NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 20, 2011
"Eye-opening and courageous."
Independent Fundamentalist Mormon husband Darger and his three "sister wives" offer a candid, often engaging account of how and why they chose to enter into an outlawed form of marriage.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 2011
"A masterful exploration of one of America's most shameful secrets."
Award-winning journalist Weyermann (The Gang They Couldn't Catch: The Story of America's Greatest Modern-Day Bank Robbers—And How They Got Away With It, 1993) throws open the curtains on the deplorable actions of Warren Jeffs and his polygamous sect.
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FICTION
Released: May 3, 2010
"Fans of the HBO series Big Love will be pleased to see an alternate take on the multi-household problem, and lovers of good writing will find this a pleasure, period."
Unhappy families are different, quoth Leo Tolstoy--even when they're headed by the same patriarch, the situation from which Udall's (
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, 2001, etc.) latest unfolds.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 15, 2009
"A sexy, lubricious outing by a formerly zaftig comic."
NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 16, 2007
"Though Jessop's circumstances were unusual--and particularly harrowing--her memoir will appeal to many women who have left abusive relationships."
Born into the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints (FLDS), the author describes her life before, during and after her marriage at 18 to a 50-year-old man with three other wives.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 22, 2007
"Gives the lie to the suburban cheer of HBO's Big Love."
An engrossing, though flawed memoir about poverty, procreation and polygamy south of the border.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 15, 2003
"Krakauer lays the portent on beautifully, building his tales carefully from the ground up until they irresistibly, spookily combust."
The jarring story of a double murder committed by fundamentalist Mormons, told with raw narrative force and tight focus.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 1, 2003
"Intriguing domestic particulars of a little-known way of life."
An unusual memoir from the daughter of Mormon fundamentalists who maintained the Principle of Plural Marriage long after the church officially abolished it.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 1999
"For Protestants and other "Gentiles," Mormon America is an invaluable primer; Latter-Day Saints will find the book a useful refresher course."
A thoroughly researched, impartial treatment of that homegrown American religion so shrouded in mystery and myth: Mormonism.
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