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  • Without a prayer : the death of Lucas Leonard and how one church became a cult
    Auteur:
    Ashline, Susan
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    Teenager Lucas Leonard made shocking admissions in front of the altar - he'd practiced witchcraft, conspired to murder his parents, and committed unspeakable crimes. The confessions earned him a brutal beating by a gang of angry...
  • The walking Tanteek
    Auteur:
    Woods, Jane
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    A CNQ Editors’ Book of the Year. Does faith insist upon the spotless soul? Can intellectual integrity and an honest search for the holy in this world survive a collision with religious mania? Is heavenly forgiveness possible this side...
  • The violet hour
    Auteur:
    Miller, Whitney A.
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    Some call VisionCrest the pinnacle of religious enlightenment. Others call it a powerful cult. For seventeen years, Harlow Wintergreen has called it her life. As the adopted daughter of VisionCrest’s patriarch, Harlow is expected to be...
  • The program : inside the mind of Keith Raniere and the rise and fall of NXIVM
    Auteur:
    Hardin, Chet, Natalie, Toni
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    Many have heard of NXIVM and its creator, Keith Raniere, the unassuming Albany man now prosecuted for ensnaring tens of thousands of people in the US, Mexico, Canada and elsewhere, to do his bidding and pay millions of dollars to...
  • The Great Leader
    Auteur:
    Harrison, Jim
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    Literary legend Jim Harrison gives us a brilliant new work that finds him writing at the height of his powers, and in fresh and audacious new directions. The Great Leader is the story of Detective Sunderson, a northern Michigan police...
  • The girl in white : a chilling psychological thriller
    Auteur:
    Nicholl, John
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    Harry Gilmore has no idea of the terrible danger he faces when he meets a beautiful girl in a local student bar. Drugged and abducted, Harry wakes up in a secure wooden compound deep in the Welsh countryside, where he is groomed by the...
  • The Damned Highway Fear and Loathing in Arkham
    Auteur:
    Keene, Brian, Mamatas, Nick
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    A hilarious, shocking, terrifying thrill ride across the American landscape, The Damned Highway pays homage to the gonzo journalism of Hunter S. Thompson and the uncanny terrors of H. P. Lovecraft! Horror legend Brian Keene (The Rising...
  • The children of Red Peak
    Auteur:
    DiLouie, Craig
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    David Young, Deacon Price, and Beth Harris live with a dark secret. As children, they survived a religious group's horrific last days at the isolated mountain Red Peak. Years later, the trauma of what they experienced never feels...
  • Sins of the bees
    Auteur:
    Lampman, Annie
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    Other than her bonsai trees, twenty-year-old arborist Silvania August Moonbeam Merigal is alone in the world. After her mother dies and then her grandfather-the man who raised her and the last of her family-Silva suffers a sexual...
  • Second sight
    Auteur:
    Sala, Sharon
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    Tara Bien calls PI Charlie Dodge to report that her twelve year old daughter, Jordan, has been kidnapped by her ex-husband, who has been an absentee father most of his daughter's life. Jordan barely knows him, and Tara fears he...
  • Promise not to tell
    Auteur:
    Krentz, Jayne Ann
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    A broken promise reveals a terrifying legacy in this electrifying novel from the New York Times bestselling author of When All the Girls Have Gone. Seattle gallery owner Virginia Troy has spent years battling the demons that stem from...
  • Mooncalves
    Auteur:
    Hetherington, Victoria
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    Mooncalves follows the bloody implosion of a cult in Sainte-Pétronille, Quebec, understood through the urgent voices of the living and a ring of ghostly, shape-shifting watchers. Sensing the impending dissolution of society by...
  • Lovecraft country
    Auteur:
    Ruff, Matt
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    Chicago, 1954. When his father goes missing, twenty-two-year-old army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him. On his journey he encounters both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits...
  • Lost boy
    Auteur:
    Hrdlitschka, Shelley
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    Raised in a polygamous community, Jon starts to question the rules of his faith. After he is caught kissing a girl, he is forced to flee his town and the only life he knows. He finds a community of other Lost Boys, or "polygs,...
  • Kingdom of the Cults
    Auteur:
    Martin, Walter
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    A comprehensive reference work containing a thorough analysis of all the major cults and the significant minor cults.
  • In the clearing
    Auteur:
    Pomare, J. P.
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    Amy has only ever known what life is like in the Clearing, with her brothers and sisters--until a newcomer, a younger girl named Freya, joins the "family" and offers a glimpse of the outside world. When news breaks of a...
  • Heat
    Auteur:
    Woods, Stuart
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    Three federal agents have attempted this risky mission already. None of them have survived. Now the Justice Department wants to bring back Jesse Warden, an ex-DEA agent serving time for a crime he didn't commit, to take on a lethal...
  • Drawing down the moon : witches, druids, goddess-worshippers, and other pagans in America
    Auteur:
    Adler, Margot
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    Almost forty years since its original publication, Drawing Down the Moon continues to be the only detailed history of the burgeoning but still widely misunderstood Neo-Pagan subculture. Margot Adler attended ritual gatherings and...
  • Diabhal
    Auteur:
    Kaufman, Kathleen
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    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...
  • Desert lost : a Lena Jones mystery book 6
    Auteur:
    Webb, Betty
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    While running surveillance in an industrial section of Scottsdale, P.I. Lena Jones discovers the body of a woman connected to Second Zion, an infamous polygamy cult based in northern Arizona. Lena joins forces with Rosella, a former...

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