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Author Krakauer, Jon, author.

Title Under the banner of heaven : a story of violent faith / Jon Krakauer.

Publisher New York, New York : Doubleday, 2003.
©2003

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 Ashland adult nonfiction  289.33 KRA    AVAILABLE
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 Cable adult nonfiction  289.3 KRA pb    AVAILABLE
 Eagle River adult nonfiction  289.3 KRA    AVAILABLE
 Grantsburg adult nonfiction  289.3 KRAKAUER PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION    AVAILABLE
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 Land O Lakes adult nonfiction  289.3 KRA pbk.    AVAILABLE
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 Mercer adult nonfiction  289.3 KRA Spirituality    AVAILABLE

Edition 1st edition.
Descript xxiii, 372 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Note Accelerated Reader AR UG 10 23 74916.
Maps on lining papers.
Nonfiction.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages [351]-358) and index.
Summary Traces the events that surrounded the 1984 murder of a woman and her child by fundamentalist Mormons Ron and Dan Lafferty, exploring the belief systems and traditions, including polygamy, that mark the faith's most extreme factions and what their practices reflect about the nature of religion in America.
Audience 1350L Lexile
Subject Murder -- Religious aspects.
Other Nonconformist & Evangelical Churches.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Religious fanaticism -- United States.
Latter Day Saint fundamentalism.
ISBN/ISSN 0385509510
9780385509510
1400032806 paperback