Stolen Christmas Book & eBook

Title: Stolen Christmas & Other Stories of the Season

Author: LDS Publisher, editor; Various LDS authors

Client: LDS Publisher Press

Date of Work: November 2012


About the Book:

 What happens when you're so poor you have to steal your Christmas presents? Or have you ever taken a punch in the face as your Christmas gift to the girl you love? Or saved Christmas while hunting were-weevils? 

These award-winning Christmas stories are the best of the best from the 2007–2009 LDS Publisher Christmas Story Contests. From Christmases past, to present to future; from sweet and inspirational to zany and delightful—there's a story for everyone in this eclectic collection. 

Print book available for purchase at: Amazon or CreateSpace

eBook available for purchase at: Amazon or other formats at ldsebookstore.com


About the Job: Updated original print book. eBook Conversion: converted digital files from PDF to EPUB, MOBI, PRC, PDB and LRF formats.

Typesetter/Formatter: Karlene Browning

Cover Designer: Lori Nawyn

Checkin' It Twice Book & eBook

Title: Checkin' It Twice & Other Heartwarming Holiday Tales

Author: LDS Publisher, editor; Various LDS authors

Client: LDS Publisher Press

Date of Work: October 2012


About the Book:

Can Santa learn a lesson from the Savior? Can a foreign exchange student help you see Christmas a little more clearly? Do things really look better from a distance? And just how many holiday ornaments does one woman need?

Get in the Christmas Spirit with Volume 2 of award-winning stories from LDS Publisher's 2010 and 2011 Christmas Story Contests! Sixteen short stories from popular LDS authors to help you remember the reason for the season!

Featuring LDS authors: Brenda J. Anderson, Amie Borst, Weston Elliott, Kasey Eyre, Gussie Fick, Angie Lofthouse, Teresa Osgood, Brian C. Ricks, Jennifer Ricks, Lee Ann Setzer, Jennifer Shelton, Rob Smales, Janice Sperry, LisaAnn Turner, and Michael D. Young.

Available in print format at: Amazon or CreateSpace

Available in ebook format at: Amazon or other formats at ldsebookstore.com


About the Job:

• Cover Design: Karlene Browning
• Editing: Content edit; proofreading.
• Internal Layout: Designed page layout and styles; typeset interior in QuarkXPress (Mac); converted to print-ready .pdf files.
• eBook Conversion: Converted digital files from PDF to EPUB, MOBI, PRC, PDB and LRF formats.
• Typesetter/Formatter: Karlene Browning

Emma Smith eBook

Title: Setting the Record Straight: Emma Smith--An Elect Lady

Author: Susan Easton Black

Client: Millennial Press

Date of Work: October 2012

Available for purchase at: ldsebookstore.com
or on Amazon

About the Book:

Susan Easton Black reveals the story of an extraordinary woman who lived in a trying time. As the wife of Joseph Smith, the first Latter-day Saint Prophet, Emma knew much of religious bigotry, vexatious lawsuits, and lawless brutality. She comforted Joseph in his extremities, bore his children, and wrote of her abiding love for him. Yet, as time passed and Joseph was murdered, Emma struggled to find her place.

Her life story, unique from beginning to end, is presented here in a question and answer format to supply readers with easy access to her biographical information and increased understanding of the trials and triumphs of this remarkable woman.

About the Job: eBook Conversion; converted digital files from PDF to EPUB, MOBI, PRC, PDB and LRF formats.

Formatter: Karlene Browning

Mormons & Masons eBook

Title: Setting the Record Straight: Mormons & Masons

Author: Gilbert W. Scharffs, Ph.D.

Client: Millennial Press

Date of Work: October 2012

Available for purchase at: ldsebookstore.com
or on Amazon

About the Book:

There is probably more misinformation about the relationship of the temple ceremony of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Masonry than any other Church subject. This is especially apparent in the many attacks on the LDS Church. Surprisingly, many members of the LDS Church also have false notions.

In this book, Latter-day Saint scholar Gilbert W. Scharffs, Ph.D., discusses the connection between, and answers some of the most common questions about, Mormons and Masons. Whether you are a history enthusiast or merely looking for clarification, you'll find Mormons and Masons both enlightening and faith promoting.

About the Job: eBook Conversion; converted digital files from PDF to EPUB, MOBI, PRC, PDB and LRF formats.

Formatter: Karlene Browning

Mormons & Homosexuality eBook

Title: Setting the Record Straight: Mormons & Homosexuality

Author: A. Dean Byrd, Ph.D., MPH

Client: Millennial Press

Date of Work: October 2012

Available for purchase at: ldsebookstore.com
or on Amazon

About the Book:

Practicing Latter-day Saints psychologist, Dr. Dean Byrd, illuminates some of the little-known realities regarding homosexuality. Relying on his expertise as a social scientist and a practicing mental health professional, he shares the research and clinical data on this controversial topic and provides compelling evidence on what science can and cannot say about homosexuality.

With abundant clarity, Dr. Byrd explores common misconceptions, answers challenging questions, and shares personal stories of triumph. In addition, he offers a chronology of the events that have brought the United States and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to their present positions regarding homosexuality. Employing a thorough, scientific, and engaging style, this volume provides readers with the best LDS analysis of the issue of homosexuality available.

About the Job: eBook Conversion; converted digital files from PDF to EPUB, MOBI, PRC, PDB and LRF formats.

Formatter: Karlene Browning
 

Mormons & Science eBook

Title: Setting the Record Straight: Mormons & Science

Author: Rodney J. Brown, Ph.D

Client: Millennial Press

Date of Work: October 2012

Available for purchase at:ldsebookstore.com
or on Amazon

About the Book:

• How do Mormon feel about and handle scientific research?
        
• Should Latter-day Saints study evolution?
        
• What can science teach us about religious doctrines?
       
• What can science add to the faith of a Latter-day Saint?
        

To members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the search for truth and understanding is a wide-open field. Mormonism embraces all truth, whatever the source or method used to find it.

"Our religion is simply the truth. It is all said in this one expression—it embraces all truth, wherever found, in all the works of God and man that are visible or invisible to mortal eye."  —Brigham Young

The answers to many of our questions are still in the void between faith in science and religious faith. When science and religion arrive at the truth, they will be in perfect agreement with each other.

About the Job: eBook Conversion; converted digital files from PDF to EPUB, MOBI, PRC, PDB and LRF formats.

Formatter: Karlene Browning
 

Mormon Fundamentalism eBook

Title: Setting the Record Straight: Mormon Fundamentalism

Author: Brian C. Hales

Client: Millennial Press

Date of Work: September 2012

Available for purchase at:ldsebookstore.com
or on Amazon

About the Book:

• How did Mormon fundamentalism begin?
  
• Does LDS theology teach that plural marriage is required for exaltation?
  
• Did early Church leaders have children with wives as young as fourteen?
  

Mormon fundamentalists like the FLDS, the Allreds, Tom Green, the Kingstons, the LeBarons, and others have captured the national spotlight off and on for years. They claim to be the guardians of fundamental principles The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has jettisoned. Is that so? This book analyzes their history, explaining how and why these groups evolved outside of the LDS Church.

In addition, it addresses questions regarding the law of consecration, teenage brides, the 1890 Manifesto, the sealing keys, the "one mighty and strong" mentioned in the Doctrine and Covenants, an 1886 revelation to John Taylor, high priest apostles, section 132 of the Doctrine and Covenants (on celestial and plural marriage), the Adam-God theory, polygamy in eternity, proper priesthood ordinations, and others.

The award-winning author of Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism: The Generations After the Manifesto (GregKofford Books, 2006) Brian C. Hales, presents this intriguing new look at Mormon fundamentalism.

About the Job: eBook Conversion; converted digital files from PDF to EPUB, MOBI, PRC, PDB and LRF formats.

Formatter: Karlene Browning

Word of Wisdom eBook

Title: Setting the Record Straight: The Word of Wisdom

Author: Steven C. Harper, Ph. D.

Client: Millennial Press

Date of Work: September 2012

Available for purchase at:ldsebookstore.com
or on Amazon

About the Book:

Setting the Record Straight: The Word of Wisdom, authoritatively defines the Word of Wisdom as much more than a simple health code while answering questions about the circumstances that led to its revelation and providing explanations on how it answered both current questions in Joseph Smith's day, and critically important issues in ours.

Steven C. Harper Ph.D. tackles the question of Joseph Smith's own adherence to the Word of Wisdom and vividly traces both the consistent and the changing ways it has been taught and applied throughout LDS history.

About the Job: eBook Conversion; converted digital files from PDF to EPUB, MOBI, PRC, PDB and LRF formats.

Formatter: Karlene Browning

Book of Mormon ebook

Title: Setting the Record Straight: The Book of Mormon

Author: Jack R. Christianson, Ph. D.

Client: Millennial Press

Date of Work: September 2012

Available for purchase at:ldsebookstore.com
or on Amazon

About the Book:

Setting the Record Straight: The Book of Mormon has one objective: to set the record straight concerning the many charges against the Book of Mormon. It sets forth in a clear and engaging style the answers to many of the false charges leveled by critics against the Book of Mormon.

Rather than criticize others for their perception of the Book of Mormon, this book serves as a valuable guide for those who seek to better understand the central purpose of the Book of Mormon—to testify of Christ.

About the Job: eBook Conversion; converted digital files from PDF to EPUB, MOBI, PRC, PDB and LRF formats.

Formatter: Karlene Browning

Mormons & Polygamy ebook

Title: Setting the Record Straight: Mormons & Polygamy

Author: Jessie L. Embry

Client: Millennial Press

Date of Work: August 2012

Available for purchase at: ldsebookstore.com
or on Amazon

About the Book:

One of the most misunderstood aspects of the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is its practice of plural marriage during the nineteenth century.

In the twenty-first century members of the Church and those outside the faith have had a hard time comprehending why early Latter-day Saints agreed to a marriage pattern so foreign to their traditional Victorian values. This book looks at the reasons they did so.

In addition, it answers some of the common questions about Mormons and polygamy. How long did the practice continue? How many wives did Mormons have? Did all Mormon men marry multiple wives? How did men, women, and children feel about the practice? Scholar and historian Jessie L. Embry examines the answers to these and other questions.

About the Job: eBook Conversion; converted digital files from PDF to EPUB, MOBI, PRC, PDB and LRF formats.

Formatter: Karlene Browning

Mormon Temples ebook

Title: Setting the Record Straight: Mormon Temples

Author: Dean L. Larsen

Client: Millennial Press

Date of Work: August 2012

Available for purchase at: ldsebookstore.com
or on Amazon

About the Book:

Setting the Record Straight: Mormon Temples reviews the history of temples and their divine purpose, giving important facts concerning temple ordinances and current temple operation.

Elder Dean L. Larsen, Emeritus General Authority answers frequently asked questions about temples and gives his insight as to why temples are of such central importance in the lives of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

About the Job: eBook Conversion; converted digital files from PDF to EPUB, MOBI, PRC, PDB and LRF formats.

Formatter: Karlene Browning
 

Joseph Smith the Mormon Prophet ebook

Title: Setting the Record Straight: Joseph Smith the Mormon Prophet

Author: Susan Easton Black

Client: Millennial Press

Date of Work: August 2012

Available for purchase at: ldsebookstore.com
or on Amazon

About the Book: 

Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet provides a refreshing way to learn of the life and teachings of the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The question-and-answer approach of this book presents quick access to biographical information and important gospel truths.

Author Susan Easton Black, a professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University, tells of Joseph Smith being the "choice seer" whom the Lord raised up to bring forth the word of God. She writes of revelations, translations, covenants, and eternal truths being the continuum of his life's labor. Joseph Smith, she declares, held "the keys of this Last Dispensation, and will forever hold them, both in time and eternity."

About the Job: eBook Conversion; converted digital files from PDF to EPUB, MOBI, PRC, PDB and LRF formats.

Formatter: Karlene Browning

Joseph Smith: Presidential Candidate ebook

Title: Setting the Record Straight: Joseph Smith, Presidential Candidate

Author: Arnold K. Garr, Ph.D

Client: Millennial Press

Date of Work: August 2012

Available for purchase at: ldsebookstore.com
or on Amazon

About the Book:

Joseph Smith’s campaign for President of the United States is one of the most fascinating, yet least understood, events in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Author Arnold K. Garr, professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University, brings the Prophet’s presidential run to life with timely insights into questions that have heretofore received little attention.

To which political party did Joseph Smith belong? Who was his vice presidential running mate?

The author sets the record straight by answering these and other intriguing questions into the campaign of the first Latter-day Saint to run for president.

About the Job: eBook Conversion; converted digital files from PDF to EPUB, MOBI, PRC, PDB and LRF formats.

Formatter: Karlene Browning

Blacks & the Mormon Priesthood ebook

Title: Setting the Record Straight: Blacks & the Mormon Priesthood

Author: Marcus H. Martins

Client: Millennial Press

Date of Work: August 2012

Available for purchase at: ldsebookstore.com
or on Amazon

About the Book:

For over a century The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prohibited the ordination of men who had Black African ancestry to offices in its priesthood. This "priesthood ban" was lifted in 1978 to the delight of most Church members, but puzzling questions and folklore surrounding the origin and reasons for the ban have lingered in Mormon popular culture.

In a deeply doctrinal discussion of this controversial subject in Mormon history, Professor Marcus H. Martins shares personal reflections based on his experiences as a Black member of the Church who lived through the final years of the ban.

His analysis debunks old myths and folklore, and it introduces a gospel-based framework for racial and cultural relations in contemporary societies.

About the Job: eBook Conversion; converted digital files from PDF to EPUB, MOBI, PRC, PDB and LRF formats.

Formatter: Karlene Browning

The Sholes Key eBook

Title: The Sholes Key

Author: Clarissa Draper

Client: WiDo Publishing

Date of Work: April 2012

Available for purchase at:
Amazon.com
WiDo Publishing

About the Book:

All across London, single mothers are vanishing. Margaret Hill, mother of two, walked out of her house two months before, never seen again. A month later, Carrie-Anne Morgans takes her two-year-old son for a walk in the park and disappears, leaving him alone in his stroller. Lorna McCauley leaves her London flat in the early hours of the morning to buy medicine for her sick child and does not return.

Newly promoted Detective Inspector Theophilus Blackwell is assigned the case of Lorna McCauley, which on the outside seems to be a simple case of mid-life crisis and child abandonment. Elsewhere in London, MI5 analyst, Sophia Evans, is working undercover to catch an animal rights group responsible for targeted bombings. As Sophia's case (and her personal life) fall to pieces, she receives a strange envelope in the mail. It contains a picture of Lorna McCauley's lifeless face along with a daunting code.

Now the police and MI5 are forced to work together to stop the murders, and Sophia must find her way into the terrifying mind of a serial killer.  

About the Job: eBook Conversion; converted digital files from PDF to EPUB, MOBI, PRC, PDB and LRF formats.

Formatter: Karlene Browning

Cost: $250

Isaiah Decoded eBook

Title: Isaiah Decoded: Ascending the Ladder to Heaven

Author: Avraham Gilieadi

Client: Hebraeus Press

Date of Work: March 2012

Available for purchase at:
Amazon.com

About the Book:

Literary Evidence of an End-Time Prophecy

Hitherto unseen literary evidence reveals a new dimension to Isaiah’s prophecy that uses Israel’s ancient history as an allegory of an end-time scenario.

Isaiah’s Hebrew gospel preempts the New Testament by teaching the path through which God empowers his children to ascend to the highest heaven.

About the Job: eBook Conversion; converted digital files from PDF to EPUB, MOBI, PRC, PDB and LRF formats.

Formatter: Karlene Browning
 

The Literary Message of Isaiah eBook

Title: The Literary Message of Isaiah

Author: Avraham Gilieadi

Client: Hebraeus Press

Date of Work: January 2012

Available for purchase at:
Amazon.com

About the Book:

A ground-breaking literary approach to analyzing Isaiah’s writings for Judeo-Christian students and readers.

A multifaceted seven-part structure of the Book of Isaiah draws on events from Israel’s past to systematically develop an apocalyptic message and a Hebrew messianic theology.

When subjected to several literary analyses simultaneously—structural, rhetorical, and typological—the Book of Isaiah discloses secrets that have lain dormant for millennia.

About the Job: eBook Conversion; converted digital files from PDF to EPUB, MOBI, PRC, PDB and LRF formats.

Formatter: Karlene Browning
 

Cerulean Isle eBook

Title: Cerulean Isle

Author: G.M. Browning

Client: WiDo Publishing

Date of Work: January 2012

Available for purchase at:
Amazon.com
WiDo Publishing

About the Book:

Kidnapped as a boy and kept as a slave on a pirate ship, young Jacob dreams of freedom, and of one day discovering the fabled island of the Mer people. With fellow shipmate Grant, Jacob escapes and finds refuge in Granada. But stories of Cerulean Isle, land of the Merfolk, continue to haunt him.

One day a stranger appears and Jacob and Grant are forced to confront their past. They must embark on a dangerous voyage to flee from the pirates that seek their lives. In the process, Jacob at last discovers the truth behind legendary Cerulean Isle.

About the Job: eBook Conversion; converted digital files from PDF to EPUB, MOBI, PRC, PDB and LRF formats.

Formatter: Karlene Browning

 

The End from the Beginning eBook

Title: The End from the Beginning

Author: Avraham Gilieadi

Client: Hebraeus Press

Date of Work: January 2012

Available for purchase at:
Amazon

About the Book:

The End from the Beginnning: The Apocalyptic Vision of Isaiah with Isaiah Translation.

The prophecy of Isaiah, encoded by literary devices, reveals a vision of the end of the world and brings to light parts of Hebrew religion that were lost.

Newly uncovered evidence in the Book of Isaiah shows that the end is foretold by events that occurred in the beginning, the future mirroring the past.

About the Job: eBook Conversion; converted digital files from PDF to EPUB, MOBI, PRC, PDB and LRF formats.

Formatter: Karlene Browning
 

Journey of Honor eBook

Title: Journey of Honor

Author: Jaclyn M. Hawkes

Client: Spirit Dance Books

Date of Work: December 2011

Available for purchase at:
All eBook formats at LDSeBookstore.com


About the Book:

A Journey Through the Refiner’s Fire

Disowned, she came to America anyway. Attacked and left pregnant by a vicious mob, she still pressed on. Finally, in spite of being accused of theft by the vilest of her attackers, Giselle tries to remain as upbeat and uncomplaining as a prairie wildflower as she travels on to Zion.

Thoroughly disillusioned with the ugliness and cruelty of slavery in the South, Trace Grayson leaves his young medical career to go west, hoping to leave bigotry and hatred behind. He begins taking goods by teamster train to sell in the territories. However, this fourth time across, in July of 1848, he’s stuck in St. Joseph, Missouri, waiting for enough wagons to join the train so that they can leave.

Knowing that if they don’t start west soon, they’ll be caught by snow in the mountains, Trace is thrilled when the final wagon signs on. Then, when the beautiful, young Dutch girl traveling with the last wagon is falsely accused of stealing and is detained, the whole trip is jeopardized. Thrown together by circumstance, Trace and Giselle team up to begin to figure out just how to make this epic journey across a continent a success.

With a deep sense of honor and an equally strong sense of humor, together they learn to deal with everything except the one trial that neither of them can overcome.

About the Job: eBook Conversion; converted digital files from PDF to EPUB, MOBI, PRC, PDB and LRF formats.

Formatter: Karlene Browning

Cost: $250