mormons

Three German teenagers who are members of the Mormon Church join forces to create a youth resistance movement during World War II, putting their lives at risk.

Nine-year-old Dora, who has been kept out of school because of her speech impediment, dreams of learning to speak normally as her family joins a group of other Mormons journeying from Utah to New Mexico in 1910.

Presents the book and lyrics for the musical about two young Mormons sent as missionaries to a remote village in northern Uganda where they try to share the Book of Mormon with the local warlord.

The author provides an account of her experiences as a member of a fundamentalist Mormon sect and the sixth wife, at age fifteen, of one of the group's leaders, providing insights into why people choose to be part of polygamist families, and why she decided to break from the group.

Dirk Jamison chronicles the seven years his family spent eating from dumpsters after his father quit his job and shares what those years taught him about his family and life in general.

The author, nephew of Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, provides an inside account of what it was like to grow up in the prophet's compound, and shares his personal story of the challenges he faced after being expelled from the sect and forced out into a world he knew nothing about.

When her boyfriend Zan leaves high school in Utah a year early to attend Pitzer College, a broken-hearted Joy and Zan's best friend Noah take off on a road trip to California seeking "closure.".

Tells the story of the Mormon exodus from Nauvoo, Ill. to California by ship, and across the plains to Salt Lake City by wagon with Brigham Young.

Follows the parallel stories of Ann Eliza Young, the estranged wife of Mormon leader Brigham Young, and her campaign to end polygamy in the United States, and Jordan Scott, the son of a polygamist family in twenty-first-century Utah, who returns after years away from the fundamentalist sect to learn the truth about his father's death.

Alva, not quite fifteen, is content with the strict rules that define her life in Pineridge, the walled community where she lives with her father, his seven wives, and her twenty-nine siblings until she is caught giving her long-time crush an innocent first kiss and forced to marry a violent, fifty-year-old man.