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"Master, would you brand me? It would be an honor." Scarred follows actress Sarah Edmondson's account of her recruitment into the NXIVM cult, founded by Keith Raniere. It narrates in detail the 12 years she spent within the organization, during which she enrolled over 2,000 members, chronicling her breaking point and her harrowing fight to get out, help others, and heal. • Complete with personal photographs, this tell-all follows Sarah from the...

While modeling in Rome, Derek and Hansel become targets in a fashion related conspiracy.

When Nancy and Bess Marvin visit Ned Nickerson at Emerson College, they become involved in an experiment in mind control and terror.

"Jude Alta has her music, her friends, and the love of smart, sexy Toni Dilano. Yet, There is an inexplicable void in her life. She visits her dying friend Rosalie, whose disposition of her vast property is awaited by several concerned factions -- including the inhabitants of nearby Circle Edge, a secluded and mysterious feminist community. Eagerly welcomed by this community, Jude finds herself entranced by the beauty of her surroundings, by the charismatic...

In Tokyo, fifteen-year-old Daniel X faces two of the most dangerous aliens on the planet, who are plotting to use video games to control children and turn them into an army of doom.

In a world where Thinkers control the population and Rules are not meant to be broken, fifteen-year-old Violet Schoenfeld must make a choice to control or be controlled after learning truths about her "dead" sister and "missing" father.

"Jag, Zenn, Vi, and the rest of the resistance are determined to take down the Thinkers, but there is a traitor among them, who could cost them their cause--and their lives"--

"While sleeping on the rood of his father's hotel, thirteen-year-old Lucas Benes finds a baby alone and learns that the Good Company has restarted its profitable kidnapping business. Multilingual and already on his third passport, Lucas leads a network of international teenagers through the hotspots of Paris--from the catacombs to the Eiffel Tower--in an all-out effort to spoil a brainwashing ceremony that could potentially turn them all into "Good"...

Examines the role of social networks in social polarization.

Something tells psychic investigator Elizabeth Chase to stay away from the search for her boyfriend's ex-fiancee who disappeared two years earlier into the cult-like Bliss Project, but is not until she poses as an initiate in the community that Elizabeth realizes how much she should have listened to her instincts.