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21) Not of this fold
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Linda Wallheim mystery volume 4
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"The fourth installment in Mette Ivie Harrison's nationally bestselling Linda Wallheim mystery series, set in Mormon Utah, explores the effects of alienation, immigration, and extortion from the inner workings of the Mormon church. Now that all five of her sons have left home, Mormon bishop's wife Linda Wallheim has quite a bit of time on her hands, most of which she spends worrying about the state of the country and how her youngest son, Samuel,...
22) Daredevils
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1974: Fifteen-year-old Loretta slips out of her bedroom window to meet her "Gentile" boyfriend. This time, however, her strict Mormon parents catch her returning at dawn and quickly arrange for her to marry the upstanding Dean Harder, a devout yet materialistic fundamentalist who already has a wife and a brood of kids, some not much younger than Loretta herself. Trapped in her role as a "sister wife, " Loretta dreams of another, better future, of...
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"In American Crucifixion, Alex Beam tells how [Joseph] Smith went from charismatic leader to public enemy: How his most seismic revelation?the doctrine of polygamy?created a rift among his people; how that schism turned to violence; and how, ultimately, Smith could not escape the consequences of his ambition and pride. Mormonism is America?s largest and most enduring native religion, and the ?martyrdom? of Joseph Smith is one of its transformational...
24) Lock & key
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Saint Squad volume 7
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Before she can start a new life in Virginia Beach, Carina Channing receives a mysterious key from her imprisoned father--a key her mobster uncle died trying to obtain. Following cryptic notes left by her father, Carina and her boyfriend Navy SEAL Jay Wellman go in search of the lock the key will open--but every step they take grows more perilous because there are others who will do anything to find the hidden location first.
25) Backlash
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Navy SEAL Kel Bennett is still alive, although gravely injured from the Saint Squad op that thwarted a terrorist attack in the southwestern U.S. While his wife Marilyn is relieved to have him stationary in a hospital bed, the backlash from the foiled terrorist mission brings Halim Karel to the States. When Marilyn becomes a central ploy in Halim's revenge plan, she struggles to find needed trust and confidence in the military man she loves.
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A remarkably illuminating biography of one of America's most fascinating political figures--including news-making revelations from Mitt Romney himself about dissension within today's Republican Party--written with his full cooperation by an award-winning writer at The Atlantic. Few figures in American politics have seen more and said less than Mitt Romney. An outspoken dissident in Donald Trump's GOP, he has made headlines in recent years for standing...
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Kathy Colton, having grown up in the shadow of her brother Brett who died of leukemia when she was two, comes to understand and love him when she is given a private journal on her sixteenth birthday that he wrote just for her, and her move toward the faith Brett sought is helped along by popular high school quarterback Jason West, who is not shy about expressing his Mormon beliefs.
28) Educated
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Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....
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Saint squad volume 8
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Paige Vickers needs a new life, so she's relieved when she's given an assignment that takes her away from her stressful position as a psychiatric nurse with the CIA and puts her in a job as administrative assistant for Vanessa Johnson, an instructor for undercover operatives at the CIA's training facility. At the same time, Damian Schmitt has been transferred to become a part of the Saint Squad--an elite group of Navy SEALs. However, on his first...
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Besides dealing with eccentric roommates, his bishop-boss, an ex-Marine, an amorous 75-year-old woman, and the beautiful Hope Winslow, anti-terrorist agent Matthew Knight must go undercover in a Salt Lake City Mormon singles ward to get rid of a few terrorists, including his mother's killer--and his own inner demons.
31) Sheep's clothing
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Fifteen-year-old Jess, the oldest of seven children, feels like a loser until she makes a new friend in an online chat room, but when "Emily" turns out to be a sexual predator who abducts her, the FBI, her parents' emergency training, and the prayer of her Mormon community help her to survive.
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"When CIA agent Janessa Rogers meets the royal family of Meridia on assignment, she expects to use her skills in linguistics and security detail to protect and serve, but she doesn't expect to find herself engaged to Prince Garrett Fortier, Meridia's most eligible bachelor, as part of the security plan. And she certainly doesn't expect to fall in love with him"--Cover.
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"Decades in the making, an original graphic novel biography about the life of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Latter-Day Saints. In Joseph Smith and the Mormons, author and illustrator Noah Van Sciver, who was raised a Mormon, covers one of history's most controversial figures, Joseph Smith--who founded a religion which is practiced by millions all over the world. The book discusses all of the monumental moments during Smith's life, including...
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CIA agent Alora DeSanto becomes the personal assistant of her friend and fellow agent, Janessa Rogers, who is engaged to Prince Garrett of Meridia. where she repeatedly crosses paths with Prince Stefano. Though Alora and Stefano are surprised by a budding attraction that draws them together in friendship, royal secrets plunge them into plots of espionage and blackmail that threaten all they hold dear--including each other.
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Saint Squad novel volume 10
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"Jane Napierski is back at work at the job she loves--being a personal assistant to her friend Sienna Blake, a rising star actress. The duo is on location in Virginia Beach to film Sienna's new TV series, along with costar Reed Forrester--the man with whom the world thinks Sienna is in love. Wrong. Sienna's heart actually belongs to her fiance, Craig, a Navy Seal with the Saint Squad. Craig must fly under the radar if he is to keep Sienna safe from...
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Saint squad volume 3
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Special Agent Vanessa Lauton, posing as a member of the Dominican Republic's most powerful crime family in order to infiltrate a Caribbean terrorist organization, reunites with U.S. Navy SEAL squad member Seth Johnson--the man Vanessa nearly married six years earlier--to stop terrorist kingpin Akil Ramir from launching an attack on American soil.