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Ann Dee is going to be a "featured reader" at this conference. We should go! She would love our support.


AAUW Author's Reception with Caroylyn Jessop, Ann Dee Ellis & Klancy Clark De Nevers


Time: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 6:00 PM
Location: WELLS FARGO ATRIUM, 11th Floor, 299 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84102
Phone: 801-484-4015
Join us for an evening of selected readings and discussions by three local authors. The reception begins at 6 p.m. with hors d'oeuvres & drinks followed by the authors readings at 7 pm. Book signings will take place after the talks at approximately 8:15 p.m.

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
PLEASE RESPOND BY NOVEMBER 2
$30 PER PERSON*
Your check, payable to AAUW, Wasatch Branch will secure your reservation.
Send to: Uma Khandkar
2116 S. Lakeline Drive
Salt Lake City, Utah 84109

*$15.00 is a tax deductible donation to the AAUW Educational Foundation. A donation receipt will be provided at check-in.


Escape(Hardcover (Cloth))
by Jessop, Carolyn, Palmer, Laura
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price: $24.95
Published: Broadway Books, 2007
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The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman's courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.
When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn's heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband's psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy.
Carolyn's every move was dictated by her husband's whims. He decided where she lived and how her children would be treated. He controlled the money she earned as a school teacher. He chose when they had sex; Carolyn could only refuse--at her peril. For in the FLDS, a wife's compliance with her husband determined how much status both she and her children held in the family. Carolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. No woman in the country had ever escaped from the FLDS and managed to get her children out, too. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. She had $20 to her name.
"Escape" exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics who, in the name of God, deprive theirfollowers the right to make choices, force women to be totally subservient to men, and brainwash children in church-run schools. Against this background, Carolyn Jessop's flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power. Not only did she manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS. And in 2006, her reports to the Utah attorney general on church abuses formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of their notorious leader, Warren Jeffs.
This Is What I Did(Hardcover (Cloth))
by Ellis, Ann Dee
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price: $16.99
Published: Little, Brown Young Readers, 2007
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Imagine if you had witnessed something horrific. Imagine if it had happened to your friend. And imagine if you hadn't done anything to help. That's what it's like to be Logan, an utterly frank, slightly awkward, and extremely loveable outcast enmeshed in a mysterious psychological drama. This story allows readers to piece together the sequence of events that has changed his life and changed his perspective on what it means to be a good friend and what it means to be a good person.
This is What I Did: is a powerful read with clever touches, such as palindrome notes, strewn throughout the story and incorporated into the unique design of the book.

The Colonel and the Pacifist: Karl Bendetsen-Perry Saito and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II(Trade Paperback)
by de Nevers, Klancy Clark
Format: Trade Paperback
Price: $21.95
Published: University of Utah Press, 2004
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EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066. In February 1942, ten weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt put his signature to a piece of paper that allowed the forced removal of Americans of Japanese ancestry from their West Coast homes, and their incarceration in makeshift camps. Those are the facts. But two faces emerge from behind these facts: Karl R. Bendetsen, the Army major who was promoted to full colonel and placed in charge of the evacuation after formulating the concept of "military necessity," and who penned the order Roosevelt signed; and Perry H. Saito, a young college student, future Methodist minister, and former neighbor from Bendetsen's hometown of Aberdeen, Washington who was incarcerated in Tule Lake Relocation Camp. "The Colonel and the Pacifist tells the story of two men caught up in one of the most infamous episodes in American history. While they never met, Bendetsen and Saito's lives touched tangentially--from their common hometown to their eventual testimony during the 1981 hearings of the Commission on the Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. In weaving together their stories, Klancy Clark de Nevers not only exposes unknown or little known aspects of World War II history, she also explores larger issues of racism and war that resonate through the years and ring eerily familiar to our post-9/11 ears.
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