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Biography

A Book of Mormons. By Richard S. Van Wagoner and Steven C. Walker. 1982.
Church, State, and Politics: The Diaries of John Henry Smith. Edited by Jean Bickmore White. 1990.
Joseph Smith's New York Reputation Reexamined. By Rodger I. Anderson. 1990.
Letters from Exile: The Correspondence of Martha Hughes Cannon and Angus M. Cannon, 1886-1888.
Edited by Constance L. Lieber and John Sillito. 1989.
Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir. Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson. 2001.
Memories and Reflections: The Autobiography of E. E. Ericksen. Edited by Scott G. Kenney. 1987.
A Ministry of Meetings: The Apostolic Diaries of Rudger Clawson. Edited by Stan Larson. 1993.
On the Potter's Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball. Edited by Stanley B. Kimball. 1987.
Saints without Halos: The Human Side of Mormon History. By Leonard J. Arrington and Davis Bitton. 1981.
Sarah M. Kimball. By Jill Mulvay Derr. 1981.

Contemporary Issues

Multiply and Replenish: Mormon Essays on Sex and Family. Edited by Brent Corcoran. 1994.
Neither White nor Black: Mormon Scholars Confront the Race Issue in a Universal Church. Edited by
Lester E. Bush Jr. and Armand L. Mauss. 1984.
Religion, Feminism, and Freedom of Conscience: A Mormon/Humanist Dialogue. Edited by George D. Smith. 1994.
Remembering Brad: On the Loss of a Son to AIDS. By Wayne Schow, with journal entries by Brad Schow. 1995.
The Search for Harmony: Essays on Science and Mormonism. Edited by Gene A. Sessions
and Craig L. Oberg. 1993.
"A Time to Kill": Reflections on War. Edited by Denny Roy, Grant P. Skabelund, and Ray C. Hillam. 1990.
Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism. By Maxine Hanks. 1992.

Faith and Worship

Black Saints in a White Church: Contemporary African American Mormons. By Jessie L. Embry. 1994.
Dialogues with Myself: Personal Essays on Mormon Expeiriece. By Eugene England. 1984.
History & Faith: Reflections of a Mormon Historian. By Richard D. Poll. 1989.
Leaving the Fold: Candid Conversations with Inactive Mormons. By James W. Ure. 1999.
Matters of Conscience: Conversations with Sterling M. McMurrin on Philosophy, Education, and Religion.
By Sterling M. McMurrin and L. Jackson Newell. 1996.
Mormon Neo-Orthodoxy: A Crisis Theology. By O. Kendall White Jr. 1987.
The Sanctity of Dissent. By Paul James Toscano. 1994.
Strangers in Paradox: Explorations in Mormon Theology. By Margaret and Paul Toscano. 1990.
The Wilderness of Faith: Essays on Contemporary Mormon Thought. Edited by John Sillito. 1991.

Fiction

Bright Angels and Familiars: Contemporary Mormon Stories. Edited by Eugene England. 1992.
"In Our Lovely Deseret": Mormon Fictions. Edited by Robert Raleigh. 1998.
Tending the Garden: Essays on Mormon Literature. Edited by Eugene England and Lavina Fielding Anderson. 1996.
Under the Cottonwoods and Other Mormon Stories. By Douglas H. Thayer. 1977.
What Do Ducks Do in Winter? And Other Western Stories. By Lewis B. Horne. 1993.

History

Brigham Young University: A House of Faith. By Gary James Bergera and Ronald Priddis. 1985.
Culture Clash and Accommodation: Public Schooling in Salt Lake City, 1890-1994. By Frederick S. Buchanan. 1996.
Dale Morgan on Early Mormonism: Correspondence and a New History. Edited by John Phillip Walker. 1986.
Establishing Zion: The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847-1869. By Eugene E. Campbell. 1988.
Faithful History: Essays on Writing Mormon History. Edited by George D. Smith. 1992.
Joseph Smith's Response to Skepticism. By Robert N. Hullinger. 1992.
Quest for Refuge: The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism. By Marvin S. Hill. 1989.
Religious Seekers and the Advent of Mormonism. By Dan Vogel. 1988.

Humor

The Lost Plates of Laman. By Bob Lewis. 1997.
Saintspeak: The Mormon Dictionary. By Orson Scott Card. 1981.

Poetry

Haste: Poems. By Lisa Orme Bickmore. 1994.

Imagination Comes to Breakfast: Poems. By Kathy Evans. 1992.

on keeping things small. By Marilyn Bushman-Carlton. 1995.

Various Atmospheres: Poems and Drawings. By Alex Caldiero. 1998.

Scripture Studies

Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon. By Dan Vogel. 1986.
Mormons and Jews: Early Mormon Theologies of Israel. By Steven Epperson. 1992.
New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology. Edited by Brent Lee Metcalfe. 1993.
Toward Understanding the New Testament. By Obert C. Tanner, Lewis M. Rogers, and Sterling M. McMurrin. 1990.
View of the Hebrews; or the Tribes of Israel in America. By Ethan Smith. 1825.
Women's Rights in Old Testament Times. By James R. Baker. 1992.
The Word of God: Essays on Mormon Scripture. Edited by Dan Vogel. 1990.

Soon to be added to this site: The Canyons of Grace; God the Mother and Other Theological Essays; Music and the Broken Word: Songs for Alternate Voices; "Oh My Heck!" A Pretty, Great Cartoon Book; Only When I Laugh; Utah: Sex and Travel Guide

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Joseph Smith Jr.
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Mormon Temples
Mormons and Freemasonry
Mountain Meadows Massacre

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Henry Ballard
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Thomas A. Clawson
Lucinda Lee Dalton
Heber J. Grant
Levi Ward Hancock
Oliver B. Huntington
Orson Hyde
Joel Hills Johnson
Luke Johnson

Mary Elizabeth Lightner
Heber C. Kimball
George Laub
Thomas B. Marsh
L. John Nuttall
Noah Packard
David W. Patten
Emily Partridge Young
Helen Mar Kimball Whitney

Mormon periodicals:

Sunstone Magazine
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
Journal of Mormon History
Irreantum

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