![]() ![]() Teaching, presentations, and public appearances Her short fiction for adults has been widely published and nominated for Best New American Voices. She also writes acclaimed middle grade novels under her full name, Amy Sarig King. Her work is known for bridging the gap between young adult and adult readers. King is the author of numerous young adult books that have earned her recognition as "one of the best YA writers working today" by The New York Times Book Review. She returned to Pennsylvania in 2004 and published her first novel, The Dust of 100 Dogs, in 2009, after fifteen years of writing. After two years in Dublin, she relocated to Tipperary, where she renovated a farm and taught literacy to adults. She graduated from Exeter Township Senior High School in 1988, earned a degree in photography at The Art Institute of Philadelphia, and then moved to Dublin, Ireland, where she began writing novels in 1994. ![]() King was born March 10, 1970, in Reading, Pennsylvania. Edwards Award for her "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature." Biography She is the recipient of the 2022 Margaret A. Printz Award Winner 2020Īmy Sarig King (born March 10, 1970) is an American writer of short fiction and young adult fiction. ![]() Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2012, Michael L. ![]()
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![]() Introduces not only an engaging series hero in Inspector Gamache, who commands his forces-and this series-with integrity and quiet courage, but also a winning and talented new writer of traditional mysteries in the person of Louise Penny. In Still Life, bestselling author Louise Penny introduces Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec. The locals are certain it's a tragic hunting accident and nothing more, but Gamache smells something foul in these remote woods, and is soon certain that Jane Neal died at the hands of someone much more sinister than a careless bowhunter. border, has been found dead in the woods. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just north of the U.S. ![]() ![]() Winner of the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards.Ĭhief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sur t du Qu bec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s so easy, in fact, to be seduced by this clever old roué that a word of caution would not be out of place here. This is a drink whose suavité is beyond question - it’s the Warren Beatty of modern mixology. The luminous, golden-straw color, the perfectly controlled sweetness, the jazzy high notes of the citrus against the steady bass of the brandy. And when you’re sipping one, you almost think it was all worth it. The Sidecar is often singled out as the only good cocktail to come out of the long national nightmare that was Prohibition. Shake well with cracked ice, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass that has had its outside rim rubbed with lemon juice and dipped in sugar. This week we are featuring Dark Erotica author Lisette Kristensen. ![]() |