Locally published books

NO LONGER STRANGERS, by Rachel Ann Nunes, Deseret Book, 295 pages, $14.95, softcover. This is a novel about Mitch Huntington, who, after he has been designated as guardian to his best friends' daughter, Emily Jane, finds himself the designated father when both parents are killed. He learns selfless love in the process.

TURNING FREUD UPSIDE DOWN: GOSPEL PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOTHERAPY'S FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS, edited by Aaron Jackson, Lane Fischer with Doris Dant, Brigham Young University Press, 256 pages, $16.95, softcover. Working on the assumption that mainstream psychology has always had an anti-religious bias, the editors outline ways of integrating spirituality into counseling. It is written by LDS psychologists and counselors.

THE WHITE INDIAN BOY and its sequel THE RETURN OF THE WHITE INDIAN, by Elijah Nicholas Wilson and Charles A. Wilson, The University of Utah Press, 394 pages, $19.95, softcover. First published in 1910, "The White Indian Boy" became a Western classic. "Uncle Nick" Wilson told of his running away with the Shoshone Indians in his teens. The book was so popular the authors wrote a sequel. This is a reprint.

THE EYEWITNESS HISTORY OF THE CHURCH, VOL. I: THE RESTORATION, 1800-1833, by Jeffrey Marsh with Jennifer Johnson and Celeste Pittman, Cedar Fort, 417 pages, $29.99, hardcover. The authors propose to tell the story of the LDS Church through various excerpts of letters, journals, etc., of people who were there — as witnesses — such as Wilford Woodruff and Orson Pratt. But they also use such modern Mormons as Bruce R. McConkie and Gordon B. Hinckley.

THE MORMON COLONIES IN MEXICO, by Thomas Cottam Romney, University of Utah Press, 338 pages, $19.95, softcover. The author was director of the Logan LDS Institute of Religion and lived from 1876-1962. He initially wrote this book in 1938, and it was based on Romney's personal experience living in the Mormon colonies in Mexico.

PAGES FROM THE PAST, by JoAnn Arnold, Cedar Fort, 310 pages, $14.99, softcover. This is a mystery novel about Betsy Braden, who struggles to find meaning in life after the death of her husband. Her problems become more serious when she discovers that her husband's death was not an accident.