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March 27th, 2012
With the release today of an electronic edition of Why I Stay: The Challenges of Discipleship for Contemporary Mormons, Signature Books has seven Kindle editions available at Amazon.com for between $6.00 and $20.00 each. Soon enough, there will be...
February 6th, 2012
Now, for the first time, the surviving papyri have been translated into English in their entirety. In analyzing and translating the ancient texts, Robert K. Ritner, foremost American scholar of Egyptology, has determined that they were prepared for deceased...
January 19th, 2012
Dinger, a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for Ada County in Boise, Idaho, will be at Confetti Antiques and Books in Spanish Fork, on Tuesday, January 24, and at Benchmark Books in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, January 25. He will...
December 17th, 2011
“The minutes are a treasure trove of material relating to the religious and secular life of the early Latter-day Saints,” Dinger writes in the preface to his 700-page The Nauvoo City and High Council Minutes. “These sets of documents...
October 5th, 2011
George D. Smith, author of the award-winning book, Nauvoo Polygamy: “… but we called it celestial marriage,” will speak to a gathering of Friends of the Marriott Library on Sunday about the process of researching and writing his book...
September 30th, 2011
Salt Lake City – Why do artists, scholars, and independent thinkers stay in the Mormon faith tradition, which has a known history of censuring art, rejecting scholarship, and suppressing dissent? In a new book, Why I Stay: The Challenges...
September 12th, 2011
Signature Books author Edward Leo Lyman just won the Best Documentary Book Award from the Utah State Historical Society for Candid Insights of a Mormon Apostle: The Diaries of Abraham H. Cannon, 1889-1895. Cannon was a significant Utah figure...
August 31st, 2011
Signature Books is pleased to announce the addition of Devery S. Anderson to our editorial staff. Devery is an award winning scholar and a welcome addition to the crew.
July 16th, 2011
Is there anything new under the sun? No, says the preacher in Ecclesiastes. Yes, says Signature Books. We have a new book out, and it’s a good one—the type you can’t put down! Dimensions of Faith: A Mormon Studies...
June 17th, 2011
Salt Lake City—If Mormon girls in 1840s Illinois “followed” documented rates of maturity, then “10 percent would have reached puberty before turning 13,” says Craig L. Foster, lead author of “The Age of Joseph Smith’s Plural Wives in Social...
