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  • Boadicea; the Mormon Wife: Life Scenes in Utah

    Annotated; with introduction and appendices

    by Alfreda Eva Bell, Michael Austin, Ardis E. Parshall ...
    First published in 1855, Boadicea; the Mormon Wife belongs to a sub-genre of crime fiction that flourished in the Eastern United States during the 1850s.Boadicea has become increasingly important to scholars of Mormonism because it gives us a glimpse of the Mormon image in literature immediately after the Church’s public acknowledgement of plural marriage. Over the next half century, this image ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dime Novel Mormons

    by Michael Austin, Ardis E. Parshall ...
    Series series The Mormon Image in Literature
    Dime novels probably did more than any other kind of book to turn lower- and middle-class Americans into both book owners and book readers. They were so cheap that almost anyone could afford them, and so exciting that almost everybody wanted to read them. It’s hard to tell just how many of these dime novels featured Mormons, but the way Mormons were portrayed in dime novels was remarkably ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Mormonism

    A Historical Encyclopedia

    Edited by W. Paul Reeve, Ardis E. Parshall ...
    Covering its historic development, important individuals, and central ideas and issues, this encyclopedia offers broad historical coverage of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia helps readers explore a church that has gone from being an object of ridicule and sometimes violent persecution to a worldwide religion, counting prominent businesspeople ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Mormoness; Or, The Trials Of Mary Maverick: A Narrative Of Real Events

    (Edited and Annotated, with Introduction and Appendices)

    by John Russell, Michael Austin, Ardis E. Parshall ...
    Series series The Mormon Image in Literature
    Published in 1853, the first American novel about the Mormons is also one of the best. John Russell, an Illinois journalist and educator, witnessed the persecution in Missouri and Illinois and generally sympathized with the Saints. The Mormoness tells the story of Mary Maverick, the heroine of the novel, who joined the Mormon Church when her husband was converted in Illinois. Though not initially ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • History of the Late Persecutions Inflicted By the State of Missouri Upon the Mormons

    by Parley P. Pratt, ...
    Written by Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt, this book contains his first-hand account of not only his own personal trials during the period in which the Latter-Day Saints were settled in Missouri, but many of the persecutions that the Mormon people underwent as a whole. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Wife No. 19

    The Story of a Life in Bondage, Being a Complete Exposé of Mormonism, and Revealing the Sorrows, Sacrifices and Sufferings of Women in Polygamy

    by Ann Eliza Young ...
    The true story behind David Ebershoff’s bestseller “The 19th Wife”! ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Emerson Hough: 13 western novels

    by Emerson Hough ...
    This book-collection file includes: 54-40 of Fight, The Covered Wagon, Girl at the Halfway House, Heart's Desire, The Law of the land, Maw's Vacation, The Mississippi bubble, The Purchase Price, The Sagebrusher, The Story of the Outlaw, The Way of a Man, The Young Alaskans, and The Young Alaskans on the Missouri. According to Wikipedia: "Emerson Hough (1857-1923) was an American author, best known ... Read more

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  • Joseph Smith

    Rough Stone Rolling

    by Richard Lyman Bushman ...
    Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and attract thousands of followers before his violent death at age thirty-eight. Richard Bushman, an esteemed cultural historian and a practicing Mormon, moves beyond the popular stereotype of Smith as a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Mormon Mirage

    A Former Member Looks at the Mormon Church Today

    by Latayne C. Scott ...
    In the first edition of The Mormon Mirage, Latayne C. Scott shared her remarkable journey out of Mormonism as she uncovered shocking inaccuracies, inconsistencies, and contradictions in the faith she had loved and lived. Thirty years later, Mormonism and Mormon scholarship have evolved with the times. In this third, revised and updated edition of her well-known book, Scott keeps pace with changes ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • American Zion

    A New History of Mormonism

    by Benjamin E. Park ...
    **Winner of the Philip Schaff Prize (for best book on the history of Christianity by a North American scholar)New Yorker — "Best Books of 2024"Finalist, Best Book in Utah History, Utah Historical SocietyThe 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.**The Church of Jesus Christ of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Villages on Wheels: A Social History of the Gathering to Zion

    by Stanley B. Kimball, Violet T. Kimball ...
    The enduring saga of Mormonism is its great trek across the plains, and understanding that trek was the life work of Stanley B. Kimball, master of Mormon trails. This final work, a collaboration he began and which was completed after his death in 2003 by his photographer-writer wife, Violet, explores that movement westward as a social history, with the Mormons moving as “villages on wheels.”Set in ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Mormon People

    The Making of an American Faith

    by Matthew Bowman ...
    “From one of the brightest of the new generation of Mormon-studies scholars comes a crisp, engaging account of the religion’s history.”—The Wall Street JournalWith Mormonism on the nation’s radar as never before, religious historian Matthew Bowman has written an essential book thatpulls back the curtain on more than 180 years of Mormon history and doctrine. He recounts the church’s origins and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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