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Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 19 cm
Description
Description:When local authorities dismiss the strangling of an undocumented immigrant who had reached out to her for help, Mormon bishop's wife Linda Wallheim battles dogmatic Church power dynamics to find the killer and advocate for better community support.
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
x, 305 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jess, the oldest of seven children, feels like a loser until she makes a new friend in an online chat room, but when "Emily" turns out to be a sexual predator who abducts her, the FBI, her parents' emergency training, and the prayer of her Mormon community help her to survive.
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
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pages cm.
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When a lost Mormon child wanders into Absaroka County, the intrepid Wyoming sheriff teams up with feisty deputy Victoria Moretti and longtime friend Henry Standing Bear on a high plains scavenger hunt that leads them to a violent interstate polygamy group.
Author
Pub. Date
1996, c1994
Physical Desc
431 p. ; 18 cm.
Description
From Washington's corridors of power to the inner sanctum of the Mormon Church, Lauren and Alan are thrown into a maelstrom of violence as a case of sexual harassment strikes a devastating chord. A legal time bomb soon explodes when crucial evidence disappears, and a killer strikes.
10) Burned
Author
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
532 pages ; 19 cm
Description
Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
Author
Pub. Date
©1915
Physical Desc
372 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
A young man looking for some purpose to his life hears a marvelous tale of a lost valley somewhere in Utah where three people including a beautiful young girl, have been imprisoned for years. All he knows is that to get to the valley he must find "The Rainbow Trail." He decides to go ahead with this quixotic quest and, in the process, finds not only the trail but himself as well.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In the predominantly Mormon city of Draper, Utah, some seemingly perfect families have deadly secrets...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 makes Linda the ward's unofficial mother, and her days are filled with comfort visits, community service, and informal counseling. But Linda is increasingly troubled by the church's patriarchal...
13) Smoke
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
543 pages ; 19 cm
Description
After the death of her abusive father and loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn runs away, desperately seeking peace, as her younger sister, a sophomore in high school, also tries to put the pieces of her life back together.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Elizabeth Bertelsen dreams of becoming an astronomer, but for her such dreams are as unreachable as the stars she so deeply adores. As a Mormon girl, her duty is to her family and, in a not too far away future, to the man who will choose to marry her. When she unexpectedly finds herself in Colorado, she is tempted by the total eclipse of the sun that is about to happen-- and maybe even meeting up with the female scientists she has long admired. With...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm
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....
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eric is a man shrouded in mystery. Throughout the land, he is known as "the Beast" for his bad temper and mean ways. When Belle is forced to work for him, she tries not to be intimidated and resolves to look deeper. She discovers the truth and becomes the one person who can make a difference in Eric's life and help him rediscover the faith and love he lost years ago.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Linda Wallheim, who is increasingly jaded with the Mormon church, has begun marriage counseling with her bishop husband, Kurt, hoping to reconcile their household and philosophical disagreements. On other days, Linda occupies herself with happier things, like visits to see her five grown sons and their families. When Linda's eldest son, Joseph, tells her his infant daughter's babysitter, a local teenager named Sage Jensen, has vanished, Linda can't...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
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pages cm
Description
"A secret from a grim page of American history threatens to destroy thousands of lives.Gwen Marcey was tops in her forensic field. Then cancer struck, her husband left, and her teenage daughter engaged in active rebellion. Gwen's best chance to start a new life was a temporary job in Utah reconstructing faces from an 1857 massacre site.The Mountain Meadows Interpretative Center asked Gwen to reconstruct the faces of three intact bodies that were discovered...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The six members of the Bradley family have always been close. But in the wake of a tragedy that leaves a hole in the very center of their lives, they suddenly find themselves coming apart. Claire, a convert to the Mormon faith, is so shattered by what's happened that she can't even bring herself to get out of bed. Her husband, Ian, however is more secure in his belief that everything happens for a reason. As a bishop in the Church of Jesus Christ...
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 9
Description
"September 1861: All is not as it seems. With these cryptic words, a shocking secret passed down from president to president comes to rest in the hands of Abraham Lincoln. And as the first bloody clashes of the Civil War unfold, Lincoln alone must decide how best to use this volatile knowledge: save thousands of American lives, or keep the young nation from being torn apart forever? The present: In Utah, the fabled remains of Mormon pioneers whose...
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