7 Top history books like Utah's Lawless Fringe: Stories of True Crime by Stanford J. Layton

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Utah's Lawless Fringe: Stories of True Crime

By: Stanford J. Layton

3.67

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

 It was Sunday and worship service was in progress. One of the settlers who was not attending servi…

If you liked the history plot in Utah's Lawless Fringe: Stories of True Crime by Stanford J. Layton , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2) by Lee Child

1. Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)

By: Lee Child

4.07

Format: 567 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here In a Chicago suburb, a dentist is met in his off… read more

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"Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you can't beat them, you join them. You force yourself to think like they think."

-Lee Child, Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)

"I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to sa…"

-Lee Child, Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)

"People, Reacher was certain about. Dogs were different. People had freedom of choice. If a man or a woman ran snarling toward him, they did so because they chose to. They were asking for whatever the…"

-Lee Child, Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)

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2. Thunderstruck

By: Erik Larson

3.77

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

The interwoven stories of two men whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal cases o… read more

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  • history

3. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

By: Jon Krakauer

4.20

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

A multilayered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, savage violence, polygamy, and unyie… read more

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4. Where Nothing Is Long Ago: Memories of a Mormon Childhood

By: Virginia Sorensen , Susan Elizabeth Howe

4.10

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

The narrator of these stories is an adult remembering her experiences as a child and telling them f… read more

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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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  • history
Cover of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

6. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.54

Format: 535 pages, Hardcover

The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, b… read more

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  • history
"The truth was, Librium and Valium were marketed using such a variety of gendered mid-century tropes—the neurotic singleton, the frazzled housewife, the joyless career woman, the menopausal shrew—that…"

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Cover of Vengeance Is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath by Richard E. Turley

7. 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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  • history
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8. 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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  • history
Cover of East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage by Rachel Rueckert

9. East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage

By: Rachel Rueckert

4.37

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

"An engrossing exploration of a hard but ultimately exhilarating trek toward love and commitment." … read more

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"Sometimes I'm grateful to find out that I'm wrong."

-Rachel Rueckert, East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage

"Healthy relationships, I was beginning to accept, could weather the occasional spat."

-Rachel Rueckert, East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage

"Forgetting, I would learn, could be just as useful as remembering in a long-term partnership."

-Rachel Rueckert, East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage

"I wanted to please everyone-an impossibility. The noise of everyone else's expectations and concerns drowned out whispers of my own inclinations."

-Rachel Rueckert, East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage

Cover of Utah's Lawless Fringe: Stories of True Crime by Stanford J. Layton

10. Utah's Lawless Fringe: Stories of True Crime

By: Stanford J. Layton

3.67

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

 It was Sunday and worship service was in progress. One of the settlers who was not attending servi… read more

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  • history
Cover of DNA Mormon: Perspectives on the Legacy of Historian D. Michael Quinn by Benjamin E. Park

11. DNA Mormon: Perspectives on the Legacy of Historian D. Michael Quinn

By: Benjamin E. Park

4.46

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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  • history

16 best-selling audiobook books like Vengeance Is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath by Richard E. Turley

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American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

Benjamin E. Park

4.21

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Russell M. Nelson

4.87

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4.51

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