Wasatch: Mormon Stories and a Novella by Douglas Thayer
Price: $1.99 USD. 95190 words. Published by Zarahemla Books on December 2, 2011. .
Douglas Thayer's third collection of short fiction presents a dozen of his career-best stories, including several that have never before appeared in print.

The Death of a Disco Dancer by David Clark
Price: $1.99 USD. 82040 words. Published by Zarahemla Books on November 29, 2011. .
Returning home to Arizona to assist his dying mother, Todd Whitman reflects on the pivotal summer of 1981 when he was eleven years old, a Mormon kid growing up in the American suburbs. This vivid depiction of the torture and hilarity of navigating adolescence becomes a meditation on the meaning of sacrifice and the transforming responsibility of familial love.

The Tree House by Douglas Thayer
Price: $1.99 USD. 137610 words. Published by Zarahemla Books on March 15, 2011. .
As a missionary in post-WWII Germany and a solider in the Korean War, Harris Thatcher faces questions of faith, the meaning of life, and the capriciousness of death.

Rift by Todd Robert Petersen
Price: $1.99 USD. 83880 words. Published by Zarahemla Books on March 14, 2011. .
Jens Thorsen's retirement is not what his wife, Lila, was expecting. Rather than tending to things around the house, Thorsen has thrown himself into a life of charity. When he's not nursing a feud with local bishop, that is. Then the bishop's daughter moves home and there are suddenly too many egos in one place. The little town of Sanpete starts to pull apart at the seams.

Long After Dark by Todd Robert Petersen
Price: $1.99 USD. 68110 words. Published by Zarahemla Books on March 10, 2011. .
In these award-winning stories and a new novella, Todd Robert Petersen takes the reader on expeditions to Utah, Arizona, Brazil, Rwanda, and into the souls of twenty-first century Mormons caught between their humanity, faith, and church.

Hunting Gideon by Jessica Draper
Price: $1.99 USD. 73440 words. Published by Zarahemla Books on February 28, 2011. .
As an agent in the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center, Sue Anne Jones stalks the V-Net, the ultimate virtual-reality interface. She and her partner, Loren Hunter, have been ordered to hunt down a scripture-quoting cyber-terrorist who calls himself "Gideon." Hunting Gideon sends Sue and Loren on a wild chase as they scramble to avert the ultimate online disaster.

Hooligan: A Mormon Boyhood by Douglas Thayer
Price: $1.99 USD. 55580 words. Published by Zarahemla Books on February 18, 2011. .
In the days before sunscreen, soccer practice, MTV, and Amber Alerts, boys roamed freely in the American West--fishing, hunting, hiking, pausing to skinny-dip in a river or pond. Douglas Thayer was such a boy, and in this poignant, often humorous memoir, he depicts his Utah Valley boyhood during the Great Depression and World War II.

Kindred Spirits by Christopher Bigelow
Price: $1.99 USD. 100430 words. Published by Zarahemla Books on February 8, 2011. .
Born and bred in Mormon Utah, Eliza Spainhower has carved out an independent life for herself in Boston. Though still a believer, she has "fallen into sin" and been disfellowshipped from the LDS Church. Trying to repent, she connects with local native Eric Abercrombie. Soon she's prodding him in a race against hormones as the couple navigates the baptism and wedding hurdles of modern Mormonism.

Brother Brigham by D. Michael Martindale
Price: $1.99 USD. 96450 words. Published by Zarahemla Books on February 3, 2011. .

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Like many young boys, C.H. Young grew up with an imaginary friend. In C.H.'s case, it was his ancestor Brigham Young. But C.H. grows up and leaves his childhood fantasies behind--or so he thinks. Then one day, a very real "Brother Brigham" pays him a visit, making demands that tax his faith, his marriage, and his sanity.

Dispensation: Latter-Day Fiction by Angela Hallstrom
Price: $1.99 USD. 179880 words. Published by Zarahemla Books on January 24, 2011. .

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A collection of the best Mormon short fiction written in the past two decades, each of these extraordinary stories represents a potent individual voice, from nationally acclaimed authors Brady Udall and Orson Scott Card, to respected Mormon literature veterans Douglas Thayer and Margaret Blair Young, to talented up-and-coming writers Lisa Madsen Rubilar and Todd Robert Petersen, and many more.

Light of the New Day by Darin Cozzens
Price: $1.99 USD. 69940 words. Published by Zarahemla Books on August 26, 2010. .
In the shared setting of fictional Balford, Wyoming, the characters in Darin Cozzens's stories demonstrate both the follies and the virtues of rural Mormons in the late twentieth century.

What of the Night? by Stephen Carter
Price: $1.99 USD. 31500 words. Published by Zarahemla Books on July 14, 2010. .
"By proving contraries, truth is made manifest," said Joseph Smith. A good thing, because Stephen Carter's religious life is full of contradictions. This collection of award-winning personal essays wrestles the "used tin foil, the ratty teddy bears, the rusty bicycle frames, the dog-eared magazines, the empty toilet paper rolls" of Carter's life into stories compelling, candid, and insightful.

No Going Back by Jonathan Langford
Price: $1.99 USD. 111000 words. Published by Zarahemla Books on April 14, 2010. .

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A gay teenage Mormon growing up in western Oregon in 2003. His straight best friend. Their parents. A typical LDS ward, a high-school club about tolerance for gays, and a proposed anti-gay-marriage amendment to the state constitution. These elements combine in a coming-of-age story about faithfulness and friendship, temptation and redemption, tough choices and conflicting loyalties.

On the Road to Heaven by Coke Newell
Price: $1.99 USD. 122250 words. Published by Zarahemla Books on March 31, 2010. .
In a style reminiscent of Jack Kerouac, Coke Newell's groundbreaking autobiographical novel traces an LSD-to-LDS pilgrimage across two continents. From Colorado's 1970s hippie heyday to the coca fields of Colombia, it's a journey through Thoreau ascetics, Ram Dass Taoism, and Edward Abbey monkey-wrenching to the mission fields of one of the world's most conservative contemporary religions.

Angel Falling Softly by Eugene Woodbury
Price: $1.99 USD. 74270 words. Published by Zarahemla Books on January 2, 2009. .

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Rachel Forsythe's daughter is dying of cancer. Milada Daranyi, chief investment officer at Daranyi Enterprises International, has come to Utah to finalize the takeover of a medical technology company. When a chance encounter brings them together, Rachel makes an unexpected and dangerous discovery: Milada is a vampire, and the only person in the world who can save her daughter's life.

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