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Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author of The Deep End of the Ocean delivers a compelling, emotionally charged tale of tragedy, revenge, and redemption. Twelve-year-old Veronica Swan's idyllic life in a close-knit Mormon community is shattered when her two younger sisters are brutally murdered. Although her parents find the strength to forgive the deranged killer, Scott Early, Veronica cannot do the same. Years later, she sets out alone to avenge her sisters' deaths,...
Author
Series
Gwen Marcey novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When forensic artist Gwen Marcey is asked to reconstruct the faces of unearthed victims of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the ritualized murder of a young college student points to a cover-up that spans the history of the Mormon Church.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Now that all five of her sons have left home, Mormon bishop's wife Linda Wallheim has quite a bit of time on her hands, most of which she spends worrying about the state of the country and how her youngest son, Samuel, who is openly gay, is faring on his mission in Boston. She has also become close with one of the women in her ward, Gwen Ferris. But Gwen is quickly losing faith in the church, and her issues with the Mormon power structure are only...
6) Black widows
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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. Blake's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU.
“Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San Francisco...
“Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San Francisco...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
01/05/2016.
Language
English
Description
An account of the author's coming-of-age in a polygamist Mormon cult describes her childhood on a farm in rural Mexico as one of her father's more than forty welfare-dependent children and her escape in the aftermath of a devastating tragedy.
12) Fugitive sheriff
Author
Publisher
Five Star Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the moment he pins his father's bloodied star on his chest, Sheriff Simms fulfills his calling, hunts his father's killer, and eludes the U.S. marshal with his fallen-away Mormon deputies who hunt the sheriff for the bounty on his head levied because he maintains two families. Over four years, the sheriff brings the killer to justice and stays a step ahead of the marshals. When the deputized Judases capture Simms, his community engineers his...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
My father had thirteen wives and more than fifty children . . .
This is the haunting memoir of Anna LeBaron, daughter of the notorious polygamist and murderer Ervil LeBaron. Ervil's criminal activity kept Anna and her siblings constantly on the run from the FBI. Often starving, the children lived in a perpetual state of fear—and despite their numbers, Anna always felt alone. Would she ever find a place she truly belonged? Would she ever...
This is the haunting memoir of Anna LeBaron, daughter of the notorious polygamist and murderer Ervil LeBaron. Ervil's criminal activity kept Anna and her siblings constantly on the run from the FBI. Often starving, the children lived in a perpetual state of fear—and despite their numbers, Anna always felt alone. Would she ever find a place she truly belonged? Would she ever...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The Mormon church may have disavowed the polygamy it became so famous for in the 19th century, but for some Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints, "plural marriage" isn't just ancient history Mormon bishop's wife Linda Wallheim is stunned to learn her son Kenneth has gotten engaged to a young woman from a polygamous family. Naomi Carter may have left the religion she grew up in, but the Carters will still be the Wallheims' in-laws once Kenneth and Naomi...
Author
Series
Art Oveson novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"After a high-profile case thrusts deputy Art Oveson into the spotlight, Salt Lake City's mayor taps him to head the city's Anti-Polygamy Squad. As a Mormon ashamed that his own ancestors played a part in the church's polygamist past, Art's eager to do his part to remove the extremists still practicing plural marriage. But after one of the polygamist patriarchs is murdered and a shell-shocked young woman found at the scene of the crime, Art finds...
17) Autoboyography
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
High school senior Tanner Scott has hidden his bisexuality since his family moved to Utah, but he falls hard for Sebastian, a Mormon mentoring students in a writing seminar Tanner's best friend convinced him to take.
Author
Series
Art Oveson novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A historical mystery set in 1930s Salt Lake City finds a rookie investigator and Mormon family man partnering with a foul-mouthed, vice-ridden former strikebreaker to solve the murder of a beautiful socialite.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Mormon girl Elizabeth is torn between becoming an astronomer and familial duties and faith when she navigates a whole new world of possibility, in this sweeping adventure set in Colorado in the late nineteenth century.
20) His right hand
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Draper, Utah, a tight-knit Mormon community 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. Carl Ashby was known as a devout Mormon, a pillar of the community, and a loving husband and father. Who would want him dead? Linda Wallheim, the wife of the ward's bishop, can't rest as long as the ward is suffering. She is particularly...
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