Alma Cannon, who knows better than to track down leads to the governor's office, east-bench mansions, or to the LDS church administration building.

When you reach the last pages, ... you will experience a frisson of the soul, revealing the presence of a miracle ... an extraordinary work of art, history, and love

Author Will South provides a goldmine of little-known trivia in twenty-five vignettes: the gist of Mark Twain's interview with Brigham Young, the highlights of Groucho Marx's and Charlie Chaplin's escapade in a Salt Lake brothel, Natacha Rambova's real identity as a Utah girl, and other details, accompanied by an impressive array of rare photographs.

In this quietly seductive novel--Levi S. Peterson's latest foray into the ever-intriguing topics of memory, regret, and sin--a suspenseful ambiance is created from the backdrop of a rural high school reunion.

Most female immigrants to Utah were former shopgirls, factory workers, and home pieceworkers in London and Manchester, and many were illiterate

This well conceived and finely written novel traverses twists and turns and mind games that are all finely executed.

The perception of the Mormon church has been changing since the 1950s. It is generally no longer considered a "cult." But it has not completely broken out of its western American model, and blacks are not completely integrated.

Bennion skillfully dissects the naked aggression so often masked by human compassion and brings fresh perspectives to everyday problems.

The purpose of Brigham Young University: A House of Faith is to outline the struggle the Mormon church has encountered in trying to blend academics and faith and in reconciling church standards with norms at other American universites.

This timely collection of well-crafted short stories from the edges of Mormon society enables a variety of glimpses into contemporary Mormon life and celebrates the confluence of cutting-edge Mormon fiction with the mainstream of secular American letters.