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When Craig Harline set off on his two-year Mormon mission to Belgium in the 1970s, he had big dreams of doing miracles, converting the masses, and coming home a hero. What he found instead was a lot of rain and cold, one-sentence conversations with irritated people, and silly squabbles with fellow missionaries.
From being kicked - literally - out of someone's home to getting into arguments about what God really wanted from Donny Osmond, Harline faced...
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Since her groundbreaking memoir In My Father's House, which recounts an agonizing break from fundamentalist polygamy, Dorothy Allred Solomon has continued to publish on the lives of Mormon women and the dissonance many experience in connection to fundamentalist pasts. The more Solomon delved into issues of agency, the more she felt her own dissonance and began to look for answers in her ancestral past-those early women she knew only through family...
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What would you sacrifice to belong to Jesus? Would you give up your children, your friends, your job, your money, your good name, and even your liberty?
Following a powerful conversion to real Christianity, an avalanche of evil, including unjust prosecution and imprisonment, made this former Temple Mormon's departure from Mormonism nearly unbearable.
But God (the Real One) is more powerful than a thousand legions of killer bees!
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Tammy Dietz grew up committed to her family's Mormon faith, a profoundly patriarchal hierarchy that declares men superior and women subordinate, that demands devotion, purity, and chastity. But when the dogma of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints clashes with the forces of a changing world, Tammy's destiny transforms.Patriarchy provides order but also chaos in a family with a depressed mother and a hoarding father. Set in the affluent...
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"Death by a Thousand Stings"
Why would God allow injustice? Why would the enemy be permitted to prevail, even for a moment? And why would authorities prosecute the innocent without verifying the veracity of hostile killer bees?
Inside of a claustrophobic prison cell, such questions can haunt the most hardened believer. But God cannot be prevented from working His miracles, no matter the thickness of steel doors or prison walls!
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What would you do if your religion forced you to choose between the church and your children?
That's the dilemma Lisa Hoelzer faced after raising her four children within the confines of a strict, high-demand religion that dictated almost every aspect of their lives, from how they dressed to what they ate to how they used their time. Her vision of their ideal future started to change, however, when one child announced they were bisexual. Then another...
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The first paragraph of Kerry Ashton's memoir explains a lot:
"I told this story once as fiction in the 1980s, but this time I tell the truth. I even tell the truth, in #MeToo fashion, about being violently raped by another man when I was 18, with a knife held to my throat-a secret I kept from everyone, including myself, for over 40 years. The rape, like other experiences I endured, while a student at Brigham Young University, where I came out in...
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Diana Cannon-Ragsdale was born into a Mormon dynasty. Her father Ted Cannon was a local celebrity in Salt Lake City, and her family's ancestors were contemporaries of Brigham Young, and they had many dark secrets to keep.
Growing up at the mercy of her mother's depression and father's undiagnosed schizophrenia, Diana and her five siblings were left to fend for themselves as their mom and dad rotated in and out of psychiatric hospitals and police...
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Before Big Love, before Eldorado, a groundbreaking memoir explored polygamy, not with outrage but with honesty and grace. In 1984, when polygamous groups knew little but the fear and pain of secrecy and hiding, Dorothy Allred Solomon, the twenty-eighth of forty-eight children, went public with her family's story.
Descended from five generations of Mormon polygamy, Solomon evokes the fervor and dedication that bound the Allreds to "living the Principle."...
12) Wife No. 19
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The compelling memoir of the nineteenth wife of Brigham Young, second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
In 1869, Ann Eliza Young married Brigham Young, becoming what she believed to be his nineteenth wife. She went on to file for divorce in 1873, alleging neglect, cruel treatment, and desertion. She was excommunicated from the church in 1874, and the divorce was granted the following year. She would go on to lead a fight...
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"A literary memoir of one woman's journey from wife to warrior, in the vein of breakout hits like Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle. At thirty-six years old, Caitlin Myer is ready to start a family with her husband. She has left behind the restrictive confines of her Mormon upbringing and early sexual trauma and believes she is now living her happily ever after . . . when her body betrays her. In a single week, she suffers...
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