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Riders of the Purple Sage volume 1
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English
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Mormon elders in the town of Cottonwoods pressure the widow Jane Withersteen to remarry so that her lands and herds will remain in their control. Gradually they frighten away most of her cowboys, and rustlers steal away her cattle, but the gunfighter Lassiter stands by her as the inevitable confrontation draws near.
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Linda Wallheim mysteries volume 2
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English
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"Linda Wallheim finds herself once again ruffling feathers in Draper, Utah, as she assists a murder investigation that is being derailed by transphobia within the LDS community"--Publisher marketing.
The tight-knit Mormon community in Draper, Utah is thrown into upheaval when their ward's second counselor-- one of the bishop's right-hand men-- is found dead in an elaborately staged murder on church property. Linda Wallheim, the wife of the ward's...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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A New York Times bestseller, The Sound of Gravel is the remarkable true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist Mormon Doomsday cult.
"A haunting, harrowing testament to survival." — People Magazine
"An addictive chronicle of a polygamist community." — New York Magazine
Ruth Wariner was the thirty-ninth of her father's forty-two children. Growing up on a farm in rural
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English
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**Finalist for the Western Writers of America's 2020 Spur Awards for Historical Novel**
**Finalist for the 2019 Association for Mormon Letters Awards for Novel**
"Compelling historical fiction.... Part love story, part religious explication, part mystery....A journey you won't forget."—Houston Chronicle
In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits...
**Finalist for the 2019 Association for Mormon Letters Awards for Novel**
"Compelling historical fiction.... Part love story, part religious explication, part mystery....A journey you won't forget."—Houston Chronicle
In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits...
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Sister wife series volume 1
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Camilla Deardon meets young Mormon Nathan Fox and, despite her parents' warning, she can't refuse her heart. But even Nathan's promises cannot prepare her for what she will face in Utah.
8) Black widows
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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""I had the right husband-and the wrong wives." -One of Blake Nelson's widows The Dry meets The Handmaid's Tale in this fascinating story of wife and death. Against the wishes of his family and the laws of the elders of the Mormon church, Blake Nelson has adopted the old polygamous ways and lives alone with his three wives, miles from anywhere, in rural Utah. Blake and his wives kept to themselves-and kept most folks out. That is, until his dead body...
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2021.
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English
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Leaving her brother in Scotland (her father already lost at sea), Agnes sails with her mother and siblings to New York in 1856. They take a train to the edge of the Western Frontier in Iowa then walk 1,200 miles with little food. Somewhere near the Continental Divide, Agnes's shoes wear out. In blizzard conditions, she must now cross the Rocky Mountains--barefoot. --Amazon.com
12) Cage of stars
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Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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Her Mormon community shattered by the murders of her two younger sisters, Veronica Swan severs ties with her family in her inability to forgive their killer, a decision that causes her to discover profound truths about sin and compassion.
Author
Series
Linda Wallheim mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"In the predominantly Mormon city of Draper, Utah, some seemingly perfect families have deadly secrets. Inspired by an actual crime and written by a practicing Mormon, The Bishop's Wife is both a fascinating look at the lives of modern Mormons as well as a grim and cunningly twisted mystery. Linda Wallheim is the mother of five grown boys and the wife of a Mormon bishop. As bishop, Kurt Wallheim is the ward's designated spiritual father, and that...
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Walt Longmire mysteries volume 9
Language
English
Description
It's homecoming for the Durant Dogies when Cord Lynear, a Mormon "lost boy" forced off his compound for rebellious behavior, shows up in Absaroka County. Without much guidance, divine or otherwise, Sheriff Walt Longmire, Victoria Moretti, and Henry Standing Bear search for the boy's mother and find themselves on a high-plains scavenger hunt that ends at the barbed-wire doorstep of an interstate polygamy group. Run by four-hundred-pound Roy Lynear,...
15) Burned
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
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Series
Sister wife series volume 2
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Camilla Fox has been given over to the personal care of Captain Charles Brandon. As she regains her strength, memories of the two children she had to leave behind come flooding back, threatening to break her heart. Camilla is determined to reunite with her daughters. But when news of her father's grave illness reaches her, she knows she must return to the family farm to reconcile with her father.
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this heartfelt dramatic comedy, a teenage girl reluctantly joins her new step-cousin at a summer camp for Mormon girls. Reeling from the recent loss of her father to cancer, she finds that there are many others who feel her pain -- and that she never has to face her sorrow alone.
19) True sisters
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
1856. Mormon converts Nannie, Louisa, Jessie, and Anne, all from the British Isles, travel in the Martin Handcart Company, making the 1,300-mile journey on foot from Iowa City to Salt Lake City, while enduring unimaginable hardships. Each woman will test the boundaries of her faith and learn the true meaning of survival and friendship along the way.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
Description
"The Desert Between Us is about the beginnings of Route 66-a military road called The Great Wagon Road, built from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to the Colorado River in 1858-and the men and camels who helped hack this road out of the wilderness. After completion of the expedition, one of the roadbuilders falls in love with the third wife of a polygamist in St. Thomas, Nevada"--
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