Archive for September, 2010
Symbols and Shadows: Unlocking a Deeper Understanding of the Atonement by Donald W. Parry and Jay A. Parry
Title: Symbols and Shadows: Unlocking a Deeper Understanding of the Atonement Author: Donald W. Parry and Jay A. Parry Publisher: Deseret Book Genre: nonfiction Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 378 Binding: Hardcover ISBN-10: 1-60641-129-2 ISBN-13: 978-1-60641-129-2 Price: $29.95 Reviewed by Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury for the Association for Mormon Letters Imagine being inspired so by Alma’s [...]
The Infinite Atonement by Tad R. Callister
Title: The Infinite Atonement Author: Tad R. Callister Publisher: Deseret Book Genre: nonfiction Year Published: March 2000 Number of Pages: 356 Binding: Hardcover ISBN-10: 1-57345-623-3 ISBN-13: 978-1-57345-623-4 Price: $23.95 Reviewed by Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury for the Association for Mormon Letters This is an amazing study of Christ’s Atonement. The author points out at the beginning that [...]
It’s Good to be Alive by Jack Rushton
Title: It’s Good to be Alive Author: Jack Rushton Publisher: Bonneville Books (an imprint of Cedar Fort, Inc.) Genre: Non-fiction, inspiration Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 178 Binding: Hardcover ISBN10: n/a ISBN13: 978-1-59955-408-2 Price: $19.99 Reviewed by Jeffrey Needle for the Association for Mormon Letters On the cover of this book we’re told that [...]
The Diet Rebel’s Cookbook : Eating Clean And Green by Jillayne Clements and Michelle Stewart
Title: The Diet Rebel’s Cookbook : Eating Clean And Green Author(s): Jillayne Clements and Michelle Stewart Publisher: CFI (Cedar Fort Inc.) Genre: Nonfiction Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 264 Binding: Softcover ISBN-13: 978-1-59955-361-0 Price: $17.99 Reviewed by Gabi Kupitz for the Association for Mormon Letters Both authors have struggled with ailments that called into [...]
The Mark by M.R. Bunderson
Title: The Mark Author: M.R. Bunderson Publisher: Cedar Fort, Inc. Genre: Speculative fiction Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 280 Binding: Trade paperback ISBN10: n/a ISBN13: 978-1-59955-351-1 Price: $17.99 Reviewed by Jeffrey Needle for the Association for Mormon Letters This book is something of a mystery to me. I had a hard time figuring it [...]
Eliza R. Snow: The Complete Poetry Editors Jill Mulvay Derr, Karen Lynn Davidson
Title: Eliza R. Snow: The Complete Poetry Editors: Jill Mulvay Derr, Karen Lynn Davidson Publisher: Brigham Young University Press/University of Utah Press Genre: Poetry Year: 2009 Pages: 1333 ISBN13: 9780842527378 Binding: Hardcover Price: $44.95 Reviewed by Blair Dee Hodges for the Association for Mormon Letters “Mr. Editor,—It is not my wish to appear in print” [...]
A Study in Valor: The Faith of a Bataan Death March Survivor by William T. Garner
Title: A Study in Valor: The Faith of a Bataan Death March Survivor Author: William T. Garner Publisher: Silverton House Publishing (www.SilvertonhousePublishing.com) Genre: Non-fiction Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 198 Binding: Trade Paperback ISBN10: n/a ISBN13: 978-1-60065-105-2 Price: $11.95 Reviewed by Jeffrey Needle for the Association for Mormon Letters The story of history is [...]
Title: Defined by Christ: Seeing Yourself Through the Eyes of the Savior by Toni Sorenson
Title: Defined by Christ: Seeing Yourself Through the Eyes of the Savior Author: Toni Sorenson Publisher: Covenant Communications Genre: self-help Year Published: 2010 Number of pages: 147 Binding: hardbound ISBN-10: n/a ISBN-13: 978-1-59811-969-5 Price: $16.99 Reviewed by: Roy Schmidt for the Association for Mormon Letters I met Toni Sorsenson at the recent LDS Bookseller’s Convention [...]
My Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight’s Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845-1858
My Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight’s Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845-1858 about Lyman Wight and his colonists in the American frontier can now be found on Utah State’s Digital Commons at http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1042&context=usupress_pubs. The book won The Best Book Award of the John Whitmer Historical Association (2006), which is generously underwritten by the Smith-Pettit [...]
Defensive Tactics by Steve Westover
Title: Defensive Tactics Author: Steve Westover Publisher: Bonneville Books (an imprint of CFI) Genre: Fiction Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 248 Binding: Trade Paperback ISBN10: n/a ISBN13: 978-1-59955-445-7 Price: $16.99 Reviewed by Jeffrey Needle for the Association for Mormon Letters Meet Paul Stephens, agent for the FBI and loyal Latter-day Saint. Emily Mathews is [...]