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41) Revolution no. 9
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Abducted by the followers of a paramilitary sociopath responsible for a series of bizarre, high-profile murders, Dr. Carroll Monks is ensconced within a backwoods community and forced to care for his captor's dangerously ill son.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Raised in a cult, twelve-year-old Zylnn has been taught that the outside world is dark and full of liars, but when her father rescues her, Zylnn experiences new aspects of life for the first time and has to make a decision about the cult.
Author
Publisher
A Tordotcom Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults against the mundane struggles of modern life, resulting in a novel that is revelatory and resonant. Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy. He walked among invisible powers: devils and anti-gods that mock the mortal form. He learned a lethal catechism, lost his shadow, and...
46) The darkest path
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
John Updike's seventeenth novel begins in 1910, and traces God's relation to four generations of an American family, beginning with Clarence Wilmot, a Presbyterian clergyman in Paterson, New Jersey. He loses his faith, and becomes an encyclopedia salesman and a motion-picture addict. The remainder of Clarence's family moves to the small town of Basingstoke, Delaware, where his cautious son, Teddy, becomes a mailman. Faithless himself, Teddy marries...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Lay preacher Obadiah Wheeler is responsible for conducting a group of missionaries into "unassigned territory," a stretch of Nevada wilderness open to evangelistic efforts. Obadiah's faith is shaky at best and no match for the tempting charms of the co-proprietor of a desert museum, raven-haired beauty Delandra Hummer. Together the two set off into the vast emptiness of the Mojave in search of a buyer for the museum's prize exhibit, an extraterrestrial...
Author
Publisher
MCD x FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Ever since her father was killed when she was just a child, Miranda Crabtree has kept her head down and her eyes up, ferrying contraband for a mad preacher and his declining band of followers to make ends meet and to protect an old witch and a secret child from harm. But dark forces are at work in the bayou, both human and supernatural, conspiring to disrupt the rhythms of Miranda's peculiar and precarious life. And when the preacher makes an unthinkable...
52) Something wicked
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Eight months into a surrogate pregnancy for her sister, Kristina, Detective Savannah Dunbar just wants to wrap up paperwork before taking medical leave. But her department's investigation into a brutal double homicide has suddenly become much more complex--and personal. And now there are disturbing rumors about a place known as the Colony, its matriarch, and a long history of bitter secrets.
Author
Language
English
Description
"During their senior year of college, Shay Evans and her best friend Laurel escaped from a violent, magnetic man and his equally violent views about women and society. Eight years later, Shay has built a new life for herself. But the horrifying news of Laurel's death shatters her world and makes her suspect that the people from her past are back and more dangerous than ever. Recruiting the help of a true-crime podcast host, Shay is determined to find...
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An isolated religious sect in the desert confronts the collapse of civilization. Could this be the end of the world they've been waiting for? With the murderous Kimball clan's evil plots finally crushed, Dr. Jacob Christiansen begins to embrace his role as leader of the polygamist community of Blister Creek. Then the world around them falls apart, plagued by international crop failures and global starvation, fuel and medicine shortages, and looming...
55) The devil's hand
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Six girls are born on the sixth day of the sixth month, setting in motion an ancient prophecy. On their eighteenth birthday, one of the girls will become the devil's hand. As the day nears, the young women begin to disappear. Threatened by the town's religious leader, the remaining girl's father races to uncover the chilling truth.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1977. Ike and Lucy, the kids of Senator Charlie and Margaret Marder, are grown up--and in trouble. US Marine Ike has gone AWOL after a military operation gone horribly wrong. Now he's off the grid, working on the pit crew of the moody stunt master Evel Knievel and hanging in the roughest dive bar in Montana. His sister Lucy has become the star reporter of a brand-new Washington, DC tabloid breaking stories about a serial killer and falling in...
58) Thief of souls
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A man's wife is stolen by a religious cult and he is left to raise their five-year-old daughter on his own. It happens when the woman attends a weekend retreat to promote serenity. When the cult follows this up by kidnaping the daughter, Dan Behr infiltrates them to get her back. In the process he discovers the methods used by cults to make people willingly part with their freedom. By the author of Bone Deep.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Language
English
Description
Gabry lives a quiet life in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, hemmed in by the dead who hunger for the living, but her mother Mary's secrets, a cult of religious zealots who worship the dead, and a stranger from the forest who seems to know Gabry threaten to destroy her world.
Author
Series
Holland family saga volume 12
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s. The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver,...