Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Utah Press 1980

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3747 Eak

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ancestry Pub. 1988

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1

Chabot, Shersta

Summary: "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam... and a moonbeam, a clear stream, and calm sea! Jesus wants me for a bright star to twinkle high above guiding all seekers to find Him by sharing God's great love!"--Page [4] of cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: CFI, an imprint of Cedar Fort, Inc. 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 241.5 CHA

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

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Publisher / Publication Date: [unpublished] 1978

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1

Summary: Utilizing historical documents and interviews with scholars and churchmembers, this multi-part PBS documentary chronicles the formation and development of the Mormon Church.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2007

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MOR

Summary: In many ways, the Browns are like any other middle-American family: they eat, play, and pray together, squabble and hug, striving to raise happy, well-adjusted children while keeping their relationship loving and strong. The difference is, there are five adults in the openly polygamous Brown marriage--Kody and his four wives--who among them have seventeen children. Since TLC first launched its...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BRO

Benedek, Emily

Summary: "Valarie Clark Miller seemed to have it all. Smart, beautiful, and athletic, with a wealthy, successful husband and a growing family, Valarie appeared to be the picture-perfect Mormon wife. But it was all a façade. Inside, she was crumbling from the pressures of long-repressed memories of a childhood plagued with sexual and physical abuse. In Hometown betrayal, author Emily Benedek brings you...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenleaf Book Group Press

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 362.764 BEN

Jessop, Carolyn

Summary: Chronicles one woman's courageous flight to freedom with her eight children, and her account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2007

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 289.3092 JES

Musser, Rebecca

Summary: A gripping account of Rebecca Musser's struggle to escape the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints led by Rulon Jeffs and his son, Warren, and her subsequent decision to take the witness stand against the new prophet of the FLDS in order to protect her little sisters and other young girls from being forced to marry at shockingly young ages.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MUSSER MUS

Brower, Sam.

Summary: From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the arrest of Warren Jeffs, the maniacal prophet of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), comes the page-turning, horrifying story of how a rogue sect used sex, money, and power disguised under a fac̦ade of religion to further criminal activities and a madman's vision.--Bookjacket flap.

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Publisher / Publication Date: New York 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.33 BRO

Wall, Elissa.

Summary: Elissa Wall details her life growing up in the polygamous Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints religious sect, being forced into an unwanted marriage at the age of 14, and her courage to testify against FLDS leader Warren Jeffs.--From publisher description.

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALL, ELISSA WAL

Arrington, Leonard J.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf : distributed by Random House 1979

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.309 ARR

Summary: A searing indictment of the Mormon Church's historic involvement in the promotion and passage of California's Proposition 8, and the Mormon religion's secretive, decades-long campaign against gay rights.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Wolfe Video 2010

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EIG

Jessop, Carolyn

Summary: The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman's courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2007

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 289.3092 Jes

Jessop, Carolyn

Summary: Continues the author's accounts after she left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, describing her struggles with her daughter's return to the cult and her own discoveries about how to achieve healthy change.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289 JES