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61) Just like mother
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Spine-chilling and sharp, Just Like Mother is a modern gothic from a fresh new voice in horror, and "is set to be one of the year's most talked-about books" (Andrea Bartz, New York Times bestselling author). A girl would be such a blessing... The last time Maeve saw her cousin was the night she escaped the cult they were raised in. For the past two decades, Maeve has worked hard to build a normal life in New York City, where she keeps everything-and...
62) Tarry this night
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful dystopian novel set during a new American civil war, about a polygamist cult leader and his followers. In this eerily relevant, cautionary novel, a civil war is brewing in America. Below ground, a cult led by the deluded and narcissistic Father Ernst is ensconced in an underground bunker, waiting out the conflict. When the "Family" runs out of food, Ruth, coming of age and terrified of serving as Ernst's next wife, must choose between...
63) Say goodbye
Author
Series
Sacramento novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eden faces a final reckoning when the cult's past victims hunt them down in this explosive, high-stakes thriller in the Sacramento series from New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose. For decades, Eden has remained hidden in the remote wilds of the Pacific Northwest, Pastor keeping his cult's followers in thrall for his personal profit and sexual pleasures. But the Founding Elders are splintering, and Pastor's surrogate son, DJ, is scheming...
64) Together we rot
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Wil Greene’s mom has been missing for over a year, and the police are ready to call the case closed—they claim she skipped town and you can’t find a woman who wants to disappear. But she knows her mom wouldn’t just leave…and she knows the family of her former best friend, Elwood Clarke, has something to do with it. Elwood has been counting down the days until his 18th birthday—in dread. It marks leaving school and joining his pastor father...
65) Jackrabbit smile
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Hap and Leonard are an unlikely pair--Hap, a self-proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard, a tough-as-nails black gay Vietnam vet and Republican--but they're the closest friend either of them has in the world. Hap is celebrating his wedding to his longtime girlfriend, Brett (who is also Hap and Leonard's boss), when their backyard barbecue is interrupted by a couple of Pentecostal white supremacists. They're not too happy to see Leonard, and no...
Author
Series
La era de la oscuridad volume 3
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición: abril 2022.
Language
Español
Description
El antiguo dios ha sido resucitado y sellado dentro del cuerpo de Beru, pero ambos están a merced del profeta Palas, que quiere subyugar a las Seis Ciudades Proféticas; pero el dios se vuelve más fuerte y muy lejos, Anton está aprendiendo a aprovechar sus poderes como profeta, y planea guiar a Jude, Hassan y la hermana de Beru, Ephyra, en una búsqueda desesperada para destruir al dios Palas y salvar al mundo de la oscuridad. aunque requiera un...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"This debut novel--told in interviews--spans 20 years in the rise and fall of the charismatic leader of a seductive self-help movement. In the 1990s, a talk show host leads the "personality movement," an integrative approach to radical self-transformation. Mayah, the movement's architect and celebrity advocate, adopts a curious, wild child named Masha Isle. A guinea-pig for the movement, and the key to its future, Isle is the subject of the eight...
68) Modern gods
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning author who writes with "a wonderfully original and limber voice" (The New York Times)--a powerful, thought-provoking novel about two sisters who must reclaim themselves after their lives are dramatically upended Alison Donnelly has suffered for love. Still stuck in the small Northern Irish town where she was born, working for her father's real estate agency, she hopes to pick up the pieces and get her life back together. Her sister...
69) Midsommar
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
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Description
A young woman reluctantly joins her boyfriend on a summer trip to a Swedish festival where things quickly go awry.
70) Come November
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Senior year at high school is going to be hard enough for Rooney Harris, desperate to get into a good college and away from her small town, but things get tougher when she ends up as the sole support for herself and her younger brother because of their mother's obsession with the Next World Society, a cult that believes they will be whisked away to a new world paradise on November 17.
71) Split image
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
What initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach. Jesse Stone and private investigator Sunny Randall team up to solve two cases involving the gunshot murder of Petrov Ognowski and a religious cult holding an 18-year-old girl against her will.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults against the mundane struggles of modern life, resulting in a novel that is revelatory and resonant. Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy. He walked among invisible powers: devils and anti-gods that mock the mortal form. He learned a lethal catechism, lost his shadow, and...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
From electrifying horror author Nick Cutter comes a haunting new novel reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and Stephen King's It, in which a trio of mismatched mercenaries is hired by a young woman for a deceptively simple task: check in on her nephew, who may have been taken against his will to a remote New Mexico backwoods settlement called Little Heaven. Shortly after they arrive, things begin to turn ominous. There are stirrings in...
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