Books published by publisher Deseret Book

If you are a teenager or young adult, you know how the world views morality. You live in an age preoccupied with erotic entertainment, sexually oriented advertising, dirty dancing, vulgar humor, and premarital sex. You hear it all—at school, in the movies, and in popular music.What is rare today is to find someone willing to speak up in favor of virtue, modesty, sexual restraint, and morality. A young person trying to withstand the temptations so prevalent in our permissive society might feel alone in trying to resist temptation and live a morally clean life. All the desperate and misguided voices make it sound as if everybody's doing it.Well, everybody isn't doing it. The Church has not abandoned its stand on morality, and there are important, eternal reasons to safeguard your virtue and shun evil. Many teenagers and young adults have taken a stand on this issue, and the essays in this book will help you strengthen your resolve.With authors who remember what it was like to be young but also see the big picture can give the answers to questions you may have:Why shouldn't I date until I am sixteen?What does it matter if I want to go steady?Who should I rightfully kiss?What exactly is wrong with necking and making out?What can I do if my date puts the moves on me?Does the way I dress have anything to do with anything?What can I do when everybody at school makes fun of me because I'm still a virgin?Does getting engaged change the rules?Why should I wait until after I'm married to share myself sexually?

Trust Williams thought he was returning to civilization. After all, the folks in Thelma's Way thought the Internet was the extra stitching on the backside of longjohns. But lately, Southdale seems just as zany as the boondocks, just in a different way. And Trust is starting to doubt himself, his family, even the girl by his side. Can Trust find his way through the maze of modern Mormon life-from multilevel marketing to Y2k-and win the heart of the girl of his dreams to boot? In this second volume in the Trust Williams Trilogy, Robert Farrell Smith is at it again with his contagious humor as only he can write. Don't miss this unprecedented and playful farce that mixes in millennium mania, food storage, and Y2k with some of the most off-beat characters you'll ever meet.

Introduce your young children of grandchildren to the Articles of Faith by reading aloud from this inviting book. Author Deanna Draper Buck conveys in simplified, understandable language the essence of Joseph Smith's inspired summary of LDS beliefs and practices. Delightfully illustrated by Jerry Harston, My First Articles of Faith Book will provide many hours of visual and listening enjoyment as you teach your children the basic principles of the gospel. The new paperback edition is easy to slip into a bag and take along anywhere- great for helping kids memorize these landmark scriptures.

Abraham Lincoln became the sixteenth US president during a very dark time in America's history. Author Timothy Ballard explores the crucial role that President Lincoln played to bring this nation closer to heaven. Readers will see Lincoln as a man inspired of God who invoked a covenant relationship between America and its maker not unlike the national covenants invoked by righteous leaders in the Book of Mormon. In addition, The Lincoln Hypothesis reveals documented evidence that Abraham Lincoln did, in fact, check out the Book of Mormon as he struggled with making some of the most critical decisions of his presidency. Did he read it? Did it influence him? Was the Book of Mormon a key factor in Lincoln's success and the healing of a nation? The author states, As you read, you will, like a prosecutor reviewing a case, or like a jury determining a verdict, identify valuable pieces of evidence that can be fully substantiated. You will also identify pieces of evidence that cannot. I ask you to consider all the evidence and weight it accordingly. Through this study, many questions regarding the interplay between the restored gospel and the Civil War will be answered. New questions may emerge that will not be so easily answered. Either way, in the end you will find yourself on a most exhilarating investigative journey.

Gustav Palm kept his secret for more than forty years. He had been a young man when Hitler invaded his native Norway. After being forced to guard a Nazi prison camp, however, Gustav took his only option for escape: he volunteered for the Waffen-SS to fight at the front. Agnes Erdös grew up in privilege and prosperity as a child in Hungary. She and her parents were practicing Roman Catholics, but they were ethnic Jews, and after the Nazis invaded her country, Agnes and her parents were sent to the death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Miraculously, both Agnes and Gustav survived. And after the war, they found each other. Told in their own words, Surviving Hitler is the story of two indomitable spirits who built on their life-altering experiences to overcome the past, help each other heal, and embrace a common faith in God that led them to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

In this delightful children's picture book, a young boy asks while making cookies with his mother, Mommy, what is the happiest you ve ever been? His mother reflects on her life and responds, Well, once when I was just about your age, I was in a dance recital . . . when I was done, the audience clapped and cheered for me. I was so happy. The boy persists and asks, But Mommy, is that the happiest you ve ever been? Upon which the mother tells the boy other stories of joyful moments in her life: winning the big volleyball game; graduating from college; getting married in the temple; and having a new baby. After each story, the boy asks, But Mommy, is that the happiest you ve ever been? Finally, the mother says, A few years later, that little baby grew. . . . He was a big boy now a big boy that I love to make cookies with and tell stories to. I am so happy. One more time the boy asks his question and the mother responds, Yes, THIS is the happiest I ve ever been. An ideal gift for every mother who loves to spend time with her children.

Delight yourself and your preschool child or grandchild with these simplified versions of favorite stories from Church history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Author Deanna Buck retells the familiar events in read aloud language that entertains as it teaches. My First Church History Stories will provide many special moments for you and your child. It is sure to become a family treasure.