Evil Societies

The fearsome foursome is back in the second installment of the New York Times bestselling series praised by Rick Riordan! The Mysterious Benedict Society is up against a new mission, significantly closer to home. After reuniting for a celebratory scavenger hunt, Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and...

Join the Mysterious Benedict Society as Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance embark on a daring new adventure that threatens to force them apart from their families, friends, and even each other. When an unexplained blackout engulfs Stonetown, the foursome must unravel clues relating to a...

The brilliant and beloved gang from the New York Timesbestselling series is back -- and ready to face new threats, dangerous dilemmas, and irresistible adventures. The Mysterious Benedict Society is a modern classic, drawing comparisons to J.K. Rowling and Roald Dahl, named a Timemagazine "Best...

Why does society seem increasingly distant from truth, peace, and Christian values? In this powerful encyclical, Pope Leo XIII reveals the hidden causes of the moral and spiritual crisis affecting the world and presents solutions that remain remarkably relevant today. Written more than a century ago, Inscrutabili Dei Consilio offers reflections that can help readers understand the challenges of our time in the light of the wisdom of the Catholic Church. An indispensable read for those seeking profound answers, discernment, and solid formation in times of great confusion.

“You want to read this book. It is chilling and compelling at the same time.” – Dr. Phil McGraw. “I can think of no more important book at this moment in our history than Profiling Evil: An Investigative Memoir of the Zion Society Cult. Mike King has made a superb and vitally important contribution by exposing the abuse of women and children in that heinous cult. And this still happens far too often in the multitude of harmful groups around the world. If you want to understand coercive influence and control, then read this book.” -Janja Lalich, Ph.D., Professor “This book has it...

Scarlet Fever: A Dark, Suspenseful Old Money Equestrian Gothic Romance Pemberwick Hunt Club has it all: Exclusivity. Bloodlines. Legacy. But some secrets are too dark to stay hidden. Unravel a chilling cold case in the heart of Virginia's elite fox hunting country. June Faulconer, the reclusive host of the hit true-crime podcast Defrosted, specializes in mysteries whispered to be supernatural. But when a cryptic email forces her back to Pemberwick Hall, the ancestral estate steeped in her own family's dark legacy, she confronts a chilling truth: the line between human evil and ancient myth ...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Kate’s Fallen series has sold over 11 million copies around the world—now she returns to the seductive world of angels with a ruthless romantasy, perfect for both Fallen fans and new readers alike. "Dark, seductive, and original." ―Jennifer L...

In the galactic prison system, she’s listed as an ‘Organic Weapon of Mass Destruction’… too bad she’s your new cellmate. Grant didn’t sign up for interstellar incarceration. One minute he’s brawling with lizard freaks behind his pickup, next, he wakes up paralyzed in a space supermax. Tagged. Scanned. Sentenced without trial. All because he tried to stop his girlfriend from getting probed by a UFO.

What makes us moral beings? How do we decide what is good and what is evil? And has it always been that way? Hanno Sauer's sweeping new history of humanity, covering five million years of our universal moral values, comes at a crucial moment of crisis for those values, and helps to explain how they arose—and why we need them. Modern societies are in crisis: a shared universal morality seems to be a thing of the past. Hanno Sauer explains why this appearance is deceptive: in fact, there are universal values that all people share. 

Robin can't believe her eyes when she wakes up on board an alien research station. Her hosts wanted a plaything for Egon, the 400 year-old Viking with less-than-modern ideas about men and women. Robin thwarts their plans, but when she finds herself at the warrior's mercy, will she submit to her hidden desires?

The rain washes away the evidence, but the timber never forgets. In the dark, isolated corners of the upper left coast, the landscape is more than just a backdrop—it is an active accomplice. Murder Land - Pacific Northwest unearths twenty of the most brutal, deeply unsettling, and heavily obscured cases to ever plague the region. From the transient, mud-soaked waterfronts of 1910s Aberdeen where itinerant workers vanished without a trace, to the shocking 2009 ambush of four police officers in a Lakewood coffee shop, this meticulously researched volume strips away the idyllic veneer of the...

He was a pioneer in modern law enforcement, a trailblazing leader in the hunt for serial killers. But after decades of staring deep into the darkness, he entered a seminary to search for the good. No one gets closer to evil than a criminal profiler, trained to penetrate the hearts and minds...

Famous paranormal investigator Landry Drake and his team are at work preparing a series called Mysterious America for his new cable channel The Paranormal Network. A cryptic call to the network’s hotline takes the crew to Savannah, Georgia, one of America’s most haunted cities. A girl who inherited her aunt’s old house finds a mysterious amulet bearing a jeweled snake that leads Landry to the Order of the Red Serpent. A spirit beckons her, but are its intentions good…or maliciously evil? Landry learns about bizarre rituals and initiations held late at night, and as a mystery unfolds...

3 Books. 1 Epic Destiny. Over 750 Pages of Time-Traveling Magic! "A fun, fast read for all ages... Hard to put down!" — Kindle Customer Jack Mac Paidin was five years old when his parents were killed — and grew up separated from his brother and sister, never knowing why. When he touches a golden telescope hidden beneath the streets of Portland, fire erupts in his hands, a lifetime of secrets come to light, and nothing will ever be the same. A shadowy organization called the Dark Cabal has been pulling strings for generations, and now they have their sights set on Jack and his siblings. ...

Scandal. Murder. Adultery. Forgiveness. Faith. Hope. It’s all included in the true crimes found in the pages of the Bible. But unlike your favorite true crime show, these dark deeds not only reveal the devastating consequences of sin but also the unrelenting power of God’s grace. Explore some of Scripture’s most shocking tales of corruption, violence, confession, and redemption in this book by Dr. Bruce Becker. From Cain’s fratricide to Paul’s complicity in a public execution, you’ll investigate cases of horrific sin and extravagant grace as you uncover the truth of God’s ...

“Tchaikovsky nimbly takes the narration from horrific to humorous to epic and back again.”—Library Journal This program is read by the author. Spiderlight is an exhilarating fantasy quest from Adrian Tchaikovsky, the author of Guns at Dawn and the Shadows of the Apt series. The path to...

"The narrators form a kind of tag team as they voice the florid descriptions of the city, its people, and a murder investigation led by the unlikeliest of characters, high society's Morgana Musgrove, portrayed by Karen Commins." - AudioFile on The Kingdoms of Savannah Savannah may appear to be...

A little bit of light pushes away a lot of darkness is a Rabbinic saying derived from the Talmud and this applied to the identification and exposure of Satan and the satanic influence both within each of us and in our societies. Charles Moscowitz describes this influence as a satanic conspiracy which, he claims, lurks within the shadows of history from ancient times until the present. Satanism is a rejection of God and creation and, as such, a rejection of that which is good, natural, moral and real. Just as mob syndicates form secret criminal societies, the satanic conspiracy thrives ...

Three dead guards. Forty centimetres of water. A euphoric smile on every corpse. Father Thomas O'Neill is not a traditional Vatican exorcist. Armed with doctorates and an uncompromising, clinical intellect, he approaches the demonic not as fallen angels, but as terrifying tears in cosmic physics. To fight the abyss, he carries the ultimate burden: a primordial entity of pure anti-matter voluntarily chained within his own subconscious. When three security personnel at Florence's Palazzo Pitti willingly drown themselves in the shallow fountains of the Boboli Gardens, local authorities suspect...

Yaosha Li, China's bravest writer, follows up his monumental work "A Decade of Undercover Reporting" with another groundbreaking masterpiece—"Evil in the Margine of Society". With his personal experiences, he documents the various distortions of human nature and animalistic evil present in the marginal society of China.