Product Description: They left America for the jungles of Guyana to start a better life. Yet what started as a Utopian dream soon devolved into a terrifying work camp run by a madman, ending in the mass murder-suicide of 914 members in November 1978. In A Thousand Lives, the New York Times bestselling memoirist Julia Scheeres traces the fates of five individuals who followed Jim Jones to South America as they struggled to first build their paradise, and then survive it...read more

Tells the story of a white girl who was sent from the Midwest to a Christian reform school in the Dominican Republic after she and her black adopted brother fought back against the racism and bullying that was directed toward them.

Product Description: Tells the story of a white girl who was sent from the Midwest to a Christian reform school in the Dominican Republic after she and her black adopted brother fought back against the racism and bullying that was directed toward them.

Sinners go to: Hell. Rightchuss go to: Heaven. The end is neer: Repent. Julia Scheeres stumbles across these signs along the side of a cornfield while out biking with her adopted brother. This memoir offers the story of a brutal childhood of institutionalized abuse. It tells the tale of two children growing up in fundamentalist Christian America.