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"This is a riveting, deeply affecting true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist family. Recounted from the innocent and hopeful perspective of a child, The Sound of Gravel is an intimate, gripping tale of triumph, courage, and resilience"--From the publisher's web site.
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Sydney Morgan is no wimp. A black belt in karate, her defensive moves help keep her tough even when her mom is diagnosed with cancer and her long-lost dad shows up to play nice guy. But when an unexpected gift transports her through space and time to the land of Zarahemla, Syd just might be in over her head.
8) Smoke
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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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Born into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Rachel Jeffs was raised in a strict patriarchal culture defined by subordinate sister wives and men they must obey. No one in this radical splinter sect of the Mormon Church was more powerful or terrifying than its leader Warren Jeffs-Rachel's father. Living outside mainstream Mormonism and federal law, Jeffs arranged marriages between under-age girls and middle-aged and elderly...
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In 1857, 120 men, women and children were brutally murdered in the bloodiest attack on a wagon train in the history of the American West. They were victims of a holy war that has almost been forgotten -- a war incited by the formation of a new religious movement: the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. This program traces the tumultuous history of the Mormon movement, focusing in particular on the bitter conflict between members of the fledgling...
11) Roughing it
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Mark Twain's semi-autobiographical travel memoir, "Roughing It" was written between 1870-1871 and subsequently published in 1872. Billed as a prequel to "Innocents Abroad", in which Twain details his travels aboard a pleasure cruise through Europe and the Holy Land in 1867, "Roughing It" conversely documents Twain's early days in the old wild west between the years 1861-1867. Employing his characteristically humoristic wit and flare for regional dialect,...
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Drawing from extensive journal entries, Laree Westover shares events in her life that show her tenacity in moving forward with faith - faith in herself, her husband, and her God. Each heartfelt story is captivating and its historicity is trustworthy. Family happiness seemed to be frustrated as her husband grappled with chronic health issues and serious accidents. That, along with her own health challenges and those of her children, drew her into...
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It's homecoming for the Durant Dogies when Cord Lynear, a Mormon "lost boy" forced off his compound for rebellious behavior, shows up in Absaroka County. Without much guidance, divine or otherwise, Sheriff Walt Longmire, Victoria Moretti, and Henry Standing Bear search for the boy's mother and find themselves on a high-plains scavenger hunt that ends at the barbed-wire doorstep of an interstate polygamy group. Run by four-hundred-pound Roy Lynear,...
15) Red water
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In 1857, at a place called Mountain Meadows in southern Utah, a band of Mormons and Indians massacred 120 emigrants. Twenty years later, the slaughter was blamed on one man named John D. Lee, previously a member of Brigham Young’s inner circle. <b>Red Water</b> imagines Lee’s extraordinary frontier life through the eyes of three of his nineteen wives. Emma is a vigorous and capable Englishwoman who loves her husband...
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