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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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890L
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While playing hide-and -seek with her two younger sisters in their idyllic Morman community, 12 year-old Ronnie Swan could tell something was wrong--their laughter had gone silent. When she finds them, they are dead, and the deranged killer.
2) Burned
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Burned volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
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HL 710L
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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.
3) Saints
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From the bestselling author of the Ender Universe series comes Orson Scott Card's epic historical novel Saints
When ten-year-old Dinah Kirkham saw her father leave their Manchester home in the middle of the night, she basked when he would be back. "Soon," he replied. But he never came back. On that night in 1829, John Kirkham laid the foundation of his daughter's certainty that the only person Dinah could ever really trust was herself.
From that...
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Riders of the purple sage volume 02
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Young John Shefford, escaping from his troubled past in Illinois, heads west to follow up the curious legend of three people living imprisoned in Utah’s isolated Surprise Valley, one of whom is a beautiful girl named Fay Larkin. Shefford, half in love with the girl he’s never met, is determined to find the valley and free her—if she’s still alive.Shefford is nearly overwhelmed with his experiences of the beauty of the high desert, his first...
8) Black widows
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"Against the wishes of his family and the laws of the elders of the Mormon church, Blake Nelson has adopted the old polygamous ways and lives alone with his three wives, miles from anywhere, in rural Utah. Blake and his wives kept to themselves-and kept most folks out. That is, until his dead body is discovered. Black Widows is told in the three voices of Blake's very different wives, who hate each other, and who sometimes hated their husband. Blake's...
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Detective Abish Taylor left Utah for a reason, but with her husband's passing she's come home to reconnect with her family. Now she's serving as the sole police detective in the small town of Pleasant View. When the quiet Mormon suburb in the Wasatch Mountains is shaken by a macabre death-- with the hallmarks of a sacred ritual dating back to the days of Brigham Young-- Abbie uncovers the dark side of the picturesque neighborhood. She'll discover...
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"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...
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In Utah Territory in the 1880s, the United States seems determined to crush the Mormon Church, with polygamy as the central issue. The polygamous Storm family find themselves being torn apart and scattered in the attempt to survive this unfair conflict. Church leaders are on the run, wives are being forced to testify against husbands, good men are going to jail without a fair trial, Church property is being confiscated by determined U.S. Marshals,...
12) Not of this fold
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"The fourth installment in Mette Ivie Harrison's nationally bestselling Linda Wallheim mystery series, set in Mormon Utah, explores the effects of alienation, immigration, and extortion from the inner workings of the Mormon church. Now that all five of her sons have left home, Mormon bishop's wife Linda Wallheim has quite a bit of time on her hands, most of which she spends worrying about the state of the country and how her youngest son, Samuel,...
13) Smoke
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Burned volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
710L
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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.
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The Starlight trilogy (Marian Wells) volume 2
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Jenny's search for truth and for control of her destiny continues into her marriage to lawyer Mark Cartwright. Her happiness and security with Mark are often overshadowed by dark thoughts and frightening memories.
15) Hidden wives
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Fifteen-year-old Sara and her beautiful sister, Rachel, are too young to legally drive a car-but are approaching spinsterhood in Utah's secret polygamist Blood of the Lamb community. Having long since reached the "age of preparedness," they will soon be married off to much older men chosen by the hidden sect's revered Prophet.
As Sara, chosen to become her uncle's fifth wife, grows more distraught over her impending incestuous marriage, she begins...
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In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, to return home from his travels as a wheelwright. It is now the depths of winter, Samuel is weeks overdue, and Deborah is getting worried. Deborah lives in Junction, a tiny town of seven Mormon families scattered along the floor of a canyon, and she earns her living by tending orchards and making work gloves....
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"In the predominantly Mormon city of Draper, Utah, some seemingly perfect families have deadly secrets. Inspired by an actual crime and written by a practicing Mormon, The Bishop's Wife is both a fascinating look at the lives of modern Mormons as well as a grim and cunningly twisted mystery. 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...
18) The wishing star
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The Starlight trilogy (Marian Wells) volume 1
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Jenny, living in the frontier districts of New York and Ohio in the early 1800s, is surrounded by poverty and an abusive drunken father. Yet in spite of limited schooling and spiritual guidance, curious and quick-minded Jenny reaches out for something different.
19) Daredevils
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Caught dating a boy of another faith by her devout Mormon parents, 1970s teenager Loretta is married off to a fundamentalist as his second wife and runs away with his nephew and a part-Native American friend to search for a cache of gold and freedom outside their strict community.
20) His right hand
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"Linda Wallheim finds herself once again ruffling feathers in Draper, Utah, as she assists a murder investigation that is being derailed by transphobia within the LDS community"--Publisher marketing.
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