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- Cults like us : why doomsday thinking drives America / by Borden, Jane,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.'Cults Like Us' is an enlightening pop history of American doomsday belief that proposes that the U.S. is the largest cult of all. Perfect for fans of 'Fantasyland' and 'The Road to Jonestown'.- Subjects: Cults; Christian sects;
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- Kin : a memoir / by Rodenberg, Shawna Kay,author.;
"A heart stopping memoir of a wrenching Appalachian girlhood and a multilayered portrait of a misrepresented people, from Rona Jaffe Writer's Award winner Shawna Kay Rodenberg. When Shawna Kay Rodenberg was four, her father, fresh from a ruinous tour in Vietnam, spirited her family from their home in the hills of Eastern Kentucky to Minnesota, renouncing all of their earthly possessions to live in the Body, an off-the-grid End Times religious community. Her father was seeking a better, safer life for his family, but the austere communal living of prayer, bible study and strict regimentation was a bad fit for the precocious Shawna. Disciplined harshly for her many infractions, she was sexually abused by a predatory adult member of the community. Soon after the leader of the Body died and revelations of the sexual abuse came to light, her family returned to the same Kentucky mountains that their ancestors have called home for three hundred years. It is a community ravaged by the coal industry, but for all that, rich in humanity, beauty, and the complex knots of family love. Curious, resourceful, rebellious, Shawna will ultimately leave her mountain home but only as she masters a perilous balancing act between who she has been and who she will become. Kin is a mesmerizing memoir of survival that seeks to understand and make peace with the people and places that were survived. It is above all about family-about the forgiveness and love within its bounds-and generations of Appalachians who have endured, harmed, and held each other through countless lifetimes of personal and regional tragedy"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Rodenberg, Shawna Kay.; Move (Christian sect); Appalachians (People); Ex-cultists; Women authors, American; Women;
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- Blood gospel [sound recording] / by Rollins, James.; Baskous, Christian.; Cantrell, Rebecca.;
Read by Christian Baskous.After a shocking discovery in Masada, Israel, Sergeant Jordan Stone, Father Rhun Korza, and Dr. Erin Granger, racing against time to recover a book written by Christ's own hand, must contend with a force of ancient evil with impossible ambitions and a secret sect within the Vatican called the Sanguines.- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Jesus Christ; Bible.; Archaeologists; Audiobooks.; Christian sects; Good and evil;
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- Lay your body down : a novel of suspense / by Clarke, Amy Suiter,author.;
"In Amy Suiter Clarke's brilliant sophomore thriller, a young woman returns to her rural Minnesota hometown for the funeral of her ex boyfriend-her first love-who died suspiciously, only to confront the ways a radical pastor's warped evangelical beliefs have poisoned the whole town"--- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Bloggers; Christian sects; Clergy; Evangelicalism; Ex-church members; Fundamentalism; Fundamentalist churches; Murder; Patriarchy;
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- Pathogenesis : a history of the world in eight plagues / by Kennedy, Jonathan,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A sweeping look at how the major transformations in history--from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism--have been shaped not by humans but by germs. According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social and political change. Instead, it is the humble microbe that wins wars and topples empires. Drawing on the latest research in fields ranging from genetics and anthropology to archaeology and economics, Pathogenesis takes us through 60,000 years of history, exploring eight major outbreaks of infectious disease that have made the modern world. Bacteria and viruses were protagonists in the demise of the Neanderthals, the growth of Islam, the transition from feudalism to capitalism, the devastation wrought by European colonialism, and the evolution of the United States from an imperial backwater to a global superpower. Even Christianity rose to prominence in the wake of a series of deadly pandemics that swept through the Roman Empire in the second and third centuries: Caring for the sick turned what was a tiny sect into one of the world's major religions. By placing disease at the center of his wide-ranging history of humankind, Kennedy challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions about our collective past--and urges us to view this moment as another disease-driven inflection point that will change the course of history. Provocative and brimming with insight, Pathogenesis transforms our understanding of the human story"--- Subjects: Diseases and history.; Epidemics; Plague;
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