Gale Sears

Retelling of the story of Jonathan Napela, one of the first--and most influential--converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Teenage Wen-shan was taken from her family home in mainland China during the Cultural Revolution to live with her great-uncle, a former general in the Chinese army who became one of the first converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hong Kong. For ten years, Wen-shan has carried the sorrow of abandonment in her heart, with few memories of her life before. But at the death of Chairman Mao, Wen-shan receives a mysterious wooden...

In 1914 the world hovers on the edge of a great war. Three women face challenges of love, family and forgiveness in vastly different circumstances.

È il 1849: non sono passati neanche due anni dall'arrivo dei santi nello Utah e i missionari vengono mandati a predicare il Vangelo in tutto il mondo. Uno di loro, Lorenzo Snow, viene mandato in missione in Italia. Egli è condotto nelle valli del Piemonte dove i valdesi, seguaci del riformatore Pietro Valdo, sono stati esiliati e perseguitati. In quei luoghi l'anziano Snow e i suoi due colleghi hanno successo ma incontrano anche delle sfide.

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"When Charlie Mae meets Spencer, a boy her age, and his grandmother, she is astonished at their kindness. She should have guessed they were Mormons. Pa had been lying all that time when he had said that Mormons were wicked. Pa was the wicked one, he and her brothers burned houses and shot people. She didn't want to live with thieves and liars and cook their meals anymore. She would leave this place someday and find a better life, no matter what the...