Book Clubs
Mystery Lovers Book Club Discussion
Tuesday
May 18th
@ 1pm
(Zoom meeting)
Still Midnight
by Denise
Mina
Thursday May 27, 2021 at 7:00p.m.
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Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings
& America's First Imperial Venture
by Julia Flynn Siler
Portraits of royalty, rogues, sugar barons, and missionaries combine into a sweeping tale of the Hawaiian kingdom's rise and fall.
At the center of the story is Lili'uokalani, the last queen of Hawaii. Born in 1838, she lived through the nearly complete economic transformation of the islands. Lucrative sugar plantations owned almost exclusively by white planters, dubbed the 'Sugar Kings,' gradually subsumed the majority of the land. Hawaii became a prize in the contest between America, Britain, and France, each of whom were seeking to expand their military and commercial influence in the Pacific.