This collection of essays by Eugene England demonstrates his contention that life without participation in the Church is not life at all. He shows that members of the LDS Church can participate in the Church without abandoning the intellect.

Why the Church Is As True As the Gospel (Mormon Literary Library)

Literature & Fiction

England, Eugene

History & Criticism

Luso-Brazilian Books

This groundbreaking collection includes interviews with twenty-eight authors who discuss these and other questions. Along the way, they give fascinating insight not only into what it takes to be an author but also into the challenges of examining life through faith and of examining the life of faith through literature. Given the breadth of experience of these authors and their impact on the Mormon experience, this is a must-read for anyone interested in Mormon literature or in the growing and changing Mormon culture.

Conversations with Mormon Authors

Bigelow, Christopher Kimball

What makes someone a Mormon Author? What influences them? Can a Mormon produce great writing and remain faithful to the Church? What makes good writing? faithful writing? And how do you produce that writing? This groundbreaking collection includes interviews with twenty-eight authors who discuss these and other questions. Along the way, they give not only fascinating insight into what it takes to be an author, but also into the challenges of examing life through faith, and of examining the life of faith through literature. These writer's viewpoints are varied. They often celebrate their faith, but sometimes criticize the culture that has sprung up around that faith. But regardless of their viewpoint, their thoughts are thought-provoking and sometimes even controversial. Given the breadth of experience of these authors and their impact on the Mormon experience, this is a must read for anyone interested in Mormon Literature or in the growing and changing Mormon culture.

Conversations With Mormon Authors

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

For more than a century, LDS Church members in New York City and its suburbs struggled to build houses of worship, survive the great depression, and teach their neighbors who they are and what they believe. Their efforts came as New York City transformed itself into a world capital of finance, entertainment and media. To tell this fascinating and important story, the New York Stake History Committee will released this book to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the New York Stake.

City Saints: Mormons in the New York Metropolis

History

Tiffany, Scott

Americas

The Life of Thomas Kearns

Larsen, Kent S.

Historical

José de Alencar's love story, which might be thought of as a Brazilian "Pocahontas," tells how Iracema meets and falls in love with the Portuguese colonist Martim. Their child, named Moacir, represents the union of the Portuguese with the native people, from whom the Brazilian people arise. But, tragically, Iracema dies, metaphorically demonstrating that the cost of this union is the life of the native peoples of Brazil. Iracema is considered the most important work of Brazil's romantic period, and one of the most important novels in the 500 years of Brazilian literature.

Iracema (Classicos da Literatura Brasileira)

José De Alencar

Literary

Representing the height of Brazilian Naturalism, O Cortiço is Aluísio Azevedo's critique of unchecked ambition in Brazilian society of his day. João Romão, an imigrant Portuguese man, builds a tenement (Cortiço) on the money and work of his mulatto lover, Bertoleza. The tenement's residents fight with those of another tenement, leading to a fire that destroys much of the building. But Romão rebuilds and is soon wealthy and looks to marry an educated woman, leaving Bertoleza, who kills herself.

O Cortiço (Classicos da Literatura Brasileira) (Portuguese Edition)

Azevedo, Aluísio

One of the greatest novels of Brazilian Literature, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas is narrated by a dead man who recounts the amorous misadventures of his unheroic life and explains his half-hearted political ambitions. While it is considered the first novel of Brazilian realism, its quirks seem refreshingly modern and make it unforgettably unlike anything written before or after it.

Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas (Classicos da Literatura Brasileira) (Portuguese Edition)

Machado De Assis, Joaquim Maria

A classic story of love and jealousy, Dom Casmurro is the story of Bento and his childhood love, Capitu, who overcome their parents' reluctance to marry. But Bento jealously suspects that their son is not his. But beyond this straightforward plot, Machado plays with the reader's expectations and comments on the structure of the story, blurring the line between fiction and reality and appearing very modern.

Dom Casmurro (Classicos da Literatura Brasileira) (Portuguese Edition)

De, Assis Machado

A novel of manners written at the height of Brazil's romantic period, Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias broke the customs of the genre, with characters doing both good and bad. Leonardo, an extremely likeable loafer and ne'er-do-well, is drafted into the local militia after an affair with a mulatto woman goes wrong. But when Leonardo gets in trouble with the Major of the militia, the women in his life convince the Major to pardon him and promote him to Sargeant.

Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias (Classicos da Literatura Brasileira) (Portuguese Edition)

Almeida, Manuel António de

Contemporary

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