Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism (Class 200: New Studies in Religion)
By: Peter Coviello
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the perspective of Protestant America, nineteenth-century Mormons were the victims of a peculi…
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1. New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration
By: Judith Weisenfeld
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions Demonstra… read more
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2. The Memory of Earth (Homecoming, #1)
By: Orson Scott Card
3.59
Format: 332 pages, Mass Market Paperback
High above the planet Harmony. the Oversoul watches Its task. programmed so many millennia ago. is … read more
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"That's what Father and Mother are, thought Nafai. They stay together, not because of any gain, but because of the gift. Father doesn't stay with Mother because she is good for him, but rather because…"-Orson Scott Card, The Memory of Earth (Homecoming, #1)
"Once these two had been joined together in love, or something like love; they had made two babies, and yet, only fifteen years later, the last tie between them was broken now. All lost, all gone. Not…"-Orson Scott Card, The Memory of Earth (Homecoming, #1)
"He splashed into the water, his whole body, not with the reverent attitude of prayer, but with a desperate thirst; he buried his head under the water and drank deep, with his cheek against the cold s…"-Orson Scott Card, The Memory of Earth (Homecoming, #1)
3. Earthfall (Homecoming, #4)
By: Orson Scott Card
3.76
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
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4. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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5. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By: Matthew Desmond
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more
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6. Earthborn (Homecoming, #5)
By: Orson Scott Card
4.17
Format: None pages,
High above the earth orbits the starship Basilica. On board the huge vessel is a sleeping woman. Of… read more
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7. Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader's Guide
By: Grant Hardy
2.50
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Mark Twain once derided the Book of Mormon as "chloroform in print." Long and complicated, written … read more
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8. The Ships of Earth (Homecoming, #3)
By: Orson Scott Card
3.63
Format: 371 pages,
The Oversoul's chosen people flee the city of Basilica (destroyed in their wake by General Moozh) a… read more
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9. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
By: Tony Kushner
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more
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10. At Home: A Short History of Private Life
By: Bill Bryson
3.99
Format: 497 pages, Hardcover
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family… read more
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"That's really what history mostly is, masses of people doing ordinary things."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
11. The Call of Earth (Homecoming, #2)
By: Orson Scott Card
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
As Harmony's Oversoul grows weaker, a great warrior has arisen to challenge its bans. His name is M… read more
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12. 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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13. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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14. Butts: A Backstory
By: Heather Radke
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more
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"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
15. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
16. 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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17. 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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18. Enos, Jarom, Omni: A Brief Theological Introduction (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #4)
By: Sharon J. Harris
4.44
Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition
"And I did cry unto God that he would preserve the records." Less than a generation after Sariah an… read more
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19. Mosiah: A Brief Theological Introduction (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #5)
By: James E. Faulconer
4.19
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
"Whosoever should believe that Christ should come . . . might receive remission of their sins, and … read more
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20. The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch
By: Miles Harvey
3.69
Format: 401 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, vanished from a… read more
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21. 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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22. Stretching the Heavens: The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism
By: Terryl L. Givens
4.50
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Eugene England (1933-2001)—one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals in modern Mo… read more
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23. Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism (Class 200: New Studies in Religion)
By: Peter Coviello
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the perspective of Protestant America, nineteenth-century Mormons were the victims of a peculi… read more
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24. 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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25. Alma 30–63: A Brief Theological Introduction (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #7)
By: Mark A. Wrathall
4.45
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
"Now is the time and the day of your salvation . . ." Alma the Younger is forever changed by an … read more
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26. 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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27. 1st Nephi: A Brief Theological Introduction (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #1)
By: Joseph M. Spencer
4.44
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
"I, Nephi, having been born of goodly parents. . ." So begins the first book in the Book of Mormon,… read more
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28. 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
By the election year of 1844, Joseph Smith, the controversial founder of the Church of Jesus Christ… read more
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29. Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers (Class 200: New Studies in Religion)
By: Charles McCrary
4.42
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
A novel account of the relationship between sincerity, religious freedom, and the secular in the Un… read more
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30. Consuming Religion (Class 200: New Studies in Religion)
By: Kathryn Lofton
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
What are you drawn to like, to watch, or even to binge? What are you free to consume, and what do y… read more
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31. Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and The Problem of Racial Innocence
By: Joanna Brooks
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
To this day, churchgoing Mormons report that they hear from their fellow congregants in Sunday meet… read more
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