Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"What makes "cults" so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms gone QAnon is because we're looking for a satisfying explanation for what causes people to join--and more importantly, stay in--extreme groups. We secretly want to know: could it happen to me? Amanda Montell's argument is that, on some level, it already...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From the USA Today bestselling and Edgar-nominated author of Darling Rose Gold comes a dark, thrilling novel about two sisters-one trapped in the clutches of a cult, the other in a web of her own lies-and the lengths they will go to save each other. Welcome to Wisewood. We'll keep your secrets if you keep ours. Natalie Collins hasn't heard from her sister in more than half a year. The last time they spoke, Kit was slogging from mundane workdays to...
3) Midsommar
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Checked Out Podcast GHPLD - Episode 12: School's In!
Checked Out Podcast GHPLD - Episode 13: What's Your Favorite Scary Movie?
Essential Films Collection GHPLD
More Lists...
Checked Out Podcast GHPLD - Episode 13: What's Your Favorite Scary Movie?
Essential Films Collection GHPLD
More Lists...
Description
After a family tragedy, a young American couple joins some friends at a midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. But, what begins as a carefree summer holiday takes a sinister turn when the insular villagers invite their guests to partake in festivities that grow increasingly unnerving and viscerally disturbing.
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
When twelve-year-old Fern and her mother abruptly leave their isolated, off-the-grid community, Fern wants nothing more than to return, but things get murky as she slowly adjusts to her new life and discovers unsettling truths about her old one.
5) The project
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The Unity Project saved my life." Lo Denham is used to being on her own. After her parents died, Lo's sister, Bea, joined The Unity Project, leaving Lo in the care of their great aunt. Thanks to its extensive charitable work and community outreach, The Unity Project has won the hearts and minds of most in the Upstate New York region, but Lo knows there's more to the group than meets the eye. She's spent the last six years of her life trying--and...
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"In the seventh installment in the Strike series, Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult. Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organization that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there...
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader"--Container.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Revenge isn't the only dish served cold ... Ali Reynolds's longtime friend and Taser-carrying nun, Sister Anselm, rushes to the bedside of a young pregnant woman hospitalized for severe injuries after she was hit by a car on a deserted Arizona highway. The girl had been running away from The Family, a polygamous cult with no patience for those who try to leave its ranks. Meanwhile, married life agrees with Ali. But any hopes that she and her husband,...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"When Jasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California, they hope to find a community of like-minded people, a place where their growing family can thrive. King settles in at once, embracing the Liberty ethos, including the luxe wellness center at the top of the hill, which proves to be the heart of the community. But Jasmyn struggles to fit in. She expected to find liberals and social justice activists...
Author
Language
English
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
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults against the mundane struggles of modern life, resulting in a novel that is revelatory and resonant. Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy. He walked among invisible powers: devils and anti-gods that mock the mortal form. He learned a lethal catechism, lost his shadow, and...
12) One last chance
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"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...
13) Cult classic
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author and Thurber Prize finalist Sloane Crosley, Cult Classic is a twisted mystery on the metaphysics of modern love, memory, and mind control in the city"-- Provided by publisher.
One night in New York City's Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And . . . another....
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
February 12, 2026: New Adult Mystery
OBD 100 Notable Books of 2024 New York Times Book Review - Adult
Once Upon a Crime
OBD 100 Notable Books of 2024 New York Times Book Review - Adult
Once Upon a Crime
Description
"Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels: the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl into believing her baby was the Antichrist. When the girl came to her senses and called the police, the Angels committed suicide and the mother and baby disappeared. Now, true crime author Amanda Bailey is looking to revive her career by writing a book on the case. According to records, the Alperton baby has now turned eighteen; finding them both will be the...
15) The incendiaries
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"A shocking novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea"-- Provided by publisher.
Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet in their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who blames herself for her mother's recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is...
16) The colony
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
A Translated Book
NYT 100 Notable Books of 2025
OBD 100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times Book Review - Adult
OBD 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal Longlist - Fiction
NYT 100 Notable Books of 2025
OBD 100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times Book Review - Adult
OBD 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal Longlist - Fiction
Description
Combining dark humor, memorable characters, and sharp social commentary, the Colony is a moving story about love, community, and the power we have over others and that they have over us.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Cults prey on the very attributes that make us human: our desire to belong; to find a deeper meaning in life; to live everyday with divine purpose. Their existence creates a sense that any one of us, at any time, could step off the cliff's edge and fall into that daunting abyss of manipulation and unhinged dedication to a misplaced cause. Perhaps it's this mindset that keeps us so utterly obsessed and desperate to learn more, or it's that the stories...
Author
Language
English
Description
"One night, Avery is awoken by a fire consuming her family's compound; she runs away with her cult brother Cole, hiding in the woods and then in a school gym for weeks. After police apprehend them for shoplifting, a horrific discovery is made-their entire lives have been a lie and they were actually kidnapped as children, taken by the cult leaders they knew as Mom and Dad. Cole is quickly reunited with his family and permanently separated from nineteen-year-old...
19) In his hands
Author
Series
Blank canvas volume 3
Language
English
Description
When he discovers a bloodied and branded woman on his doorstep, Luc Stanek is pulled into the world of this woman who is marked as a charismatic cult leader's property and only he can see the woman she truly is as he tries to win her freedom.
20) Painted devils
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Reformed" jewel thief and scam artist Vanja accidentally starts a cult around a Low God, the Scarlet Maiden, who claims Emeric as her virgin sacrifice, and desperate to save the only man she's ever cared for, Vanja seeks a dangerous alternative.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request










