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42) The project
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Lo Denham wants to expose the Unity Project as a cult and reconnect with her indoctrinated sister, but as she immerses herself in the group with no signs of Bea, Lo begins to question everything she thought was true.
43) Rebellion
Author
Series
The 100 series volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When a fanatical cult determined to cleanse the war-ravaged Earth threatens the one hundred, Clarke sets off to make peace with these strangers while Glass falls under the spell of the cult's magnetic message.
44) Eden west
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Tackling faith, doubt, and transformation, National Book Award winner Pete Hautman explores a boy's unraveling allegiance to an insular cult. Twelve square miles of paradise, surrounded by an eight-foot-high chain-link fence: this is Nodd, the land of the Grace. It is all seventeen-year-old Jacob knows. Beyond the fence lies the World, a wicked, terrible place, doomed to destruction. When the Archangel Zerachiel descends from Heaven, only the Grace...
45) Shallow graves
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
After waking in a shallow grave, Breezy, a high school senior, crosses the country seeking answers about her death and resurrection, discovering along the way a host of supernatural creatures, as well as a human cult determined to "free" them at any cost.
46) The innocent
Author
Series
Description
Suspense fiction. With "The Innocent," Taylor Stevens, the bestselling author of "The Informationist," returns with another blockbuster thriller featuring the fearless Vanessa Michael Munroe. Eight years ago, a man walked five-year-old Hannah out the front doors of her school and spirited her over the Mexican border, taking her into the world of a cult known as The Chosen. For eight years, followers of The Prophet have hidden the child, moving her...
47) Lost souls
Author
Series
Description
Twenty-seven-year-old Kristi Bentz is lucky to be alive. Not many people her age have nearly died twice at the hands of a serial killer, and lived to tell about it. Her dad, New Orleans detective, Rick Bentz, wants Kristi to stay in New Orleans and out of danger. But if anything, Kristi's experiences have made her even more fascinated by the mind of the serial killer. She hasn't given up her dream of being a true-crime writer - of exploring the darkest...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Raised in isolation in a post-apocalyptic world, Ami Miles escapes to seek her long-lost mother after her grandfather, knowing she is one of the few surviving women capable of child-bearing, arranges her marriage to a stranger.
49) Beneath
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
What waits Beneath? Pat O'Toole has always idolized his older brother, Coop. He's even helped Coop with some of his crazier plans -- such as risking his life to help his big brother dig a tunnel underneath their neighborhood in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Coop is . . . different. He doesn't talk on the phone, doesn't use email, and doesn't have friends. He's never really cared for anything but the thrill of being underground and Pat. So it's no...
50) Kraken
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Being chased by cults, a maniac, and the sorcerers of the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit, cephalopod specialist Billy Harrow inadvertently learns that he holds the key to finding a missing squid--a squid that just happens to be an embryonic god whose powers, properly harnessed, can destroy all that is, was, and ever shall be.
51) The sun is God
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Colonial New Guinea-1906: a small group of mostly German nudists live an extreme back-to-nature existence on the remote island of Kabakon. Eating only coconuts and bananas, they purport to worship the sun. One of their members-Max Lutzow-has recently died, allegedly from malaria. But an autopsy on his body in the nearby capital of Herbertsh.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
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.
Author
Description
A group of eco-terrorists threaten to start an earthquake and destroy San Francisco unless the government abandons plans to create a dam. They are ignored until the earth trembles and FBI agent Judy Maddox discovers that the technology for a man-made earthquake is available. At which point a race against time gets underway.
55) The darkest path
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
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.
Author
Series
Harley Merlin volume 6
Pub. Date
[2019]
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.
57) All fall down
Author
Description
In the midst of a chaotic midnight assembly, Sunshine is forced outside into the darkness. Holding a scrap of paper scrawled with a stranger's name and address, Sunny grasps the hands of her three small children and begins her escape. Liesel Albright has dreamed of starting a family. She never bargained on inheriting one already in progress…or one so deeply damaged. When nineteen-year-old Sunshine appears on the Albrights' doorstep claiming Liesel's...
58) Just one touch
Author
Series
Slow burn novels volume 5
Description
"Raised in a strict religious cult since she was a young girl, Jenna has no connection to the outside world beyond vague flashes of memory that seem to be from another life. Memories she clings to when the cult leaders discover her extraordinary ability to heal--and punish her. Years held captive and forced to do the cult's bidding have turned Jenna into a meek, timid woman--or so they think. In truth, she is merely biding her time, waiting for the...
Author
Series
Cleve Trewe novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"The second in the action-packed new series from Ralph Compton writer, John Shirley, takes traditional Westerns on a wild ride with the epic adventures of master gunfighter, horseman, and Civil War veteran Cleveland Trewe as he and his strong partner, Bernice fight for survival in 1880s Nevada . . . Civil War veteran Cleveland Trewe stumbles onto a bizarre cult in the Sierra Nevada mountains-where the faithful are healed and fates are sealed . . ....
60) Out of the dark
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
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...