Scoobi Doge - The Bitecoin Quest - Act No.1A lost coin. A desperate dog. And an adventure full of secrets. Two years ago, Scoobi lost his friends and woke up in the Transylvanian forest. He wants to find his way to go back to his rural home. But the little dog will need to solve a legendary quest somehow to stay alive and find out what is haunting this forest. Alone and broke, Scoobi opens her house as a writers' retreat. One of the first guests is the princess Cezee, a horror witc...

Scoobi Doge - The Etherik Spaceship - Act No.2Scoobi Doge's saga continues aboard the Etherik spaceship, as the motley crew of cosmic adventurers orbits the Moon on their quest for the elusive Bitecoin. The stakes are high, and the mysteries of the universe are as perplexing as the enigma of the Transylvanian forest that haunts Scoobi's past.In a rendezvous written in the stars, they meet Jihoz, brandishing an FBI letter about a hack; a ghost from the digital world. Nearby,...

This decree,issued under the protection of the Venetian doge and the Patriarch, establishes strict regulations against the sale of slaves in the province. It emphasizes the moral and spiritual implications of such practices, asserting that anyone involved in the slave trade will face severe penalties, including loss of life or limb. The Doge, along with prominent religious leaders, seeks to restore honor and integrity to their communications with the emperor in Constantinople. Additionally...

The writing of history does not occur in a vacuum. The scholarship that went before set the stage for the debates of the present. This is particularly evident as one studies the historiography of Joseph Smith's First Vision. Toward the middle of the twentieth century, Latter-day Saint historians came to understand that they could use research from scholars with opposing viewpoints as a catalyst to propel their own work forward and strive for a more accurate depiction of the past. This disc...

Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and attract thousands of followers before his violent death at age thirty-eight. Richard Bushman, an esteemed cultural historian and a practicing Mormon, moves beyond the popular stereotype of Smith as a colorful fraud to explore his personality, his relationships with others, and how he received ...

Join New York Times bestselling author Stephen Mansfield as he dives into the incredible story of Abraham Lincoln's spiritual life and draws from it a deeper meaning that's sure to inspire us all.Abraham Lincoln is, undoubtedly, among the most beloved of all U.S. presidents. He helped to abolish slavery, gave the world some of its most memorable speeches, and redefined the meaning of America. He did all of this with endless wisdom, compassion, and wit. Yet...

A gripping account of the mob killing of Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism“American Crucifixion paints a brilliant picture of religious experimentation, public intolerance, and the making of a martyr.”—Chicago TribuneOn June 27, 1844, in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois, Joseph Smith and three of his associates waited anxiously in a jail cell. The dynamic founding prophet of Mormonism no longer had a congregation to p...

In the early 1820s a young boy named Joseph Smith claimed that God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to him and told him to found a new church. Thus began Mormonism, a faith that has grown to thirteen million members worldwide. The Mormon Contradiction: In Their Own Words offers the reader an insight into what the Mormon Church is really all about, including: Where the Book of Mormon really came from Joseph Smiths personal history and use of Occultism and Freemasonry The original accoun...

“From one of the brightest of the new generation of Mormon-studies scholars comes a crisp, engaging account of the religion’s history.”—The Wall Street JournalWith Mormonism on the nation’s radar as never before, religious historian Matthew Bowman has written an essential book thatpulls back the curtain on more than 180 years of Mormon history and doctrine. He recounts the church’s origins and explains how the Mormon vision has evolved—and with it the este...

This small pamphlet was published shortly after the Carthage murder of Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother - and Mormon Patriarch - Hyrum Smith. It describes the events leading up to the assassination by several eyewitnesses of those times.

From the author of A Midwife's Tale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for History,and The Age of Homespun--a revelatory, nuanced, and deeply intimate look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit, drive, and determination.A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, ...

"A concise and eminently teachable history of the most important American-made world scripture . . . [and] its cultural and religious significance." — ChoiceLate one night in 1823 Joseph Smith, Jr., was reportedly visited in his family's farmhouse in upstate New York by an angel named Moroni. According to Smith, Moroni told him of a buried stack of gold plates that were inscribed with a history of the Americas' ancient peoples, and which would restore the p...