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Pelican Harbor volume 1
Language
English
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"Jane Hardy is appointed interim sheriff in Pelican Harbor, Alabama, after her father retires, but there's no time for an adjustment period. When her father is arrested for theft and then implicated in a recent murder, Jane quickly realizes she's facing someone out to destroy the only family she has. After escaping with her father from a cult fifteen years ago, Jane has searched relentlessly for her mother--who refused to leave--ever since. Could...
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
The youngest lawyer ever to grab the helm of Seattle's most prominent law firm, Gus Wheatley has found success-as well at money, power, and prestige. He thinks nothing can interfere with his meteoric rise to the top. Until his wife, Beth, vanishes.
Beth's disappearance coincides with a series of brutal murders the FBI dubs the "bookend killings." They think Beth is the killer's latest victim... or his willing accomplice. But Gus knows his wife...
Author
Series
Harley Merlin volume 6
Publisher
Nightlight Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The continuing story of Harley Merlin and her quest to avenge her mother's death finds Harley faced with teaming up with her half-brother Finch to infiltrate the Cult of Eris.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Moonbeam, seventeen, survives a devastating confrontation between government forces and the cult she grew up in, but will need a lot of help to heal mentally, emotionally, and physically.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Ten years ago, Grace saw something that would forever change the course of history. When evil in its purest form is unleashed on the world, she and others from their religious community are already hidden deep in the hills of Tennessee, abiding by every rule that will keep them safe, pure--and alive. As long as they stay there, behind the red perimeter.
Author
Series
Linda Wallander mysteries volume 1
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Taking a position with the Ystad police force shortly after graduating, Linda Wallander, the daughter of inspector Kurt Wallender, struggles with their contentious relationship before taking on the case of a childhood friend, who has disappeared.
7) Heat
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Language
English
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"Jesse Warden is at the end of his rope. Imprisoned unjustly (or at least for the wrong crime), he spends half his time in solitary confinement and the other half fighting with convicts who want to kill him because he was once a cop."--BOOK JACKET. "Then, at his lowest ebb, he is offered a way out. To earn his freedom, he must infiltrate a dangerous and reclusive religious cult in the mountains of the Idaho panhandle, a mission that turns out to be...
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English
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"A broken promise reveals a terrifying legacy in this electrifying novel from the New York Times bestselling author of When All the Girls Have Gone. A painter of fiery, nightmarish visions throws herself into the sea--but she'll leave some of her secrets behind... Seattle gallery owner Virginia Troy has spent years battling the demons that stem from her childhood time in a cult and the night a fire burned through the compound, killing her mother....
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Series
Blood ties, the Logans volume 3
Blood Ties The Logans volume 3
[Blood ties volume 3
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Blood Ties The Logans volume 3
[Blood ties volume 3
THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE PRINT Core
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English
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"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...
10) Out of the dark
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A beautiful artist is on the run from a cult by the New York Times-bestselling author of Snowfall.
When she was a child, Jade's mother took her away from her father and into the cultish world of the People of Joy. Then her mother died, and Jade was subjected to years of horrific abuse by cult members before she finally escaped. Now Jade is on the run-because the People of Joy will stop at nothing to keep their secrets safe. Living on the streets...
11) Jupiter's Bones
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Series
Language
English
Description
Detective Peter Decker of Los Angeles police investigates a series of murders within a religious cult. An attempt to storm the cult's compound has to be abandoned when the cult leader threatens to blow it up, along with scores of children.
12) Something wicked
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Language
English
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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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A young man from Mars comes to Earth & must learn our strange ways. After his arrival on Earth from his home on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith becomes the founder and pastor of a new religious sect and the sensation he creates teaches Earth some unforgettable lessons, including grokking, watersharing, and love. One of the greatest science fiction novels ever published, Stranger in a Strange Land's original manuscript had 60,000 words cut. Here at last,...
14) Halt's peril
Author
Series
Ranger's apprentice. Main series volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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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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Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In a remote village on Ireland’s southwest coast—where winding windswept roads open to spectacular views of rugged cliffs against immense, lonely beaches—some fear a mysterious cult could be connected to the disappearance of a young pregnant woman.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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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.
17) Cult of crime
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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High in the untamed Adirondack Mountains lurks one of the most fiendish plots Frank and Joe Hardy have ever encountered. On a mission to rescue their good friend Holly from the cult of the lunatic Rajah,the boys unwittingly become the main event in one of the madman's deadly rituals - human sacrifice. Fleeing from gun-weldinig "religious" zealots and riding a danger-infested train through the wilderness, Frank and Joe arrive home to find the worst...
18) Storming heaven
Author
Series
Mark Beamon thrillers volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"Mark Beamon, the maverick FBI agent introduced in Rising Phoenix, has been given one last chance by the Bureau. Shunted into a job running a sleepy Southwest office, Beamon is under strict orders to shape up and do things "by the book" - the FBI way."--BOOK JACKET. "There's only one problem: Crime doesn't go by the book."--BOOK JACKET. "Flagstaff, Arizona, is shocked when a millionaire auto dealer and his wife are brutally murdered in an apparent...
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Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Language
English
Description
the story and the reminiscences of a born-and-bred Upper Peninsula (Michigan) detective who is forced to retire. His dislocation, loss of identity and self-confidence, and his eventual awareness of how much he loves the UP and the new opportunities and interests that present themselves. The situations and his reactions to them echo Robert B Parker's Jesse Stone and Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander series (If you like The Great Leader, you will love...
20) The listeners
Author
Publisher
4th Estate
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A propulsive literary page-turner about a family torn apart by a mother's obsession with a sound that no one else can hear One night, while lying in bed next to her husband, Claire Devon suddenly hears a low hum. This innocuous sound, which no one else in the house can hear, has no obvious source or medical cause, but it begins to upset the balance of Claire's life. When she discovers that one of her students can also hear the hum, the two strike...