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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU.
“Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San Francisco...
“Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San Francisco...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Irene Spencer did as she felt God commanded in marrying her brother-in-law Verlan LeBaron, becoming his second wife at age 16. When the government raided the fundamentalist, polygamous Mormon village of Short Creek, Arizona, Irene and her family fled to Verlan's brothers' Mexican ranch. They lived in squalor and desolate conditions in the Mexican desert with Verlan's four brothers, one mentally ill sister, and numerous wives and children--Irene herself...
3) Escape
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A woman forced into a plural marriage as a teenager with a man thirty-two years her senior describes growing up in a fundamentalist Mormon sect, the years of psychological abuse she suffered at the hands of her husband, and her decision to escape with her eight children.
Author
Publisher
David C. Cook
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
As a son in a family of one father, four mothers, and thirty-one children, Brian Mackert experienced firsthand the devastating reality of the polygamous lifestyle. Now he shares his remarkable journey from a broken life to a healed soul.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Recounts how Warren Jeffs and his independent Mormon group established a theocracy on the Arizona-Utah border that was ignored by public officials; describes his abuse of the faithful; and discusses efforts to bring him to justice.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A shocking massacre in 2019 sparks a probing investigation into the strange, violent history of a polygamist Mormon outpost in Mexico. A harmless, unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen in northern Mexico on November 4, 2019. In a massacre that produced international headlines, nine people were killed and five others gravely injured. The victims were members of the La Mora and LeBaron communities-fundamentalist Mormons...
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