The Book Club was inaugurated to highlight and bring attention to books by compelling women authors.

New Book Club Selection
Summer 2008

MUST HAVE Reads For Summer!

	And She Was By Cindy Dyson "In a tense interplay between past and present, And She Was explores Alaskan Aluet history, taboos, mummies, conquest, survival, and the seamy side of the 1980's in a fishing boomtown at the edge of the world."
	One For Sorrow, Two For Joy By Elise Juska " Juska's delicate touch and note-perfect writing that allow her to gather the threads of the shrewdly observed details and weave them around her vivid characters, making One for Sorrow, Two for Joy a memorable, rewarding pleasure." -The Philadelphia Inquirer

Discover two very different places

~Ireland & Alaska~

through the eyes of characters

reconnecting with their past.

Cindy Dyson is the author of eight books for young adults, Cindy Dyson grew up in Alaska. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, Backpacker, First for Women, Women's World, and other publications. She now lives near Glacier Park, Montana. Visit Dyson's website for more information about the author

Elise Juska grew up outside Philadelphia and attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where she majored in English and won the Hawthorne and Sinkinson Prizes for her short stories.She completed her Master's in Writing at the University of New Hampshire in 1997, receiving the Lt. Albert Charait Award for best short story.She now lives in Southwest Harbor, Maine, where she is at work on a new novel. Visit Juska's website for more information about the author

We would like to thank Harper Collins and Simon & Schuster for partnering with us in showcasing Cindy Dyson and Elise Juska's work.

Book Club
selection
Fall 2007

"Lesley Hazleton tells the story of the real-life, flesh-and-blood-and-brain female whose name has been, for the last 3,000 years, shorthand for Bad Girl. Was Jezebel really 'bad'? Or was she, like so many forward-thinking women after her, simply feared as a foreigner, reviled as an infidel, destroyed as a deviant? Read this book and find out."

-Rebecca Brown, author of Gifts of the Body

There is no woman with a worse reputation than Jezebel, the ancient queen who corrupted a nation and met one of the most gruesome fates in the Bible. Her name alone speaks of sexual decadence and promiscuity. But what if this version of her story, handed down to us through the ages, is merely the one her enemies wanted us to believe? What if Jezebel, far from being a conniving harlot, was in fact framed?

Lesley Hazleton's previous book is Mary: A Flesh and Blood Biography of the Virgin Mary, a moldbreaking blend of in-depth research and historical imagination. British-born, Lesley lived for thirteen years in Jerusalem, where she worked simultaneously as a psychologist and as a reporter for Time Magazine. A member of the AROHO retreat faculty in summer 2007, she helped the participants exceed their own writing expectations.

A Gift of
Freedom
Success Story

"Without a Map tells an important and perceptive story about loss, about aloneness and isolation in a time of great need, about a life slowly coming back into focus and the calm that finally emerges. Meredith Hall is a brave new writer who earns our attention."

-Annie Dillard

"The AROHO Book Club discussion and study guides were created to enrich the solitary reader's experience and inspire more readers to create their own book clubs. They have been written and compiled by the AROHO Literary Committee: Kate Gale, Meredith Hall, and Mary Johnson. The guides include an author interview, a discussion guide, and a study guide."