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The foundling : the true story of a kidnapping, a family secret, and my search for the real me / Paul Joseph Fronczak and Alex Tresniowski.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501142123 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xiii, 347 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Howard Books, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
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| Subject: | Fronczak, Paul Joseph. Kidnapping victims > United States > Biography. Families > United States. Family reunification > United States. |
| Genre: | Biographies. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stroud Branch | 364.154092 Fronc | 31681010050078 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
The author recounts how after fifty years he discovered that the mother that he was given to in the mistaken belief that he was her kidnapped son was not his real mother and describes his search for his identity and the whereabouts of the mother's original kidnapped child. - Baker & Taylor
In an incredible true story, the author, who recently discovered via a DNA test that he was not who he thought he was, sets out to solve two 50-year-old mysteries at once and, along the way, upturned the genealogy industry, unearthed his familyÆs deepest secrets and broke open the second longest cold-case in U.S. history. - Simon and Schuster
This is the inspiring and 'page-turning' (Booklist) true story of a man who discovered that he had been kidnapped as a baby'and how his quest to find out who he really is upturned the genealogy industry, his own family, and set in motion the second longest cold case in US history.
In 1964, a woman pretending to be a nurse kidnapped an infant boy named Paul Fronczak from a Chicago hospital.
Two years later, police found a boy abandoned outside a variety store in New Jersey. The FBI tracked down Dora Fronczak, the kidnapped infant's mother, and she identified the abandoned boy as her son. The family spent the next fifty years believing they were whole again'but Paul was always unsure about his true identity.
Then, four years ago'spurred on by the birth of his first child, Emma Faith'Paul took a DNA test. The test revealed that he was definitely not Paul Fronczak. From that moment on, Paul has been on a tireless mission to find the man whose life he's been living'and to discover who abandoned him, and why.
Poignant and inspiring, The Foundling is a story about a child lost and a faith found, about the permanence of families and the bloodlines that define you, and about the emotional toll of both losing your identity and rediscovering who you truly are.
