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21) War of the wives
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Imagine being happily married for 28 years. You have three children, a lovely house and a husband who travels a lot, but even after all this time, you still love each other. Or: imagine being happily married for 17 years. You have one daughter, a lovely home and though your husband travels a lot, you still love each other passionately. Then one day you get a call that turns your world upside down: your husband is dead. You are devastated. You go to...
Author
Language
English
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Description
For the past twenty years, Bronson Powers, former Hollywood stuntman and converted Mormon, has been homesteading deep in the desert outside Joshua Tree with his three wives and ten children. Bronson and his wives, Yalulah, Mary, and Jackie, have been raising their family away from the corruption and evil of the modern world. Their insular existence is upended when a young developer Maya Abbadessa stumbles upon their land. Hoping to make a profit,...
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.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A shocking massacre in 2019 sparks a probing investigation into the strange, violent history of a polygamist Mormon outpost in Mexico. A harmless, unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen in northern Mexico on November 4, 2019. In a massacre that produced international headlines, nine people were killed and five others gravely injured. The victims were members of the La Mora and LeBaron communities-fundamentalist Mormons...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Utah Territory, winter of 1888. Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, who is weeks overdue from his travels as a wheelwright. Junction is a tiny town of seven Mormon families scattered along the floor of a canyon, and Deborah earns her living by tending orchards and making work gloves. Isolated by the red-rock cliffs that surround the town, the townspeople are regarded with suspicion by the Mormon faithful who question the depth of their belief....
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Three spirited wives in nineteenth-century Utah. One husband. A compelling novel of family, sisterhood, and survival by the Washington Post bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow. 1856. Three women-once strangers-come together in unpredictable Utah Territory. Hopeful, desperate, and willful, they'll allow nothing on earth or in Heaven to stand in their way. Following the call of their newfound Mormon faith, Tamar Loader and...
27) 3 mujeres
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Ibérica, S.A
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Nunca ha conocido a las otras esposas. Ninguno de ellos se conoce y, debido a este arreglo poco convencional, solo puede ver a su esposo un día a la semana. Pero ella lo ama tanto que no le importa. O al menos eso es lo que se dijo a sí misma. Pero un día, mientras lava la ropa, encuentra un trozo de papel en su bolsillo, un recordatorio de una cita para una mujer llamada Hannah, y sabe que es otra de las esposas. Ella pensó que estaba bien con...
Author
Language
English
Description
"ln this searing memoir of resilience and redemption, Rachel Jeffs--daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints--writes about her life inside, and triumphant escape from, a dangerous cult that still holds thousands in its thrall. Rachel Jeffs grew up at her father's side as he attained power and ultimate control of the FLDS Church, a strict patriarchal culture where the women...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
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Description
"A memoir of Karachi through the eyes of its women. Rafia Zakaria's Muslim-Indian family immigrated to Pakistan from Bombay in 1962, feeling the situation for Muslims in India was precarious and that Pakistan represented enormous promise. And for some time it did. Her family prospered, and the city prospered. But in the 1980s, Pakistan's military dictators began an Islamization campaign designed to legitimate their rule--a campaign that particularly...
31) Lost boy
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Former Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints member Brent Jeffs reveals both the terror and the love he experienced growing up on his prophet's compound--and the harsh exile existence that so many boys face once they have been expelled by the sect.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lyrical novel exploring the origins of the Mormon faith, RECOMMENDED by the New York Times Book Review.
"Superb... a first-rate historical novel" – The Denver Post
"A masterpiece ... perfect for fans of Hilary Mantel and Geraldine Brooks" – Kris Waldherr, author of The Lost History of Dreams
In 1825, in rural Pennsylvania, Emma Hale marries an itinerant treasure-digger,
...Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
An account of Rebecca Musser's struggle to escape the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints led by Rulon Jeffs and his son, Warren. Subsequently, Musser decides to take the witness stand against the new prophet of the FLDS in order to protect her little sisters and other young girls from being forced to marry at young ages.
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