2019 Harvey B. And Susan Easton Black Outstanding Publication award winner.The letters included in this volume are a treasure trove of personal insights into the lives of early Church leader Joseph F. Smith and his sister, Martha Ann Smith Harris during a unique era of Latter-day Saint history. Seven decades of correspondence help demonstrate the tremendous devotion between the orphaned children of Hyrum and Mary Fielding Smith as they share their innermos...

What was Jerusalem like at the time of the Savior's birth? How did Satan's temptations of Jesus prepare him for the beginnings of his public ministry? Why were people astonished at the doctrine Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount? If you've wondered about such questions, you'll appreciate the insights and answers contained in From Bethlehem through the Sermon on the Mount, an outstanding collection of a dozen chapters by Latter-day Saint scholars presenting up-to-the-minute re...

A Window to the Past reveals early Latter-day Saint history in a new and exciting way—through a "slice of life" approach that helps readers visualize life as it was for the early Saints of this dispensation. Indeed, owning a copy of this book will be almost like having your own Church history museum at home. Intriguing photographs of important period documents, sites, and structures, and of a wide variety of artifacts, provide a panoramic view of the Restoration. The authors' emph...

Discover the amazing health benefits of coconut oil. Found to be one of the most healthful fats to cook, this stable vegetable oil is good for cooking and baking at high temperatures and can easily replace hydrogenated oils that contain harmful trans fats. Coconut oil also contains powerful antibacterial and antiviral properties. Coconut oil helps to reduce inflammation and immune responses caused by allergies; can boost metabolism and help with weight loss; is easily digested by anyone wi...

Apple cider vinegar has been used throughout history as a functional food to reduce infections, improve digestion, and maintain a healthy weight. In Weight Loss and Good Health with Apple Cider Vinegar, you’ll learn why apple cider vinegar is such a nutritional powerhouse, which substances in it promote good health, ways for utilizing it to take weight off and keep it off, and how to use it to achieve radiant skin and shining, beautiful hair.

Petit Claude, The Orphan of Auschwitz is the poignant, but also heartlifting true story of a little Jewish boy who was rescued from a Nazi prison and then sheltered in the home of a young French Christian couple. Little Claude Blum - Petit Claude, as he was called then - would never forget his fourth birthday. September 14, 1942 was engraved upon his memory, not because it was celebrated by candles to blow out and wish on, but because that was the day the Gestapo took his beloved mother fr...

By asking new questions of familiar New Testament stories, these respected authors have written an exciting, breakthrough book about women in the time of Jesus.

In this landmark new volume, the authors help readers understand the New Testament in context, as the writers originally intended. The book sheds additional light on this witness of Jesus Christ, offering further evidence that, although it is an ancient book, the New Testament has a modern message for everyone. If you want the authoritative single-volume work on the New Testament, this is it!

Fermentation is used in a wide range of food and beverage applications, and the technology for enhancing this process is continually evolving. This book reviews the use of fermentation in foods and beverages and key aspects of fermented food production. Part one covers the health benefits of fermented foods. Part two includes chapters on fermentation microbiology, while part three looks at ways of controlling and monitoring the quality and safety of fermented foods. Part four covers advanc...

Lorenzo Snow's prison writings have largely been lost to time, but a good portion of them have survived as copies in a notebook kept by Rudger Clawson, fellow prisoner and future Apostle. Small enough to fit in a pocket yet containing over two hundred lined pages, the leather-bound notebook was a perfect place for Snow to preserve some of his outgoing writings in the less-than-ideal record-keeping conditions of the territorial penitentiary.The notebook's significance lies in three ...

Through a variety of observances, ceremonies, and celebrations, Christians around the world express their faith that their Redeemer lives. Annually, Christians celebrate his life, his death, and his gift to mankind at different times and in different ways. These can be wonderful times to bear testimony of him, to express gratitude for him, to show our love to him, and to increase our faith in him.Beyond those occasional moments of formal devotion, how do Christians adequately expre...

In 2008, many of the foremost scholars on the life and teachings of Joseph Smith participated in a lecture series that provided fresh, faithful perspectives about the prophet. This book offers in print the transcripts of those lectures, which were published in an audio CD collection titled Joseph Smith’s Prophetic Ministry: A Year-by-Year Look at His Life and Teachings. Each chapter focuses on one year from 1830 to 1844, providing an overview of key events of that year and discuss...