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The Baby Swap Conspiracy: The Shocking Truth Behind the Florida Case of Two Babies Switched at Birth
by Schwartz-Nobel, Loretta
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +/Good +
- Seller
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Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Villard Books, 1993. Hardcover. Good +/Good +. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xxii, 248pp. Mild wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing and creasing to covers and edges. A spot of surface paper loss to front cover. Gray cloth over boards with spine backed in red and lettered in silver. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
The whole world was fascinated by the harrowing story of Ernest and Regina Twigg, grieving parents of a mortally ill daughter. They discovered shortly before her death that she had been switched with their own healthy newborn in a small Florida hospital nine years earlier. Having searched out their birth child, the Twiggs battled to win custody of her from Bob Mays, the single parent who claimed that, regardless of biology, the Twigg's effort to separate him from his beloved little girl, Kimbery was cruel and unethical. In the Baby Swap Conspiracy, award winning investigative journalist Loretta Schwartz-Nobel reveals extraordinary new information about the case. She is the only journalist to whom Bob May's former wife, Cindy spoke. The shocking interview borne out by her sworn depositions and those of a highly respected psychiatrist who counseled the troubled May's family, form the basis for a previously unrevealed portrait of this "model" husband and father. Rather than the sympathetic figure depicted by the press, Bob Mays is portrayed in the book as a smooth, charming, and affable person on one level but a controlling and explosive sociopath on another. Schwartz-Nobel brings to light long buried documents that have led to new witnesses and takes us closer than ever before to unraveling the desperation that produced a deliberate criminal act and cover-up.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
The whole world was fascinated by the harrowing story of Ernest and Regina Twigg, grieving parents of a mortally ill daughter. They discovered shortly before her death that she had been switched with their own healthy newborn in a small Florida hospital nine years earlier. Having searched out their birth child, the Twiggs battled to win custody of her from Bob Mays, the single parent who claimed that, regardless of biology, the Twigg's effort to separate him from his beloved little girl, Kimbery was cruel and unethical. In the Baby Swap Conspiracy, award winning investigative journalist Loretta Schwartz-Nobel reveals extraordinary new information about the case. She is the only journalist to whom Bob May's former wife, Cindy spoke. The shocking interview borne out by her sworn depositions and those of a highly respected psychiatrist who counseled the troubled May's family, form the basis for a previously unrevealed portrait of this "model" husband and father. Rather than the sympathetic figure depicted by the press, Bob Mays is portrayed in the book as a smooth, charming, and affable person on one level but a controlling and explosive sociopath on another. Schwartz-Nobel brings to light long buried documents that have led to new witnesses and takes us closer than ever before to unraveling the desperation that produced a deliberate criminal act and cover-up.
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- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8163
- Title
- The Baby Swap Conspiracy: The Shocking Truth Behind the Florida Case of Two Babies Switched at Birth
- Author
- Schwartz-Nobel, Loretta
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Villard Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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