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In 1995, Bookcraft produced The Book of Mormon Studybase, a digital library CD-ROM of books about The Book of Mormon, and contributed to Infobases' LDS Collectors Library CD-ROM. [11] Because Deseret Book was the largest LDS publisher and bookseller, independents like Bookcraft also distributed to national retailers like B. Dalton, Media Play ...
Deseret Book logo (1980–2010) The Deseret Book Company was created in 1919 from a merger of the Deseret News Bookstore and the Deseret Sunday School Union Bookstore. [3] Both of these Utah bookstores trace their roots to George Q. Cannon, an LDS Church general authority. "Deseret" is a word from the Book of Mormon that is said to mean "honeybee."
The provisional 1849 boundaries of the State of Deseret, named after the word for honeybees in the Book of Mormon. The proposed boundary of Deseret is the dotted line, while the Utah Territory is blue and outlined in black; boundaries are not exact. Deseret was proposed as a name for the U.S. state of Utah.
Facade of the Grandin print shop in Palmyra, New York, as restored by the LDS Church A printing press inside the restored print shop. Grandin first rejected the request of Joseph Smith to publish the Book of Mormon possibly "out of principle because he considered the book to be fraudulent and suspected that it would be a risky financial venture."
The Book of Mormon is a religious text of the Latter Day Saint movement, first published in 1830 by Joseph Smith as The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi. [1] [2] The book is one of the earliest and most well-known unique writings of the Latter Day Saint movement.
Salt Lake City: Deseret Book. OCLC 1335039. Expanded from his 1953 Sunday School manual. —— (1959). Religion and the Pursuit of Truth. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book. —— (1978). Things That Matter Most. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft. ISBN 0884943461. —— (1985). The Book of Mormon: A Guide to Christian Living. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Book of Mormon: . The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement, which adherents believe contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421.
In 2009, Deseret Book stopped selling novels in the Twilight series and in 2010, Deseret Book declined to stock James Dashner's The Scorch Trials because of offensive language. [ 59 ] In 2013, Cedar Fort Publishing's imprint, Sweetwater Books, deleted gay author Michael Jensen's reference to his partner in his cover bio.