Rose, Amy
Summary: Survivor Amy Rose recounts her upbringing in an abusive cult which forbade independent learning, and how she discovered books in a secret library that opened up her world and inspired her to escape.--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 ROSSummary: Deep in Appalachia, Pastor Lemuel Childs officiates over an isolated community of serpent handlers, an obscure sect of Pentecostals who freely take up venomous snakes to prove themselves before God. As his devoted daughter Mara prepares for her wedding day under the observant eye of Hope Slaughter, Mara reveals a deadly secret that threatens to shatter the entire community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR THE1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF THE
Summary: A charismatic yet psychotic serial killer communicates with other active serial killers and activates a cult of believers following his every command.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FOLItō, Junji
Summary: "A woman walks alone at the foot of Mount Sengoku. A man appears, saying he's been waiting for her, and invites her to a nearby village. Surprisingly, the village is covered in hairlike volcanic glass fibers, and all of it shines a bright gold. At night, when the villagers perform their custom of gazing up at the starry sky, countless unidentified flying objects come raining down on them--the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2021
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Summary: "The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver, he finds work on a farm and meets Jo Anne McDuffy, a college student and gifted painter. Their connection is immediate, but their romance is complicated by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BURMoffett, Jennifer
Summary: 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 boyfriend, and a chance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MOFPeterson, Megan Cooley
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Piper knows that Father is a Prophet. Infallible. The chosen one. She would do anything for Father. That's why she takes care of all her little sisters. That's why she runs end-of-the-world drills. That's why she never asks questions. Because Father knows best. Until the day he doesn't. Until the day the government raids the compound and separates Piper from her siblings,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC PETClare, Cassandra
Summary: High Warlock Magnus Bane learns that a demon-worshiping cult, the Crimson Hand, is wreaking havoc across Europe, threatening more than just his romantic getaway with new boyfriend, Alec Lightwood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLAMiller, Holly Marie
Summary: "At ten months old, Holly Marie was brought to the door of a church by three barefoot women in white robes and head coverings. Adopted by the pastor and raised in a loving Christian home, Holly nevertheless struggled with the ache of not knowing what had happened to her biological parents. She still felt their absence even as she married and started a family of her own. When two detectives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Worthy Publishing, a division of Hachett Book Group, Inc. 2023
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Summary: "In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a memoir about an exceptional upbringing, but about a woman who, no matter the lack of tools given to her, is determined to overcome. Behind the tall, foreboding gates of a commune in Brazil, Daniella Mestyanek Young was raised in the religious cult The Children of God, also known as The Family, as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Across the decades, Americans in search of divine truths have turned to unconventional prophets for the answers. Some of these prophets have demanded their faith, fortunes, and even their very lives. In American Cult, over twenty cartoonists explore the history of these groups with clarity and empathy--digging deep to find the human stories within."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paper Rocket Minicomics, Silver Sprocket 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 209.0973 AMESummary: Surrender to all eleven episodes of the seventh season of one of TV's most terrifying series. It is post-election 2016, and Ally Mayfair-Richards, a Michigan woman plagued by phobia, attempts to find happiness as a restaurateur alongside her chef wife and son. But Ally's family and her grip on reality are threatened by the arrival of Kai Anderson, a politically motivated cult leader who's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMECaine, Rachel
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2020
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Summary: Before, she lived inside the fence. She was never allowed to leave the property, never allowed to talk to Outsiders, never allowed to speak her mind. Because Father John controlled everything-- and Father John liked rules. Disobeying Father John came with terrible consequences. Then came the fire. Now Moonbeam is in the hospital, sharing her stories of sexual, physical and mental abuse. There...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HILLong, Tracie
Summary: Connect more meaningfully to the cultural wisdom and occult knowledge of the rich and thriving Celtic world. Reclaim ancestral traditions and older ways of connecting with the earth and spirituality by going straight to the heart of mystical traditions. Celtic Mysticism explores the folk magic that has thrived in the British Isles for thousands of years. With this guidebook for both newcomers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellfleet, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2023
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Summary: Charlie Fox must infiltrate a dangerous cult called Fourth Day in order to try to discover who murdered a boy five years ago, but soon finds herself in over her head, as the cult leader begins to lure her into becoming one of his followers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHASimone, Gail
Summary: "Journalist Chloe Pierce had no idea that her fiance Philip's decision to pick up a book by enigmatic and compelling self-help guru Astrid Mueller would change her life forever--by ending his! Three months after reading Mueller's book, Philip had blown his brains out all over Chloe's new kitchen and something in that book made him do it. Now, Chloe will stop at nothing as she attempts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics/Vertigo 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CLEWard, Catriona
Summary: "Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for best novel and the August Derleth Prize for best horror novel, Catriona Ward's Little Eve is a heart-pounding literary gothic with a devastating twist. Eve and Dinah are everything to one another, together day and night. They are raised among the Children, a clan ruled by a mysterious figure they call Uncle. All they know is the gray Isle of Altnaharra,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARSummary: Heading into its intense, spellbinding second season, the show catches up with a healthy and healed Ryan Hardy a year after the tragic events of last season. Following a horrific new murder spree, the FBI calls on Ryan and Mike Weston to speak with the lone survivor, Lily Gray, in order to help them solve the case. Having worked tirelessly to rehabilitate his life, Ryan is reluctant to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FOLSummary: "When media-savvy members of the Satanic Temple organize a series of public actions designed to advocate for religious freedom and challenge corrupt authority, they prove that with little more than a clever idea, a mischievous sense of humor, and a few rebellious friends, can speak truth to power in some truly profound ways. A timely look at a group of often misunderstood outsiders whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HAISummary: Season one: The Path follows a family at the center of a controversial cult movement as they struggle with relationships, faith, and power. Each episode takes an in-depth look at the gravitational pull of belief and what it means to choose between the life we live and the life we want. The series blends elements of mystery-thriller, romance, and mysticism. The Path Season one explores the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PATSummary: 1994. After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police swat team launch a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shudder, RLJE Films 2022
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR VHSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VConnolly, John
Summary: "Dangerous and driven private investigator Charlie Parker returns in the latest gripping thriller of internationally bestselling author John Connolly's series, in which ungodly fears haunt a strange and isolated community. Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings, and in doing so destroyed himself. His life was torn apart. He was imprisoned, brutalized. But in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONFondakowski, Leigh.
Summary: Survivors of the 1978 Jonestown massacre discuss what drew them to the People's Temple cult and the lasting effects of that fateful November day on their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2012