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Cult insanity Cult insanity Irene Spencer Life for Irene Spencer was a series of devastating disappointments and hardships. Irene's first book, Shattered Dreams, is the staggering chronicle of herstruggle to provide for her children in abjec… OL13773506W
Secrets and wives Secrets and wives Sanjiv Bhattacharya What do we really know about modern polygamists? We've seen the news storiesin recent years about the underage brides in prairie dresses, but that's just the FLDS, one of many groups who practice pol… OL15587845W
Love times three Love times three Joe Darger "For decades, Utah's polygamous families have sought to remain out of sight and out of mind. Men in particular risk prosecution and economic blacklisting when their multiple marriages become known. B… OL15947686W
Las mujeres de Adriano Las mujeres de Adriano Héctor Aguilar Camín "I have been a man of five women" confesses the historian Justo Adriano Alemán to his young confidant, the narrator of this novel. His words open the door to a private world full of passion and secre… OL1636916W
The Texas polygamist raid The Texas polygamist raid Katie Marsico "Provides comprehensive information on the Texas polygamist raid and the differing perspectives accompanying it"--Provided by publisher. OL16484310W
The secret lives of Baba Segi's wives The secret lives of Baba Segi's wives Titilola Alexandrah Shoneyin Baba Segi's fourth wife, the young, college-educated Bolanle, sends his household into turmoil, causing his other three wives to become jealous and resentful and to plot her downfall. OL16553995W
Keep sweet Keep sweet Michele Greene Alva, not quite fifteen, is content with the strict rules that define her life in Pineridge, the walled community where she lives with her father, his seven wives, and her twenty-nine siblings until … OL17694191W
Under the radar Under the radar Fern Michaels Members of the Sisterhood are contacted by Judge Pearl Barnes, who has assisted fourteen pregnant teenagers escape from a secret polygamist sect and needs the sisters' help to keep them hidden in a s… OL17737989W
The wives of Henry Oades The wives of Henry Oades Johanna Moran In 1890, Henry Oades decided to undertake the arduous sea voyage from England to New Zealand in order to further his family's fortunes. Here they settled on the lush but wild coast - although it wasn… OL18675439W
Poligami, siapa takut? Poligami, siapa takut? Musda Mulia Polygamy in Indonesia; talks organized by SCTV, a private television station in Indonesia. OL18732759W
The upstairs wife The upstairs wife Rafia Zakaria,Rafia Zakaria "A memoir of Karachi through the eyes of its women. Rafia Zakaria's Muslim-Indian family immigrated to Pakistan from Bombay in 1962, feeling the situation for Muslims in India was precarious and that… OL19999062W
The sound of gravel The sound of gravel Ruth Wariner The true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist family. Ruth Wariner was the thirty-ninth of her father's forty-two children. Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authorities turn a… OL20032558W
Polygyny Polygyny Peter Bretschneider 229 p. : 25 cm OL2474635W
The 19th wife The 19th wife David Ebershoff Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain.Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff's The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction wit… OL30556W
In my father's house In my father's house Dorothy Allred Solomon "Solomon, daughter of Rulon Clark Allred, was twenty-eighth of forty-eight children born to her father's seven plural wives. She recounts growing up in a family often split up, living on the run or i… OL5361438W
She had it coming She had it coming Mary Monroe The choices we make in one rash moment can change everything…Dolores Reese spent her childhood in foster care, like Floyd Watson, a local boy who intrigues her from the moment they meet. When one bad… OL5366123W
Just Deserts Just Deserts Brenda Jackson Learning that her estranged husband has passed away is the biggest shock of Danielle Timberlake-Foster's life--until she learns that she wasn't his only wife. Though Danielle and Marc were separated,… OL5729780W
More than one More than one Shane LeGrande Whelan Excellent review of early LDS Church Plural Marriage. The Author who is definitely pro plural marriage, gives the reader many first hand accounts from early Church history of participants in plural m… OL6045617W