A devastating crime hits home in The Stealing of Joy. From best-selling author Glynnis Walker Anderson, PhD, comes the emotional true story of how her family was torn apart by the crime of the twenty-first century—elder fraud. Anderson’s mother is suffering from Alzheimer’s when she falls victim to a group of women, including a neighbor, a supermarket clerk, and a lawyer, that takes everything from her. After managing to get legal guardianship due to the courtroom prowess and suppression of evidence by the group’s lawyer member, the criminals manage to empty the elderly woman’s bank accounts, change her will, and isolate her from the rest of her family. A month later, Anderson’s mother winds up in the hospital, where the group insists she submit to a surgery that five different doctors warn will likely kill her. Robbed of the chance to say good-bye to the mother she loved, Anderson uses her background as an investigative journalist in an attempt to expose the fraud and reinstate her mother’s original will. The Stealing of Joy serves as a potent warning for all those whose elderly loved ones may be at risk and offers guidance on how to fight against elder fraud.

Stealing Joy: A True Story of Alzheimer's, Elder Abuse, and Fraud

Biographies & Memoirs

Anderson, Glynnis Walker

True Crime

New Horizon Press

Coppi: Life of Fausto Coppi

Duker, Peter

A definitive text on new strategies and treatments for disturbed children by Dr. K. Daniel O'Leary, cited by American Psychologist as being among the top hundred psychologists in the English-speaking world. His book is a complete record of encouraging therapies to help parents and professionals deal with the behavioral and emotional difficulties of the hyperactive and aggressive child so that improvements at every level, personal, family, and educational, will be achieved.

Mommy I Can't Sit Still

Parenting & Relationships

O'Leary, Daniel

Disabilities & Hyperactivity

Climb Your Own Mountain

John F. Zaccaro: actor, stunt man, adventurer, million dollar-a-year salesman and master consultant to big business has for twenty years studied the most successful and highly motivated people in the world: top executives, Olympic athletes, Oscar-winning actors and Nobel prize scientists. Using their own words and true life stories plus his mountain climbing experiences and astute powers of analysis, Zaccaro reveals the secret forces that bring riches and can help you change your life and fortune. Learn how to recognize, nurture and apply these powerful principles so that wealth and prosperity can be yours. Find out the successful formulas of America's elite, all of whom have used the guidelines revealed in their chapters in this book to begin achieving their personal goals. Whatever your own personal definition of success, you can overcome obstacles or challenges to climb your own mountain and seize life's opportunities.

Zaccaro, John

Business & Money

Black Widow

The spellbinding true story of obsession and power, of money and arsenic, of multiple personas and multiple murders: of the ghastly web that Audrey Marie Hilley wove around her family to obtain material security and the social prestige she imagined it brought - a story which culminated in one of the nation's most sensational murder trials. Written by the reporter who covered the trial and became the confidante of the Hilley family.

McDonald, Robin

The author recounts his experiences working with Albert Schweitzer in Gabon, Africa, and shares his impressions of Schweitzer's complex personality

In Africa with Schwietzer

Berman, Edgar

Professionals & Academics

The rivalries, sabotage, and backstabbing among women striving for success.

Woman to Woman

Self-Help

Briles, Ph.D. Judith

Relationships

One hundred years ago the nation reeled at the brutal rape and murder of thirteen year old Mary Phagan and the arrest of her accused killer, Leo Frank. Frank's trial and conviction generated fiery emotions in the people of Georgia and across the nation. When John Slaton, governor of Georgia, commuted Frank's sentence from death to life imprisonment, a group of prominent, well known men broke into the prison. They kidnapped and lynched Leo Frank. The repercussions are still being felt. Now, the greatniece and namesake of Mary Phagan, whose startling resemblance to the murdered girl has haunted her life, breaks the vow of silence imposed on the Phagan family by Fannie Phagan Coleman, mother of little Mary. She discloses fro the first time the family's side of the affair. She recounts in ghastly detail Mary Phagan's murder and its grim legacy. She reveals the heretofore private Phagan family records. Her grandfather's secret meeting with Jim Conley, whose testimony convicted Leo Frank. Her meetings with the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles. And her interview with Alonzo Mann, whose revelations about Jim Conley and Leo Frank in 1982 brought the nation's attention back to the case and led to Leo Frank's posthumous pardon. The MURDER OF LITTLE MARY PHAGAN is the definitive account of one of the most famous crimes of the century and it continuing aftermath.

The Murder of Little Mary Phagan

History

Phagan, Mary

Americas

A page-turner/thriller about a dedicated nurse who enters a dangerous underworld of crime and deception when she discovers the doctors and nurses at her hospital, including the man she loves, are deeply involved in a drug ring and the police ask her to become an undercover agent.However, it is also a story of hope -- of Ms. Strom-Paikin's subsequent work with recovering nurses and her efforts to spearhead drug rehabilitation.

Medical Treason

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Strom-Paiken, Joyce

Addiction & Recovery

This is the real story of the beginnings of the Mafia in the United States. It tells for the first time what actually happened as the control of the rackets - extortion, protection, carting and hauling, the cement industry, beer and liquor distributorships - and of the New York waterfront was wrested away from the Irish racketeers by the gang of Italian immigrants who called themselves."The Black Hand" and were under the total domination of Battista Balsamo, the original "Godfather". He appeared an honorable, reasonable, and just man. He was the vicious head of the Mob. Filled with rare photographs and documents, peopled with an extraordinary gallery of men and women of the infamous underground, written on ten years of solid research, Under the Clock recounts in painful detail the monumental gangland war that raged for five bloody years,punctuated by poison,knives, and guns, between the Irish "White Hand" and the Italian "Black Hand.". Here is the true story of the resultant Mafia empire - including its emperor, Al Capone - which was ultimately penetrated by the you, dedicated, ambitious New York D.A. - Tom Dewey.

Under the Clock

Balsamo, William

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