Dwelling in the Promised Land as a Stranger
By: Scott Abbott
3.33
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
This is one of those rare books that I couldn’t put down. Part saga, part humor, and part reflectio…
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By: Candice Millard
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Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more
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2. Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion
By: Gabrielle Stanley Blair
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3. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By: Suzanne Simard
4.22
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more
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"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
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"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
4. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
By: Melissa L. Sevigny
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, acc… read more
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5. 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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6. Virginia Sorensen: Pioneering Mormon Author
By: Stephen Carter
4.33
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
In the 1940s she was a New York Times bestselling author—of Mormon novels. In the 1950s she won a N… read more
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7. Eugene England: A Mormon Liberal (Introductions to Mormon Thought)
By: Kristine L. Haglund
4.40
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Eugene England championed an optimistic Mormon faith open to liberalizing ideas from American cultu… read more
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8. Mercy without End: Toward a More Inclusive Church
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4.58
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
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9. Dwelling in the Promised Land as a Stranger
By: Scott Abbott
3.33
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
This is one of those rare books that I couldn’t put down. Part saga, part humor, and part reflectio… read more
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10. Come Up Hither to Zion: William Marks and the Mormon Concept of Gathering
By: Cheryl L. Bruno
4.00
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
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11. DNA Mormon: Perspectives on the Legacy of Historian D. Michael Quinn
By: Benjamin E. Park
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Format: 175 pages, Paperback
Few lives have been as consequential for modern Mormonism as D. Michael Quinn. The son of a Mexican… read more
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