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2) The Mormons
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In this revealing American Experience/Frontline co-production, dig deep into the Mormon past to understand the church today, and how they are finally confronting its history of what is fact and what is fiction.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this heartfelt dramatic comedy, a teenage girl reluctantly joins her new step-cousin at a summer camp for Mormon girls. Reeling from the recent loss of her father to cancer, she finds that there are many others who feel her pain -- and that she never has to face her sorrow alone.
10) Burned
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"While Quinn writes with spirit on weighty subjects like domestic abuse, polygamy and religious cults, her primary and most poignant theme seems to be female friendship." -- New York Times Book Review "An absolutely thrilling novel. I devoured it over a weekend, unable to put it down. It's a clever and completely original take on a domestic thriller." --Alex Michaelides, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Silent Patient Blake's dead. They...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A disillusioned minister searches the Utah desert for a girl who went missing years ago in this sequel to western classic Riders of the Purple Sage . With Riders of the Purple Sage , Zane Grey invented the western literary form. His timeless novel tells the tale of a mysterious gunman named Lassiter and a Mormon woman named Jane Withersteen, who risk everything to escape the tyranny of a polygamist Mormon minister. Together with a little girl named...
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Series
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2004 Middle Grade Fiction Award from the Association for Mormon Letters. It's bad enough that Kevin's mother is about to graduate from mortuary college, but when his parents tell him they're moving to a small town in the Arkansas delta to run the Paramount Funeral Home, Kevin is certain it's his life that's over. After all, normal people don't live in houses with dead bodies downstairs! Once in Armadillo, Arkansas, Kevin tries to adapt...
Author
Publisher
Solo Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"In the predominantly Mormon city of Draper, Utah, some seemingly perfect families have deadly secrets. Inspired by an actual crime and written by a practicing Mormon, The Bishop's Wife is both a fascinating look at the lives of modern Mormons as well as a grim and cunningly twisted mystery. Linda Wallheim is the mother of five grown boys and the wife of a Mormon bishop. As bishop, Kurt Wallheim is the ward's designated spiritual father, and that...
17) September dawn
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Takes an up-close look at the devastation wrought by religious fanaticism and set against the backdrop of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre. As a wagon train of westward-bound settlers makes its way across southern Utah, a confrontation with a congregation of Mormons soon leads to deadly consequences for all involved. Centered on the massacre, which continues to stir controversy over a century and a half after the fact.
Author
Publisher
Barakaldo Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This book, originally published in 1956, was written by famed Mormon authors Austin and Alta Fife. Based on hundreds of interviews with Mormons, old and young, far and they aimed to "present a Mormon view of their culture, society and history. Specific topics include typical life-cycle events, the early history and founding of the Mormon Church, missionary activities, polygamy, Mormon-Indian relations, supernatural beliefs and practices, the establishment...
Author
Series
Kevin Kirk chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2005 Young Adult Fiction Award from the Association for Mormon Letters. As Kevin helps his parents with the family mortuary, his dream of working for National Geographic seems a million years away-until he and his friends are picked for a special science class at Armadillo Middle School. The class is taught by Dr. Alfred Leopold Wallace, the pompous proprietor of the local Arkansas Marsupial Museum and Discount Souvenir Outlet. Kevin's...
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