Title: From TWILIGHT to BREAKING DAWN: Religious Themes in the TWILIGHT Saga Author: Sandra L. Gravett Publisher: Chalice Press Genre: nonfiction Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 118 (including notes and bibliography) Binding: Trade paperback ISBN-10: 0827210477 ISBN-13: 978-0-827210-47-9 Price: $14.99 Reviewed by Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury for the Association for Mormon Letters This was a fun [...]

Title: Magnum Opus: The Building of the Schoenstein Organ at the Conference Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City Author: John Longhurst Publisher: Intellectual Reserve, Inc. Genre: History/Music Published: 2009 Pages: xi, 210 ISBN: 9781606411995 Price: $32.99 Reviewed by Blair Dee Hodges (Editor’s note: our good reviewer Blair Hodges [...]

Title: Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector: A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848-1861 Author: Polly Aird Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Genre: Biography Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 320 Binding: Hardcover ISBN10: 0870623699 ISBN13: 978-0870623691 Price: $39.95 Reviewed by Bryan Buchanan for the Association for Mormon Letters As I was in the middle of reading [...]

Title:   Between the Lines Author:  Erin Klingler Publisher:   Covenant Communications, Inc. American Fork, UT Genre: romance suspense fiction Year Published:  2010 Number of Pages:  323 pages Binding: softcover ISBN10: 1-59811-766-1 ISBN13:  978–59811-766-0 Price: $17.99 Reviewed by Beth Roach for the Association for Mormon Letters “Between the Lines” is about equal parts suspense and romance novel. [...]

Title: So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848 Author: Will Bagley Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Genre: Western History Year Published: 2010 Number of pages: 480 Binding: Cloth ISBN-10: n.a. ISBN-13: 978-0-87062-381-3 Price: $45.00 Reviewed by Roy Schmidt for the Association for Mormon Letters I first drove across the United [...]

Title: The Silence of God Author: Gale Sears Publisher: Deseret Book, Salt Lake City, UT Genre:      historical fiction Year Published:      2010 Number of Pages:  400 pages Binding:  softcover ISBN10: N/A ISBN13: 978-1-60641-655-6 Price: $24.99 Reviewed by Beth Roach for the Association for Mormon Letters What a wonderful book this was to read.  The author weaves [...]

Title: Peculiar Portrayals: Mormons on the Page, Stage, and Screen Author: Mark T. Decker, Michael Austin, editors Publisher: Utah State University Press Genre: Performing Arts Essay Collection Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 203; index, end notes Binding: paper ISBN13: 978-0-87421-773-5 Price: $24.95 Reviewed by Laura Compton for the Association for Mormon Letters “Do these [...]

Title: Chased By An Elephant: the Gospel Truth about Today’s Stampeding Sexuality Author: Janice Barrett Graham Publisher: Tidal Wave Books Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 142 Binding: Softbound – 6×9 ISBN13: 978-0-9724770-5-5 Price: $12.95 Reviewed by: Allison G. McKenzie Believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men. [...]

Title: Summer in Paris Author: Michele Ashman Bell Publisher: Valor Publishing Genre: Fiction Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 221 Binding: Paperback ISBN-10: N/A ISBN-13: 978-1-935546-17-7 Price: Not given Reviewed by Jaymie Reynolds Rags to riches is an age old tale of dreams come true. Less often told, but just as life-changing, perhaps more so, [...]

Title: Finding God in the Garden, Planting, Pruning and the Plan of Happiness Authors: Brent & Wendy Top Publisher: Deseret Book Genre: Non-Fiction Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 143 Binding: Paperback ISBN10:  1606412301 ISBN13: 978-1606412305 Price: $19.99 Reviewed by Russell Anderson for the Association for Mormon Letters Brent and Wendy have produced a beautiful [...]