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1) Two nights
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Sunday Night is a talented, tough woman with physical and psychological scars and a killer instinct. She has spent years running from her past. But after a bomb explosion leaves a girl missing, the family needs Sunnie's help. And it might just lead her to the truth about herself.
A childhood spent in a dangerous cult left Sunday Night with a bone-deep instinct for survival. It's kept her alive-- and left her mostly friendless. Forced into early retirement...
2) Revival
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, with the Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's sisters and mother. Then tragedy...
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a viral pandemic decimates the world, a survivalist is forced to take on a group of heavily armed religious fanatics who believe that he is harboring a woman who could be the key to ending the virus and repopulating the world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Voices told Lucas Darby to run. Voices no one else can hear. He's warned his sister not to look for him, but Rayne refuses to let her troubled brother vanish. on her desperate search, she meets Gabriel Stewart, a runaway with mysterious powers and far too many secrets. Rayne can't explain her crazy need to trust the strange yet compelling boy -- even though he scares her. They discover Lucas is running from the Believers, a fanatical church secretly...
10) Black sheep
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A cynical twentysomething must confront her cultish family in this fiery, irreverent novel from the national bestselling author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle. Vesper Wright is in hell. The night she gets fired from her unglamorous restaurant job, she comes home to find an envelope waiting on her doorstep. There's no return address, but she knows exactly who it's from --her estranged family. Inside the envelope is an invitation to the wedding of...
12) September dawn
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Takes an up-close look at the devastation wrought by religious fanaticism and set against the backdrop of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre. As a wagon train of westward-bound settlers makes its way across southern Utah, a confrontation with a congregation of Mormons soon leads to deadly consequences for all involved. Centered on the massacre, which continues to stir controversy over a century and a half after the fact.
13) Purple hibiscus
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
DESCRIPTION In the city of Egunu, Nigeria, fifteen year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a somewhat cloistered life. Their father is a wealthy businessman, they live in a beautiful home, and attend private school. But, through Kambili's eyes, we see that their home life is anything but harmonious. Her father, a fanatically religious man has impossible expectations of his children and his wife, and if things don't go his way he becomes physically...
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumor, touching on everything from family violence to sexuality and the personal struggle to remain intact in times of intense trauma"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Remy is a Chorister, rescued from the surface world and raised to sing in a choir of young boys. Remy is part of a strange crew who control the Leviathan, an aging nuclear submarine, that bears a sacred mission: to trigger the Second Coming when the time is right. But Remy has a secret too--she's the submarine's only girl. Gifted with the missile's launch key by the Leviathan's dying caplain, she swears to keep it safe. Safety, however, is not the...
17) The student
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Russian
Description
A young man gradually becomes a religious fanatic and his behavior changes the school environment and the lives of people around him.
As Venya is finally exempted by the school's devout principal, he grows confident that his strict and rigorous study of the Bible gives him the ability to manipulate all forms of authority. Challenged by a teacher who refuses to consent to his dogma, he sets out to eliminate her and subdue an entire community.
