| Guide Picks - Top 5 Historical Fiction Series | ||
| Learning about Church history doesn't have to be drudgery. Historical fiction is a great way to increase your knowledge while providing an engaging storyline. | ||
1.) The
Kingdom and the Crown 
What would it be like
to live in the time of Jesus? What would it be like to hear the words of
our Lord, to see his miracles performed? And how would your life be changed
as a result? This series by Gerald Lund will give you a pretty good idea.
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2.) Women
of Genesis 
Have you ever read a
scripture story and wondered what was going through the characters' minds,
or why they acted the way they did? Evidently Orson Scott Card has. Sarah
and Rebekah are the first in his trilogy on the women of Genesis.
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| 3.) The
Work and the Glory The fictional Steed family takes you through the very real events of Church history in this engaging series. From the Sacred Grove to the Salt Lake Valley in nine volumes. |
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| 4.) Hearts
of the Children The Berlin Wall. The Cold War. The Kennedy Assassination. The Civil Rights movement. Author Dean Hughes recreates the era of the 1960's showing how the turmoil of that period affects an ordinary family of Latter-day Saints. |
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| 5.) Children
of the Promise Set in World War II, this epic series takes you to the battlefront, to Germany, Japan, and the Philippines. But it also takes you to the home front in Salt Lake Valley where an ordinary LDS family struggles to survive both physically and spiritually. |
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