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Fred T. Perris in Deseret

by Bradley A. Scott

Frederick Thomas Perris is recognized in Southern California as a significant part of the region’s pioneer history. As county surveyor for San Bernardino County, he literally shaped the map of the largest county in the nation. As a... Read More

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Death and Transfiguration

by Christopher Soden

Istvan Hornyak’s Death and Transfiguration: A Tragic Drama in Five Acts is an operatic, intriguing, somewhat misguided, and turgid retelling of the tale of Faust. According to legend, Dr. Henry Faust is a sagacious, peerless scholar... Read More

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Poems in the Key of Price

by Karen Rigby

Jarvis Price’s debut collection, "Poems in the Key of Price", focuses on a man in search of consolation and reconciliation. A poet of imploring messages whose subjects range from romantic and filial love to the endurance of Christian... Read More

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A House of Prayer

by Melissa Wuske

"A House of Prayer" is Avril English’s daily devotional for readers who want to have a more active Christian prayer life. In the ten-page preface, English tells the story of how the book came to be: it began with God telling her to ask... Read More

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Joshua's Key

by Emily Asad

H. Brading’s epic novel Joshua’s Key begins in the humble fishing village of Seaton, where Joshua and his father, Raymond, find themselves entangled in an adventure they’d have preferred to avoid. Kidnapped by Queen Amega of the... Read More

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The Runaway Horses

by Margaret Cullison

In "The Runaway Horses", Joyce Kotzè tells a fictionalized account of the Second Anglo-Boer War in South Africa, a war in which her own grandfathers fought on opposite sides. Dutch (Boer) settlers in Transvaal and the Orange Free State... Read More

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The Essential Tom Marshall

by Peter Dabbene

In the age of the Internet, more literary works are available to more people than ever before. The problem with this overabundance of riches, which applies to poetry as much as any other genre, is that there isn’t enough time for most... Read More

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Why Most Women Die

by Julie Eakin

The facts about heart disease in American women are tragically absent from our contemporary public dialogue. Dallas-based cardiologist Shyla T. High aims to change that, and her excellent new book, Why Most Women Die: How Women Can Fight... Read More

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