Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
9 best books like Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness (W. Paul Reeve): The Children of Men, Cities of the Plain, Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life, The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life, Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight #1, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church, Nightfall and Other Stories, Papa Married a Mormon, The Standard of Truth: 1815–1846
| Author | P.D. James |
| ISBN | 0307279901 |
Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide...
| Author | Cormac McCarthy |
| ISBN | 0679747192 |
The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. It is 1952 and John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands in New Mexico,...
Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life
| Author | Amber Scorah |
| ISBN | 0735222541 |
A riveting memoir of losing faith and finding freedom while a covert missionary in one of the world's most restrictive countries.
A third-generation Jehovah's Witness, Amber Scorah had devoted her life to sounding God's warning of impending Armageddon. She volunteered to take the message...
The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
| Author | Terryl L. Givens |
| ISBN | 1609071883 |
"Whether by design or by chance," Terryl and Fiona Givens write, "we find ourselves in a universe filled with mystery. We encounter appealing arguments for a Divinity that is a childish projection, for prophets as scheming or deluded imposters, and for scripture as so much fabulous fiction. But there...
Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight #1
| Author | Brynne Stephens |
| ISBN | 1560601760 |
This classic has been hanging over my head for years. I put off reading it guessing that like many other oldies, but goodies, I would read it and be unimpressed, thus becoming hated by all original die hard fans. I finally decided to give it a go. The beginning suffered from a slow start and over abundance...
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0718022122 |
From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans comes a book that is both a heartfelt ode to the past and hopeful gaze into the future of what it means to be a part of the Church.
Like millions of her millennial peers, Rachel Held Evans didn't want to go to church anymore. The hypocrisy,...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0345310918 |
A collection of early Asimov short stories, showcasing the development of the author's oeuvre. The title comes from Asimov's breakthrough short story.
CONTENTS:
Nightfall - Astounding, Sept 1941
Green Patches - Galaxy, Nov 1950
Hostess - Galaxy, May 1951
Breeds There...
| Author | John D. Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 0914740210 |
Papa Married a Mormon made its initial appearance in McCall's magazine in 1955 and later became a bestseller for Prentice-Hall and a selection of two book clubs. Mamma's Boarding House and Uncle Will and the Fitzgerald Curse followed soon after, but good luck finding either of them.
Born in...
The Standard of Truth: 1815–1846
| Author | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
In 1820, a young farm boy in search of truth has a vision of God the Father and Jesus Christ. Three years later, an angel guides him to an ancient record buried in a hill near his home. With God’s help, he translates the record and organizes the Savior’s church in the latter days. Soon others join him,...
