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Libby
Sternberg’s “Recovering
Dad”
 It’s Bianca Balducci’s junior year in high
school, and she’s got more than enough on her plate
already—
—impending
SAT scores, college admissions, and the mixed signals of
sort-of-boyfriend Doug. But when she finds out her mother,
widowed as long as Bianca can remember, is marrying Officer
Steve Paluchek, a longtime family friend, things get even
worse very, very quickly—because Paluchek, according
to Bianca’s private-eye sister Connie, is the man responsible
for the death of their police officer father.
And so, Bianca is pulled into her most personal case yet—learning,
for the first time, who her father truly was, even as she tries
to determine who killed him. Was it Paluchek? He does seem
to have ties to the immigrant smuggling ring their father was
investigating. Was it Paluchek’s partner? And can Bianca
figure it out before an increasingly irrational Connie makes
a fatal mistake?
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About Libby Sternberg
 A
Baltimore native, Libby earned both a bachelor's
and a master's degree from the Peabody Conservatory
of Music and also attended the summer American
School of Music in Fontainebleau, France.
After graduating from Peabody, she worked
as a Spanish gypsy, a Russian courtier, a
Middle-Eastern slave, a Japanese geisha,
a Chinese peasant, and a French courtesan—that
is, she sang as a union chorister in both
the Baltimore and Washington Operas, where
she regularly had the thrill of walking through
the stage doors of the Kennedy Center Opera
House in Washington, D.C. before being costumed
and wigged for performance. She also sang
with small opera and choral companies in
the region.
For many years, she and her family lived
in Vermont, where she worked as an education
reform advocate promoting school choice policies,
contributed occasional commentaries to Vermont
Public Radio, and was a member of the Vermont
Commission on Women.
Libby’s first young adult novel, Uncovering
Sadie's Secrets, was a finalist for
the prestigious Edgar Allan Poe award from
the Mystery Writers of America. The second
in her Bianca Balducci mystery series, Finding
the Forger, was released in hardcover
in November 2004 (both were published as
mass-market paperbacks by Smooch) and a
third is set for release in 2008. Her debut
adult novel, Loves Me, Loves Me Not (published
under the name Libby Malin) was released
in 2005 to critical acclaim. Her historical
YA novel, The Case Against My Brother,
received highly favorable reviews in 2007.
Her adult novel, initially entitled Fire
Me!, will soon be published, and movie
rights have been optioned.
She is married, with three children, and
now resides in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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