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

Book Club
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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
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"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."