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81) Family
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the 1960s, seventeen-year-old Melinda leaves an abusive home for San Francisco, meets the charismatic Henry, and follows him to his desert commune where sex and drugs are free, but soon his "family" becomes violent against rich and powerful people and she is compelled to join in.
82) Creed
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When their car breaks down, Dee, her boyfriend Luke, and his brother Mike walk through a winter storm to take refuge in a nearby deserted town called Purity Springs, but in the morning they see the town is populated with a deadly cult and find themselves at the mercy of the charismatic leader, Elijah Hawkins.
83) Say no more
Author
Series
Sacramento novels volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Language
English
Description
"Mercy Callahan thought she'd escaped the cult decades ago, but its long fingers are reaching out for her again in this electrifying novel in the Sacramento series by New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose. Seventeen years ago. That was the last time Mercy Callahan saw Ephraim Burton, the leader of the twisted Eden cult where she was raised. But even though she escaped the abuse and terror, they continue to haunt her. When her brother Gideon...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Behind the white-washed walls of the compound, life was simple. Follow the rules, "live in the light," and all would be well. But on the outside, things are different. There are colors and toys and food. There are liars and darkness. And twelve-year-old Zylynn now faces a difficult decision--to stay here with the enemy or find her way back to the light. And neither may be what it seems." -- jacket.
85) Last days
Author
Publisher
Underland Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Forcibly recruited into an underground religious cult in order to solve a murder, a detective weaves through a maze of lies, threats, and misinformation involving stakes that are much higher than he anticipated.
Author
Series
Lena Jones mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
While investigating the suspicious death of a woman linked to two local "new thought" groups, private eye Lena Jones begins to see connections between this crime and the murder of her brother and father and her mother's disappearance thirty-five years ago.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In a remote corner of Alaska, Investigative Services Bureau agent Felicity Harland squares off against a mysterious cult leader with potentially deadly motives when she joins with her partner, Hux, to investigate the deaths of a young couple in Gates of the Arctic National Park.
89) Mystic and rider
Author
Series
Twelve houses volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
90) Crisscross
Author
Series
Repairman Jack novels volume 8
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
91) The Special Ones
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"When four young people are taken against their will to become part of a cult, they are worshipped by their followers and become lost in their new reality--but what happens if they rebel against the one holding them captive?"--
92) Diabhal: a novel
Author
Series
Diabhal novels volume 1
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Diabhal (Devil) is the story of cults, exorcisms and the devil in 1980's era Los Angeles. Ceit Robertson, age ten, is the next Matrarc to the Society, a cultish, matriarchal group living in an inconspicuous cul-de-sac in Venice Beach. When Ceit's mother is attacked by spirits from the old world, a failed exorcism results in Ceit's exile into the foster care system in Los Angeles. She eventually lands in the infamous MacLaren Hall, a very real and...
94) Felonious monk
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Tommy Martini, the monk with an anger management problem. Since killing somebody with a single punch is not a needed talent in a monastery, he spends his time praying, meditating, and taking his anger management medicine. But his meditations are interrupted by a legacy from his uncle, a crooked priest. Arriving in a New Age Arizona town to claim his inheritance, Brother Tommy meets a charismatic, smoking-hot cult leader who claims that women...
95) The prophet
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Cheshire. May Day, 1753. Tabitha De Vallory believes her life is perfect: she has an imposing home with all the comforts she has ever desired, and is expecting her first child with doting husband Nathaniel De Vallory. But Tabitha's happiness is shaken when a girl is slaughtered beneath the Mondrem Oak on the family's forest estate. Recognizing the victim from her former scandalous life, Tabitha vows to find the killer. Nearby, enigmatic Baptist Gunn...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Instant national bestseller Nathan Ripley follows up the success of Find You in the Dark with another suspenseful page-turner--this time about a woman whose notorious father died when she was a child, but whose legacy comes back to haunt her."--
97) Fourth Day
Author
Series
Charlie Fox novels volume 8
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twelve years ago Jessica Williams escaped a cult. Thanks to the private detective who rescued her, she reintegrated into society, endured an uncomfortable notoriety, and tried to put it all behind her. Then, at an airport bar, Jessica meets a woman with an identical name and birth date. It appears to be just an odd coincidence--until a week later, when Jessica finds her bank account drained and her personal information stolen. Following a trail of...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Evan Ryder returns to uncover an international conspiracy against American democracy in a white-knuckle new thriller by New York Times bestselling author, Eric Van Lustbader. Evan Ryder was once a field agent for a black-ops arm of the Department of Defense. Now she works for Parachute, a cutting-edge quantum-computing firm whose private espionage network exceeds any government spy agency. But her mission remains the same: seek out and destroy Omega,...