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Sisterhood series volume 13
Language
English
Description
Thrown into a tailspin when two members of their circle disappear into the night, the ladies of Pinewood are facing their most important assignment yet.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist, author Tayari Jones unveils a ...story about a man s deception, a family's complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon's two families the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them...
4) Black widows
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Language
English
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Description
"Against the wishes of his family and the laws of the elders of the Mormon church, Blake Nelson has adopted the old polygamous ways and lives alone with his three wives, miles from anywhere, in rural Utah. Blake and his wives kept to themselves-and kept most folks out. That is, until his dead body is discovered. Black Widows is told in the three voices of Blake's very different wives, who hate each other, and who sometimes hated their husband. Blake's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Cottonwoods, Utah. 1871. A woman stands accused. A man, sentenced to whipping. Into this travesty of small-town justice rides the one man the town elders fear. His name is Lassiter, a notorious gunman who's come to avenge his sister's death. It doesn't take Lassiter long to see that this once-peaceful Mormon community is controlled by the corrupt Deacon Tull-a powerful elder who's trying to take the woman's land by forcing her to marry him, branding...
8) Daredevils
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Caught dating a boy of another faith by her devout Mormon parents, 1970s teenager Loretta is married off to a fundamentalist as his second wife and runs away with his nephew and a part-Native American friend to search for a cache of gold and freedom outside their strict community.
10) Saints: a novel
Author
Publisher
Hatrack River Publications in association with Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
11) The wives
Author
Language
English
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Thursday's husband, Seth, has two other wives. She's never met them, and she doesn't know anything about them. She agreed to this unusual arrangement because she's so crazy about him. But one day, she finds something. Something that tells a very different and horrifying story about the man she married. What follows is one of the most twisted, shocking thrillers you'll ever read. You'll have to grab a copy to find out why.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Picasso Lane is eleven years old when her father, Oliver, is murdered at their summer beach house. Her mother, Diana, is the primary suspect—until the police discover his second wife, and then his third. The women say they have never met, but Picasso knows otherwise. Picasso remembers the morning beautiful Jewels showed up at their house, carrying the same purse as her mother, and a family portrait featuring her father with two strange boys. Picasso...
Author
Series
Art Oveson novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"After a high-profile case thrusts deputy Art Oveson into the spotlight, Salt Lake City's mayor taps him to head the city's Anti-Polygamy Squad. As a Mormon ashamed that his own ancestors played a part in the church's polygamist past, Art's eager to do his part to remove the extremists still practicing plural marriage. But after one of the polygamist patriarchs is murdered and a shell-shocked young woman found at the scene of the crime, Art finds...
14) 3 mujeres
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Ibérica, S.A
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
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"¿Hasta dónde llegarías para descubrir lo que oculta tu marido?Imagina que tu marido tiene otras dos mujeres. Nunca te vas a encontrar con las otras esposas. Ninguna conoce a la otra y a causa de este acuerdo tan poco convencional solo puedes ver a tu marido una vez por semana. Pero le quieres tanto que no te importa. O al menos es lo que te dices a ti misma. Un día, haciendo la colada, encuentras un trozo de papel en su bolsillo, en él una cita...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A Publishers Weekly starred review. In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, to return home from his travels as a wheelwright. It is now the depths of winter, Samuel is weeks overdue, and Deborah is getting worried. Deborah lives in Junction, a tiny town of seven Mormon families scattered along the floor of a canyon, and she earns her living by tending...
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