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...
Cults
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Author:Woods, JaneSummary: -
Author:Miller, Whitney A.Summary: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...
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Author:Keene, Brian, Mamatas, NickSummary: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...
- Author:Krentz, Jayne AnnSummary:
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...
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Author:Ruff, MattSummary: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...
- Author:Hrdlitschka, ShelleySummary:
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,...
- Author:Martin, WalterSummary:
A comprehensive reference work containing a thorough analysis of all the major cults and the significant minor cults.
- Author:Woods, StuartSummary:
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...
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Author:Adler, MargotSummary: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...
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Author:Webb, BettySummary: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...
- Author:Tanzer, MollySummary:
Amityville baywoman Ellie West fishes by day and bootlegs moonshine by night. It's dangerous work under Prohibition-independent operators like her are despised by federal agents and mobsters alike-but Ellie's brother was...
- Author:Oliphant, JohnSummary:
The history of false prophet Brother XII, who operated a spiritual community in British Columbia in the 1920s.
- Author:Baldwin, James OsirisSummary:
My name is Alexi Sokolsky: blood mage, occult scholar, and hired killer. Three things that should convey me some immunity in the dog-eat-dog world of the Russian mafia. Fat chance. In reality, I think too much, drink too little, and if...
- Author:Barlow, KateSummary:
When Kate Barlow was a little girl, she moved with her mother and her older sisters to a ramshackle English mansion. They were not alone on the once-grand estate, surrounded as they were by twenty eccentric, elderly women, one of whom...
- Author:King, Laurie R.Summary:
Professor Anne Waverly teaches religious studies at a respected university. Occasionally, she works for the FBI. As Ana Wakefield, an eager seeker of higher truths, she infiltrates cults. Her assignment is to investigate a group called...
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Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:An ode to George Orwell's "1984" told in alternating male and female voices relates the stories of Aomame, an assassin for a secret organization who discovers that she has been transported to an alternate reality, and Tengo, a...
