| 2/16/19 | The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Mormon Women and Men | Pearson CL | Pearson shows that the ghost of polygamy remains in Mormon doctrine, haunting the living, assuring women of their diminished value relative to men, and leading many to lose faith in the church and in God. |
| 4/20/19 | Myths to Live by | Campbell J | Joseph Campbell explores the enduring power of the universal myths that influence our lives daily and examines the myth-making process from the primitive past to the immediate present |
| 6/15/19 | The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains | Carr N | A compelling exploration of the Internet’s intellectual and cultural consequences. Inferences from what’s known about how human thought has been shaped through the centuries and recent discoveries in neuroscience, Carr explains how the internet is remaking us in its own image. |
| 8/17/19 | Faith Beyond Belief: Stories of Good People Who Left Their Church Behind | Johnston MP | Stories of an ex-Catholic, a former Mormon, and a clandestine Muslim apostate, for whom trust in human capacity for reason led them to make the necessary (and intermediate) step in faith development, giving up a literal religious interpretation; stories of people at the ‘mystic’ level: those who see paradox in truth. |
| 10/19/19 | Sapiens | Harrari S | The story of human history over the last 100,000 years, about how we evolved to be more cooperative, and about how we came to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables and consumerism. |
| 12/21/19 | Rough Stone Rolling | Bushman R | Richard Bushman, an esteemed cultural historian and a practicing Mormon, moves beyond the popular stereotype of Smith as a colorful fraud to explore his personality, his relationships with others, and how he received revelations. |
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