By MARY BEARD Published: April 16, 2009, New York Times “My book is thumbed by our soldiers posted overseas, and even in Britain people quote my words. What’s the point? I don’t make a penny from it.” This is not the complaint of some young American author who has suddenly discovered that his contract pays [...]

Title: Mormon Women: Portraits & Conversations Authors: James N. Kimball and Kent Miles Publisher: Handcart Books, a division of White Horse Books Genre: Non-Fiction Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 227 Binding: Quality paperback ISBN: 978-0-9801406-1-3 Price: $18.95 ($14.95 online price at www.handcartbooks.com) Reviewed by Lisa Olsen Tait I loved this book. That could be my [...]

New York Times April 27, 2009 By LAURIE GOODSTEIN CHARLESTON, S.C. — Two months after the local atheist organization here put up a billboard saying “Don’t Believe in God? You Are Not Alone,” the group’s 13 board members met in Laura and Alex Kasman’s living room to grapple with the fallout. The problem was not [...]

Title: The Last Waltz Author: G.G. Vandagriff Publisher: Shadow Mountain Genre: Fiction Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 591 Binding: Paperback ISBN-10: n/a ISBN-13: 978-1-60641-052-3 Price: $19.95 Reviewed by Jaymie Reynolds It is December of 1913 in Vienna and Amalia Faulhaber is surrounded by the whirlwind that is the life of a nineteen-year-old socialite. She [...]

April 22, 2009 — Gay marriage and fundamentalist Mormon polygamy are in the news almost daily. Islam is spreading across traditionally Christian lands. Ministers are defrocked for adultery or homosexual liaisons, divorce is rampant, and many people refuse to marry at all due to ever higher financial and social risks. The landscape of marriage and [...]

The photo with caption appeared on the front page of BYU’s, The Daily Universe, Monday, April 6, 2009. I am sure this is an error never to be forgotten. Of course it should have read Twelve Apostles. More on the story seehttp://www.regrettheerror.com/tag/the-daily-universe

Title: Author: Jeni Grossman Publisher: Covenant Communications Genre: Fiction Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 306 Binding: Paperback ISBN-10: 1-59811-643-6 ISBN-13: 978-1-59811-643-4 Price: $16.95 (Editor’s note: I somehow missed sending this review out about a month ago.  I apologize for that.  I have also read this book, and will have a second review ready in [...]

Toby Litt’s first novel, Beatniks, features a number of characters attempting to live as if it were still the early 1960s, with the aid of period books and maps borrowed from their local library. It’s a nice idea, but that last detail always struck me as a flaw. What local library still has 1950s road [...]

Title:  Abraham Lincoln, God’s Humble Instrument Author: Ron L. Andersen Publisher: Millenial Mind Publishing Genre: Biography Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 296 Binding: Hardcover ISBN-10: 1-58982-518-7 ISBN-13: 978-1-58982-518-5 Price: $24.95 Reviewed by Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury I’m sure there must be hundreds of biographies of Abraham Lincoln out there, and many of them talk about his [...]

The St. George Classic Car Show Saturday, May 2, 2009 10 am to 4 pm COME JOIN THE FUN WITH PRE-1975 CLASSIC CARS & ROCK ‘N ROLL WITH THE MONDELLOS (music sponsored by Findlay Subaru) Arts & Crafts Vendors Food Vendors Children’s Play Area For information on Booth Space, call: 435-635-5720 Download Vendor Application For [...]