Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture
By: Janiece Johnson
4.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
On September 11, 1857, a small band of Mormons led by John D. Lee massacred an emigrant train of me…
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1. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
By: Malcolm Gladwell
3.97
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
In his #1 bestselling books The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell has explored t… read more
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"Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness."-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
"It's challenging, it's not hopeless. You have to come up with something. You have to figure out a way to help them, because people must have hope to live."-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
"Much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of (these) one-sided conflicts. Because the act of facing overwhelming odds, produces greatness and beauty."-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
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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. A Peculiar People: Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
By: None
4.00
Format: 131 pages, Hardcover
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4. David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
By: Gregory A. Prince , None
3.83
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Ordained as an apostle in 1906, David O. McKay served as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of… read more
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5. 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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6. Boldly, Nobly, and Independent: 1893–1955 (Saints, #3)
By: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
4.61
Format: 757 pages, Paperback
Also available in ebook and audiobook. After decades of opposition, the Latter-day Saints have d… read more
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7. 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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8. 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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9. Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
By: Arthur C. Brooks
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime. In Build the Life… read more
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"feel the feel, then take the wheel pg30"-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
"When you learn, teach. When you get, give."-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
10. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.21
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more
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11. Both Things Are True
By: Kate Holbrook
4.47
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
Joseph Smith’s observation that “by proving contraries, truth is made manifest” has become a belove… read more
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12. Love Matters More: How Fighting to Be Right Keeps Us from Loving Like Jesus
By: Jared Byas
4.47
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
For years, Christians have argued, debated, and fought one another while "speaking the truth in lov… read more
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13. The September Six and the Struggle for the Soul of Mormonism
By: Sara M. Patterson
4.39
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
In the single month of September 1993, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints excommunicat… read more
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14. Seven Gospels: The Many Lives of Christ in the Book of Mormon
By: Adam S. Miller
4.13
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Book of Mormon bears witness of Christ’s divinity and atonement. On nearly every page, the core… read more
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15. 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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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. Living on the Inside of the Edge: A Survival Guide
By: Christian Kimball
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
"Chris has managed to write a great primer for Latter-day Saints who desperately need a new way to … 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. 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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20. Let’s Talk About Race and Priesthood
By: W. Paul Reeve
4.77
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Few topics related to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are as complex and painful to… read more
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"[Samuel Chambers] explained 'Some think it is small to be a deacon,' but then he countered that, 'I think there is nothing small in the kingdom of God."-W. Paul Reeve, Let’s Talk About Race and Priesthood
"Brigham Young spoke... with extreme hyperbole. He even admitted as much in 1848 when he acknowledged, 'I frequently sa[y] 'cut his infernal throat'; I don't mean any such thing."-W. Paul Reeve, Let’s Talk About Race and Priesthood
"...[Y]ou are free to hate anyone you choose. That is until you take upon yourself the name of Christ. At which point the right to hate is no longer available to you. - Catherine Stokes"-W. Paul Reeve, Let’s Talk About Race and Priesthood
"One late nineteenth-century memoir recounted... 'that one acquainted with [Mormons] could tell a Mormon when he met him by the look upon his face almost as well as if he had been of a different color."-W. Paul Reeve, Let’s Talk About Race and Priesthood
21. Jonah for Normal People: A Guide to the Most Misunderstood Prophet of the Bible (The Bible for Normal People)
By: Jared Byas
4.49
Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition
Jonah’s encounter with a big fish is one of the most widely recognised—and misunderstood—stories in… read more
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22. 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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23. Method Infinite: Freemasonry and the Mormon Restoration
By: Cheryl L. Bruno
4.26
Format: 531 pages, Hardcover
While no one thing can entirely explain the rise of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints… read more
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24. 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
25. Lowell L. Bennion: A Mormon Educator (Introductions to Mormon Thought)
By: George B. Handley
4.80
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The intellectual and ethical achievements of the Latter-day Saint theologian Known in his lifetime … read more
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26. American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West
By: Betsy Gaines Quammen
4.03
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
American Zion is the story of the Bundy family, famous for their armed conflicts in the West. With … read more
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27. Joseph Smith and the Mormons: A Graphic Biography
By: Noah Van Sciver
4.06
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Decades in the making, an original graphic novel biography about the life of Joseph Smith, founder … read more
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28. 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
29. 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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30. 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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31. Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture
By: Janiece Johnson
4.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
On September 11, 1857, a small band of Mormons led by John D. Lee massacred an emigrant train of me… read more
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