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Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Amy Larson and her partner Hunter Forrest investigate a missing persons case in a series of caves outside Denver, Colorado, they discover a muddy pit littered with corpses that are covered in human bite marks and find the case leading them to a cult.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2022]
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
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Double Threat is a new stand-alone thriller from New York Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson. Daley has a problem. Her 26-year life so far has been unconventional, to say the least, but now she's got this voice in her head. It claims to be a separate entity that's going to be sharing her body from now on. At first she thinks she's gone schizophrenic, then considers the possibility that maybe she really has been invaded - but by what? Medical...
Author
Series
A Colter Shaw novel volume 2
Language
English
Description
"In the wilderness of Washington State, expert tracker Colter Shaw has located two young men accused of a terrible hate crime. But when his pursuit takes a shocking and tragic turn, Shaw becomes desperate to discover what went so horribly wrong and if he is to blame. Shaw's search for answers leads him to a shadowy organization that bills itself as a grief support group. But is it truly it a community that consoles the bereaved? Or a dangerous cult...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ten years ago, Grace saw something that would forever change the course of history. When evil in its purest form is unleashed on the world, she and others from their religious community are already hidden deep in the hills of Tennessee, abiding by every rule that will keep them safe, pure--and alive. As long as they stay there, behind the red perimeter. Her older brother's questions and the arrival of the first outsiders she's seen in a decade set...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 25 cm.
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,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A novel about a journalist in pursuit of a story about a child who survived a cult mass suicide, which may not be all that it appeared to be, told in Janice Hallett's signature original and innovative style of emails, messages, news clips, and screenplay excerpts"--
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On the wild Oregon coast, tucked between the mountains and the sea, stands Siren Song, home to a group of women known as The Colony. Their aunt hoped the isolated lodge would be a sanctuary, a place where she could protect them and their special gifts. But nowhere is safe from the man who has marked them for death. The note pinned to the dead body found on the remote beach has no name, just Ravinia Rutledge's phone number and the words Next of Kin....
Author
Series
[Holland Family Saga volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
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"--
10) Walk the wire
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are called to London, North Dakota, they instantly sense that the thriving fracking town is ripe for trouble. The promise of a second gold rush has attracted an onslaught of newcomers all hoping for a windfall, and the community is growing faster than houses can be built. The sudden boom has also brought a slew of problems with it, including drugs, property crimes, prostitution--and now murder....
11) The donut legion
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Garner has a bad feeling. His ex-wife, Meg, has been missing for over a week and one quick peek into her home shows all her possessions packed up in boxes. Neighbors claim she's running from bill collectors, but Charlie suspects something more sinister is afoot. Meg was last seen working at the local donut shop, a business run by a shadow group most refer to as 'The Saucer People'; a space-age, evangelist cult...Along with his brother Felix...Charlie...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
xii, 257 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community--an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how could this be? How could Nathaniel Hawthorne have so perfectly...
13) The chosen one
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
213 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a polygamous desert cult, Kyra sees being chosen to be her uncle's seventh wife as just punishment for having read books and kissed a boy, and is torn between facing her fate and running away from all that she knows and loves.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines what goes on inside the minds of cult leaders and their followers, how cult leaders from different generations resemble one another, and the rise and fall from grace of some of the most notorious cult figures.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Language
English
Description
Jenna Miscavige Hill was raised in the church of Scientology and always obeyed what she was instructed to do. At age twenty-one she risked everything by leaving Scientology and now speaks out about her life, the Church, and her dramatic escape to reveal details about a religion that has been the subject of fierce debate and speculation worldwide.
16) Rebellion
Author
Series
The 100 volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a fanatical cult determined to cleanse the war-ravaged Earth threatens the one hundred, Clarke sets off to make peace with these strangers while Glass falls under the spell of the cult's magnetic message.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After escaping from a dangerous cult and the watchful eye of its charismatic leader, a young woman named Martha tries to reclaim a normal life with her family. But the haunting memories from Martha's past trigger a chilling paranoia, and nowhere seems safe as the fragile line between her reality and delusions begin to blur.
18) Split image
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Overwhelmed by a double homicide involving a mob hit, a high-ranking crime figure, and twin mafia wives, Jesse Stone increasingly succumbs to alcoholism before agreeing to assist fellow investigator Sunny Randall on a seemingly unrelated case.
19) The hive
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
462 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the Pacific Northwest, detective Lindsay Jackman is investigating the murder of a young journalist found at the bottom of a ravine. Lindsay soon learns that the victim was writing an exposae. Her subject: a charismatic wellness guru who's pulled millions into her euphoric orbit... To hear Marnie Spellman tell it, when she was a child, a swarm of bees lifted her off the ground and toward the sunlight, illuming her spiritual connection with nature-an...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
329 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Retired Detective Sunderson must get past his troubles with alcohol if he and an unlikely sixteen-year-old sidekick are ever going to expose an elusive cult leader called The Great Leader.