Not Without My Sister
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On July 2, 2007, HarperElement (a UK division of Harper Collins) published "Not Without My Sister" by sisters Juliana Buhring, Celeste Jones and Kristina Jones. The book detailed their experiences being raised in the Children of God/The Family and was the first such book to be published by former second generation members.
The first printing of 50,000 copies sold out within a couple months and the book became a bestseller in the United Kingdom and Australia. When the paperback edition of the book was released in the UK on January 7, 2008, it quickly reached the number 1 position in the Nielsen BookScan list of best-selling non-fiction paperbacks and stayed there for several weeks until the first week of March 2008 when it moved to the number 3 position.[1][2][3] According to London's Sunday Times, as of March 8, 2008, the UK paperback edition had sold approximately 89,000 copies.[4] The book is scheduled to be released in the United States in April 2008.
Press coverage
- Madison: We were forced to obey: Life Inside The Children of God — 2007-07-01
- Bristol Evening Post: Suffer little children — 2007-07-18
- Daily Mail: Enslaved by the cult of sex...for 25 years — 2007-07-12
- Bristol Evening Post: Suffer little children — 2007-07-18
- Western Daily Press: Free of cult's clutches to tell their harrowing story — 2007-07-18
- Limerick Post: Castleconnell in cult claim — 2007-08-08
- Nottingham Evening Post: Cult pictures of innocence — 2007-08-16
- Nottingham Evening Post: Woman tells of escape from cult — 2007-08-16
- Irish Independent: 'When I left The Family, I had sadness and pain and worry. But dad has never acknowledged that what happened to us was ever wrong' — 2007-08-17
- Independent on Sunday: Violent sexual abuse, brainwashing and neglect: What it's like to grow up in a religious sect — 2007-09-02
- Ireland's Issues: Not Without My Sister — 2007-09-19
- Arizona Daily Wildcat: Underside of cult life emerges — 2007-10-19
- Tucson Citizen: Authors try to repair The Family's circle of despair — 2007-11-29
- Weekly Observer: Cult Activity in Uganda? — 2008-02-14
- Sunday Vision: X-tian group worships Jesus with sex — 2008-02-23
- Sunday Vision: Living by the law of love — 2008-02-23
- Sunday Vision: Talk Back: Our dad lied about us — 2008-03-08
Television and radio interviews
- Charles Wooley: Across Australia (ISO Media, MPEG v4 system, iTunes AAC-LC, 0:10:57, 4M) — 2007-07
- Triple J: John Safran (MP3, 0:10:06, 9.2M) — 2007-07-08
- BBC Radio Five Live: Stephen Nolan (ISO Media, MPEG v4 system, iTunes AAC-LC, 0:21:22, 3.8M) (MP3 -19.7M) — 2007-07-15
- BBC - Heaven and Earth - Children of God — 2007-07-22
- Ireland AM: Born Into A Cult — 2007-08-10
- RTÉ One: Seoige & O'Shea: Not Without My Sister — 2008-01-15
External links
- Not Without My Sister — The official site for the book. Includes a guestbook, author biographies, photographs, a blog and excerpts from the book.
- movingon.org: Not Without my Sister – 2007-06-19 — discussion of the book on the MovingOn website.
- movingon.org: Update on Not Without My Sister — 2007-08-10
- Amazon.com: Not Without My Sister: The True Story of Three Girls Violated and Betrayed: Kristina Jones,Celeste Jones,Juliana Buhring — includes reviews by readers.
- ISBN 0007248063 — Book sources link for the hardcover edition
- ISBN 0007248075 — Book sources link for the paperback edition
References
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