WRJ SE Evening Book Club
Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 7:30 PM
We will be discussing
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek Tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike—particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens. Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one member, a friend of Mariana’s niece Zoe, is found murdered in Cambridge. Mariana, who was once herself a student at the university, quickly suspects that behind the idyllic beauty of the spires and turrets, and beneath the ancient traditions, lies something sinister. And she becomes convinced that, despite his alibi, Edward Fosca is guilty of the murder. But why would the professor target one of his students? And why does he keep returning to the rites of Persephone, the maiden, and her journey to the underworld? When another body is found, Mariana’s obsession with proving Fosca’s guilt spirals out of control, threatening to destroy her credibility as well as her closest relationships. But Mariana is determined to stop this killer, even if it costs her everything—including her own life.
WRJ Southeast District Convention 2026
Come join your WRJ SE District friends and meet new ones! Visit, learn, pray and have fun the weekend of March 13-15 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Sweet Shalom Alabama!
WRJ Special Guests:
Sara Charney - WRJ Past President
Andrea Gingold - WRJ Vice-President
Pay Your Own Dinner on Thursday for early arrivees
Y.E.S. Fund Luncheon on Friday
A Social Action Project
Installation of WRJ Southeast 2026-2029 Board of Directors on Saturday
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The District offers a scholarship to first time convention attendees from The President's Scholarship Fund. If you would like to apply, please click here. Scholarship applications must be submitted to Committee Chair Judith Mish by February 1, 2026
Hotel registration information and link will be provided in your registration confirmation email. A shuttle service from the Birmingham airport to the hotel will leave the airport on Thursday at 12 noon and 6 pm and on Friday at 10 am. Sunday flight reservations should be 3 pm or after.
Cancellation with refund will be allowed (less $36 cancellation fee)
by March 3, 2026 to receive refund.
No refunds after March 3, 2026!
Thursday, April 16, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth’s brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn’t realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager—the man who broke her heart years ago. Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo, a boy who reminds Beth very much of her own son, who died in a tragic accident. As Beth is pulled back into Gabriel’s life, tensions around the village rise and dangerous secrets and jealousies from the past resurface, this time with deadly consequences. Beth is forced to make a choice between the woman she once was, and the woman she has become. A sweeping love story with the pace and twists of a thriller, Broken Country is a novel of simmering passion, impossible choices, and explosive consequences that toggles between the past and present to explore the far-reaching legacy of first love.
SAVE THE DATE!
Ocala Area Gathering
Saturday, May 20, 2023
10:00-3:00
WRJ Southeast District
President
Congregation Schaarai Zedek
Tampa, FL
novalaw97@yahoo.com
