Provo, UTArchive for September, 2009
Leven Thumps and the Ruins of Alder available at Confetti Antiques and Books
My name is Deveré Morris and I am the Owner of Confetti Antiques and Books daughter. I get to read a lot of books since we are a book store. One of my favorite reads is The Leven Thumps Series. It caught my interest on the first page of the first book. I am so [...]
Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
Author and conservative talk radio host Levin (Rescuing Sprite, Men in Black) takes on the Statist, a liberal straw man, in this collection of polemics against left-wing tenets (like “economic and social justice”), touchstones (like the New Deal) and institutions (strongholds of liberal thought like academia and the mainstream media).
IS THERE NO HELP FOR THE WIDOW’S SON?
IS THERE NO HELP FOR THE WIDOW’S SON? Presidential Address Delivered At The Mormon History Association Convention April 20, 1974 by Dr. Reed C. Durham, Jr. (Notes by Melvin B. Hogan) Introduction to Is There No Help For The Widow’s Son?, by Mervin B. Hogan, Secretary, Research Lodge of Utah, F. & A. M. Someone [...]
A boyhod Hero of Mine – Red Skelton recites the Pledge of Allegiance
[flashvideo file=http://www.confettiantiques.com/videos/RedSkeltonPledge.flv image="http://www.confettiantiques.com/videos/skelton.jpg" /] The above video was sent to me from my local Sate House of Representative, Mike Morley. His website is http://mikemorley.org/ I always loved to stay up late and watch the Red Shelton show with my mom. I loved his humor and his ideals. This video made me stop think and …
The Actor and the Housewife by Shannon Hale
Title: The Actor and the Housewife Author: Shannon Hale Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Genre: fiction Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 352 Binding: Hardcover ISBN-10: 1-59691-288-X ISBN-13: 978-1-59691-288-5 Price: $24.00 Reviewed by Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury First off, this is not a romance, even though the relationship Becky Jack has with her husband is very romantic. Second, I [...]
Books – as seen online
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Latest Joseph Smith Papers volume presents facsimiles of early revelation manuscripts
By R. Scott Lloyd Church News staff writer Published: Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009 Taken from http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/57912/Word-of-the-Lord.html When the latest volume in the Joseph Smith Papers Project is published next week, readers will gaze back in time and glimpse the process for preserving many of the revelations in what is now the Doctrine and Covenants. The [...]
Mormon Parallels: A Bibliographic Source by Rick Grunder
Title: Mormon Parallels: A Bibliographic Source Author: Rick Grunder Publisher: Rick Grunder Books Genre: Non-fiction Year Published: 2008 Number of Pages: 2088 Binding: n/a (CD-Rom Included) ISBN10: ISBN13: 978-0-9814708-0-1 Price: $200.00 Reviewed by Joseph Johnstun In his February 1831 review of the Book of Mormon, Alexander Campbell famously wrote, “This prophet Smith, through his stone [...]
The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text by Royal Skousen
The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text Author: Royal Skousen Publisher: Yale University Press Genre: Religion/Textual Criticism Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 789 + introduction, preface Binding: Hardcover ISBN10: n/a ISBN13: 9780300142181 Price: $35.00 Click here to Order Reviewed by Blair Dee Hodges “These were days never to be forgotten — to sit under [...]