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Bestsellers
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Opus
- The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church
- By: Gareth Gore
- Narrated by: Gareth Gore
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
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Investigative journalist Gareth Gore recounts how members of Opus Dei—a secretive, ultra-conservative Catholic sect—pushed its radical agenda within the Church and around the globe, using billions of dollars siphoned from one of the world’s largest banks.
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fascinating and disturbing
- By JRW on 10-06-24
By: Gareth Gore
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A Well-Trained Wife
- My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
- By: Tia Levings
- Narrated by: Tia Levings
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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A Well-Trained Wife is an unforgettable memoir about a woman's race to save herself and her family and details the ways that extreme views can manifest in a marriage....
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A review from a chronic non-reviewer
- By T. L. P. on 08-11-24
By: Tia Levings
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The Cult of Trump
- A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control
- By: Steven Hassan
- Narrated by: Steven Hassan
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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One of America’s leading experts in cults and mind control provides an eye-opening analysis of Trump and the indoctrination tactics he uses to build a fanatical devotion in his supporters....
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Tools to deprogram
- By N. Squier on 01-11-20
By: Steven Hassan
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Cultish
- The Language of Fanaticism
- By: Amanda Montell
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power....
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Get this book ASAP
- By chris boutte on 06-17-21
By: Amanda Montell
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Uncultured
- A Memoir
- By: Daniella Mestyanek Young
- Narrated by: Daniella Mestyanek Young
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a memoir about an exceptional upbringing, but about a woman who, no matter the lack of tools given to her, is determined to overcome....
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Do not recommend the second half
- By Anonymous Reader on 10-02-22
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Breaking Free
- How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs
- By: Rachel Jeffs
- Narrated by: Rachel Jeffs
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it....
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Heart breaking addition to the FLDS cult story
- By Abby Martin on 12-10-17
By: Rachel Jeffs
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Opus
- The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church
- By: Gareth Gore
- Narrated by: Gareth Gore
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Investigative journalist Gareth Gore recounts how members of Opus Dei—a secretive, ultra-conservative Catholic sect—pushed its radical agenda within the Church and around the globe, using billions of dollars siphoned from one of the world’s largest banks.
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fascinating and disturbing
- By JRW on 10-06-24
By: Gareth Gore
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A Well-Trained Wife
- My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
- By: Tia Levings
- Narrated by: Tia Levings
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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A Well-Trained Wife is an unforgettable memoir about a woman's race to save herself and her family and details the ways that extreme views can manifest in a marriage....
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A review from a chronic non-reviewer
- By T. L. P. on 08-11-24
By: Tia Levings
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The Cult of Trump
- A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control
- By: Steven Hassan
- Narrated by: Steven Hassan
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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One of America’s leading experts in cults and mind control provides an eye-opening analysis of Trump and the indoctrination tactics he uses to build a fanatical devotion in his supporters....
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Tools to deprogram
- By N. Squier on 01-11-20
By: Steven Hassan
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Cultish
- The Language of Fanaticism
- By: Amanda Montell
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power....
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Get this book ASAP
- By chris boutte on 06-17-21
By: Amanda Montell
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Uncultured
- A Memoir
- By: Daniella Mestyanek Young
- Narrated by: Daniella Mestyanek Young
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a memoir about an exceptional upbringing, but about a woman who, no matter the lack of tools given to her, is determined to overcome....
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Do not recommend the second half
- By Anonymous Reader on 10-02-22
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Breaking Free
- How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs
- By: Rachel Jeffs
- Narrated by: Rachel Jeffs
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it....
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Heart breaking addition to the FLDS cult story
- By Abby Martin on 12-10-17
By: Rachel Jeffs
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Urban Apologetics
- Restoring Black Dignity with the Gospel
- By: Eric Mason
- Narrated by: Isaiah Young
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Urban Apologetics examines the legitimate issues that Black communities have with Western Christianity and shows how the gospel of Jesus Christ—rather than popular, socioreligious alternatives—restores our identity....
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One of the Best Apologetic books around
- By LJS86 on 04-10-21
By: Eric Mason
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Rift
- A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy
- By: Cait West
- Narrated by: Cait West
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece together a future on your own terms.
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Compelling narrative and beautifully written
- By Maria Hauskins on 05-05-24
By: Cait West
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Road to Jonestown
- Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
- By: Jeff Guinn
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curious blend of the gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially mixed, and he was a leader in the early civil rights movement. Eventually, Jones moved his church, Peoples Temple, to northern California.
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An Important Accurate Historical Report
- By Julia on 08-24-17
By: Jeff Guinn
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The Witness Wore Red
- The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice
- By: Rebecca Musser, M. Bridget Cook
- Narrated by: Rebecca Musser
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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The revealing and inspiring memoir of a woman forced into polygamous marriage in FLDS Church and her brave struggle to protect others from the same fate. Rebecca Musser grew up in fear, concealing her family's polygamous lifestyle from the "dangerous" outside world....
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Compelling and emotional read
- By Briley on 10-08-13
By: Rebecca Musser, and others
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Underground
- The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin, Ian Anthony Dale, Janet Song
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In this haunting work of journalistic investigation, Haruki Murakami tells the story of the horrific terrorist attack on Japanese soil that shook the entire world....
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Just as you breathe, you dream your story
- By Darwin8u on 08-26-15
By: Haruki Murakami
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Scarred
- The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM, the Cult That Bound My Life
- By: Sarah Edmondson, Kristine Gasbarre
- Narrated by: Sarah Edmondson
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The shocking and subversive memoir of a 12-year-NXIVM-member-turned-whistleblower, and her inspiring true story of abuse, escape, and redemption....
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Riveting!
- By Ellen on 10-23-19
By: Sarah Edmondson, and others
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Urban Apologetics: Cults and Cultural Ideologies
- Biblical and Theological Challenges Facing Christians
- By: Eric Mason
- Narrated by: Isaiah Young
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Urban Apologetics: Cults and Cultural Ideologies equips pastors, churches, and everyday believers to engage the most common ethical, biblical, and theological challenges faced by Black Christians and the Black Church today....
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Excellent work!
- By Amazon Customer on 07-12-23
By: Eric Mason
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Waco
- David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and a Legacy of Rage
- By: Jeff Guinn
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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For the first time in thirty years, more than a dozen former ATF agents who participated in the initial February 28, 1993, raid speak on the record about the poor decisions of their commanders that led to this deadly confrontation....
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Another excellent book by Guinn
- By Amazon Customer on 02-19-23
By: Jeff Guinn
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Sex Cult Nun
- Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult
- By: Faith Jones
- Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Educated meets The Vow in this story of liberation and self-empowerment - an inspiring and stranger-than-fiction memoir of growing up in and breaking free from the Children of God, an oppressive, extremist religious cult....
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An absolute page-turner
- By Lara on 12-03-21
By: Faith Jones
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Member of the Family
- My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties
- By: Dianne Lake, Deborah Herman
- Narrated by: Dianne Lake
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In this poignant and disturbing memoir of lost innocence, coercion, survival, and healing, Dianne Lake chronicles her years with Charles Manson....
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Dianne sets the record straight . . . Finally.
- By POLLY POIZENDEM on 11-18-17
By: Dianne Lake, and others
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Hollywood Park
- A Memoir
- By: Mikel Jollett
- Narrated by: Mikel Jollett
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Hollywood Park is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country’s most infamous cults and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse....
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An honest and heartbreakingly beautiful memoir
- By Jeannete Coronel on 05-28-20
By: Mikel Jollett
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Seductive Poison
- A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple
- By: Deborah Layton
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur, Deborah Layton
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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How one woman was seduced by one of the most notorious cults in recent memory and how she found her way back to sanity....
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Brilliant, Haunting, Chilling
- By Daryl on 04-16-15
By: Deborah Layton
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Cults
- Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them
- By: Max Cutler
- Narrated by: Pete Simonelli, Raquel Beattie, Erin Ruth Walker, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside them? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of cult leaders and the people who join them? Based on the hit podcast Cults, this is essential for any true crime fan....
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Disappointed
- By KJ on 04-12-23
By: Max Cutler
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Escape
- By: Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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When she was 18 years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger, a man 32 years her senior....
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Like a train wreck you can't turn away
- By Cheryl D on 10-28-07
By: Carolyn Jessop, and others
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My Name Was Mushroom
- My Life as a Teenage Runaway in the Source Family Commune
- By: Wendy Baker, Brian Solon
- Narrated by: Wendy Baker
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In this memoir, the author takes the listener on a journey through the 1960s and ’70s, with love-ins in Hollywood and on Sunset Blvd., hippie communal living, and survival in wilderness environments. It’s also a coming-of-age story about discerning universal wisdom and personal truth....
By: Wendy Baker, and others
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Perdurabo (Revised and Expanded Edition)
- The Life of Aleister Crowley
- By: Richard Kaczynski
- Narrated by: Alan Irving
- Length: 30 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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A rigorously researched biography, Perdurabo paints a memorable portrait of the founder of modern magick, as well as a study of the occult, sexuality, Eastern religion, and more.
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Broken Faith
- Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults
- By: Mitch Weiss, Holbrook Mohr
- Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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An explosive investigation into Word of Faith Fellowship, a secretive evangelical cult whose charismatic female leader is a master of manipulation....
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A must read!
- By laura toney on 03-22-20
By: Mitch Weiss, and others
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Waco
- A Survivor's Story
- By: David Thibodeau, Leon Whiteson, Aviva Layton
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the siege at Waco, an updated reissue of the critically acclaimed A Place Called Waco by Branch Davidian survivor David Thibodeau....
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An sides perspective
- By Fred on 02-12-18
By: David Thibodeau, and others
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Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out
- By: Rick Alan Ross
- Narrated by: Daniel Adam Day
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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You’ve seen them in movies and on TV, but cults are more prevalent than you think - and they’re armed with strategies that can brainwash and persuade even the most unlikely of candidates....
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Informative and interesting read!
- By Amazon Customer on 07-15-21
By: Rick Alan Ross
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The Church of Fear
- Inside the Weird World of Scientology
- By: John Sweeney
- Narrated by: John Sweeney
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Tom Cruise and John Travolta say the Church of Scientology is a force for good. Others disagree....
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The Church of Intimidation, Deviousness and Evil
- By Audio Gra Gra on 05-29-16
By: John Sweeney
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Raven
- The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People
- By: Tim Reiterman
- Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
- Length: 29 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Tim Reiterman's Raven provides the seminal history of the Rev. Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and the murderous ordeal at Jonestown in 1978....
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What a very thoroughly written book!
- By Traci P. on 04-22-17
By: Tim Reiterman
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When the World Didn't End
- A Memoir
- By: Guinevere Turner
- Narrated by: Guinevere Turner
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Boring
- By Jes on 06-15-23
By: Guinevere Turner
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Blown for Good
- Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology
- By: Marc Headley
- Narrated by: Marc Headley
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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Marc Headley provides an insider's view of life as a member of Scientology's "Sea Organization". Marc worked at Scientology's secret desert compound, which houses all Scientology management, for 15 years....
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Easily the Best Scientology Book Out There
- By Brandon M. Salazar on 08-16-18
By: Marc Headley
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Sister of Darkness
- The Chronicles of a Modern Exorcist
- By: R. H. Stavis, Sarah Durand
- Narrated by: R. H. Stavis
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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The world's only non-denominational exorcist - the subject of a forthcoming major motion picture - tells her astonishing true story: a riveting chronicle....
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ridiculous dangerous and absurd
- By colleen on 02-05-19
By: R. H. Stavis, and others