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The Fading Flower & Swallow the Sun
The Fading Flower: Emma Smith had brought up her children to honor the memory of their father Joseph Smith, the martyred Mormon Prophet. Yet when her son David Hyrum Smith starts investigating the mysteries behind his father's involvement in polygamy and goes West to mingle with the "Brighamite" faction of Mormonism, Emma must confront a chapter in her life that she would have preferred to have left closed. Swallow the Sun: Before he became one of the world's greatest defenders of Christianity and the beloved author of The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. "Jack" Lewis was a staunch atheist. This is is the stirring and powerful story of his early life as he journeyed from entrenched skeptic to one of modern Christianity's most eloquent and courageous advocates.
Saints on Stage
Saints on Stage is the most comprehensive and important work on Mormon drama ever published. This volume anthologizes some of Mormonism's best plays from the last several decades, many of them published here for the first time. Several of these plays have won honors from institutions as varied as the Kennedy Center and the Association for Mormon Letters. This volume includes historical backgrounds and playwright biographies, as well as an introduction that provides an extensive overview of Mormon drama. The following plays are included: Fires of the Mind – Robert Elliott Huebener – Thomas F. Rogers Burdens of Earth – Susan Elizabeth Howe J. Golden – James Arrington Matters of the Heart – Thom Duncan Gadianton – Eric Samuelsen Hancock County – Tim Slover Stones – J. Scott Bronson Farewell to Eden – Mahonri Stewart Martyrs' Crossing – Melissa Leilani Larson I Am Jane – Margaret Blair Young
Drowned Book
This play by Kennedy Center national award-winning playwright Mahonri Stewart "exceeds the tweet, elevates the senses, and enlarges the mind" (Andrea Johnson, Front Row Reviewers). William Shakespeare has come home-but is he welcome back? Having traveled between London and Stratford-Upon-Avon his entire professional life as England's premiere playwright, he has missed significant events in the life of his family; most tragically, the death of his son Hamnet. Now his daughter Judith hates him, his daughter Susannah distrusts love, and his wife Anne grows ever more distant. To make matters worse, a vengeful, but complex Thomas Quiney plots to tear down all that Shakespeare holds dear and raise himself up in its place. Shakespeare must confront the mistakes of his past, or risk losing what's left of his future. The volume also includes an Afterword essay by the author that explores the connections between Shakespeare's family and his work that Stewart discovered during his "Year of Shakespeare."
A Roof Overhead and Other Plays
Five Plays About the Search for Spirituality National-award-winning playwright Mahonri Stewart continues to explore the contours of spirituality in an increasingly complicated world. This volume includes: "A Roof Overhead"-The Fielding family's Mormon values conflict with their tenant's atheistic beliefs. Can mutual tolerance be found, or will tragedy ruin their chances for finding common ground? "Friends of God"-This play dramatizes the history of Joseph Smith's martyrdom and the controversies and dangers that led up to it. "White Mountain" and "The Prince's House"-These two short plays explore the light and dark sides of the spiritual world. "Yeshua"-The New Testament Gospels are explored ...
Mormons and Popular Culture
Many people are unaware of how influential Mormons have been on American popular culture. This book parts the curtain and looks behind the scenes at the little-known but important influence Mormons have had on popular culture in the United States and beyond. Mormons and Popular Culture: The Global Influence of an American Phenomenon provides an unprecedented, comprehensive treatment of Mormons and popular culture. Authored by a Mormon studies librarian and author of numerous writings regarding Mormon folklore, culture, and history, this book provides students, scholars, and interested readers with an introduction and wide-ranging overview of the topic that can serve as a key reference book o...
Latter-day Saint Family Encyclopedia
A home reference guide to key terms in Mormon culture. A one-volume compendium of Mormon culture, this handy reference book covers key doctrinal terms, beliefs, ordinances, church history and growth, and more. You’ll find extensive entries on the prophets and personalities from all four standard works accepted by the church, and many interesting anecdotes and facts on a wide array of topics. Teens and adults will appreciate the fresh, innovative approach this encyclopedia takes as it culls the vast sea of LDS information available into a manageable book suitable for the whole family.
Wasatch
Douglas Thayer's third collection presents a dozen of his career-best stories, including several that have never before appeared in print. Wasatch is the next chapter in Thayer’s recent literary success, preceded by Hooligan, his landmark memoir about growing up Mormon in Provo, Utah, and by his acclaimed novel The Tree House, about the trials and redemption of missionary and soldier Harris Thatcher.
Bound on Earth
It is Thanksgiving Day and the Palmers have gathered to celebrate. But one person is missing: Kyle, Beth Palmer's young husband and a once integral member of this close-knit Mormon family. Kyle's bipolar disorder has spun out of control, and each family member's reaction to his disease reveals tensions that have been at work among the Palmers for generations. In the interconnected narratives that follow, the family's past is revealed, illuminating themes of loyalty, betrayal, forgiveness and, ultimately, love.
On the Road to Heaven
From the author of Latter Days: A Guided Tour Through Six Billion Years of Mormonism comes this exuberant and groundbreaking autobiographical novel about the modern Mormon convert experience. Revealing the author's hard-won path to meaning, faith, and forgiveness, On the Road to Heaven is a love story about a girl and a guy and their search for heaven—a lotta love, a little heaven, and one heck of a ride in between. In a style reminiscent of and offering homage to Jack Kerouac, On the Road to Heaven traces an LSD-to-LDS pilgrimage across the geographic and cultural landscape of two continents in the late twentieth century. From the 1970s hippie heyday of the Colorado mountains to the coca fields of Colombia, it's a journey through Thoreau ascetics, Ram Dass Taoism, and Edward Abbey monkey-wrenching to the mission fields of one of the world's fastest-growing—and most trenchantly conservative—religions. Few stories have ever described a more unusual road to redemption.
Hyrum William Pew, His Ancestors, Descendants & Allied Lines
Hyrum William Pew (1831-1903) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He emigrated to Utah where he met and married Henrietta Druzilla Weymouth. The couple later moved to Mesa, Arizona.
