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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

A woman forced into a plural marriage as a teenager with a man thirty-two years her senior describes the years of psychological abuse she suffered, her decision to escape with her eight children, and her successful battle with the church over custody of her children.

Escape

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David Ebershoff

Minnesota

The story of Ann Eliza Young's crusade against polygamy interwines with a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah.

The 19th Wife

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Alabama

Leif M. Wright

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Sean Goff was a dynamic Pentecostal minister who was already running his own church by the age of twenty-two. He had wed a pliable teenager and bent her to his will, eventually convincing her to agree to his secretly taking a second wife named Joy. Although at first the clandestine arrangement worked well, problems soon began to surface.

Leif Wright, Sean’s friend and co-worker, confronted Sean about his hidden polygamous lifestyle, which threatened to scandalize their employer, a world-famous televangelist.

Sean’s foray into polygamy led to his association with an online community where he earned respect by dispensing advice to other evangelical polygamists. He derided divorce as the sign of a weak man who didn’t know how to lead his women. It was especially troublesome to Sean when Joy hinted that she wasn’t happy and wanted to have a meaningful career. Then Joy suddenly disappeared, although friends continued to receive her e-mails. The messages seemed strange, and some wondered whether she was really traveling around Europe.

Leif Wright takes his readers into the mind of a ruthless, controlling killer in this straight-from-the-headlines true crime saga, leaving us all to question just how well any of us really knows our neighbors, friends and spouses.

Texas

The True Story of a Zealous Preacher, a Polygamous Union and a Savage Murder

Recounts the events surrounding Joy Risker's death at the hands of her polygamous husband and Pentecostal minister Sean Goff, as told by one of the murderer's friends and co-workers.

Deadly Vows

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Michigan

A Novel

It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of her family’s polygamous history is revealed, including how both she and her mother became plural wives. Yet soon after Ann Eliza’s story begins, a second exquisite narrative unfolds–a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah. Jordan Scott, a young man who was thrown out of his fundamentalist sect years earlier, must reenter the world that cast him aside in order to discover the truth behind his father’s death. And as Ann Eliza’s narrative intertwines with that of Jordan’s search, readers are pulled deeper into the mysteries of love, family, and faith.

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Pennsylvania

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Georgia

Carolyn Jessop

Laura Palmer

Tennessee

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Hardcover, never read copy, fascinating story

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Colorado

Kansas

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Nevada

Mississippi

Susan Schmidt

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

North Carolina

Escape from Polygamy

A RIVETING MEMOIR OF LIFE INSIDE ONE OF NORTH AMERICA'S MOST NOTORIOUS POLYGAMOUS CULTS She had no choice in the matter none of the girls did. Her mission was to give birth to and raise many children in devoted service to a shared husband. Susan was fift een years old when she became the sixth wife of Verlan LeBaron, one of the leaders of arogue Mormon cult, who was engaged in a blood feud with his brother that from ¿¿¿¿to ¿¿¿¿ claimed up to two dozen lives.In this gripping and eloquent book, Susan Ray Schmidt tells the story of growing up onthe inside and of her ultimate escape with her children from an oppressive and violentlife. Delving more deeply into this mysterious underworld than any previous work,Favorite Wife is a powerful account of the aff airs of the heart, coming of age under exceptionalcircumstances, and the tough choices that are sometimes painfully necessaryto preserve human dignity.Susan Ray Schmidt was once a member of the Church of the Firstborn of the Fullness of Timesand the child-bride of polygamist Verlan LeBaron in Colonia LeBaron in Mexico. A er eightyears of marriage, she le her husband and fl ed with her fi ve children back to America. Sheremarried three years later and today lives in the northwestern United States.

Favorite Wife

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Elissa Wall

Lisa Pulitzer

My Story of Growing up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs

Describes the author's childhood in the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, her forced marriage to her abusive cousin at fourteen, how she managed to break free, and her testimony against the sect's leader, Warren Jeffs.

Stolen Innocence

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Illinois

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Washington

In 1857, at a place called Mountain Meadows in southern Utah, a band of Mormons and Indians massacred 120 emigrants. Twenty years later, the slaughter was blamed on one man named John D. Lee, previously a member of Brigham Young’s inner circle. Red Water imagines Lee’s extraordinary frontier life through the eyes of three of his nineteen wives. Emma is a vigorous and capable Englishwoman who loves her husband unconditionally. Ann, a bride at thirteen years old, is an independent adventurer. Rachel is exceedingly devout and married Lee to be with her sister, his first wife. These spirited women describe their struggle to survive Utah’s punishing landscape and the poisonous rivalries within their polygamous family, led by a magnetic, industrious, and considerate husband, who was also unafraid of using his faith to justify desire and ambition.

Red Water

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New Hampshire

Shelly Ellis

New, unread, ex-library book. Has library stickers on cover and spine as well as library stamp on 1st page, and therefore listed as in like new condition 

"One wealthy businessman, a trio of unsuspecting wives, and an explosive turn of events. In this scandalous, twist-filled new series ... will too many secrets and one devastating bond unite three women--or destroy them? Noelle. Diamond. Vanessa. Each woman believes she is Cyrus Grey's only wife--until he's nearly shot to death. Now, as he lies in a coma, the deceptions keep coming, unraveling everything they thought they knew"--

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