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Scarred : The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM, the Cult That Bound My Life
by Sarah Edmondson
Scarred follows actress Sarah Edmondson's account of her recruitment into the NXIVM cult, founded by Keith Raniere. It narrates in detail the 12 years she spent within the organization, during which she enrolled over 2,000 members, chronicling her breaking point and her harrowing fight to get out, help others, and heal
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Unfollow : a memoir of loving and leaving the Westboro Baptist Church
by Megan Phelps-Roper
The activist granddaughter of the founder of Topeka’s Westboro Baptist Church describes her work as their Twitter spokeswoman and how her dialogues with critics challenged her to question and eventually denounce the church’s extreme views on homosexuality.
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Pilgrim's Wilderness : a true story of faith and madness on the Alaska Frontier
by Tom Kizzia
Documents the story of Robert "Papa Pilgrim" Hale and the antiestablishment family settlement in remote Alaska that was eventually exposed as a cult-like prison where Hale brutalized and isolated his wife and 15 children, describing the torturous abuse endured by the family before his older children escaped and reported Hale to authorities.
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Leaving Shangrila : the true story of a girl, her transformation and her eventual escape
by Isabelle Gecils
Leaving Shangrila begins with young Isabelle, trapped in a hellish world. Surrounded by lies, manipulation, and abuse, Isabelle is desperate to escape the adversity of this place. Filled with tremendous strength and an unyielding drive to survive, she begins her journey toward freedom and self-realization. Through the trials and obstacles along the way, Isabelle goes back and forth to balance who she is with what she must do to survive.
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The Manson Women and Me : monsters, morality, and murder
by Nikki Meredith
An award-winning journalist—who visited Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel, two of the women who carried out acts of unspeakable violence on the orders of Charles Manson—takes readers on a dark journey into the very heart of evil as she provides insight into a particular kind of woman capable of a particular kind of brutality.
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Hollywood Park : a memoir
by Mikel Jollett
The frontman of indie band The Airborne Toxic Event reveals his upbringing in the infamous Church of Synanon cult, where he endured poverty, addiction and emotional abuse before slowly working his way toward college and a music career.
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The Sound of Gravel : a memoir
by Ruth Wariner
An account of the author's coming-of-age in a polygamist Mormon Doomsday cult describes her childhood on a Mexico hills farm as one of her father's more than 40 welfare-dependent children, the extreme religious beliefs that haunted her daily life and her escape in the aftermath of a devastating tragedy.
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Under the Banner of Heaven : a story of violent faith
by Jon Krakauer
Traces the events that surrounded the 1984 murder of a woman and her child by fundamentalist Mormons Ron and Dan Lafferty, exploring the belief systems and traditions, including polygamy, that mark the faith's most extreme factions and what their practices reflect about the nature of religion in America.
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The Road to Jonestown : Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
by Jeff Guinn
A portrait of the influential cult leader behind the Jonestown Massacre examines his personal life from his extramarital affairs and drug use to his fraudulent faith healing practices and his decision to move his followers to Guyana, sharing astonishing new details about the events leading to the 1978 tragedy. By the award-winning author of Go Down Together.
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Perfectly Clear : escaping Scientology and fighting for the woman I love
by Michelle LeClair
The former president of Scientology's international humanitarian organization reveals her flight from the church in view of its anti-gay ideologies and how her decision triggered a discriminatory backlash that destroyed her business and challenged her custody rights.
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My life in orange : Growing Up With the Guru
by Tim Guest
Traces the author's experiences of being relocated at the age of six to the commune of notorious Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, where he was given a Sanskit identity; was subjected to a lifestyle based on an eclectic doctrine of eastern mysticism, chaotic therapy, and sexual freedom; and witnessed the movement's eventual collapse amid allegations of poisonings, murder, and tax evasion. Original. 25,000 first printing.
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