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English
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Polygamy can be murder! That's what private detective Lena Jones learns when she helps 13 year old Rebecca escape from Purity, a polygamy compound hidden in a desolate area near straddling Utah/Arizona border. When Rebecca's mother is arrested for the murder of Prophet Solomon Royal, Rebecca's intended husband, Lena enters Purity masquerading as a polygamist wife to uncover the real murderer. In doing so, Lena finds out more than she bargained for-the...
2) Escape
Author
Language
English
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A woman forced into a plural marriage as a teenager with a man thirty-two years her senior describes the years of psychological abuse she suffered, her decision to escape with her eight children, and her successful battle with the church over custody of her children.
3) Sister wife
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
vi, 221 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Gallery Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
x, 271 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill., geneal. tables ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In many ways, the Browns are like any other middle--American family: they eat, play, and pray together, squabble and hug, striving to raise happy, well-adjusted children while keeping their relationship loving and strong. The difference is, there are five adults in the openly polygamous Brown marriage--Kody and his four wives--who among them have seventeen children. Since TLC first launched its popular reality program Sister Wives, the Browns have...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 484 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a revelatory and deeply intimate exploration of the world of early Mormon women that draws on nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts created by first-generation Latter-Day Saints.
"A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never-before-told...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
447, 18 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1825, in rural Pennsylvania, Emma Hale marries an itinerant treasure-digger-turned-prophet who becomes the founder of the Mormon religion, and when he adopts polygamy, angering the American people, her life and faith are fractured.
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