Cults

"Cult" may refer to the original and typically ancient sense of "religious practice" or to a newly established religious movement. It is also a pejorative term for a group whose religious beliefs are considered fanatical and unacceptable.

(See also cult classics.)
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New Releases Tagged "Cults"

The Scammer
Crafting for Sinners
Herculine
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
Julie Chan Is Dead
The Unworthy
So Far Gone
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7)
The Scammer
The Colony
Our Last Resort
Mary
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
Firestorm (The Divine Affinity #1)
How Bad Things Can Get
If You Lie
Bitter Falls (Stillhouse Lake, #4)
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
The Girls
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
Escape
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Breaking Free
Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult
Educated
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamist Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
Uncultured: A Memoir
Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM
Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe by Karl WigginsWhite Boy in Watts by Karl WigginsAn Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris HadfieldBournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls by Danny WinterAnxiety by Danny Winter
Biographies of the Weird
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After the Fire by Will  HillFamily by Micol OstowCreed by Trisha LeaverThe Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie OakesThe Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
YA Cults
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Christopher Hitchens
I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn't ravenous just for a newspaper that had no pictures of F.M. and L.B. I wasn't starving just for a TV program or a piece of music or theater or cinema that wasn't cultist and hero-worshiping. I was hungry. I got off the North Korean plane in Shenyang, one of the provincial capitals of Manchuria, and the airport buffet looked like a cornucopia. I fell on the fo ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Francine Pascal
A cult!' Elizabeth gasped. 'Here? In Sweet Valley? But that’s impossible! ...more
Francine Pascal, Kidnapped by the Cult!

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