Adult Book Group

Join us on the third Tuesday of each month for a lively discussion about this month's title. Copies of the month's title are available at the Ridgefield Community Library for sign-out at the Accounts Desk.

For June we will read a non-fiction book: The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston. All are welcome.

Since the days of Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. In 1940, journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City -- but then committed suicide without revealing its location. In 2012, Preston joined a team of scientists using classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. They found evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization -- and returned carrying a horrifying, sometimes lethal -- and incurable -- disease.

We will meet in person in the Community Room. Please sign out a copy of the discussion book at the Accounts Desk before the program.