Literary footnotes

FORT LIMHI: THE MORMON ADVENTURE IN OREGON TERRITORY, 1855-1858, by David L. Bigler, Utah State University Press, 372 pages, $24.95, softcover. This is the story of 27 young men who set out from Mormon settlements in Utah in 1855 to establish a northern mission to American Indians.

RUNAWAY, by Clair M. Poulson, Covenant, 256 pages, $14.95, softcover. A novel focusing on young, headstrong Deedee Marchant, who runs away with a much older man of questionable character. Her mother, Meredith Marchant, turns to a detective to help find her daughter. The story turns into "an LDS thriller."

PAIN IS INEVITABLE, MISERY IS OPTIONAL, by Hyrum W. Smith with Gerreld L. Pulsipher, Deseret Book, 152 pages, $17.95, hardcover. Smith is one of the founders of the Franklin Day Planner. Using personal experience and LDS teachings, he gives advice about how people may successfully deal with "problems of mortality."

SPIES, LIES AND A PAIR OF TIES, by Sheralyn Pratt, Spectrum, 213 pages, $13.95, softcover. A novel about Rhea Jensen, a private investigator who "is brilliant, educated, witty, talented, beautiful and hopelessly in love with the one guy who doesn't seem to love her back." The story also concerns her detective work and her religious conversion by two LDS missionaries.

ARE YOUR STANDARDS FENCES OR GUARDRAILS? by John Bytheway, Deseret Book, 95 pages, $10. 95, softcover. An advice manual for young people based on the LDS "For the Strength of Youth" pamphlet.

YEARNING FOR THE LIVING GOD: REFLECTIONS FROM THE LIFE OF F. ENZIO BUSCHE, edited and compiled by Tracie A. Lamb, Deseret Book, 307 pages, $24.95, hardcover. The subject is an emeritus member of the LDS Church's First Quorum of the Seventy. The editor and compiler is a native of Utah who served a Germany Munich Mission while Elder Busche presided over that mission.

WHISPERINGS, by C.K. Bailey, Covenant, 292 pages, $14.95, softcover. A novel about Jessie Winston, a therapist who needs professional help to overcome personal torments about her abuse as a child. Ryan Blake tries to help her, but whisperings from his own past force him to face his own demons.