for her and compliance was expected. A devout Mormon with a stellar reputation in her community, Davis spent a lifetime listening to rhetoric from church leaders that queer people were sinners and needed to repent of their wickedness....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Publish Your Purpose 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVIS, CHRIS DAVVan 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 JESSEUlrich, 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 ULRSummary: Tom Bodett explores the trails that extended America's frontiers. He follows the footsteps and wagon ruts of rugged pioneers, dauntless homesteaders, reclusive mountain men, and stop-at-nothing gold hunters as they explored, settled, and worked the new land.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2002
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6 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 AME 1Call number: 917.3 AME 2
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Weisgarber, 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