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X-WR-CALDESC:True Story Book Club\n\nThe Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of
  Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice by Simon Parkin (384 p.)\n
 \nIn the summer of 1941\, German troops surrounded the Russian city of Len
 ingrad—now St. Petersburg—and began the longest blockade in recorded histo
 ry\, one that would ultimately claim the lives of nearly three-quarters of
  a million people. At the center of the besieged city stood a converted pa
 lace that housed the world’s largest collection of seeds—more than 250\,00
 0 samples hand-collected over two decades from all over the globe by world
 -famous explorer\, geneticist\, and dissident Nikolai Vavilov\, who had re
 cently been disappeared by the Soviet government. After attempts to evacua
 te the priceless collection failed and supplies dwindled amongst the three
  million starving citizens\, the employees at the Plant Institute were lef
 t with a terrible choice. Should they save the collection? Or themselves?
 \n\nThese were not just any seeds. The botanists believed they could be br
 ed into heartier\, disease-resistant\, and more productive varieties suite
 d for harsh climates\, thereby changing the future of food production and 
 preventing famines like those that had plagued their countrymen before. Bu
 t protecting the seeds was no idle business. The scientists rescued potato
  samples under enemy fire\, extinguished incendiary bombs landing on the s
 eed bank’s roof\, and guarded the collection from scavengers\, the bitter 
 cold\, and their own hunger. Then in the war’s eleventh hour\, Nazi plunde
 rers presented a new threat to the collection…\n
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DESCRIPTION:True Story Book Club\n\nThe Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of 
 Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice by Simon Parkin (384 p.)\n
 \nIn the summer of 1941\, German troops surrounded the Russian city of Len
 ingrad—now St. Petersburg—and began the longest blockade in recorded histo
 ry\, one that would ultimately claim the lives of nearly three-quarters of
  a million people. At the center of the besieged city stood a converted pa
 lace that housed the world’s largest collection of seeds—more than 250\,00
 0 samples hand-collected over two decades from all over the globe by world
 -famous explorer\, geneticist\, and dissident Nikolai Vavilov\, who had re
 cently been disappeared by the Soviet government. After attempts to evacua
 te the priceless collection failed and supplies dwindled amongst the three
  million starving citizens\, the employees at the Plant Institute were lef
 t with a terrible choice. Should they save the collection? Or themselves?
 \n\nThese were not just any seeds. The botanists believed they could be br
 ed into heartier\, disease-resistant\, and more productive varieties suite
 d for harsh climates\, thereby changing the future of food production and 
 preventing famines like those that had plagued their countrymen before. Bu
 t protecting the seeds was no idle business. The scientists rescued potato
  samples under enemy fire\, extinguished incendiary bombs landing on the s
 eed bank’s roof\, and guarded the collection from scavengers\, the bitter 
 cold\, and their own hunger. Then in the war’s eleventh hour\, Nazi plunde
 rers presented a new threat to the collection…\n
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SUMMARY:True Story Book Club: The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieg
 ed Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice
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