Archive for 'Biography' Category

The Man Behind the Discourse: A Biography of King Follett Author: Joann Follett Mortensen

By Donnie - Last updated: Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Title: The Man Behind the Discourse: A Biography of King Follett Author: Joann Follett Mortensen Publisher: Greg Kofford Books Genre: Biography Year Published: 2011 Number of Pages: 601 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 978-1-58958-036-7 Price: $29.95 Reviewed by Vickie Cleverley Speek for the Association for Mormon Letters In 1830, King Follett, his wife, Louisa, and their family [...]

Swell Suffering by Veda Tebbs Hale

By Donnie - Last updated: Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Title: Swell Suffering Author: Veda Tebbs Hale Publisher: Kofford Books Genre: Biography Year Published: 2011 Number of Pages: 456 ISBN: 978-1-58958-122-7 Price: n/a   Reviewed by Marilyn Brown for the Association for Mormon Letters   If we didn’t get the sequel to Maurine Whipple’s “Giant Joshua,” we are now privileged to have her own story, [...]

Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake: George R. Maxwell, Civil War Hero and Federal Marshal among the Mormons by John Gary Maxwell

By Donnie - Last updated: Monday, August 2, 2010

Title: Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake: George R. Maxwell, Civil War Hero and Federal Marshal among the Mormons Author: John Gary Maxwell Publisher: Arthur H. Clark ISBN13: 987-0-87062-388-2 Price:$39.95 Reviewed by Steve Eccles for the Association for Mormon Letters I had never heard of George Maxwell, which probably is an indication of my lack of [...]

Larry Mullins Bodygaurd to the Prophet Turning the Page

By Donnie - Last updated: Friday, April 23, 2010

Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZMhD1KSzYo Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oH7wRxYVXc Title:  Bodyguard to the Prophet Authors:  Larry Mullins Publisher:  Cedar Fort Year Published:  2010 Number of Pages:   98 Binding:  Softbound – 6×9 ISBN13:  978-1-59955-336-8 Price:  $9.99 Click Here to order Reviewed by Allison G. McKenzie for the Association for Mormon Letters From a backwoodsman to an army man to [...]

Mother’s Daze by Jane Isfeld Still

By Donnie - Last updated: Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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 [...]

Pioneer, Polygamist, Politician: The Life of Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon by Mari Grana

By Donnie - Last updated: Monday, January 11, 2010
Pioneer, Polygamist, Politician: The Life of Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon

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 [...]

Shattered Silence – The Untold Story of a Serial Killer’s Daughter

By Donnie - Last updated: Tuesday, November 10, 2009

We had the privilege of having Bridget Cook the co-author of Shattered Silence in to talk about the book and story.  Bridget is the co-author along with the biography Melissa Moore of a starling new Book. Melissa has appeared on such well-know TV shows as Oprah and Dr Phil.  Here is our interview with Bridget Cook.

Am I Not a Man? The Dred Scott Story by Utah Attorney General Mark L. Shurtleff

By Donnie - Last updated: Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Am I Not a Man? The Dred Scott Story by Mark L. Shurtleff Release Date: 3 November 2009  – In Stock Now for immediate delivery Price: $24.95 Publisher: Valor Publishing Group, LLC (November 3, 2009) Fiction: Historical Novel Binding: Hardbound Pages: 534 Language: English ISBN-13: 978-1-935546-00-9 Product Dimensions: 6.25 x 9.25 inches Click here to [...]

Adventures of a Church Historian By Leonard J. Arrington

By Donnie - Last updated: Tuesday, October 13, 2009

In Robert Graves’ great historical novel, I, Claudius, the future Roman emperor and aspiring young historian Claudius meets two older historians in a library. Livy advocates writing history as a saga that expresses spiritual truths; Pollio says that facts are the most important elements in telling the story.

Abraham Lincoln, God’s Humble Instrument By Ron L. Andersen

By Donnie - Last updated: Friday, October 9, 2009
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Abraham Lincoln, God’s Humble Instrument By Ron L. Andersen Reviewed by Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury On 4/3/2009 Millenial Mind Publishing, 2009 Hardcover: 296 pages ISBN-10: 1-58982-518-7 ISBN-13: 978-1-58982-518-5 …