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Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Marina and sixteen-year-old Jed accompany their parents' religious cult, the Believers, to await the end of the world atop a remote mountain, where they try to decide what they themselves believe.
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Halt, Will, and Horace set out for Hibernia, where a quasi-religious group, the Outsiders, is sowing confusion and sedition, and they find that secrets from Halt's past may hold the key to restoring order before the last kingdom is undermined.
3) Heat
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
When Jesse Warden goes to Idaho to infiltrate a dangerous religious cult, he finds himself pitted not only against the cult but the federal agency who sent him.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Kate Bennett vanished from a parking lot eleven years ago, leaving behind her husband and young daughter. When she shows up at a Montana gas station, clutching an infant and screaming for help, investigators believe she may have been abducted by a cult. Kate's return flips her family's world upside down-her husband is remarried, and her daughter barely remembers her. Kate herself doesn't look or act like she did before. While the family tries to...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A mother and her daughters drive for days without sleep until they crash their car in rural Oklahoma. The mother, Amaranth, is desperate to get away from someone she's convinced will follow them wherever they go--her husband. The girls, Amity and Sorrow, can't imagine what the world holds outside their father's polygamous compound. Rescue comes in the unlikely form of Bradley, a farmer grieving the loss of his wife. At first unwelcoming to these strange,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Amos Decker, the FBI consultant with a perfect memory, and Alex Jamison FBI. Return to solve a gruesome murder of a young woman named Irene Cramer, in a booming North Dakota oil fracking town. The promise of a second gold rush has attracted an onslaught of newcomers all hoping for a windfall, bringing with them problems, including drugs, property crimes, prostitution and now agruesomee murder.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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...
11) The soul catcher
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
In a secluded cabin six young men stage a deadly standoff with FBI agents.
In a wooded area near the FDR Memorial in Washington, the body of a senator's daughter is discovered.
For FBI Special Agent Maggie O'Dell, there is nothing routine about being called in to work these two cases. As an expert criminal profiler, Maggie provides psychological insight on cases that involve suspected serial killers.
...12) Divine madness
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books
Pub. Date
c2012
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 fightingfor his own mind"--Dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After Eve Duncan's adopted daughter, Jane, paints a portrait called "Guilt," a mysterious cult targets the young artist, deciding that she only has eight days to live, during which time they plan on forcing her to lead them to priceless ancient treasure.
Author
Series
Eldest curses volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood must recover a book stolen by warlocks Ragnor Fell and Shinyun Jung, who are being controlled by a Greater Demon.
15) Bitter Falls
Author
Series
Stillhouse Lake volume 4
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In spite of a harrowing past still haunting her, Gwen Proctor is trying to move forward. Until a new assignment gives her purpose: the cold-case disappearance of a young man in Tennessee. Three years missing, no clues. Just Ruth Landry, a tortured mother in limbo. Gwen understands what it's like to worry about your children. Gwen's investigation unearths new suspects ... and victims. As she follows each sinister lead, the implications of the mystery...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After his older brother is killed, David turns to anger and his parents to religion, but just as David's life is beginning to make sense again his parents press him and his sister to join them in cutting worldly ties to prepare for the Rush, when the faithful will be whisked off to heaven.
17) This might hurt
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From the USA Today bestselling and Edgar-nominated author of Darling Rose Gold comes a dark, thrilling novel about two sisters-one trapped in the clutches of a cult, the other in a web of her own lies-and the lengths they will go to save each other. Welcome to Wisewood. We'll keep your secrets if you keep ours. Natalie Collins hasn't heard from her sister in more than half a year. The last time they spoke, Kit was slogging from mundane workdays to...
Author
Series
Mercy Kilpatrick novels volume 6
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The job: infiltrate a militia amassing illegal firearms in an isolated forest community. FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick is the ideal candidate. She knows Oregon. She's near the compound. And having been raised among survivalists, Mercy understands the mind-set of fanatics. She's ready to blend in. As Mercy disappears into the winter hills, something just as foreboding emerges. Mercy's fiance, Eagle's Nest police chief Truman Daly, is faced with a puzzling...
19) The darkest path
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Since he was captured by the Glorious Path, a militant religion based on the teachings of a former soldier, fifteen-year-old Cal has served the Path in its brutal war with the remains of the United States government, and tried to survive and protect his younger brother, but when he kills an officer to protect a stray dog, Cal is forced take his brother and the dog and run.
20) The line between
Author
Publisher
Howard Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In this frighteningly believable thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee, an extinct disease re-emerges from the melting Alaskan permafrost to cause madness in its victims. For recent apocalyptic cult escapee Wynter Roth, it's the end she'd always been told was coming"-- Provided by publisher.