FIRE IN THE BONES: WILLIAM TYNDALE— MARTYR, FATHER OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE, by S. Michael Wilcox, Deseret Book, 255 pages, $23.95. This is a biography of Tyndale, the 16th-century figure who translated the English Bible from the original Greek. His accomplishment was extremely controversial and aroused the ire of Sir Thomas Moore, King Henry VIII, Charles V and others.

THE PERPETUAL EDUCATION FUND, by John K. Carmack, Deseret Book, 193 pages, $18.95. In March 2001, LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley announced the formation of the title fund, patterned after the Perpetual Emigration Fund of pioneer times. The modern PEF provides impoverished young people educational opportunities to prepare them for better employment. The author, Elder Carmack, is a member emeritus of the LDS First Quorum of the Seventy and director of the fund.

WALKING IN THE SAND: A HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS IN GHANA, by Emmanuel Abu Kissi, BYU Press, 384 pages, $21.95. When the LDS priesthood was given to blacks in 1978, missionary work accelerated in Africa. Several senior missionary couples were sent to Ghana and within a year, 400 people were baptized into the LDS Church. That history is recounted by Emmanuel Abu Kissi, a Ghana native and medical doctor.

CASTLE VALLEY AMERICA: HARD LAND HARD-WON HOME, by Nancy Taniguchi, USU Press, 365 pages, $45.95 cloth, $24.95 soft cover. Castle Valley, located in Carbon and Emery counties, has been a coal-mining and railroad center, but it is also a multiethnic community of people who have had to cope with a harsh landscape. The author, a native of Castle Valley, is a history professor at California State University, Stanislaus.

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