Joshua Steed returns to Missouri a wealthy man with a beautiful wife; however, the past has a way of catching up. Soon Joshua is tangled in a web of rumors, deception and betrayal that threatens to tear his family apart. Back in Kirtland, financial trouble riddles the foundations of the fledgling Church causing a division, and questioning of the Prophet Joseph Smith's divine calling. Has he lost his prophetic gift? Hundreds of Saints immigrate to Missouri, where Governor Boggs raises an army - with Joshua at its head - to address the "Mormon Problem." When the militia receives orders to attack the Mormon settlement, only Joshua can save his family from the gathering mob.
As Halloweentown prepares to celebrate its 1,000th anniversary, Marnie Piper and her brother Dylan return to Witch University, where trouble is in session from the Sinister Sisters and from someone who's plotting to use Marnie's powers for evil.
"The Work and The Glory: American Zion" sets the story of the fictional Steed family against the historically factual backdrop of the Mormon people's move into the West. Divided by their diverse reactions to a nascent ideology, the Steeds struggle to hold together as the strength of their convictions and their filial bonds are tested. The stirring narrative of the faith that led a persecuted people to Missouri and beyond is one of the most poignant untold tales of American history. It is the account of a valiant struggle to exercise the rights promised by a fledgling nation. "The Work and the Glory: American Zion" unearths the story of the passion behind the movement which eventually launched the largest American migration and the colonization of the West: the vision of a promised land in America.
When Benjamin Steed and Mary Ann Steed relocate their family to upstate New York in the early 1800's, they unwittingly settle in a town divided along religious lines. After their new hired help turns out to be at the center of the uproar, each member of the Steed family must come to terms with their own beliefs in the face of heavy persecution. Together they struggle to weather the raging controversy surrounding a young man named Joseph Smith.
디스가이지 가문의 마지막 주자인 피스타치오 디스가이지. 그는 남을 흉내내고 싶은 욕망을 참느라 늘 고생이다.그러던 어느날, 부모님이 납치되는 사건이 일어난다. 그러자 얼굴 한번 본 적 없던 피스타치오의 할아버지가 나타나 디스가이지 가문은 대대로 변장의 고수들이었다며, 피스타치오의 아버지인 파브리찌오의 은신처를 보여준다. 이제 본격적으로 변장훈련을 받는 피스타치오. 평소 알고 지내던 동네 꼬마의 엄마 제니퍼를 조수로 두면서 납치범 수사에 들어간다. 납치범은 파브리찌오의 변장술 때문에 감옥에서 20년을 살다 나온 세계 최고의 블랙 마켓 소유자인 데블린 보우맨. 제니퍼의 총명함으로 납치범의 실체를 알아가지만, 아직 진정한 변장의 고수가 되지 못한 피스타치오는 사고만 친다. 피스타치오, 부모님을 찾을 수 있을까?