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62) Storming heaven
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2000, c1998
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Mark Beamon searches for a woman abducted by a religious cult in Arizona. The woman is the granddaughter of the cult's dying leader and he wants to train her as his successor.
63) Cult of crime
Author
Series
Hardy boys casefiles volume 3
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
In trying to free their friend Holly from the clutches of a murderous mountain cult, the Hardy Boys find that the lunatic Rajah and his followers have spread to their own home town.
65) Where we are
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Told in the voices of two high school juniors, Micah is held captive by the cult his parents joined and Sesame, his orphaned girlfriend, rallies their friends to save him.
66) The unspoken
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Six teens are drawn back to the small, North Carolina town where they once lived and, one by one, begin to die of their worst fears, as prophesied by the cult leader they killed five years earlier, and who they believe poisoned their parents.
67) A deadly mission
Author
Publisher
Mainly Murder Press LLC
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A menacing tangle of religious hypocrisy and the dark side of human nature reveals itself as Olympia and Jim risk their lives to uncover murder, illicit sex and embezzlement. assisted by Olympia's house-ghost, the spectral Miss Winslow, they race the clock to expose the cult's bloody underbelly before they kill again. -- P.[4] of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When twenty-two-year-old Kat Bird wakes up from a coma, she sees Jude, her twin sister. Jude's face and name are the only memories Kat has from before her accident. As Kat tries to relearn her history and identity, she trusts Jude will provide all the answers. Growing up in a New Age cult, isolated from society, the girls studied poetry and literature but also played dangerous games with dark lessons that followed them into adulthood. Now, with Kat's...
69) One last chance
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Former Green Beret Edge Logan has made a new life for himself at Nighthawk Security in Denver, using his finely honed skills to neutralize threats of all kinds. When he overhears friend and fellow agent Skye Delaney discussing a new case involving her missing sister and a mysterious cult, he offers himself as backup. With her own military background, Skye is gutsy and more than capable, but a cult like Children of the Sun is too risky for anyone...
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.
71) 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.
72) The special ones
Author
Pub. Date
2016
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?"--
73) The white forest
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Jane Silverlake, a young woman from the wild heath regions of Victorian England, uses her paranormal ability to see the souls of handcrafted objects to infiltrate a mysterious dream-manipulation cult into which the man she loves has gone missing.
74) All fall down
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Liesel Albright has dreamed of starting a family. She never bargained on inheriting one already in progress...or one so deeply damaged. When nineteen-year-old Sunshine appears on the Albrights' doorstep claiming Liesel's husband, Chris, is her father, all they can think to offer is temporary shelter. The next day, they're stunned by the news that the Family of Superior Bliss, led by a charismatic zealot, has committed mass suicide. Sunny and her children...
75) 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.
76) Silver
Author
Publisher
Variance Arkansas
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Two thousand years ago, thirty silver Tyrian shekels were paid to secure the most infamous betrayal of all time. Melted down by the grandsons of Judas Iscariot, Menahem and Eleazar ben Jair, in the dark heart of the Sicarii fortress, Masada, the silver was re-forged as a dagger. When the Sicarii zealots committed mass suicide in AD73 the dagger of Iscariot and the truth of his sacrifice were lost. Until now.
77) Here in Avalon
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Rose investigates the disappearance of her irresponsible and impetuous sister who fell followed a cult-like cabaret troupe that only appears at night on a mysterious red boat that sails around New York and is blamed for several disappearances"--
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Being chased by cults, a maniac, and the sorcerers of the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit, cephalopod specialist Billy Harrow inadvertently learns that he holds the key to finding a missing squid--a squid that just happens to be an embryonic god whose powers, properly harnessed, can destroy all that is, was, and ever shall be.
79) Cybele's secret
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Scholarly eighteen-year-old Paula and her merchant father journey from Transylvania to Istanbul to buy an ancient pagan artifact rumored to be charmed, but others, including a handsome Portuguese pirate and an envoy from the magical Wildwood, want to acquire the item, as well.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In Amy Suiter Clarke's brilliant sophomore thriller, a young woman returns to her rural Minnesota hometown for the funeral of her ex boyfriend-her first love-who died suspiciously, only to confront the ways a radical pastor's warped evangelical beliefs have poisoned the whole town"--