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Zane Grey, who is best known for his novel "Riders of the Purple Sage," helped to define the popular image of the Old West through his popular adventure novels. First published in 1910, "The Heritage of the Desert" is set in the American southwest where John Hare is found dying in the desert and consequently nursed back to health by the rancher August Naab. John soon finds himself caught between his indebtedness to the generous rancher, whose daughter...
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Distributed by Hen's Tooth Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 cm.
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Spoof of the western classic The magnificent seven. A lazy drifter-gunslinger and his outlaw brother join forces with a group of Mormon farmers to rout bullying bad guys, then they ride off with their gang to California.
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
x, 276 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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In this hilarious, tongue-in-cheek memoir, writer, actress, and gorgeous stand up comedian Elna Baker tells what it's like to be the Mormon "Tina Fey"--the girl who distresses her family when she chooses NYU over BYU; the girl who's cultivating an oxymoronic identity as a bold, educated, modern, funny, proper, abstinent, religious stand-up comic, equal parts wholesome and hot.
4) The Mormons
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dig deep into the Mormon past to understand the church today. One of America's fastest-growing religions and, relative to its size, one of the richest. Church membership, now at twelve million and growing, sweeps the globe. From the moment of its founding in 1830, the church has been controversial. In the early years Mormons were hated, ridiculed, persecuted and feared. In the past several decades, the Mormon Church has transformed itself from a fringe...
6) Black widows
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"". 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 is discovered. Black Widows is told in the three voices of Blake's very different wives, who hate each other, and who sometimes hated their husband....
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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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Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders, taking readers inside isolated American communities where some 40,000 Mormon Fundamentalists still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like...
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"The true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist family. Ruth Wariner was the thirty-ninth of her father's forty-two children. Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authorities turn a blind eye to the practices of her community, Ruth lives in a ramshackle house without indoor plumbing or electricity. At church, preachers teach that God will punish the wicked by destroying the world and that women can only ascend to Heaven by entering...
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Pub. Date
1981
Physical Desc
779 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 19 cm.
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The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible. It is a record of God's dealings with the ancient inhabitants of the Americas and contains, as does the Bible, the fullness of the everlasting gospel.
14) SLC punk
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
©1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stevo and Bob are two friends fresh out of college who sport mohawks and blue hair, listen to hardcore music, and try to live up to their own anarchist ideals while figuring out what to do with their lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2012
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Story about leaving behind the innocence of childhood belief and embracing the complications and heartbreaks that come to every adult life of faith. Explores the author's journey through her faith, and the experience of being a Mormon.
17) True sisters
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Pub. Date
2012
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Joining the ranks of emigrants responding to Brigham Young's edict to move to Salt Lake City with two-wheeled handcarts as their only mode of travel, four women share a grueling journey of survival that tests the bonds of their friendship and faith.
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Linda Wallheim mysteries volume 1
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"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...
20) Knowing
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Publisher
ONE Publishing, a division of One
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"After a tragic accident took the lives of his wife and youngest son, as well as destroying his body to the brink of death, [the author] experienced a miracle. His out-of-body, near-death, and after-death communication experiences have guided him to a life of purpose and gratitude."--
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