Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions
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Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
$30.00 Add to cartA cautionary tale of sex and salvation for the wellness generation: how orgasmic meditation turned into a cult.
OneTaste hoped orgasm would change the world. Emerging in the midst of the late-aughts f- Author: Huet, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0374604193
- Language: English
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Charlatans: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Hucksters Bamboozle the Media, the Markets, and the Masses
$30.00 Add to cartFrom snake-oil salesmen to crypto grifters, the “fascinating” (Fareed Zakaria) story of charlatans–and why we fall for them
For centuries charlatans have been bamboozling victims. But today, charlat- Author: Naim, Moises
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606515
- Language: English
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There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America’s Biggest Catfish
$30.00 Add to cartPart memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of three women coming face-to-face with an internet predator and teaming up to expose them.
In 2011, thre- Author: Akbari, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1538742195
- Language: English
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The Devil Wears Rothko: Inside the Art Scandal That Rocked the World
$30.00 Add to cartThe Devil Wears Rothko charts the explosive demise of Knoedler Gallery, one of New York’s oldest and most prestigious art galleries, with detailed and salacious insight into the art fraud scandal of t… [more below]
- Author: Avrich, Barry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888454527
- Language: English
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Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Swindled the World
$19.99 Add to cart“Catch Me if You Can meets Coming to America in this epic tale of one of the greatest scammers of all time.”-NPR
Shortlisted for the Mark Lynton History Prize * A New York Times Notable Book of the Ye- Author: Yeebo, Yepoka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1639735291
- Language: English
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The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy
$30.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that investigates Munchausen by Proxy from the host and creator of the award-winning true crime podcast Nobody Should Believe Me.
“I devoured this chilling- Author: Dunlop, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1250284279
- Language: English
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Anatomy of a Con Artist: The 14 Red Flags to Spot Scammers, Grifters, and Thieves
$28.00 Add to cartThese are the 14 red flags to identify the scammer in your life before they con you–from a victim-turned-vigilante and host of the hit podcast Queen of the Con.
“Johnathan Walton has written a master… [more below]- Author: Walton, Johnathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0593797167
- Language: English
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Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: A Ponzi Scheme Victim’s Story
$15.99 Add to cartObtain an inside look at a real-life Ponzi scheme from the vantage point of one of its victims.
We’ve all heard of Ponzi schemes, but what happens when you’re the victim of one?
After a 30-year career w
- Author: Dougherty, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822963870
- Language: English
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False Claims: One Insider’s Impossible Battle Against Big Pharma Corruption
$30.00 Add to cart- Author: Pratta, Lisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 63371103
- Language: English
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The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
$21.00 Add to cartThe true stroy of the longest-distance hijacking in American history.
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of ’60s idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over- Author: Koerner, Brendan I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 17 2014
- ISBN10: 0307886115
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Fooled the World: The True Story of Fake Wellness Guru Belle Gibson
$19.95 Add to cartA jaw-dropping story of extraordinary deceit that left many victims in its wake and travelled around the world.
Entrepreneur. Inspiration. Guru. Belle Gibson shot to fame after she convinced the world
- Author: Donelly, Beau
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1947534068
- Language: English
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Cults: Inside the World’s Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them
$29.99 Add to cartMystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside them? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of cult leaders and the people who join the… [more below]
- Author: Cutler, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1982133546
- Language: English
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Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age
$17.95 Add to cartOne fateful winter night, a famous racehorse mysteriously broke his leg while alone in his stall. An investigation ensued, but the real story has never been told…until now.
It was a cool, quiet even
- Author: Kray, Fred M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987213810
- Language: English
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Unmask Alice: Lsd, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries
$19.95 Add to cart“Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson goes a long way to showing what investigative journalism could be in the right hands . . . this book is undeniably buzzworthy.” —Portland Book Review
“An absorbing and- Author: Emerson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1637745184
- Language: English
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The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, the Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age
$18.99 Add to cartParoled felon. Rich doctor’s wife. Famous clairvoyant. Cassie Chadwick, one of history’s most successful con artists, was a master of reinvention. In the dusk of the Gilded Age, she swept from town to… [more below]
- Author: Reed, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1635769825
- Language: English
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The Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con and the Woman Who Got Away with It
$29.00 Read more175 countries, four billion dollars, one scam: the thrilling rise and fall of the biggest cryptocurrency con in history and the woman behind it all
In 2016, on stage at Wembley Arena in front of thous- Author: Bartlett, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0306829169
- Language: English
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Psychiana Man: A Mail-Order Prophet, His Followers, and the Power of Belief in Hard Times
$24.95 Read moreSix weeks after the 1929 stock market crash, Frank Bruce Robinson created a self-help religion he called Psychiana. An ingenious mass-marketing pioneer, he sold a correspondence course promising healt
- Author: Schrand, Brandon R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0874224047
- Language: English
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Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
$16.99 Read moreA thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history’s notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold, outrageous scams–by the acclaimed author of Lady Killers.
From Eliza
- Author: Telfer, Tori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0062956035
- Language: English
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The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History
$28.99 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – The captivating, deeply reported true story of how one of the most notorious novels ever written–Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom–landed at the heart of one of th… [more below]
- Author: Warner, Joel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593135687
- Language: English
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Unmask Alice: Lsd, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries
$19.95 Read more“Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson goes a long way to showing what investigative journalism could be in the right hands . . . this book is undeniably buzzworthy.” —Portland Book Review
“An absorbing and- Author: Emerson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1637745184
- Language: English
