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61) S
Author
Language
English
Description
New Englander Sarah Worth goes west to join a Hindu commune in Arizona. There she mingles with the other sannyasins (pilgrims) in the difficult attempt to subdue ego and achieve salvation and release from illusion.
62) Cults
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
An accurate and rational discussion of cults including the subjects of satanism, witches, mind control, and attempts at deprogramming.
63) The innocent
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Eight years ago, a man walked five-year-old Hannah out the front doors of her school and spirited her over the Mexican border, taking her into the world of a cult known as The Chosen. For eight years, followers of The Prophet have hidden the child, moving her from country to country, shielding the man who stole her. Now, those who've searched the longest know where to find her. They are childhood survivors of The Chosen, thirty-somethings born and...
64) One eyed girl
Publisher
Dark Sky Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
On the brink of a nervous breakdown, young psychiatrist Travis meets Grace, a representative of a secret church that promises salvation to even the most troubled people. Intrigued, Travis joins the church and meets the leader, the charismatic Father Jay, who indoctrinates him into his sect's sometimes radical practices. When a series of tragedies befalls Father Jay and his flock, Travis must decide if his loyalty truly lies with Father Jay, the ever-elusive...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Lieutenant Abby Mullen is no stranger to crisis. As the hostage negotiation instructor for the NYPD, she deals with worst-case scenarios every day. Nothing fazes her anymore. That all changes when she gets a call from Eden Fletcher, a fellow survivor of the infamous Wilcox cult. The two haven't spoken since the night of a tragic, fiery massacre, when their paths diverged. But now Eden needs Abby's help: someone has kidnapped her son and is demanding...
70) 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.
71) 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
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
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
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...
76) Cults
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Describes the nature and history of cults and the different aspects of living in a cult, including the difficulty of leaving it.
77) 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
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
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...