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Zonta's Annual Authors' Luncheon
Saturday, May 3rd from 11:00 - 2:00
Holbrook Palmer Park, 150 Watkins Avenue, Atherton |
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Tickets: $75.
Authors sponsored by Kepler's | |
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Dear Cliford,
Here's a more readable version of the Zonta invitation. We're sorry for any inconvenience.
Sincerely,
Kepler's Books | |
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| Jesse Ziff Cool: Simply Organic |
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Jesse has been dedicated to sustainable agriculture and cuisine for more than 30 years. By supporting local food production and farmers, those she warmly refers to as her heroes and the first real environmental pioneers, her work in the food business, supports her politics and philosophy.
Jesse's work has expanded from her local community, to a national and international audience. She has traveled around the globe connecting to local farmers, shop keepers and families' embracing what is local, sustainable and to what connects us.
Jesse has been the creative force behind five unique restaurants and the author of six books as well as numerous articles. She is a much sought after spokesperson, speaker, teacher and presenter. Jesse spends her free time in her community garden, with her family, children and grand-children. Read more | |
| Kelly Corrigan: The Middle Place |
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Kelly Corrigan's remarkable memoir starts with her father George, the head of a boisterous clan. Her wit tackles growing up-fashion dilemmas and more--and moves past teenage angst to find love, a larger world, and a young family of her own. Her observations deftly capture what matters: the family you are born with and the family you make, and staking the ground where it all meets.
The Middle Place is about where a diagnosis of cancer is only a part of the story-the larger part is what comes before and what one fights to have come after. Corrigan is a newspaper columnist and a contributor to magazines including O, The Oprah Winfrey Magazine, Good Housekeeping and Glamour.
Kelly is also an occasional contributor to The Today Show. The Middle Place , now in it's 3rd printing, was an instant New York Times bestseller. Read more | |
| Ann Packer: Songs Without Words andThe Dive from Clausen's Pier |
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Ann Packer grew up near Stanford University where her parents were professors. She attended Yale and then, after five years working at a publishing company, she went on to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, selling her first short story to The New Yorker a few weeks before receiving her degree. A fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing followed, and she spent two years living in Madison, Wisconsin, which would later become the setting of her first novel, The Dive from Clausen's Pier.
While living in Wisconsin she published short stories in literary magazines and had a story chosen for inclusion in the annual O. Henry Awards prize stories anthology. With support from the Michener-Copernicus Society of America, she completed her first book, Mendocino and Other Stories. The National Endowment for the Arts provided a fellowship, and she spent much of the next decade working on The Dive from Clausen's Pier. A critical success that became a national bestseller and was translated into ten languages, Dive was the inaugural selection of Good Morning America's "Read this!" book club and received a Great Lakes Book Award, an American Library Association Award, and the Kate Chopin Literary Award. Ann's second nove, Songs Without Words, is now available. Read more |
| Michealene Cristini Risley: This Is Not the Life I Ordered |
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Michealene Cristini Risley is the founder of Fresh Water Spigot. She is an entrepreneur who has created some of the largest deals in consumer products and the entertainment industry. Michealene launched the first-ever branded maternity line in conjunction with Adidas and as Vice President of Licensing and Character Development for Sega of America, she championed the Sega Girls Task Force.
She also wrote, produced, and directed a short film called "Flashcards," which won Best Cinematography at the California Independent Film Festival, Best Short film at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, and the film screened in the Cannes Film Festival "Shorts Du Jour" program. In March of 2007, Michealene released her first co-authored book, This Is Not The Life I Ordered. Currently, Michealene is working on her newest documentary "Tapestries of Hope". Read more | |
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Proceeds benefit Zonta Foundation & Service Fund "Advancing the Status of Women Worldwide"
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