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Art Exhibits
Original works of art from individual artists from Abilities United are on exhibit! All pieces of art are available for purchase and 100% of the purchase goes directly to the artist. To purchase art work or to see the original works of art, contact wendy@AbilitiesUnited.org or 650-618-3319.
January/February Exhibits
January 15 - February 26
City Hall of Palo Alto
Lobby
250 Hamilton
Palo Alto, CA
March Exhibits
Palo Alto Family YMCA
3412 Ross Road
Palo Alto, CA
650-856-9622
Ongoing:
Assemblymember Ira Ruskin office
5050 El Camino Real
Suite 117
Los Altos, CA 94022
(650) 691-2121
Abilities United Authors Luncheon
Volunteer Opportunities Are Available!
Please join us at one of the
most important literary events in Northern California.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
19th
Annual Authors Luncheon
10:30 am - 3 pm
Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel - Palo Alto
The luncheon will feature four
acclaimed authors who will read from their books, share stories about
their writing experiences, and offer insight into the inspiration behind
their characters. Since it began in 1991, each year the Abilities United Authors
Luncheon has drawn more than 650 guests who have been entertained by some of the world's most renowned authors.
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Individual seats are
$125
Sponsorship tables of 10 provide you with preferred seating and promotional benefits at the following levels:
- Best Seller ($10,000+)
- First Edition ($5,000)
- Key Chapter ($3,000)
- Page Turner ($2,000)
If you have any questions or
would like to purchase a ticket for this year's event please call (650)
618-3330 or e-mail events.
Book sales benefit Abilities United and are managed
by Books Inc.
Abilities United also benefits from any purchase you make on the Books Inc. website when you buy your books online through the Books Inc. logo below
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2009 Author Information and
Bios
   
Sponsors of the 18th Annual Abilities United Authors Luncheon:
"Best Seller" Sponsors
Collela Family Foundation
Anonymous Friends
Media Sponsor Book Sales Print Sponsor Art Showcase Sponsor
   Allegro Framing and Fine Art
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 Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Buy her children's books at Books Inc.
The OK Book, Al Pha's Bet, Little Pea, One of Those Days, Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons
To say Amy Krouse Rosenthal is a writer, filmmaker and radio host does not do justice to the variety and sheer innovation behind her creative endeavors. The New York Times said this about her work: “Her books radiate fun the way tulips radiate spring: they are elegant and spirit-lifting."
Rosenthal has published 12 children's books (and 8 forthcoming) including The New York Times bestsellers Duck! Rabbit! and Cookies: Bite Size Life Lessons. As for her adult work, Amazon named her Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life one of the top 10 memoirs of 2005. Amy is also the creator of the film project, "The Beckoning of Lovely: A Feature Film Featuring You."
Amy lives in Chicago with her husband and children, and online at whoisamy.wordpress.com <http://whoisamy.wordpress.com/> and TheBeckoningofLovely.com <http://TheBeckoningofLovely.com/> .
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Yiyun Li
Buy her novels at Books Inc.
The Vagrants, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and came to the United States in 1996. Her stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, O Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and awards from Lannan Foundation and Whiting Foundation. Li's first novel, "The Vagrants," has just been published by Random House. Expectations are high. Her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, Guardian First Book Award, and California Book Award for first fiction; it was also shortlisted for Kiriyama Prize and Orange Prize for New Writers. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35. She is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn-based literary magazine, A Public Space. She lives in Oakland, California with her husband and their two sons, and teaches at University of California, Davis.
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Timothy Egan
Buy his historical non-fiction and novels at Books Inc.
The Worst Hard Time, How Race Is Lived in America, The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
Timothy Egan worked for 18 years as a writer for The New York Times, first as the Pacific Northwest correspondent, then as a national enterprise reporter. In 2006, Mr. Egan won the National Book Award, considered the nation's highest literary honor, for his history of people who lived through the Dust Bowl, The Worst Hard Time. The book also became a New York Times Bestseller.
In 2001, he won the Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of reporters who wrote the series How Race Is Lived in America. He has done special projects on the West and the decline of rural America, and he has followed the entire length of the Lewis and Clark Trail.
Mr. Egan is the author of five books, including The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest, and Lasso the Wind, Away to the New West. He lives in Seattle.
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 Jane Hamilton
Buy her books at Books Inc.
The Book of Ruth, A Map of the World
Jane Hamilton lives, works, and writes in an orchard farmhouse in Wisconsin. Her short stories have appeared in Harper's magazine. Her first novel, The Book of Ruth, won the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel and was a selection of the Oprah Book Club. Her second novel, A Map of the World, was an international bestseller.
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Volunteer
Opportunities Are Available!
Abilities United Aquathon
Saturday, September 12, 2009
8:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
San Jose State University Aquatic Center
Registration begins June 1!
650) 618-3329, or email
The event consists of a friendly
swim competition staged by more than 50 Silicon Valley companies such
as Cisco Systems, City of Palo Alto, eBay, Google, Intel, Intuit, Northrup Grumman, SRI,
and YMCA. The event is expected to draw over 600 people.
The Abilities United Aquathon is a great team building event so if you would like to enjoy a fun filled day of competition for a good cause, call (650) 618-3329, or email.
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