Berthoud Community Library District

The history of polygamy in the Mormon Church intertwines the story of Ann Eliza Young, the nineteenth wife of Brigham Young, and a modern mystery in which a polygamous man has been found murdered and one of his wives is accused of the crime.

From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The story begins: The mystery and insurmountable nature of Wild Horse Mesa had usurped many a thoughtful hour of Chane Weymer's lonely desert life in Utah. Every wandering rider had a strange story to tell about this vast tableland. But Chane had never before seen it from so lofty and commanding a height as this to which Toddy Nokin, the Piute, had led him; nor had there ever...

A lovely girl, who has been reared among Mormons, learns to love a young New Englander. The Mormon religion, however, demands that the girl shall become the second wife of one of the Mormons -- Well, that's the problem of this great story.

When a southern Utah community torn apart by environmentalists, landowners, and businessmen becomes divided even further by the death of a local environmental group leader, the local sheriff turns to a newly-appointed Bureau of Land Management ranger for help.

To save Jack Hare from Dene's outlaw gang, August Naab sends him with Mescal to his sheep camp in a isolated valley; even though Mescal knows that she is morally bound to marry August's son, Snap, the two fall in love.

Myra, a high school senior, will do almost anything to win a contest and earn money for a study trip to the Galapagos Islands, which would mean getting away from her demanding family life in Utah and ex-boyfriend Erik, but Erik is set on winning the same contest.

While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.

"Maggie Walther, humiliated after her husband, a local councilman, is arrested for bigamy and her subsequent divorce, has isolated herself from the world until Andrew, the kind, handsome man who owns the Christmas tree lot and delivers her tree, inspires her to trust again. Then she discovers a dark secret from Andrew's past"-Provided by publisher.

Dr. Ben Payne and writer Ashley Knox are the only passengers aboard a small plane they chartered in a snowstorm to get them home. The plane crashes in the Utah mountains unbeknownst to anyone. Ben and Ashley survive, but the pilot is killed. Although injured, they realize that their only hope for rescue is to make it down the mountain to help.