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SUMMARY:Author Event: Annette McGivney & Betsy Gaines Quammen
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DESCRIPTION:McGivney and Gaines Quammen will speak about their new books\,
  both recently published by Torrey House Press.\n.\nhttps://durangopublicl
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Annette McGivney is the author of <em>Plas
 tic Shaman: The True Story of a Deadly Self-Help Retreat and America's Mis
 guided Quest for Wellness.</em></p>\n<p>About the book:</p>\n<p>In October
  2009\, more than fifty people attended a $10\,000-per-person wellness ret
 reat led by a celebrity self-help guru. For these enlightenment seekers\, 
 their time in Sedona\, Arizona\, culminated in a fake Native American swea
 t lodge ceremony. Three of them would not make it out alive.</p>\n<p>This 
 tragedy exposes the dangerous truth about the booming $2 trillion wellness
  industry where promises of spiritual awakening and financial success ofte
 n mask dangerous practices underpinned by cultural appropriation and commo
 dification of nature. Journalist Annette McGivney explores this world\, ex
 posing the manipulation and greed that allow charismatic influencers to pr
 ey on vulnerable people in search of happiness and healing--no matter the 
 cost.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Betsy Gaines Quammen is the author of <em>This Haun
 ted Land: Reckoning with Ghosts and the Stories That Shape America</em></p
 >\n<p>About the book:</p>\n<p>This Haunted Land investigates some of Ameri
 ca's most enduring legends and uncovers how ghost stories can illuminate s
 ome of the most unsettling parts of history. With curiosity\, a touch of s
 kepticism\, and an open-hearted willingness to learn from the living and t
 he dead\, Betsy Gaines Quammen takes readers on a journey into haunted tow
 ns\, forgotten lives\, and abandoned places. From a once-booming uranium m
 ining community in Colorado to a fort on the coast of Florida that predate
 s the United States itself\, this riveting exploration of memory\, mournin
 g\, folklore\, and social anxiety shows that politicized efforts to rewrit
 e history can only be defeated by bearing witness to the specters of the p
 ast.</p>\nhttps://durangopubliclibrary.libnet.info/event/17470861
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