Con Women

From Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Delvey to Frank Abagnale and Charles Ponzi, audacious scams and charismatic scammers continue to intrigue us as a culture. As Tori Telfer reveals in Confident Women, the art of the con has a long and venerable tradition, and its female practitioners are some of the best - or worst.

Por fin estas despierto. Te levantas y miras el reloj. Atonito, te das cuenta de que ya son las 10 de la manana y acabas de empezar.

October in Cascade Springs means tourists are pouring in for the annual Food and Wine Festival, and Daisy hopes to draw those crowds to the store. She asks Violet and the local writing group, the Red Inkers, to give a reading of the works of Edgar Allan Poe on the shop's front porch to entertain the revelers. Everyone eagerly agrees. Yet their enthusiasm is soon extinguished when Violet discovers one of the writers dead in the shop moments before the event.

¿Ser adulto mientras afrontas el TDAH te hace sentir como un navegador humano con 73 pestañas abiertas? No está sola, ¡y hay una salida! ¿Alguna vez has sentido que tu mente es una máquina de pinball, con pensamientos rebotando por todas partes? Un minuto estás concentrada en el trabajo, y al siguiente te estás preguntando si apagaste la cafetera esta mañana.

In 2011, three successful and highly educated women fell head over heels for the brilliant and charming Ethan Schuman. Unbeknownst to the others, each exchanged countless messages with Ethan, staying up late into the evenings to deepen their connections with this fascinating man. His detailed excuses about broken webcams and complicated international calling plans seemed believable, as did last minute trip cancellations. After all, why would he lie? Ethan wasn't after money—he never convinced his marks to shell out thousands of dollars for some imagined crisis.

¿Eres introvertido y estas cansado de NO poder hablar bien con Mujeres? ¿Tienes problemas de timidez? En esta gran guía dejo plasmado mis experiencias y técnicas que he aplicado a lo largo de mi juventud, que me han servido para hablar y conquistar a distintas Mujeres, saber si les gusto o no, y sobre todo perder el miedo de hablarle, controlar el carácter de ser introvertido. Si estas listo para aprender estas Técnicas este es el momento de obtener este Libro.

I wish I didn't like it when he called me that... His. His only. His to use. His to own. His sweet girl... His virgin, and his whore. But if I don't consent my family will be homeless... And deep down, I want it all--I want him when he's kind and when he's hard, when he makes me ache and when he makes me blush... So I'll say yes. Yes to everything, even though it's my first time. Even when it hurts. This book depicts consenting adults engaged in the following activities: rough, kinky sex with dirty talk, Ddom designations, guided oral, breeding with pregnancy, and a big ole HEA. It is meant...

La mayoría de los hombres no tienen idea de que las mujeres que conocen y aman los están poniendo a prueba. Pasan sus vidas interactuando con el sexo opuesto en absoluta oscuridad, ignorantes del hecho de que están siendo juzgados, evaluados, aprobados y rechazados en función de sus reacciones subconscientes a las pruebas femeninas.

La verdad es que muchos hombres simplemente no saben qué decirle, a una mujer atractiva. Puedes sentir que no tienes nada que ofrecerle. Quizás ella piense que eres raro o aburrido. Quizás hayas experimentado emociones incómodas en eventos sociales, como vergüenza, frustración o tristeza, porque pareciera que todo el mundo tiene novia, excepto tu.

FBI special agent Kate O’Hare has made it her mission to nail international con artist Nicolas Fox. When she discovers his plot to plunder a venture capitalist’s 20th-story Chicago penthouse of all its cash and treasures while the self-proclaimed "King of Hostile Takeovers" is getting married, Kate is 85 percent - okay maybe 92 percent - sure that she’s finally going to bag Nick Fox. Problem is, first Kate has to convince her boss, building security, and maybe even herself, that wedding planner Merrill Stubing is actually Nicolas Fox. Second, she has to figure out how to corner and capture him without disrupting the event of the year.

MG Martin thought she’d turned the last page on the dangerous Golden Arrow case. The bad guys are behind bars, and the rest is up to her detective boyfriend, Matteo Kildaire. But when Golden Arrow impersonators start popping up all over Los Angeles, the writer in MG can’t help but be intrigued. Are they impostors, or has the original Golden Arrow returned? A reemergence of drug crime has left the LAPD baffled, and golden arrows are once again being left at crime scenes. Matteo asks MG if she’ll resume consulting on all things geek, and she jumps at the opportunity.

In 1911 two British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, read a brochure about a revolutionary fasting treatment that promised a lifetime of good health. The sanatorium in the village of Olalla, west of Seattle, was surrounded by a beautiful forest, sparkling waters and fresh air. The sisters agreed it sounded perfect and exactly the restorative holiday they needed. But within a month of arriving, under the supervision of Doctor Linda Burfield Hazzard, Claire and Dora began to realise the frightening truth – they were not patients but prisoners at the isolated sanitorium.

In this tantalizing true mystery of a stolen life, an acclaimed reporter and an identity theft investigator follow a series of incredible revelations about the actual identity of a wife, mother, and friend turned perfect stranger. Days after Lori Ruff’s suicide, her family discovered her hidden strongbox containing stunning evidence that her entire life had been invented. Her real identity was buried so deep it would take five years to unearth. Who was Lori Ruff?

I Did It is the story of Gina Champion-Cain, the mastermind behind the largest woman-led Ponzi scheme in US history—$400 million. This real-life story includes a multitude of participants, banks, hedge funds, egomaniacs, and small-time crooks, all fueled by greed, stupidity, and a keen desire to look the other way. And even when they were looking in the right direction, all of these people and entities saw nothing.

At 5:02 p.m. on June 5, 1986, an emergency call came into the local sheriff’s office in the small town of Auburn, Washington State. A distressed housewife, Stella Nickell, said her husband, Bruce, was having a seizure. Officers rushed to the Nickells' mobile home to find Stella standing frozen at the door…. Bruce was on the floor fighting for his life.

¿Te sientes abrumada por un millón de pensamientos acelerados y una montaña rusa interminable de emociones? Lleno de herramientas prácticas, estrategias probadas e ideas transformadoras, este audiolibro ofrece un mapa vial para gestionar tus síntomas de TDAH y desbloquear tu máximo potencial. Estos son algunos de los tesoros que encontrarás dentro: - 15 estrategias comprobadas para calmar tus pensamientos acelerados - El cambio de mentalidad que necesitas para abrazar la neurodiversidad.

Mira como una mujer y pinta como un hombre. Eso decían de la vanguardista francesa Émilie Charmy en pleno siglo XX, o de la española Elena Brockman, una de las pocas artistas con obra en el Museo del Prado. Esta frase condensa muchas de las claves para entender la difícil aceptación en torno a la actividad artística femenina a lo largo de la historia. Ese silencio es posterior a sus creaciones: si tras las guerras la historia la escriben los vencedores, los manuales de arte solo se escribieron desde una perspectiva masculina.

¿Cansado de congelarte cuando estás cerca de una mujer atractiva con la que quisieras hablar? ¿Sueles quedarte sin cosas que decir cuando hablas con una mujer, sólo para ver cómo pierde lentamente el interés? En esta poderosa guía, Ray Asher condensa sus años de luchas, pruebas y errores y su eventual descubrimiento de los secretos de como conectarse profundamente con las mujeres usando el poder de la conversación para ayudarte a traer a tu vida el tipo de mujeres que deseas.

Cassie Chadwick, one of history's most successful con artists, was a master of the trade. She swept from town to town, assuming new identities and running new swindles at each railroad stop. In the dusk of the Gilded Age, years after the robber barons had amassed their fortunes, she was amassing her own. Using her wits and a series of forged documents, Cassie convinced prominent men from Cleveland to New York City that she was Andrew Carnegie's illegitimate daughter. The con made her impossibly rich.

Belle Gibson convinced the world she had healed herself from terminal brain cancer with a healthy diet. She built a global business based upon her claims. There was just one problem: she'd never had cancer. In 2015, journalists uncovered the truth: this hero of the wellness world, with over 200,000 followers, international book deals and a best-selling smartphone app, was a fraud.