Title: Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake: George R. Maxwell, Civil War Hero and Federal Marshal among the Mormons Author: John Gary Maxwell Publisher: Arthur H. Clark ISBN13: 987-0-87062-388-2 Price:$39.95 Reviewed by Steve Eccles for the Association for Mormon Letters I had never heard of George Maxwell, which probably is an indication of my lack of [...]

Title: Magnum Opus: The Building of the Schoenstein Organ at the Conference Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City Author: John Longhurst Publisher: Intellectual Reserve, Inc. Genre: History/Music Published: 2009 Pages: xi, 210 ISBN: 9781606411995 Price: $32.99 Reviewed by Blair Dee Hodges (Editor’s note: our good reviewer Blair Hodges [...]

Title: Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector: A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848-1861 Author: Polly Aird Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Genre: Biography Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 320 Binding: Hardcover ISBN10: 0870623699 ISBN13: 978-0870623691 Price: $39.95 Reviewed by Bryan Buchanan for the Association for Mormon Letters As I was in the middle of reading [...]

Title: So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848 Author: Will Bagley Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Genre: Western History Year Published: 2010 Number of pages: 480 Binding: Cloth ISBN-10: n.a. ISBN-13: 978-0-87062-381-3 Price: $45.00 Reviewed by Roy Schmidt for the Association for Mormon Letters I first drove across the United [...]

Title: The Silence of God Author: Gale Sears Publisher: Deseret Book, Salt Lake City, UT Genre:      historical fiction Year Published:      2010 Number of Pages:  400 pages Binding:  softcover ISBN10: N/A ISBN13: 978-1-60641-655-6 Price: $24.99 Reviewed by Beth Roach for the Association for Mormon Letters What a wonderful book this was to read.  The author weaves [...]

Title: Stories from the Life of Porter Rockwell Author: John W. Rockwell and Jerry Borrowman Publisher: Covenant Communications Inc Genre: Nonfiction Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 176 Binding: Hardcover ISBN-10: 1-60861-005-5 ISBN-13: 978-1-60861-005-1 Price: $18.99 Reviewed by Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury for the Association for Mormon Letters This book is not a biography in the formal [...]

Title: Lengthen Your Stride: The Presidency of Spencer W. Kimball, Working Draft Author: Edward L. Kimball Publisher: Benchmark Books Genre: Biography Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 665 including index Binding: Hardback ISBN: Price: $99.95 Reviewed by Brent Brizzi for the Association for Mormon Letters In 1995, Edward Kimball, son of President Spencer W. Kimball, [...]

Title: Utah in the Twentieth Century Editors: Brian Q. Cannon and Jessie L. Embry Publisher: Utah State University Press Genre: Non-fiction Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 400 Binding: Hardcover ISBN10: 087421744X ISBN13: 978-0874217445 Price: $32.95 Reviewed by Russell Anderson for the Association for Mormon Letters Although I have lived in Utah on several different [...]

Title:  The Island of Bali is Littered With Prayers Author:  Jeremy Grimshaw Publisher:  Mormon Artists Group – http://www.mormonartistsgroup.com/Mormon_Artists_Group/Bali.html Genre:  Non-fiction Year Published:  2010 Number of Pages:  153 Binding:  Paperback ISBN10:  n/a ISBN13:  9781451505764 Price:  $14.95 Reviewed by Jeffrey Needle for the Association for Mormon Letters Images of swaying palm trees, beautiful, bronzed women dancing slowly [...]

Title: Joseph Smith, the Prophet (Illustrated Edition) Author: Truman G. Madsen Publisher: Deseret Book Genre: Nonfiction Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 248 Binding: Hardcover ISBN13: 978-1-60641-224-4 Price: $49.99 Reviewed by Trevor Holyoak for the Association for Mormon Letters As a youth, I got to know Joseph Smith a little through reading things such as [...]