Wyoming State Law Library

Defines "cult, " describes the recruitment and persuasion strategies of cult leaders and members, and explains how to help survivors escape and recover, providing details on specific groups and discussing similarities between cults and terrorist organizations.

The Oversoul protects the planet Harmony from war and destruction by subtle interference in the thoughts of the people. But now, some of its systems are failing, and men are beginning to think about power and conquest.

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 this "brilliantly written" book, the author of Brave New World reflects on his dystopian classic-and its echoes in the real world decades later (Kirkus Reviews). Written almost thirty years after the publication of Aldous Huxley's groundbreaking dystopian novel, Brave New World Revisited compares the "future" of 1958 with his vision of it from the early 1930s. Touching on subjects as diverse as world population, drugs, subliminal suggestion,...

When suicide becomes a worldwide epidemic, the only known cure is The Program, a treatment in which painful memories are erased, a fate worse than death to seventeen-year-old Sloane who knows that The Program will steal memories of her dead brother and boyfriend.

"When CHERUB uncovers a link between eco-terrorist group Help Earth and a wealthy religious cult known as The Survivors, James is sent to their isolatated outback headquarters on an infiltration mission. It's a thousand kilometers to the closest town, and James is under massive pressure from the cult's brainwashing techniques. This time he's not just fighting terrorists...he's got to battle for his own mind." -- from P.4 of cover.

Originally published under a pseudonym in 1985, The Door to December has now been revisited by the author, who provides a new afterword. Melanie went missing when she was three. Then she's found six years later, wandering a Los Angeles backstreet with a vacant stare-and carrying an unimaginable secret.

Alex Hunter, the American owner of a Japanese nightclub, helps a fellow American discover the truth about her real identity.

After fourteen-year-old Ozzy's scientist parents are kidnapped, Ozzy's only help may be a classified ad that says "Wizards for hire."