O P E N B O O K E V E N T D E C E M B E R 1 1 , 2 0 2 0 #PRHOpenBook @PRHLibrary O P E N B O O K E V E N T SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Adriana Trigiani Presents Debut Authors: Sanjena Sathian, Stacey Swann, and Pip Williams 2:00PM – 2:45PM PRH Library Staff Secret Santa 2:45PM – 3:00PM America's Test Kitchen Demo with Molly Birnbaum 3:00PM - 3:15PM Genre Swap: Paula McLain x Lisa Scottoline 3:15PM – 4:00PM AUTHORS Adriana Trigiani is beloved by millions of readers around the Adriana Ink world for her fifteen bestsellers, including the blockbuster Join Adriana on epic The Shoemaker’s Wife; All the Stars in the Heavens; the Facebook every Tuesday Big Stone Gap series; Lucia, Lucia; the Valentine series; the at 6 pm EST for Viola series for young adults; and the bestselling memoir conversations with your favorite authors, Don’t Sing at the Table. She is the award-winning filmmaker giveaways and of the documentary Queens of the Big Time. Trigiani wrote surprises! and directed the major motion picture Big Stone Gap, based on her debut novel and filmed entirely on location in her Virginia hometown. She lives in Greenwich Village with her family. @AdrianaTrigiani Sanjena Sathian is a 2019 graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has worked as a reporter in Mumbai and San Francisco, with nonfiction bylines for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Food & Wine, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, and more. And her award-winning short fiction has been published in Boulevard, Joyland, Salt Hill, and The Master's Review. Gold Diggers is her first novel. Click to Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. @ S a n j e n a S a t h i a n Stacey Swann holds an MFA from Texas State University and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her fiction has appeared in Epoch, Memorious, Versal, and other journals, and she is a Contributing Editor of American Short Fiction. She is a native Texan. Olympus, Texas is her first novel. Click to Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Click to Request an eGalley on NetGalley. @StaceySwann Pip Williams was born in London, grew up in Sydney, and now lives in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia with her family and an assortment of animals. She has spent most of her working life as a social researcher, studying what keeps us well and what helps us thrive, and she is the author of One Italian Summer, a memoir of her family’s travels in search of the good life, which was published in Australia to wide acclaim. Based on her original research in the Oxford English Dictionary archives, The Dictionary of Lost Words is her first novel. Click to Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Click to Request an eGalley on NetGalley. AUTHORS Molly Birnbaum is Editor in Chief of America's Test Kitchen Kids, a multi-media brand that is building a new generation of empowered cooks, engaged eaters, and curious experimenters. Since launching in 2018, ATK Kids has published 5 cookbooks (spending a total of 115 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list to date), plus picture books and board books. The Young Chefs' Club is a subscription box program, delivering kid-tested and kid-approved recipes, experiments, and activities straight to kids' doorsteps. Molly is also host of Mystery Recipe, a podcast for kids and their grownups, exploring the fun, fascinating, and fantastical sides of different kitchen ingredients. @MollyBirnbaum Paula McLain is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Love and Ruin, Circling the Sun, The Paris Wife, and A Ticket to Ride, the memoir Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses, and two collections of poetry. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Good Housekeeping, O: The Oprah Magazine, Town & Country, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere. She lives in Ohio with her family. Click to Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Click to Request an eGalley on NetGalley @Paula_McLain Lisa Scottoline is the New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winning author of thirty-two novels. She has 30 million copies of her books in print in the United States and has been published in thirty-five countries. After a successful career in corporate law, Scottoline released her first legal thriller, Everywhere that Mary Went, in 1994. Scottoline also writes a weekly column with her daughter, Francesca Serritella, for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and those universally beloved stories have been adapted into a series of bestselling memoirs. In addition to writing, Lisa reviews popular fiction and non-fiction, and her reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Lisa has served as President of Mystery Writers of America and has taught a course she developed, "Justice in Fiction" at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, her alma mater. 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