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James J. Strang was the founder and ruling figure of The Church of Latter Day Saints (Strangite), a small splinter group of Mormons that formed in the power vacuum left by the assassination of Joseph Smith in 1844. Strang persuaded Read More …
The Important Thing about Margaret Wise Brown by Mac Barnett and Sarah Jacoby is an unconventional picture book biography of the acclaimed children’s author. In 42 pages (one for each year of her life) Barnett details the important things of Read More …
Author Dani Shapiro has spent her career writing about her fraught relationship with her Orthodox Jewish parents. Imagine her surprise at the age of 54 when she found out–through a home DNA testing kit–that the man she thought was her Read More …