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The Making of Margaret Dashwood
Now that Elinor and Marianne are married, sixteen-year-old Margaret Dashwood is next, according to the teasing Sir John Middleton and his mother-in-law Mrs. Jennings. A young woman of no fortune and little to recommend her, however, Margaret's romantic notions are limited. On holiday to Bath with her mother, Margaret befriends Miss Barbara Spooner, the future wife of the eminent Member of Parliament, William Wilberforce. Unlike Margaret's silly friends the Carey sisters, Barbara cares about things of substance, such as religion, the education of the poor, and the abolition of slavery. On the way home, Margaret and her family visit Whitwell, the beautiful estate of Colonel Brandon's relations...
FIRE OF THE WORD
Young English noblewoman, Anne Ayscough, lived during the turbulent times of Henry VIII, when Protestant reformist ideas clashed violently against entrenched Catholicism. Yet many, especially the wealthy, owned William Tyndale's New Testament, including the household of Sir William Ayscough in Lincolnshire. In her family home, Anne grew in an atmosphere of openness, gleaning new ideas from her brothers who were educated at Cambridge, a hotbed of Protestant ideals. At the age of fifteen, Anne's life changed drastically. Her older sister Martha, betrothed to a son of a family staunch in the Catholic faith, contracted a fever and died. With the financial arrangements for the marriage already in place, Anne's father ordered her to stand for her dead sister, forcing his daughter to enter a loveless marriage. England's religious war became Anne's as she clung tight to her own ideals in her husband's house. This eventually brought her into the center of the vicious political and religious battles where she was faced with a choice. Anne could deny the truths she had embraced as a young woman and live, or hold fast to her beliefs and be put to death.
Daughter of Anne-Hoeck
Nine-year-old Susanna Hutchison witnessed the massacre of her mother and seven siblings before being taken captive by the tribe who slaughtered her family and burned their home to the ground. Eventually, she found a place and a family in the Indian village. When a group of Dutch discovered her years later, she begged to stay with the Indians. But they and the Dutch traded goods for the white girl, and Susanna was forced to leave the village. Returned to Boston and to her brother, Susanna finds everything strange. Now fifteen, she is an outsider among her own people. John Winthrop and the other local authorities are watching her and her brother closely. They have determined that Susanna will conform to the strict society and not become like her outspoken, renegade mother Anne Hutchison. Susanna is not even sure she wants acceptance back into Puritan society, where she feels like an object of pity and scorn. And she certainly does not welcome the attentions of their tall young neighbor, John Cole. Caught between two worlds and belonging to neither, Susanna wonders how she can possibly build a new life out of the ashes of what went before.
Light of the Candle
The prophet Jeremiah's dire warnings have come to pass for the young nobleman Daniel, his betrothed Sarai, and for all of Judah. Will they be able to keep hope bright as darkness closes in?
Waiting for the Light
Three thousand Jews have been brought as hostages to Babylon, as King Nebuchadnezzar continues his subjugation of the land of Judah. Daniel, now governor of the province of Babylon, is in a position to aid his people as they resettle outside of the ancient city of Nippur. Daniel and Sarai are briefly reunited after eight long years of separation, but obstacles remain before they can be together. Daniel must secure permission to marry from King Nebuchadnezzar, whose increasingly erratic behavior has Daniel fearing for the king's sanity and for the safety of his people. As the Jews strive to adjust and even prosper in the land of their enemies, their future remains uncertain. Daniel, in his position of power, moderates King Nebuchadnezzar's erratic behavior toward the Jewish captives. But if he loses his position, the people will suffer. Meanwhile, the young and foolish Jehoaichin, puppet-ruler back in Jerusalem, continues to defy the Babylonian king, whose patience toward the Jews is wearing thin. Daniel and Sarai face a precarious future, both for themselves and their people.
Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon
Stop looking for the Book of Mormon in Mesoamerica and start looking for Mesoamerica in the Book of Mormon! Second Witness, a new six-volume series from Greg Kofford Books, takes a detailed, verse-by-verse look at the Book of Mormon. It marshals the best of modern scholarship and new insights into a consistent picture of the Book of Mormon as a historical document. Taking a faithful but scholarly approach to the text and reading it through the insights of linguistics, anthropology, and ethnohistory, the commentary approaches the text from a variety of perspectives: how it was created, how it relates to history and culture, and what religious insights it provides. The commentary accepts the b...
Discovering Motherhood
Written, edited, illustrated & published by mothers, this book explores the transitions, realities, & rewards of motherhood. Carefully selected personal essays, informative articles, humor, & poetry offer support & information to women in their first years of motherhood. The book is organized into five sections: Redefining Ourselves, Choosing Home, Taking Care of Ourselves, Living With Changes, & Growing in Unexpected Ways. The publisher, MOTHERS AT HOME, is a nonprofit organization founded in 1984 to offer support to mothers who choose (or would like to choose) to be at home with their children. For nine years, they have been publishing WELCOME HOME, a journal for these mothers, & they have...
Traditions of the Fathers
2015 Best Religious Non-fiction Award, Association for Mormon Letters The focus of the Book of Mormon is unquestionably on the things of God. Similar to the Bible, its sermons and explications of religious principles are presented against the framework of the story of a people. It is a story that covers a thousand years. In this book Brant Gardner looks around and behind the religious purposes of the book and teases out how those thousand years of Book of Mormon history correspond to those same years in the geographic and cultural context where they most plausibly took place. Gardner works through the Book of Mormon chronologically, examining how events in the Book of Mormon reflect the grea...
Far Company
In Far Company, we hear Cindy Hunter Morgan thinking about the many ways we carry the natural world inside of us as a kind of embedded cartography. Many of these poems commune not only with lost ancestors but also past poets. We hear conversations with Emily Dickinson, James Wright, Walt Whitman, and W. S. Merwin. These poets, who are part of Hunter Morgan’s poetic lineage, are beloved figures in the far company she keeps, but the poems she writes are distinctly hers. Poet Larissa Szporluk remarked, "The poems in this collection are quiet and deceptively simple. My first response was to be amazed by a seeming innocence in delivery—straightforward, picturesque, and compassionate—that th...
