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English
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Gabry lives a quiet life in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, hemmed in by the dead who hunger for the living, but her mother Mary's secrets, a cult of religious zealots who worship the dead, and a stranger from the forest who seems to know Gabry threaten to destroy her world.
2) Awake
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Language
English
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Description
"A car accident causes Scarlett to start remembering pieces of an unfamiliar past. When a new guy moves into town, Scarlett feels an instant spark. But Noah knows the truth of Scarlett's past, and he's determined to shield her from it...because Scarlett grew up in a cult called Eternal Light, controlled by her biological parents. And they want her back"--
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him--the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world's population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately...
4) Halt's peril
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Tennyson, the false prophet of the Outsider cult, has escaped and Halt is determined to stop him before he crosses the border into Araluen, but Genovesan assassins put Will and Halt's extraordinary archery skills to the test.
5) Control room
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Maggie is pulled from her high school when her mom begins dating a cult leader. Maggie begins homeschooling at the group's compound and realizes it may be up to her to rescue herself -- and her mother.
6) Losing Faith
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Brie tries to cope with her grief over her older sister Faith's sudden death by trying to learn more about the religious "home group" Faith secretly joined and never talked about with Brie or her parents.
Author
Series
Five elements volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After accidentally merging San Francisco with the shadow dimension of Arcadia, Gabe and his friends risk the ultimate sacrifice to unite all five elements.
8) Eden west
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
During an eventful year for the Christian cult where he has grown up, seventeen-year-old Jacob finds his faith and devotion tested when he meets new friends from the outside world and encounters temptations that threaten his contentment.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
Raised in a cult, twelve-year-old Zylnn has been taught that the outside world is dark and full of liars, but when her father rescues her, Zylnn experiences new aspects of life for the first time and has to make a decision about the cult.
10) Wolfpack
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A group of teenage girls living in a cult are ensnared by suspicision and paranoia when one of them goes missing.
13) The shadow city
Author
Series
Five elements volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Gabe and his friends are challenged to use the powers of the five elements to destroy Arcadia and prevent a sinister cult from tearing down the barrier between the worlds.
Author
Series
Five elements volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Finding an old map, Gabe and his friends follow clues to a secret chamber beneath San Francisco, where they perform what they think is a friendship ritual before strange events reveal a sinister cult from a parallel realm.
15) The lightcasters
Author
Series
Umbra tales volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Mia McKenna and her family live in perpetual night in the town of Nubis, and when a mysterious cult storms her hometown and captures all the umbra tamers and their mystical, powerful creatures made of shadow and starlight, Mia and her brother, Lucas, are the city's only hope of survival.
16) Divine Madness
Author
Series
CHERUB volume 05
Language
English
Description
"When CHERUB uncovers a link between eco-terrorist group Help Earth and a wealthy religious cult known as The Survivors, James is sent to their isolatated outback headquarters on an infiltration mission. It's a thousand kilometers to the closest town, and James is under massive pressure from the cult's brainwashing techniques. This time he's not just fighting terrorists...he's got to battle for his own mind." -- from P.4 of cover.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 6
Language
English
Description
Nancy encounters a mysterious saleswoman in a perfume shop, a curious man on the train, and then finds herself trying to decipher a strange code.
Author
Series
Age of darkness novel volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The ancient god has been resurrected and sealed inside Beru's body, but both of them are at the mercy of the Prophet Pallas, who wants to subjugate the Six Prophetic Cities; but the god grows stronger and far away Anton is learning to harness his powers as a Prophet, and planning to lead Jude, Hassan, and Beru's sister Ephyra on a desperate quest to destroy the god, Pallas, and save the world from darkness--even if it requires an unbearable sacrifice....
20) Those who prey
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"College freshman Emily is seduced into joining a cult with deadly results"--
Emily expected to spend freshman year strolling through the ivy-covered campus with new friends, finally feeling like she belonged. Instead, she walks the campus alone, still not having found her place or her people so far away from home. Then the Kingdom, an exclusive on-campus group, offers everything Emily expected of college and more: acceptance, friends, a potential...