Title: Band of Sisters Author: Annette Lyon Publisher: Covenant Communications Year Published: 2010 Binding: Paperback Number of Pages: 274 Genre: Fiction ISBN-13:978-1-59811-852-0 Price: $15.99 Reviewed by Marilee McQuarrie for the Association for Mormon Letters Band of Sisters is the story of five women who meet weekly for lunch at various restaurants in Provo, Utah and [...]
Title: Jane… A Woman’s Determination and the Wild-West Frontier Author: Michael R. King Publisher: IQ Publishing, Inc. Genre: Nonfiction Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 282 Binding: Paperback ISBN-10: 057804384X ISBN-13: 978-057804384-5 Price: $14.00 Reviewed by Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury for the Association for Mormon Letters My father was a history buff and he especially loved LDS [...]
Title: Mother’s Daze Author: Jane Isfeld Still Publisher: Cedar Fort Genre: Motherhood – Humor Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 83 Binding: Trade Paperback ISBN10: 1933002107 ISBN13: 978-1933002859 Price: $8.99 Reviewed by Russell Y Anderson, Association for Mormon Letters The title is a play on the words “Mother’s day”, but also on the frustration that [...]
Title: Mountain Meadows Massacre: The Andrew Jenson and David H. Morris Collections Editors: Richard E. Turley, Jr., Ronald W. Walker Publisher: Brigham Young University Press/University of Utah Press Genre: History Year: 2009 Pages: 342+ index ISBN: 9780842527231 Binding: Cloth Price: $44.95 Reviewed by Blair Dee Hodges Andrew Jenson’s 1892 mission call was unique. It was [...]
Title: Exploring Desert Stone, John N. Macomb’s 1859 Expedition to the Canyonlands of the Colorado Author: Steven K. Madsen Publisher: Utah State University Press Genre: Western History Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: xxi, 273 Binding: Hardbound, cloth : alk. paper ISBN10: 978-0-87421-707-0 ISBN13: 978-0-87421-708-7 (e-book) Price: $34.95 Reviewed by J. Sherman Feher For most [...]
Title: The Hor Book of Breathings: A Translation and Commentary, Studies in the Book of Abraham, vol. 2 Author: Michael D. Rhodes Publisher: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Text Genre: Scripture, Egyptian Funeral Text Year Published: 2002 Number of Pages: 97 Binding: Cloth [...]
(Editor’s note: we welcome, and are grateful, that Kevin was willing to do a review of this volume. He brings a world of knowledge and insight to the table. Thanks, Kevin, for taking the time to do this.) Review ====== Title: The Invention of Hebrew Author: Seth L. Sanders Publisher: University of Illinois Press Genre: [...]
Title: Opening the Heavens: Accounts of Divine Manifestations, 1820-1844 Author: Edited by John W. Welch with Erick B. Carlson Publisher: Brigham Young University Press and Deseret Book Genre: Nonfiction Year Published: 2005 Number of Pages: 500 Binding: Hardback ISBN: 0-8425-2607-2 Price: $32.95 Reviewed by Vickie Cleverley Speek “Opening the Heavens” brings together all the known, [...]
The Mountain Meadows Massacre was one of the worst acts of premeditated mass murder ever committed by Americans against other Americans. It occurred in southern Utah between Cedar City and St. George on September 11, 1857, and involved the slaughter of 120 California-bound emigrants, the Fancher-Baker train. It was perpetrated by an armed force of [...]
Title: Pioneer, Polygamist, Politician: The Life of Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon Author: Mari Grana Publisher: Two Dot, a division of the Globe Pequot Press Genre: Biography Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 179 Binding: Paperback ISBN13: 978-0-7627-5272-0 Price: $16.95 Check Availability, Click Here Reviewed by Lisa Tait Martha Hughes Cannon has long been known to [...]
