Happy New Year! Join us in the Courtyard f or an outdoor book club meeting where we will be able to social distance\, weather permitting. We will discuss this month's true crime title\, as we ll as catch-up with each other about what we've been reading/watching/list ening to since our last meeting.
\nFor our January meeting\, we will be reading Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM by Sarah Berman. Copies o f this title will be handed out at our December meeting and any remaining copies will then be available for pick-up at the Headquarters Library refe rence desk\, while supplies last.
\n"They draw you in with the promi se of empowerment\, self-discovery\, women helping women. The more secreti ve those connections are\, the more exclusive you feel. Little did you kno w\, you just joined a cult.
\nSex trafficking. Self-help coaching. F orced labor. Mentorship. Multi-level marketing. Gaslighting. Investigative journalist Sarah Berman explores the shocking practices of NXIVM\, a glob al organization run by Keith Raniere and his high-profile enablers (Seagra m heir Clare Bronfman\; Smallville actor Allison Mack\; Battlestar Galacti ca actor Nicki Clyne). Through the accounts of central NXIVM figures\, Ber man unravels how young women seeking creative coaching and networking oppo rtunities found themselves blackmailed\, literally branded\, near-starved\ , and enslaved. With the help of the Bronfman fortune\, Raniere built a wa ll of silence around these abuses\, leveraging the legal system to go afte r enemies and whistleblowers." (Goodreads)
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