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Cults Uncovered: True Stories of Mind Control and Murder

DK - DK PUB


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Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion

Susan Jacoby - Pantheon Books
Format: Hardcover

In a groundbreaking historical work that addresses religious conversion in the West from an uncompromisingly secular perspective, Susan Jacoby challenges the conventional narrative of conversion as a purely spiritual journey. From the transformation on the road to Damascus of the Jew Saul...
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All This Could Be Yours

Jami Attenberg - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a sharp, funny, and emotionally powerful novel about a family reuniting at the deathbed of its patriarch. In reckoning with his secret past, can they rebuild and begin anew? "If I know why he is the way he is then...
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The Quiet Little Woman: A Christmas Story

Louisa May Alcott - Honor Books; Illustrated. edition
Format: Hardcover

Louisa May Alcott's Lost Christmas Treasure"If someone would only come and take me away! I'm so tired of living here I don't think I can bear it much longer," Patty cries. Patty's life in an orphanage is a dark world with little hope, beauty, or love. Even after...
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#ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing

Emily Joy Allison - Broadleaf Books
Format: Paperback

When Emily Joy Allison outed her abuser on Twitter, she launched #ChurchToo, a movement to expose the culture of sexual abuse and assault utterly rampant in Christian churches in America. Not a single denomination is unaffected. And the reasons are somewhat different than those you might...
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The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade

Philip Jenkins - HarperOne
Format: Print book

The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War. At the one-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, historian Philip Jenkins reveals the powerful religious dimensions of this modern-day crusade, a period that marked a traumatic...
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The Cities That Built the Bible

Robert R Cargill - HarperOne
Format: Print book

For many, the names Bethlehem, Babylon, and Jerusalem are known as the setting for epic stories from the Bible featuring rustic mangers, soaring towers, and wooden crosses. What often gets missed is that these cities are far more than just the setting for the Bible and its characters - they...
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The Quran

SAHEEH INTERNATIONAL - ABULQASIM PUBLISHING
Format: Paperback

The Quran (Arabic Text with Corresponding English Meaning) 6 X 4.5 INCH (Arabic Text with Corresponding English Meanings)
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