Brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty insist they were commanded to kill by God.

Jordan returns from California to Utah to visit his mother in jail. As a teenager he was expelled from his family and religious community, a secretive Mormon offshoot sect. Now his father has been found shot dead in front of his computer, and one of his many wives - Jordan's mother - is accused of the crime.

First published in 1964, this book, by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, tells about a thousand-mile migration marked by hardship and sudden death - but unique in American history for its purpose, discipline, and solidarity.

A memoir about one woman's lifetime struggle to overcome a dark secret buried in her childhood. This book chronicles Martha Beck's difficult decision to sever her relationship with the faith that had raised her, and to confront and forgive the person who betrayed her so deeply.

Presents the harrowing story of Carolyn Jessop who suffered for the sake of her children. She tried to protect them as the cult's new leader, Warren Jeffs, started marrying girls off younger and younger. But when Carolyn discovered that her twelve-year-old daughter had spent three days at Jeffs' home, she had to take her children and flee.

An Award or Presentation Bible in the King James Version: ideal as a gift or to keep

A work of religious criticism that examines a number of American-born faiths: Pentecostalism, Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, Christian Science, Jehovah's Witnesses, Southern Baptism and Fundamentalism, and African American spirituality. It traces the distinctive features of American religion.