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Cults and Survivors

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Tune in as Katie and Nusrah talk about books featuring cults and people who become a part of them.

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Currently Reading

Final girls by Riley Sager

Madam by Phoebe Wynn

Books Discussed

The Girls by Emma Cline

The Night We Burned by S.F.Kosa

Don’t Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM by Sarah Berman

Black Widows by Cate Quinn

New Releases

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

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