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  • When Men Become Gods: Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear, and the Women Who Fought Back
    When Men Become Gods: Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear, and the Women Who Fought Back
    In When Men Become Gods, New York Times bestselling author Stephen Singular casts a light on a dark corner of religious extremism. He reveals a group of fundamentalists operating in the present-day United States, where teenage girls are kept in virtual bondage in the name of upholding the "sacred principle" of polygamy.

    As the leader and self-proclaimed prophet of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, a sect of Mormonism based in isolated southern Utah, Warren Jeffs held sway over thousands of followers for nearly a decade. His rule was utterly tyrannical. In addition to coercing young girls into polygamous marriages with older men, Jeffs reputedly took scores of wives, many of whom were his father's widows. Television, radio, and newspapers were shunned, creating a hidden community where polygamy was prized above all else.

    But in 2007, after a two-year manhunt that landed him on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List, Jeffs's reign was forcefully ended. He was convicted of rape as an accomplice for his role in arranging a marriage between a fourteen-year-old girl and her nineteen-year-old first cousin.

    In When Men Become Gods, Edgar Award nominee Stephen Singular traces Jeffs's rise to power and the concerted effort that led to his downfall. It was a movement championed by law enforcement, private investigators, the Feds, and perhaps most vocal of all, a group of former polygamous wives seeking to liberate young women from the arranged marriages they'd once endured. The book offers new revelations into a nearly impenetrable enclave---a place of nineteenth-century attire, inbreeding, and eerie seclusion---providing readers with a rare glimpse into a tradition that's almost a century old, but that has only now been exposed.
    1 hr 2 min
  • American Sons: The Untold Story of the Falcon and the Snowman
    Vince Font: American Sons: The Untold Story of the Falcon and the Snowman
    A beautifully written thriller, an endearing love story, a compelling narrative of survival and redemption... full of new details, probing personal revelations, and twists and turns that keep you flipping pages as fast as you can." - Robert Lindsey, author of The Falcon and the Snowman

    "A compelling, immersive memoir of crime, punishment, and the redemptive qualities of love and atonement." - Kirkus Reviews

    The gripping sequel to The Falcon and the Snowman that chronicles the subsequent events in the lives of convicted American spies Christopher Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee.

    In 1977, Christopher Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee were convicted of selling U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union. Boyce was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment. Lee received a life sentence. The story of their crime, as told in the book and movie The Falcon and the Snowman, was only the beginning of their ordeal.

    American Sons: The Untold Story of the Falcon and the Snowman picks up where The Falcon and the Snowman left off, chronicling Boyce's daring 1980 prison escape and recapture, and telling the true story of how two of America's youngest convicted spies survived decades in prison.

    Written by Christopher Boyce, Cait Boyce and Vince Font, American Sons: The Untold Story of the Falcon and the Snowman gives readers a deeply intimate look at the struggles of two men whose actions cost them decades in prison - and how the efforts of a young, idealistic paralegal helped them become free men.

    An inspiring true story of survival and redemption in the face of insurmountable odds.
    2 hr 2 min
  • Davida Kelley : Children of God Apocalyptic Sex Cult
    Davida Kelley : Children of God Apocalyptic Sex Cult

    The Family International (TFI) is a new religious movement that started in 1968 in Huntington Beach, California, USA. It was initially called Teens for Christ and later gained fame as The Children of God (COG).
    2 hr
  • “My Tinsel Town Memoirs”
    Wilda Taylor, AKA “Little Egypt” to Elvis Fans, has just finished writing and publishing her book “My Tinsel Town Memoirs”. Included are marvelous stories and photos of the famous stars she worked with during her 30 years in show biz.
    1 hr 1 min

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