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by Elizabeth McBride

Elizabeth McBride was a lifelong adventurer who sought fulfillment as a writer, traveler, political activist, and spiritual seeker at a time when most women either had few options in life, or feared to explore them. Before her death, McBride completed Last of the Nice Girls, a memoir spanning the years 1933 to 2004. AROHO is proud to have been chosen as a recipient of a percentage of the book's sales. Elizabeth McBride has important things to say to other women about living their lives as free women with choices. — Michelle Miller Allen , Editor “Last Of the Nice Girls,” is available at: http://www.amadorbooks.com/books/nicegirls.htm A percentage of the proceeds from sales of Last Of the Nice Girls will go to A Room Of Her Own Foundation

New Book Club
selection
for Fall 2007

"For those who haven't read it yet, you must! This book is full of magic and wisdom, fearlessly written by a scholar of both history and the human heart. It's brilliant, bold, and generous at once, much like the author herself. Brava, Lesley!!"

-Kim Ponders, author of The Last Blue Mile

"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?

 

AROHO is pleased to announce the Recipient of the
2007 Literary Gift of Freedom Award:

 

Summer Wood of Albuquerque, New Mexico

Read more about Summer, the four finalists, and the selection panel.