Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
By: Benjamin E. Park
4.17
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, often treated as fringe cultists or…
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1. Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
By: D. Michael Quinn
4.12
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
In this ground-breaking book, D. Michael Quinn masterfully reconstructs an earlier age, finding amp… read more
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2. The History of the Bible: The Making of the New Testament Canon
By: Bart D. Ehrman
4.10
Format: 6 pages, Audio CD
What different kinds of books are in the New Testament? When, how, and why were they written? And w… read more
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3. Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet
By: John G. Turner
3.63
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose impoverished and obscure life was elec… read more
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4. Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
By: Richard L. Bushman
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the … read more
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5. Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt
By: Patrick Q. Mason
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
For all its beneficial advances, our secular age has also weakened some people s ties to religious … read more
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6. The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
By: Peter Enns
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
The controversial evangelical Bible scholar and author of The Bible Tells Me Soexplains how Christi… read more
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7. A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Audio CD
A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nine… read more
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8. Mother's Milk
By: Rachel Hunt Steenblik , Ashley Mae Hoiland
4.33
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
In this stunning new collection of poems, Rachel Hunt Steenblik (Mormon Feminism: Essential Writing… read more
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9. American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church
By: Alex Beam
3.46
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois. Clamorou… read more
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10. Jesus the Christ: A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures, Both Ancient and Modern
By: James E. Talmage
4.62
Format: 747 pages, Paperback
A rich and insightful overview of the Christian belief in Jesus, his life, his teaching and the mea… read more
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"The world's greatest champion of woman and womanhood is Jesus the Christ."-James E. Talmage, Jesus the Christ: A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures, Both Ancient and Modern
"Here they [the Jaredites] became a flourishing nation; but, giving way in time to internal dissensions, they divided into factions, which warred with one another until the people were totally destroy…"-James E. Talmage, Jesus the Christ: A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures, Both Ancient and Modern
"probation. Jesus Christ was and is Jehovah, the God of Adam and of Noah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of Israel, the God at whose instance the prophets of the ages have spoken, the G…"-James E. Talmage, Jesus the Christ: A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures, Both Ancient and Modern
"Our Lord's descent from the holy heights of the Mount of Transfiguration was more than a physical return from greater to lesser altitudes; it was a passing from sunshine into shadow, from the effulge…"-James E. Talmage, Jesus the Christ: A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures, Both Ancient and Modern
11. No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith
By: Fawn M. Brodie
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The first paperback edition of the classic biography of the founder of the Mormon church, this book… read more
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12. David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
By: Gregory A. Prince , None
3.83
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Ordained as an apostle in 1906, David O. McKay served as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of… read more
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13. Romney: A Reckoning
By: McKay Coppins
4.36
Format: 416 pages, ebook
A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more
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14. Both Things Are True
By: Kate Holbrook
4.47
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
Joseph Smith’s observation that “by proving contraries, truth is made manifest” has become a belove… read more
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15. Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
By: Joan Biskupic
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Editor's Choice "Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the co… read more
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16. Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It
By: Brian D. McLaren
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the author of A New Kind of Christianity comes a bold proposal: only doubt can save the world … read more
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17. Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
By: Benjamin E. Park
4.17
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, often treated as fringe cultists or… read more
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18. Jacob: A Brief Theological Introduction (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #3)
By: Deidre Nicole Green
4.25
Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition
"What could I have done more for my vineyard?" In one of the Book of Mormon’s most magisterial pass… read more
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19. Sacred Struggle: Seeking Christ on the Path of Most Resistance
By: Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye
4.60
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
We are part of a complex Church community―full of people who think differently than we do, behave i… read more
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20. Vengeance Is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath
By: Richard E. Turley
4.39
Format: 520 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited follow-up to the groundbreaking Massacre at Mountain Meadows Published in 2008, M… read more
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21. Restoration: God's Call to the 21st Century World
By: Patrick Q. Mason
4.52
Format: 100 pages, Kindle Edition
The Restoration began in the spring of 1820, when Joseph Smith saw God the Father and Jesus Christ … read more
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22. Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
By: Jen Gunter
4.25
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Jen Gunter fights myths and fear-mongering with real science, inclusive facts, and shame-free a… read more
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"Reproducing a human is a massive biological effort. Energy-wise, it's on par with the limits of the most extreme sports, for example, running 5,000 km (3,000 miles) over 120 days or cycling the Tour …"-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
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"Unfortunately, instead of a world where those who bear the physical burdens of reproduction—whether they reproduce or not—have equal footing, we have the opposite. The Ancient Greeks, the originators…"-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
23. 2nd Nephi: A Brief Theological Introduction (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #2)
By: Terryl L. Givens
4.40
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
"I have seen a vision, in which I know that Jerusalem is destroyed . . ." In the wake of epic ca… read more
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24. Alma 1–29: a brief theological introduction (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #6)
By: Kylie Nielson Turley
4.56
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
". . . that there might not be more sorrow upon all the face of the earth." Alma is an idolatrou… read more
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25. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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26. The Book of Mormon for the Least of These, Volume 1: 1 Nephi-Words of Mormon
By: Fatimah Salleh
4.54
Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition
This social justice commentary of the Book of Mormon empowers readers to understand the text as a b… read more
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27. The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church
By: Jana Riess
3.91
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
American Millennials--the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s--have been leaving organized relig… read more
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28. Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality
By: Matthew L. Harris
4.91
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
An in-depth account--grounded in new archival discoveries--of the most consequential development in… read more
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29. Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom
By: Spencer W. McBride
4.11
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
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30. Lowell L. Bennion: A Mormon Educator (Introductions to Mormon Thought)
By: George B. Handley
4.80
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The intellectual and ethical achievements of the Latter-day Saint theologian Known in his lifetime … read more
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31. Fairest: A Memoir
By: Meredith Talusan
3.76
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A singular, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir of a Filipino boy with albinism whose story tr… read more
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