Joseph Smith's Gold Plates: A Cultural History
By: Richard Lyman Bushman
4.56
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. 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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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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"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
5. 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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6. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
By: Liz Cheney
4.60
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers be… read more
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7. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.42
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more
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8. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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9. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By: Michael Finkel
3.97
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more
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"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
10. Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers
By: Frank Figliuzzi
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways… read more
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11. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
12. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
By: Jonathan Freedland
4.37
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In a book that is part thrilling adventure, part exploration of some of the darkest secrets of the … read more
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13. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By: Fareed Zakaria
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more
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14. 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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15. Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
By: József Debreczeni
4.53
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking an… read more
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16. 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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17. Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
By: William L. Davis
4.13
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this interdisciplinary work, William L. Davis examines Joseph Smith's 1829 creation of the Book … read more
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18. 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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19. The Burning Book: A Jewish-Mormon Memoir
By: James Goldberg
4.29
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Jason Olson felt God’s presence in the Jewish tradition he was raised in. So what was he supposed t… read more
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20. 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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21. The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon's Missing Stories
By: Don Bradley
4.33
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
On a summer day in 1828, Book of Mormon scribe and witness Martin Harris was emptying drawers, upen… read more
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22. The Bletchley Riddle
By: Ruta Sepetys
4.50
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A stunning collaboration between award-winning and bestselling authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Shein… read more
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23. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
24. Chosen Path: A Memoir
By: D. Michael Quinn
4.69
Format: 586 pages, Hardcover
After D. Michael Quinn’s death in April 2021, his children found his remarkable, unpublished memoir… read more
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"No use trying to cat fight with a skunk."-D. Michael Quinn, Chosen Path: A Memoir
"Both God and the Devil are in the details…"-D. Michael Quinn, Chosen Path: A Memoir
25. Bruce R. McConkie: Apostle and Polemicist, 1915–1985
By: Devery S. Anderson
4.33
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Although he served as an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for only twelve… read more
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26. Joseph Smith's Gold Plates: A Cultural History
By: Richard Lyman Bushman
4.56
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
Renowned historian Richard Lyman Bushman presents a vibrant history of the objects that gave birth … read more
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27. Secret Covenants: New Insights on Early Mormon Polygamy
By: Cheryl L. Bruno
4.00
Format: 643 pages, Kindle Edition
Navigating the intricate labyrinth of early Mormon plural marriage can be fascinating, frustrating,… read more
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28. The Annotated Book of Mormon
By: Grant Hardy
4.90
Format: 912 pages, Hardcover
This is the first fully annotated, academic edition of the Book of Mormon in its 200-year history. … read more
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29. The Path and the Gate: Mormon Short Fiction
By: Andrew Hall
4.43
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
The Book of Mormon prophet Nephi describes the journey to eternal life as going through a gate of o… read more
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30. The Testimony of Two Nations: How the Book of Mormon Reads, and Rereads, the Bible
By: Michael Austin
4.71
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Understanding the Book of Mormon on its own terms and through its two-way connection with the Bible… read more
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31. The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, Maxwell Institute Study Edition
By: Grant Hardy
4.85
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
This exquisitely produced volume presents the official LDS edition of the Book of Mormon in an attr… read more
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