My First Mission
Grantsville: Archive Publishers, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. 101pp. 1st Book of the Faith Promoting Series.
Biographies
Jens Nielson: Bishop of Bluff
Provo: BYU Studies, 2011. First edition thus. Paperback. 357 pp. Part of the Dissertations in LDS History series--a masters thesis from 2003.
Virginia Sorensen: Pioneering Mormon Author
Signature Books, 2023. First printing. Paperback. 124pp. In the 1940s she was a New York Times bestselling author—of Mormon novels. In the 1950s she won a Newbery Medal, the highest honor in children’s literature. But today, hardly anyone knows her name. Who is Virginia Sorensen? How did a girl who.....
In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997. Third printing. Cloth/dj. 788pp. Beginning in the 1830s, at least thirty-three women married Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. These were passionate relationships which also had some longevity, except in cases such as that of two young sisters, one of whom was discovered by.....
A Frontier Life: Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2013. First printing. Hardcover/dust jacket. 624 pp. Frontiersman, colonizer, missionary to the Indians, and explorer of the American West, Jacob Hamblin has long been one of the most enigmatic figures in Mormon history. In this defining biography, Todd Compton examines and disentangles many.....
Margaret Emma Peery Vacation Diary, 1926
Provo: Grandin Book Company, 2006. Hardcover/dust jacket. 168 pp. Additional shipping is required for this item. Please call us (800-486-3112) to order. This a collection of diary entries, family letters, and photographs describing a trip from the rural Panhandle of Texas to the bustling and thriving metropolis of Salt Lake.....
Eliza: The Life and Faith of Eliza R. Snow
Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 2013. First printing. Hardcover/dust jacket. 178 pp. She is perhaps the most recognized of all Mormon pioneer women: Eliza R. Snow. We hear her name often as an example of faith and strength, and we have sung her beloved hymns. We admire her as.....
Sarah M. Kimball
Salt Lake City: Signature Books. Paperback. 17pp.
Insights from a Prophet's Life: Russell M. Nelson
Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 2019. First printing. Hardcover/dust jacket. 452pp.
The Black Penguin
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover.
Magic Moments: A Memoir
Words, Words, Words, 2017. First printing. Paperback. 428pp.
Bad Mormon: A Memoir
Gallery Books, 2023. Later printing. Hardcover/dust jacket. 287pp. Drinking and Tweeting meets Unorthodox in this vulnerable memoir about The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star’s departure from the Mormon Church, and her unforeseen success in business, television, and single motherhood. Straight off the slopes and into the spotlight, Heather.....
Ina Coolbrith: The Bittersweet Song of California's First Poet Laureate
NP: Shifting Plates Press, 2015. First edition. Hardcover/dust jacket. 335 pp.
Stretching the Heavens: The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. First printing. Hardcover/dust jacket. 330 pp. Eugene England (1933–2001)—one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals in modern Mormonism—lived in the crossfire between religious tradition and reform. This first serious biography, by leading historian Terryl L. Givens, shimmers with the personal tensions.....
Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. First printing. Hardcover/dust jacket. 499 pp. Tracing the life of this colorful figure from his hardscrabble origins in upstate New York to his murder in 1857, Terryl Givens and Matthew Grow explore the crucial role Pratt played in the formation and expansion of early.....
Philo T. Farnsworth: The Father of Television
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2001. Paperback. 328 pp. Philo T. Farnsworth (1906–1971) has been called the "forgotten father of television." He grew up in Utah and southern Idaho, and was described as a genius by those who knew and worked with him. With only a high school.....
Ezra Thompson Clark's Ancestors and Descendants
Guilford, CT: Gould Books, 1995. Second edition. Hardback. 677 pp.
Truth Seeker: The Life of Joseph F. Merrill—Scientist, Educator, and Apostle
RSC/Deseret Book, 2021. First printing. Hardcover/dust jacket. 347pp.
Truth Seeker: The Life of Joseph F. Merrill—Scientist, Educator, and Apostle
RSC/Deseret Book, 2021. First printing. Hardcover/dust jacket. 347pp.
Eugene England: A Mormon Liberal
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021. Print-on-demand. Paperback. 136pp. Eugene England championed an optimistic Mormon faith open to liberalizing ideas from American culture. At the same time, he remained devoted to a conservative Mormonism that he saw as a vehicle for progress even as it narrowed the range of acceptable.....
Levi and Mosiah Hancock Journal Excerpts
Genola, Utah: Pioneer Publishing, 2006. First printing. Paperback. new, paperback, 192 pages.
I Am Ready Now: The Life Story of Ephraim Knowlton Hanks
Provo: NP (BYU Print Services), 2013. Third edition. Hardcover.
The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch
Back Bay Books, 2021. First edition thus. Paperback. 401pp In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, vanished from a rural town in New York. Months later he reappeared on the Midwestern frontier and converted to a burgeoning religious movement known as Mormonism. In.....
In the World: The Diaries of Reed Smoot
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997. Limited. Cloth. 794pp.
Confidence Amid Change: The Presidential Diaries of David O. McKay, 1951-1970
Signature Books, 2019. First printing. Hardcover/dust jacket. 867pp. SIGNED. Charismatic and a polished public speaker, LDS President David O. McKay instilled devotion in church members around the globe. An avowed optimist, he maintained a lifelong “faith in mankind; they are God’s children.” His desire to share the Mormon gospel coincided.....