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The lodge [videorecording] / by Armitage, Richard,1971-actor.; Faulkenberry, Rebecca,1984-actor.; Fiala, Severin,1985-film director.; Franz, Veronika,film director.; Keough, Riley,1989-actor.; Martell, Jaeden,actor.; Silverstone, Alicia,actor.; Videoville Showtime,publisher.;
Riley Keough, Richard Armitage, Alicia Silverstone, Jaeden Martell, Rebecca Faulkenberry.During a family retreat to a remote winter cabin over the holidays, the father is forced to abruptly depart for work, leaving his two children in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for disturbing violence, some bloody images, language and brief nudity.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Horror films.; Feature films.; Blizzards; Family vacations; Ex-cultists; Dangerously mentally ill;
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The program : inside the mind of Keith Raniere and the rise and fall of NXIVM / by Natalie, Toni,author.; Hardin, Chet,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Many have heard of NXIVM and its creator, Keith Raniere, an unassuming Albany man who prosecutors say ensnared tens of thousands of people in the US, Mexico and elsewhere, to do his bidding and pay millions of dollars to participate in his self-improvement methodology. What is not known is how many more people came under the thrall of this man in the years leading up to and including his founding of NXIVM. Where did Keith Raniere begin? How did he build NXIVM and its prior incarnations? And, most notably, how was this relatively far-flung entrepreneur able to get and keep his access to the wealth and power that allowed him to lure so many successful, sophisticated people? Enter single mother Toni Natalie, Keith's Patient Zero, the first one indoctrinated into Raniere's methodology and the first one to escape. Told in three parts, the narrative uniquely walks us through the origin story to the fall of Raniere through Toni's eyes and ears. During this time, she bore witness to the evolution of his methodology, including his use of sexual coercion and entrapment, blackmail, and employment of psychological tools such as hypnosis and neuro linguistic programming to ambush, control, and punish those who would not heed his wishes ... most of all Toni. Though unaware of Raniere's true motives and the extent of his involvement until she reconnected with others, Toni can uniquely detail the thousands of fortunes lost and the lives left in disarray that she witnessed contemporaneously, as she pulls back the curtain on the mind control techniques used on members of NXIVM and DOS, a group of women allegedly coerced into sexual acts under the guise of a "women's empowerment" inner circle, whom Raniere exercised extreme control over directly and through his lieutenants. But far from being a victim's story, in the spirit of Erin Brockovich, Toni's is a nuanced narrative of a multi-dimensional woman saving herself, and then working tirelessly to help other women do the same for themselves. Today, Toni is happy, reunited with her son, and surrounded by friends and family--it is this perspective that makes her such a unique storyteller"--
Subjects: Raniere, Keith.; Natalie, Toni.; NXIVM (Firm); Cult members.; Ex-cultists.; Human trafficking.;
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When the world didn't end : a memoir / by Turner, Guinevere,author.;
"In this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood growing up with the infamous Lyman Family cult--and the complicated and unexpected pain of leaving the only home she'd ever known. On January 5, 1975, the world was supposed to end. Under strict instructions from the Family leader, seven-year-old Guinevere Turner put on her best dress, grabbed her favorite toy, and waited with the rest of her community for salvation--a spaceship that would take them to live on Venus. But the spaceship never came. Guinevere did not understand her family was a cult. She spent most of her days on a compound in Kansas, living with dozens of other children who worked in the sorghum fields and roved freely through the surrounding pastures, eating mulberries and tending to farm animals. But there was a dark side to this bucolic existence: When selected girls in her community turned twelve or thirteen, they were "given" to older men on the compound as wives in training. Turner was part of the Lyman Family, a cult spearheaded by Mel Lyman, a self-proclaimed world savior, committed to isolation from a world he declared had lost its way. When Guinevere caught the attention of Jessie, the woman everyone in the Family called the queen, her status was elevated and suddenly she was traveling in the inner-circle caravan between communities in Los Angeles, Boston, and Martha's Vineyard. Before long, Guinevere's world as she had known it ended. Her mother, from whom she had been separated since age three, left the Family with a disgraced member, and Guinevere and her four-year-old sister were forced to go with her. Traveling outside the bounds of her cloistered existence, Guinevere was thrust into public school for the first time, a stranger in a strange world with homemade clothes, clueless about social codes. Now, in the World she'd been raised to believe was evil, she faced challenges and horrors she couldn't have imagined. Drawing from the diaries that she kept throughout her youth, Guinevere Turner's memoir is an intimate and heart-wrenching chronicle of a childhood touched with extraordinary beauty and unfathomable ugliness, the ache of yearning to return to a lost home--and the slow realization of how harmful that place really was"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Turner, Guinevere.; Fort Hill Community (Organization); Ex-cultists;
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Broken faith : inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, one of America's most dangerous cults / by Weiss, Mitch,author.; Mohr, Holbrook,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.From the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative jouranlist with the Associated Press comes an investigation into Jane Whaley's Word of Faith Fellowship, a secretive evangelic cult that destroyed the lives of its congregants through a combination of manipulation, blackmail and violence, and a dramatic portrait of those who escaped. For readers of Lawrence Wright's 'Going Clear'.
Subjects: Word of Faith Fellowship.; Cults; Ex-cultists.; Offenses against the person.;
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Dinner for vampires : life on a cult TV show (while also in an actual cult!) / by Lenz, Joie,1981-author.;
'Dinner for Vampires' is a deliciously witty and inspiring memoir by 'One Tree Hill' star Bethany Joy Lenz about her decade in a cult and her quest to break free.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Lenz, Joie, 1981-; Brainwashing; Cult members; Cults; Ex-cultists.;
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Just like mother / by Heltzel, Anne,author.;
"Spine-chilling and sharp, Just Like Mother is a modern gothic from a fresh new voice in horror, and "is set to be one of the year's most talked-about books" (Andrea Bartz, New York Times bestselling author). A girl would be such a blessing ... The last time Maeve saw her cousin was the night she escaped the cult they were raised in. For the past two decades, Maeve has worked hard to build a normal life in New York City, where she keeps everything-and everyone-at a safe distance. When Andrea suddenly reappears, Maeve regains the only true friend she's ever had. Soon she's spending more time at Andrea's remote Catskills estate than in her own cramped apartment. Maeve doesn't even mind that her cousin's wealthy work friends clearly disapprove of her single lifestyle. After all, Andrea has made her fortune in the fertility industry-baby fever comes with the territory. The more Maeve immerses herself in Andrea's world, the more disconnected she feels from her life back in the city; and the cousins' increasing attachment triggers memories Maeve has fought hard to bury. But confronting the terrors of her childhood may be the only way for Maeve to transcend the nightmare still to come."--
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Novels.; Cousins; Cults; Ex-cultists; Feminism; Motherhood; Psychic trauma; Women;
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Martha Marcy May Marlene [videorecording] / by Abbott, Christopher.; Corbet, Brady.; Dancy, Hugh.; Dizzia, Maria.; Durkin, Sean.; Hawkes, John,1959-; Olsen, Elizabeth,1989-; Paulson, Sarah,1974-; 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
Music by Daniel Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans ; cinematography, Jody Lee Lipes ; edited by Zachary Stuart-Pontier.Elizabeth Olsen, John Hawkes, Sarah Paulson, Christopher Abbott, Brady Corbet, Hugh Dancy, Maria Dizzia.After escaping from a dangerous cult and the watchful eye of its charismatic leader, a young woman named Martha tries to reclaim a normal life with her family. But the haunting memories from Martha's past trigger a chilling paranoia, and nowhere seems safe as the fragile line between her reality and delusions begin to blur.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Cult members; Cults; Ex-cultists; Feature films.; Sisters; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2012., 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment,
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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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Daughter of Gloriavale : my life in a religious cult / by Tarawa, Lilia,author.;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Tarawa, Lilia; Tarawa, Lilia.; Gloriavale Christian Community.; Christian biography.; Communal living; Cult members; Cults; Ex-cultists;
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Sex cult nun : breaking away from the Children of God, a wild, radical religious cult / by Jones, Faith,author.;
'Educated' meets 'The Vow' in this story of liberation and self-empowerment - an inspiring and crazier-than-fiction memoir of growing up in and breaking free from the Children of God, an oppressive, extremist religious cult.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Jones, Faith; Jones, Faith; Family International (Organization); Children of God (Movement); Communal living.; Cult members; Ex-cultists; Sexually abused girls;
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