Watchman on the Tower: Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right
By: Matthew L Harris
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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1. Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
By: Joan Druett
4.05
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Hundreds of miles from civilization, two ships wreck on opposite ends of the same deserted island … read more
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2. History of Joseph Smith by His Mother
By: Lucy Mack Smith
4.52
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
The History of Joseph Smith by His Mother is a biography of the Latter Day Saint prophet Joseph Smi… read more
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3. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.93
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intenti… read more
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4. 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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- american history
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5. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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6. An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland
By: H. Paul Jeffers
3.91
Format: 69 pages, Paperback
Grover Cleveland is known primarily as the only president to be elected to two nonconsecutive terms… read more
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- american history
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- politics
- nonfiction
7. The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Mormon Women and Men
By: Carol Lynn Pearson
2.00
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
"Polygamy?" says the mainstream Mormon Church. "We gave that up long ago." Not so, claims noted LDS… read more
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8. A River Runs Through It
By: Norman Maclean , Barry Moser
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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9. Streets of Laredo
By: Larry McMurtry
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry comes the sequel and final book in the Loneso… read more
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10. Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith
By: Dallin H. Oaks , None
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
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11. The Longest Day
By: Cornelius Ryan
4.25
Format: 131 pages,
The classic account of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan's unsurpa… 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. American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
By: Benjamin E. Park
4.21
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a pr… read more
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- history
- mormonism
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14. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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- american history
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
15. 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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- american history
- biography
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- politics
- religion
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16. Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
By: Conor Knighton
4.26
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
From the Emmy-winning CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, an entertaining chronicle of his year spent… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"Shelton Johnson may just be the best park ranger who ever lived."-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
"...tell me again about how you used to watch movies in a car. It sounded so cool to me. And so, on one of the last nights of that summer, my parents decided to re-create a drive-in movie in our drive…"-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
"In letter after letter, misfortunes great and small are blamed on the wood. "I don't know how much I buy that," Matt [Smith] said.."If you're the kinda person who would take something from a national…"-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
17. We Know You Remember (High Coast, #1)
By: Tove Alsterdal
3.66
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A missing girl, a hidden body, a decades-long cover-up, and old sins cast in new light: the classic… read more
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18. These Truths: A History of the United States
By: Jill Lepore
4.40
Format: 960 pages, Paperback
Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review… read more
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- american history
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"Most of what once existed is gone... Nature takes one toll, malice another... most of what historians study survives because it was purposely kept... (it) is called the historical record, & it is mad…"-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
"Washington's Farewell Address consists of a series of warnings about the danger of disunion. The North and the South, the East and the West, ought not to consider their interests separate or competin…"-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
19. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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- american history
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"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
20. 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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21. Original Grace
By: Adam S. Miller
4.57
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
In Original Grace, Adam S. Miller proposes an experiment in Restoration thinking: What if instead o… read more
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22. The Law Of Love
By: Steve Young
4.41
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Paperback starts shipping April 26, 2022 "Even if we understand the idea that we should love p… read more
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23. I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House
By: Stephanie Grisham
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet Stephanie Grisham rose from be… read more
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- history
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24. 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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- history
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- mormonism
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25. Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned
By: Brian D. McLaren
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Dubbed "a heroic gate-crasher" by New York Times bestselling author Glennon Doyle, Brian D. McLaren… read more
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26. 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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27. Watchman on the Tower: Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right
By: Matthew L Harris
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Ezra Taft Benson is perhaps the most controversial apostle-president in the history of the Church o… read more
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- politics
- mormonism
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28. Joseph Smith's Gold Plates: A Cultural History
By: Richard L. Bushman
3.97
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Renowned historian Richard Lyman Bushman presents a vibrant history of the objects that gave birth … read more
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29. 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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30. All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians
By: Phil Elwood
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A bridge-burning, riotous memoir by a top PR operative in Washington who exposes the secrets of the… read more
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- history
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31. Meritocracy Mingled with Scripture
By: Justin Pack
4.75
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
Meritocracy and the gospel are fundamentally incompatible. Unfortunately, meritocratic ideas are cu… read more
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