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Title: Where do I search for "The Hanging Tree" book in Act I?
Question: Where do I search for  The Hanging Tree  book in Act I?  The Hanging Tree  is the first "book" you need to listen to in the Act I, but I cannot find it; what am I missing?

Answers:
sents: text: The Hanging Tree is a book and event in Act
text: I, that takes place in the Weeping Hollow.
text: The event happens at a tree from which three corpses are hanging.
text: When your character walks past, he'll say something like "What happened to this grave," although I'm sure that depends on your class and gender.
text: Clicking the coffin under the tree starts an event where a dozen skeletons will rise up and attack you.
text: When you kill them all, the event is over and the book will pop up.
text: There are five random spawn points where you might find the tree within the zone.
text: As you enter the zone from the Southeast, keep walking Northwest, off of the road.
text: The first random chunk is just on the other side of the trees that line the road.
text: The second is just northwest of the first; the third just northwest of that; the fourth to the northeast of the third.
text: The fifth is on the other side of the road, far to the east and just a bit further north of the fourth chunk.
text: There are eight different tiles that might spawn in these five locations.
text: If you run this zone a few times, you'll quickly learn to recognize them.
text: I'm describing all of them here to help make the farming process easier.
text: a narrow walk between two tree-clusters two trees in a cluster of unpassable terrain purple ground; a flat area where ~25 ghouls will spawn Haedrig's apprentice, in front of a hut a disturbed grave surrounded by a small, square wall; sometimes including four large gravestones an unburied grave - broken headstone, corpse, and coffin
text: The Den of the Fallen (one of the random instances for the No Stone Unturned achievement)
text: The hanging tree, either by itself or with four bits of disturbed ground.
text: The Hanging Tree event (and hence the book) will only appear when the tree is surrounded by those four bits of disturbed earth.
text: The easiest way to farm this event is to change your quest to The Shattered Crown, walk out of Tristram to the checkpoint across the bridge, and start hunting.
text: If you don't find the tree, leave the game and then resume again -- you'll spawn right at the start of the zone.
text: Knowing that there's five places where this event/tile can spawn should help you quickly find it (as well as the Den, if you're hunting that achievement too).
text: Note: in the below image, I just marked what the chunks were that time.
text: They're random!
text: The tree could be at any of the 5.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/9394/PixelWight
score: 32
sents: text: According to this post at gamefaqs forum: I have just got the Hanging Tree Lore Book a few minutes ago.
text: Have attempted many times with the "Shattered Crown - Northwest Gate" quest without success.
text: So I switched to the "Reign of the Black King - The Royal Crypts" and found the coffin with just a few attempts.
text: I found it about 2-3 "tree blocks" from the Weeping Hollow's entrance.
text: There is only 1 coffin next to the tree.
text: Your hero will say "Something has disturbed these graves..." when you click on the coffin or walk past (cant remember the details).
text: After that a few coffin moulds will rise and all you need is to kill whatever that comes out.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/19047/SIMEL
score: 6
sents: text: I finally got this book after 30+ runs or something.
text: It seams it's pretty rare (or i just got bad luck).
text: You have to look in those four areas of the map that are random.
text: Finding the tree is not enough, this event only happens when you see four desecrated graves around the tree, if you see a single grave, that is not it.
text: You need to remake and keep searching.
text: The fastest way is to get the checkpoint outside New Tristam when you are doing the "The Shattered Crown" quest.
text: This way, every time you restart, you are already in the zone.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/26937/Bruno Cardoso
score: 2
sents: text: According to a comment on D3DB: This can be found in the Weeping Hollow (south of the Cemetery of the Forsaken) near a Rotting Coffin.
text: When you click on the coffin you will be ambushed.
text: Once you kill all the mobs the book will drop.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/26052/CloudyMusic
score: 1
sents: text: Using the answer here I was able to find the Hanging Tree in only a few run throughs.
text: Particularly I was in Normal - A Shattered Crown ( Find the Cemetery ) on patch level 1.03
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/10260/Tharius
score: 1

Summary of the answers:
It takes place in the Weeping Hollow. Finding the tree is not enough, it only happens if you see 4 desecrated graves around the tree.
It seems there is a specific location for the book in question.