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"During their senior year of college, Shay Evans and her best friend Laurel escaped from a violent, magnetic man and his equally violent views about women and society. Eight years later, Shay has built a new life for herself. But the horrifying news of Laurel's death shatters her world and makes her suspect that the people from her past are back and more dangerous than ever. Recruiting the help of a true-crime podcast host, Shay is determined to find...
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Eight months into a surrogate pregnancy for her sister, Kristina, Detective Savannah Dunbar just wants to wrap up paperwork before taking medical leave. But her department's investigation into a brutal double homicide has suddenly become much more complex - and personal. And now there are disturbing rumors about the Colony, its matriarch, and a long history of bitter secrets.
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AltaMira Press
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2009.
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1 online resource (268 pages)
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"Re-riting Woman presents the first in-depth ethnographic study of Dianic Wicca. Its subject, Circle of Aradia, is a branch of the religion based in the Los Angeles area. This religion-of, by, and for women-conceives the Divine as exclusively female, and has infused feminism into Wicca worldwide. Kristy S. Coleman combines ethnography with theory to present a full account of what Dianic Witches' lived practice looks like and what it means. The theorist...
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2010
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1 online resource (562 p.)
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"Nominated by Foreword Magazine as 2009 Book of the Year award finalist. Marc Headley provides a rare, never before seen insider's look at life inside Scientology. He spent 15 years at their secret headquarters - a 500 acre property located deep in the California desert. "...well-paced and an entertaining read." Perrybulwer.com."--
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Department Q volume 6
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New York Times and internationally bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen delivers an exhilarating mystery in the Department Q series, featuring Detective Carl Mørck and his enigmatic assistants, Assad and Rose.
In the middle of his usual hard-won morning nap in the basement of police headquarters, Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, receives a call from a colleague working on the Danish island of Bornholm....
In the middle of his usual hard-won morning nap in the basement of police headquarters, Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, receives a call from a colleague working on the Danish island of Bornholm....
6) Halt's peril
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2010
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IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
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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.
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"Praised by Publishers Weekly as "intriguing and funny" and written by a National Book Award nominee, this "desert noir" traces a draft-dodging evangelical's road trip across the Mojave. Obadiah Wheeler encounters a world of temptation in the form of a pretty girl who's on the run, and his spiritual journey through the badlands is further complicated by an extraterrestrial relic and multiple homicides. A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice"--...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
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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.
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2018.
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"Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is drawn into a secretive cult founded by a charismatic former student with an enigmatic past. When the group commits a violent act in the name of faith, Will finds himself struggling to confront a new version of the fanaticism he's worked so hard to escape. Haunting and intense, The Incendiaries is a fractured love story that explores what can befall those who lose what they love most."--Amazon.com.
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"In 1981, ambitious young Ma Anand Sheela transported the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh to the United States to fulfill his dream of creating a utopia for his thousands of disciples. Four years later, the incendiary Rajneeshpuram commune in Oregon collapsed under the weight of audacious criminal conspiracies hatched in its inner sanctum, including the largest bioterrorism attack in US history, an unprecedented election fraud scheme, and multiple...
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2010
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IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
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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.
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Evan Delaney mysteries volume 1
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"Evan Delaney learns that not only has her ex-sister-in-law joined a religious cult, but the unstable young mother plans to regain custody of her son and disappear with him into the fold of the fanatical group. But when murder raises the stakes, Evan is dragged even deeper into the nightmare."--Amazon.com.
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On April 19 1993, on a remote property called Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas, 76 people who were part of the Branch Davidian cult died when their compound caught fire after a 51 day stand off with the FBI. Among the dead was one New Zealander. How did she come to join the group and what events led her to her tragic end? Hearken O Daughter is written by Grace Adams and Poia Alpha, who were former members of the Branch Davidians and sisters to the New...
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Anthony McCabe is a budding writer who has it all. He has success, he has happiness, he has money, and he has people who love him. He also has something many others don't, a terrifying past of abuse, neglect, and the inhuman horror known as religious abuse. Brainwashed as a young teenager by his own family into believing his mother's body was taken over and possessed by Satan, he was forced to endure over a decade of savage emotional assault, heartache,...
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Al mirar atrás, me parece increíble cuánto tiempo tardé en aprender que los sermones no son algo así como intuiciones espontáneas, sino una materia que debe trabajarse, y tardé incluso más tiempo en descubrir cómo hacerlo.
Creo que mis descubrimientos en esta línea no son muy impactantes, ni espero que sean novedosos en ningún sentido. Me da la sensación de que, si el sábado por la tarde hay personas que observan angustiadísimas sus...
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En este libro descubriremos cómo defender la verdad en un mundo de noticias falsas, de qué forma el ejemplo de Jesús nos enseña a trazar estrategias de comunicación y a relacionarnos con nuestros interlocutores, de qué manera comunicar temas difíciles ante una sociedad que nos observa con lupa o cómo, en esta Europa poscristiana, los evangélicos estamos participando en la conversación.
En "Evangélicos en la nueva era de la comunicación",...
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Mormonism is one of the fastest growing religions in the world. For those who have wondered in what specific ways Mormonism differs from the Christian faith, Mormonism 101 provides definitive answers, examining the major tenets of Mormon theology and comparing them with orthodox Christian beliefs. Perfect for students of religion and anyone who wants to have answers when Mormons come calling.
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This popular book from respected leader Charles H. Kraft shows believers how to exercise the authority they have from God through Jesus Christ. When Christians recognize and use the amazing gift of spiritual authority, they position themselves to provide protection and bring transformation, not only in their lives but in the lives of family members, friends, even coworkers. Now fully revised and updated.
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