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SUMMARY:True Crime Book Club
LOCATION:Hoover Public Library\nHoover Public Library
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DESCRIPTION:Enjoy playing armchair detective? Fascinated by cold cases? Th
 is book club is for you!.\nhttps://hoover.libnet.info/event/16501985
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>To join via Zoom\, please click this <a hr
 ef="https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85744263938?pwd=brxdLthL65alJ7j06wEpOYrx9GsN
 Cg.1">Zoom Meeting Link</a>.</p>\n<p>Abbott Kahler will join the discussio
 n via Zoom!</p>\n<p>At the height of the Great Depression\, Los Angeles oi
 l mogul George Allan Hancock and his crew of Smithsonian scientists came u
 pon a gruesome scene: two bodies\, mummified by the searing heat\, on the 
 shore of a remote Gal&aacute\;pagos island. For the past four years Hancoc
 k and other American elites had traveled the South Seas to collect specime
 ns for scientific research. On one trip to the Gal&aacute\;pagos\, Hancock
  was surprised to discover an equally exotic group of humans: European exi
 les who had fled political and economic unrest\, hoping to create a utopia
 n paradise. One was so devoted to a life of isolation that he&rsquo\;d had
  his teeth extracted and replaced with a set of steel dentures.</p>\n<p>As
  Hancock and his fellow American explorers would witness\, paradise had tu
 rned into chaos. The three sets of exiles&mdash\;a Berlin doctor and his l
 over\, a traumatized World War I veteran and his young family\, and an Aus
 trian baroness with two adoring paramours&mdash\;were riven by conflict. P
 etty slights led to angry confrontations. The baroness\, wielding a riding
  crop and pearl-handled revolver\, staged physical fights between her two 
 lovers and unabashedly seduced American tourists. The conclusion was deadl
 y: with two exiles missing and two others dead\, the survivors hurled accu
 sations of murder.</p>\n<p>Using never-before-published archives\, Abbott 
 Kahler weaves a chilling\, stranger-than-fiction tale worthy of Agatha Chr
 istie. Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression and the march to W
 orld War II\, with a mystery as alluring and curious as the Gal&aacute\;pa
 gos itself\, Eden Undone explores the universal and timeless desire to see
 k utopia&mdash\;and lays bare the human fallibility that\, inevitably\, re
 nders such a quest doomed.</p>\nhttps://hoover.libnet.info/event/16501985
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