[OPLINLIST] 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalists Announced

[Gregor, Paul]

Please see the following release and information which has been posted on behalf of Helen Pritchard and the Library Committee of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
Thank you.

Paul Gregor
Head Librarian
Jamestown Community Branch
Greene County Public Library
937.675.4411 ex. 5301
pgregor at gcpl.lib.oh.us<mailto:pgregor at gcpl.lib.oh.us>
(cross postings to Publib-L, Libref-L and Oplinlist)


Geraldine Brooks is the Winner of this year's Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement

Ms. Brooks is the author of:

 Nine Parts of Desire (1994.

Foreign Correspondence (1997).

Year of Wonders (2001).

March (Pulitzer prize for fiction, 2006).

People of the Book (2006).
 The 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize fiction finalists are:

 *   A Postcard from the Volcano<http://www.ignatius.com/Products/PV-P/a-postcard-from-the-volcano.aspx> by Lucy Beckett (Ignatius Press)
 *   A Good Fall<http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307378682> by Ha Jin (Pantheon Books)
 *   Cutting for Stone<http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl/9780375414497.html> by Abraham Verghese (Knopf)
 *   The Book of Night Women<http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781594488573,00.html> by Marlon James (Penguin Group; G. P. Putham's Sons/Riverhead Books)
 *   The Calligrapher's Daughter<http://us.macmillan.com/thecalligraphersdaughter> by Eugenia Kim (Henry Holt and Company)
 *   The Thing Around Your Neck<http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl/9780307271075.html> by Chimamanda Adiche (Knopf)
The 2010 nonfiction finalists are:

 *   Enough: Why the Worlds Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty<http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/display?book=9781586485115> by Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman (Public Affairs)
 *   In the Valley of the Mist<http://books.simonandschuster.com/In-the-Valley-of-Mist/Justine-Hardy/9781439102893> by Justine Hardy (Free Press)
 *   Stones Into Schools<http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780670021154,00.html?Stones_into_Schools_Greg_Mortenson> by Greg Mortenson (Penguin Group, USA)
 *   Tears in the Darkness<http://us.macmillan.com/tearsinthedarkness> by Michael and Elizabeth Norman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
 *   The Education of a British-Protected Child<http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl/9780307272553.html> by Chinua Achebe (Knopf)
 *   Zeitoun<http://www.mcsweeneys.net/books/zeitoun/> by Dave Eggers (McSweeney's)
For further information on the award, lifetime achievement winners, nominees, and event festivities please see:

http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/






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