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1) Heat
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Ex-DEA agent Jesse Warden has seen enough of the inside of a solitary confinement cell to last him a lifetime. Or two lifetimes, which is the sentence he's serving after being convicted of a plan he was planning to commit, but never did. So when an old buddy shows up with a deal that could spring him from his hell behind bars, he's ready to listen.
To gain his freedom, Jesse must infiltrate a dangerous and reclusive religious cult that has been...
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Author Jim Harrison has won international acclaim for his masterful body of work, including over thirty books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In his most original work to date, Harrison delivers an enthralling, witty, and expertly crafted novel following one man's hunt for an elusive cult leader, dubbed the Great Leader. On the verge of retirement, Detective Sunderson begins to investigate a hedonistic cult, which has set up camp near his home...
4) Sister wife
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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In a remote polygamist community, fifteen-year-old Celeste struggles to accept her destiny while longing to be free to choose how to live her life.
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Lena Jones mysteries volume 10
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While investigating the suspicious death of a woman linked to two local "new thought" groups, private eye Lena Jones begins to see connections between this crime and the murder of her brother and father and her mother's disappearance thirty-five years ago.
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Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Fourteen-year-old Marina and sixteen-year-old Jed accompany their parents' religious cult, the Believers, to await the end of the world atop a remote mountain, where they try to decide what they themselves believe.
10) Split image
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What initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach. Jesse Stone and private investigator Sunny Randall team up to solve two cases involving the gunshot murder of Petr
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Multnomah Books
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Ruth knows her prayers are crucial to her family's welfare. But she doesn't realize that her heartfelt desire to obey God is mingled with the dangerous currents of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Will her strategies for protecting her family be the
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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When her grandmother takes fourteen-year-old Agnes, her younger brother, and best friend Honey and escapes Mount Blessing, a Connecticut religious commune, Agnes clings to the faith she loves while Honey looks toward a future free of control, cruelty
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Gabry lives a quiet life in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, hemmed in by the dead who hunger for the living, but her mother Mary's secrets, a cult of religious zealots who worship the dead, and a stranger from the forest who seems to k
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Repairman Jack novels volume 12
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Forge
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Hired to find a legendary Japanese sword that had been stolen from the Hiroshima Peace Museum, Jack finds his task complicated by dangerous rivals for the sword and a pregnant teen who is carrying a child of destiny.
16) Something wicked
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Some refer to it as the Colony. To others, it's a cult. Few locals in the Oregon coastal hamlet of Deception Bay have ever been invited into its inner sanctum, but curiosity runs deep. Yet lately, even the sisters who live at Siren Song have begun to question whether it's really the sanctuary their aunt claims. Being isolated from the mainland keeps out strangers who might recoil at the women's unnerving psychic abilities, but there are terrors...
17) The chosen one
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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In a polygamous cult in the desert, Kyra, not yet fourteen, sees being chosen to be the seventh wife of her uncle as just punishment for having read books and kissed a boy, in violation of Prophet Childs' teachings, and is torn between facing her fat
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Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
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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.
20) Hanging falls
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Murder stalks the rugged Colorado high country 2014;and sends Mattie Cobb on a quest to uncover the darkest secrets from her past in the sixth gripping installment of Margaret Mizushima's Timber Creek K-9 mysteries A deluge has flooded the high ground near Hanging Falls 2014;but heavy rains aren't the only menace descending on Timber Creek. While on a scouting mission to pinpoint trail damage, officer Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo stumble upon...
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