Hawker, 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 HAWGrant, 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 GRADenton, 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 DENHarline, 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 HARHarrison, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARSummary: In many ways, the Browns are like any other middle-American family: they eat, play, and pray together, squabble and hug, striving to raise happy, well-adjusted children while keeping their relationship loving and strong. The difference is, there are five adults in the openly polygamous Brown marriage--Kody and his four wives--who among them have seventeen children. Since TLC first launched its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BRODuchovny, 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 DUCJessop, 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 JESLeBaron, Anna
Summary: "'My father had more than fifty children.' So begins the haunting memoir of Anna LeBaron, daughter of the notorious polygamist and murderer Ervil LeBaron. With her father wanted by the FBI for killing anyone who tried to leave his cult -- a radical branch of Mormonism -- Anna and her siblings were constantly on the run with the other sister-wives. Often starving and always desperate, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 LEBARON, ANNA BarQuinn, 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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUIWeisgarber, Ann
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WEIEbershoff, 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 EbeJeffs, 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 JEFJones, Tayari.
Summary: Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, Silver Sparrow revolves around James Witherspoon's two families-the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. It is a relationship destined to explode when secrets are revealed and illusions shattered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Jones 2011Meades, Christopher
Summary: A week before she is to become a polygamist's fifth wife, Hanna meets Daniel, an enigmatic stranger from outside the secluded community of Clearhaven, who challenges her to question her fate and to follow her own will.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEASpencer, Irene
Summary: Irene Spencer did as she felt God commanded in marrying her brother-in-law Verlan LeBaron, becoming his second wife at age 16. When the government raided the fundamentalist, polygamous Mormon village of Short Creek, Arizona, Irene and her family fled to Verlan's brothers' Mexican ranch. They lived in squalor and desolate conditions in the Mexican desert with Verlan's four brothers, one mentally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 289.3092 SPEUdall, Brady.
Summary: A tragicomic story of a deeply faithful man who, crippled by grief and the demands of work and family, becomes entangled in an affair that threatens to destroy his family's future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UDALWariner, 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 WarinerEbershoff, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EBEFisher, Tarryn
Summary: Imagine that your husband has two other wives whom you've never met, but you love him so much you don't care. Then imagine you meet one of these other wives, and you learn that her husband, who is also your husband, is violent and angry, a person completely unknown to you. How far would you go to find the truth, even if it put your life on the line?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC FISFisher, Tarryn
Summary: Shes never met the other wives. None of them know each other, and because of this unconventional arrangement, she can see her husband only one day a week. But she loves him so much she doesn't care. Or at least that's what she told herself. But one day, while she's doing laundry, she finds a scrap of paper in his pocket, an appointment reminder for a woman named Hannah, and she knows it's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FISCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FISJessop, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 289.3092 JesJessop, Carolyn
Summary: Continues the author's accounts after she left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, describing her struggles with her daughter's return to the cult and her own discoveries about how to achieve healthy change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289 JESRiley, Peggy
Summary: Fleeing with her two daughters who have never seen the world outside of their polygamous compound, a desperate woman crashes her car in rural Oklahoma, where she finds unlikely help from a farmer grieving the loss of his wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013