Gay Rights and the Mormon Church: Intended Actions, Unintended Consequences
By: Gregory A. Prince
4.48
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The Mormon Church entered the public square on LGBT issues by joining forces with traditional-marri…
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1. Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
By: Brandon Sanderson
4.47
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
Brandon Sanderson creates worlds, and those worlds are linked. His universe spans the Stormlight Ar… read more
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"Wow! I hate you already."-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
"It was like saying that a man drowning in beer was better off than one drowning in acid."-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
"She hated dreams. They either showed her a life she couldn't have, or a life that terrified her."-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
"People," Shai said, rising to fetch another seal, "by nature attempt to exercise power over what is around them. We build walls to shelter us from the wind, roofs to stop the rain. We tame the elemen…"-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
2. What I Believe
By: Bertrand Russell
3.99
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Along with Why I Am Not a Christian, this essay must rank as the most articulate example of Russell… read more
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3. Tell the Wolves I'm Home
By: Carol Rifka Brunt
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this striking literary debut, Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds a moving story of love, grief, and renew… read more
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- lgbt
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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5. The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
By: Terryl L. Givens , Fiona Givens
3.00
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
"Whether by design or by chance," Terryl and Fiona Givens write, "we find ourselves in a universe f… read more
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6. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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8. Middlegame
By: Seanan McGuire
4.11
Format: 288 pages,
It's a story of friendship, of family, of designer gods, and of life versus death, good versus evil… read more
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9. A Brief History of Neoliberalism
By: David Harvey
3.76
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guid… read more
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10. The Mountain Meadows Massacre
By: Juanita Brooks , None
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in … read more
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11. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
By: Candice Millard
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject po… read more
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12. 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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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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14. 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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15. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
By: Amanda Montell
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The word "bitch" conjures many images for many people but is most often meant to describe an unplea… read more
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"Language pedantry is snobbery and snobbery is prejudice,"-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"One of the burdens of being a woman is the imperative to be nice."-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"Hitler wasn’t any less fascist because he could write a coherent sentence."-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"Anytime language reform happens, it has to happen in the context of social change,"-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
16. 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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17. The Yellow House
By: Sarah M. Broom
3.90
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhoo… read more
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"We own what belongs to us whether we claim it or not."-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"Absences allow us one power over them. They do not speak a word. We say of them what we want. Still, they hover, pointing fingers at our backs."-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"...the house was not tethered to its foundation, that what held the house to its foundation of sill on piers, wood on bricks, was the weight of us all in the house, the weight of the house itself, th…"-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"When the house fell down, it can be said, something in me opened up. Cracks help a house resolve internally its pressures and stresses, my engineer friend had said. Houses provide a frame that bears …"-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
18. Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with My Kids
By: Scott Hershovitz
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From a University of Michigan professor of law and philosophy, a delightfully funny and thought-pro… read more
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"If we treat people inhumanely, we should never be surprised when they return the favor."-Scott Hershovitz, Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with My Kids
"Philosophy should address every aspect of our lives — the sacred, the profane, and even the mundane."-Scott Hershovitz, Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with My Kids
"Why are some words bad? The idea that they could be bothered me as a kid. Words are strings of sounds. How could sounds be bad? But of course: words aren’t just strings of sound. They are strings of …"-Scott Hershovitz, Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with My Kids
19. The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
By: Richard Rohr
4.45
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - With a new afterword - From one of the world's most influential spiritu… read more
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20. WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game
By: Abby Wambach
4.15
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Based on her inspiring, viral 2018 commencement speech to Barnard College’s graduates in New York C… read more
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"Note: When they say you're ridiculous, you know you're onto something."-Abby Wambach, WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game
"[...] insist upon remembering. Because we know that the lessons of yesterday's loss become the fuel for tomorrow's win."-Abby Wambach, WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game
21. The Night War
By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life and Fighting Words com… 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. The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.05
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century cris… read more
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24. Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
By: Peter Enns
4.36
Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition
“Peter Enns is brilliant at taking the big topics, those Christian ideas that usually scare us or i… read more
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"Does the God of Abraham look lovingly upon ancient cave drawings and temples dedicated to the only gods ancient humans could have known?"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
"Like a frail plant that needs careful tending and constant protection from sun and wind, perhaps the real problem wasn’t me but the fragile, unsustainable version of Christianity I had been told was …"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
"Placeholder theology is the very nature of theology. By it we acknowledge the human need to say something about ultimate meaning concerning the Creator and the creation while also understanding that …"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
"A God who does not connect to the world around us is a God who cannot speak to us. Believing in a God who demands that we continue to adopt only biblically ancient ways of thinking of God, which are …"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
25. For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
By: Sasha Sagan
4.10
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
"What is the meaning of life? Sagan finds its meaning everywhere--with her family, around the world… read more
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"Every loss you withstand in your life reopens all the others."-Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
"Every single one of us appears seemingly from nowhere and then, eventually, returns to nowhere. We are conceived, we grow, and we die, but what happens beyond that is a great, haunting mystery. We gr…"-Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
"My parents taught me that the provable, tangible, verifiable things were sacred, that sometimes the most astonishing ideas are clearly profound, but when they get labeled as "facts", we lose sight of…"-Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
"Nature is full of patterns and we humans love finding them, creating them, repeating them. This is the core of language, math, music, and even ritual, which is the repetition of words or actions deem…"-Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
26. 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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27. 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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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. Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism
By: Taylor G. Petrey
4.59
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
Awards and Distinctions 2021 Best Book Award, Mormon History Association Finalist, 2020 Associati… read more
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30. Gay Rights and the Mormon Church: Intended Actions, Unintended Consequences
By: Gregory A. Prince
4.48
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The Mormon Church entered the public square on LGBT issues by joining forces with traditional-marri… read more
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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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