Mormon Roots, 2019 [2021]. Hardcover/dust jacket. This edition includes a high-quality reproduction of the first edition (1855) and then the text of the first edition and revised edition (1915, prepared by Charles Penrose) in two columns with changes highlighted. Also includes a historical introduction.
Mormon Roots, 2019 [2021]. Hardcover/dust jacket. Franklin D. Richards—an apostle for only two years—was serving as president of the British Mission for the second time when he determined to compile a “little collection of precious truths” for the use of church members. Over the period of several months, Richards collected.....
Caitlin Press, 2021. First printing. Paperback. 319pp. As the daughter of Mormon leader Winston Blackmore, Mary Jayne Blackmore grew up within the closed-off polygamist community of Bountiful, BC. Her family’s staunch Fundamentalist Mormon faith imposed fanatical doomsday preparation and carried an instilled fear of the world outside her community. The.....
Signature Books, 2022. Print-on-demand. Hardcover. 472pp. Brigham Young had over 50 wives and 56 children, but none has better name recognition than daughter Susa Young Gates (1856–1933). Yet she, like so many women of Mormonism's past, has remained a mystery to most church members. In Susa Young Gates, Romney Burke.....
University of Nebraska, 2022. First printing. Hardcover. 231pp. George Darling Watt was the first convert of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints baptized in the British Isles. He emigrated to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1842. He returned to the British Isles in 1846 as a missionary, accompanied by his.....
Pitchstone Publishing, 2021. First printing. Hardcover/dust jacket. 295pp. “I MAKE A LOT OF MONEY AS A CALL GIRL” wasn’t the answer author Steve Cuno expected when he asked a new acquaintance how she planned to capitalize her start-up business. Wait, hold on, he thought. In Salt Lake City? Home to.....
University of Utah Press, 2018. First printing. Paperback. 246pp. Reg. $29.95. During the winter of 1846–1847, members of the Donner Party found themselves stuck in the snows of the Sierra Nevada on their journey to California, losing many in their group to severe cold and starvation. Those who survived did.....
BCC Press, 2022. Paperback. 176pp. The central conceit of this book is that it is an oral history that women passed down from generation to generation, based on inspiration by God instead of genetic relationships or priesthood authority designations. The book is given to Christ at the end of the.....
RSC/Deseret Book, 2022. First printing. Hardcover/dust jacket. 264pp. This book examines what the New Translation (also known as the Joseph Smith Translation) is, what it contains, what it teaches, and how Joseph Smith arrived at its text. The chapters in the book are not only informative but also readable, and.....
BCC Press, 2022. Paperback. 481pp. The volume examines the 19th Century American scripture The Book of Mormon through the lens of literary studies. The approach uses both German and South Asian literary theory (including the concept of the post-secular, a redefined concept of literature, and rasa poetics focused on the.....
University of Utah Press, 2022. Print-on-demand. Paperback. 251pp. More than three hundred Latter-day Saint settlements were founded by LDS Church President Brigham Young. Colonization—often outside of Utah—continued under the next three LDS Church presidents, fueled by Utah’s overpopulation relative to its arable, productive land. In this book, John Gary Maxwell.....
BCC Press, 2020. Paperback. 245pp. Hugh Nibley wrote the essays that make up Approaching Zion between 1971 and the book’s publication in 1989. In the quarter century since its publication (and in the four decades since Nibley started this project of social criticism) much has changed. The American economy has.....
University of Utah Press, 2022. First printing. Paperback. 288pp. Video from event at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFKq4cY11R. Nobody knows what to do about queer Mormons. The institutional Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prefers to pretend they don’t exist, that they can choose their way out of who they are, leave, or.....
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016. First printing. Hardcover/dust jacket. 286pp. Reg. $39.95. Mormonism in Britain began in the late 1830s with the arrival of American missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Not long afterward, thousands of British converts emigrated to Utah and became.....
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2013. Paperback. Reg. $24.95. The canyon country of southern Utah and northern Arizona—a celebrated desert of rock and sand punctuated by gorges and mesas—is a region hotly contested among vying and disparate interests, from industrial developers to wilderness preservation advocates. Roads are central.....
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2019. First printing. Paperback. 376pp. Reg. $29.95. Although scholars have increasingly investigated the impact of religion and religious movements on nature, studies of the interactions between Mormons and the natural environment are few. This volume applies the perspectives of environmental history to Mormonism.....
BCC Press, 2022. Paperback. 376pp. Volume 2 of this social justice commentary of the Book of Mormon empowers readers to understand the text as a book that speaks to issues of racism, sexism, immigration, violence, inequality, and community. The Book of Mormon For the Least of These Vol. 2 offers.....
University of Utah Press, 2019. First printing. Hardcover/dust jacket. 505pp. Reg. $45. The 220 letters selected for this book offer a fresh and intimate encounter with Juanita Brooks, one of the most influential historians of Utah and the Mormons. Born and raised in the small and remote agricultural village of.....
Signature Books, 2022. Print-on-demand. Paperback. 306pp. The first fifty years of United States history was a period of seemingly endless possibility. With the birth of a new country during the age of revolutions came new religions, new literary genres, new political parties, temperance and abolitionist societies, and the expansion of.....