The Contraption

By Barton Allen Stewart

Great Whale Books. 2024. 272 pages.

Reviewed by Esther Friedman

Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown

By Annie Dawid1

Inkspot Publishing, 2023. ISBN: 978-1-916708-02-0 (2023, paperback, US, $15.99; 978-1-916708-00-6 (paperback, ex-US); 978-1-916708-01-3, eBook; Kindle (ASIN: B0CKHSZX7X), $6.99). 292 pages.

Reviewed by Joe Szimhart

Undertow: My Escape from the Fundamentalism and Cult Control of The Way International

By Charlene Edge

New Wings Press, LLC, 2017. ISBN-10: ‎ 0997874708; ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0997874709. Paperback, 474 pages, $24.95. Kindle, $8.49. Amazon.com

Reviewed by Bart Stewart

The Bad Cadet: Growing up in the Church of Scientology’s Sea Organization

By Katherine Spallino

Independently published, 2023. ISBN: 979-8-9878162-1-9. Paperback, 334 pages, $14.99, Kindle $9.99, Amazon.com

Reviewed by Joe Szimhart

Respectful, Authentic and Free Relationships

Las Relaciones Respetuosas, Auténticas y Libres 

By José Fernández-Aguado

Célebre Editorial, 2021. ISBN-10‏:‎ 8412362098; ISBN-13: ‎ 978-8412362091.Paperback, Spanish language only, 306 pages, €16.15, Alibris.es  

Reviewed by J. Paul Lennon

Walking Free from the Trauma of Coercive, Cultic and Spiritual Abuse: A Workbook for Recovery and Growth

by Gillie Jenkinson

Routledge, 2023. ISBN-10 1032305878; ISBN-13: 978-1032305875. Paperback,$34.95 list price, Kindle, $19.22. Amazon.com

Reviewed by Nori Muster

How to Become a Cult Leader

Narrated by Peter Dinklage, produced by Citizen Jones/Estuary Films. Netflix release July 28, 2023.

Reviewed by Joseph Szimhart

Misguided: My Jesus Freak Life in a Doomsday Cult

by Perry Bulwer

Reviewed by Nori Muster

New Star Books, 2023. ISBN-10: ‎ 1554202051, ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1554202058. Paperback, 320 pages, $21.00, Amazon.com

When the World Didn't End

by Guinevere Turner

Reviewed by Bart Stewart

Crown Publishing, 2023. ISBN-10: ‎0593237595; ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0593237595. Hardcover, $28.00 list price. Kindle, $13.99, Amazon.com

Exquisite Torture

by Carrie Buddington

Reviewed by Ron Burks, MA, MDiv, PhD 

CBuddington. 2023. ISBN-13: ‎ 979-8987822111. Paperback 277 pages, $15 (Kindle, $9.99) Amazon.com 

The Gentle Souls Revolution: A secret cult, an open rebellion, and lessons in protecting & honoring your gentle soul 

by Esther Friedman

Reviewed by Lorna Goldberg, LCSW, PsyA

GSR Healing Arts, 2023. ISBN-13: 979-8986231501. Paperback, 195 pages, $15.95. (Kindle, $9.99), Amazon.com.

Cult Trip: Inside the world of coercion and control 

by Anke Richter

Reviewed by Joseph Szimhart

HarperCollins Publishers, 2023. ISBN: 978-1775492344, ISBN 10: 1775492346, ebook: $10.99, paperback 352 pages.

Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church 

by Diane Langberg 

Reviewed by Doug Duncan

Brazos Press, 2020, ISBN-10: 1587434385; ISBN-13: 978-1587434389, Paperback, 224 pages, $12.79 (Kindle, $12.15; also available as an Audiobook), Amazon.com

The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

by Alexander Stille

Reviewed by Joe Szimhart

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. ISBN-10: 0374600392, ISBN-13: 978-600396 Paperback, 420 pages (uncorrected proof), Hardcover, 432 pages, $30 (Kindle $14.99), Amazon.