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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><h2><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Please see the following information which has been posted on behalf of Helen Pritchard and the Library Committee of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2><h2><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thank you.</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Paul Gregor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Head Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Xenia Community Library<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Xenia, Ohio<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:pgregor@gcpl.lib.oh.us">pgregor@gcpl.lib.oh.us</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><h2><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;font-weight:normal'>(cross postings to Publib-L, Libref-L and Oplinlist)</span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></h2><p class=MsoNormal><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";layout-grid-mode:line'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;layout-grid-mode:line'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";layout-grid-mode:line'>Wendell Berry</span></b><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> (<i>Nathan Coulter, The Unsettling of America, Bringing it to The Table</i>) will be the recipient of the 2013 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, named in honor of the celebrated U.S. diplomat. Previous winners include Studs Terkel (2006), Elie Wiesel (2007), Taylor Branch (2008), Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (2009), Geraldine Brooks (2010), Barbara Kingsolver (2011), and Tim O'Brien (2012).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b> The 201<span style='color:#1F497D'>3 </span>Dayton Literary Peace Prize fiction finalists are</b>: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><i><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The Round House</span></u></i></b><b><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> by Louise Erdrich</span></u></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> (Random House): A 13-year-old boy living on an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota sets out with three friends on a quest for answers about an attack on his mother that has left her too traumatized to leave her bed.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><i><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk</span></u></i></b><b><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> by Ben Fountain</span></u></b><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>(HarperCollins): A hilarious and heartbreaking day in the life of an Iraq War hero whose squad appears in a Dallas Cowboys halftime show as part of an effort to rekindle support for the war.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:2.25pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><i><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The Orphan Master’s Son</span></u></i></b><b><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> by Adam Johnson</span></u></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> (Random House): In this Pulitzer Prize-winning tour de force, Adam Johnson provides a riveting portrait of a world rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, and stolen moments of beauty and love.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:2.25pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><i><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The Life of Objects</span></u></i></b><b><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> by Susanna Moore</span></u></b><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> (</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Random House): In 1938 Belfast, a young lace maker is whisked away from her dreary life to a glamorous Berlin household, only to find her fairy tale shattered by the realities of encroaching war.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:2.25pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><i><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The Coldest Night</span></u></i></b><b><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> by Robert Olmstead</span></u></b><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>(Algonquin): A mesmerizing coming-of-age novel that moves from the steamy streets of New Orleans to one of the most physically challenging battles in the Korean War.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:2.25pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><i><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The Yellow Birds</span></u></i></b><b><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> by Kevin Powers</span></u></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> (Little, Brown and Company): Praised by Tom Wolfe as “the 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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><i><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Burying the Typewriter</span></u></i></b><b><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> by Carmen Bugan</span></u></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> (Graywolf Press): In this debut memoir, a Romanian girl’s bucolic life is upended when her father is arrested for political dissidence. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><i><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Escape from Camp 14</span></u></i></b><b><u><span 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This bestselling account inspired a UN investigation of such camps earlier this year.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><i><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Devil in the Grove</span></u></i></b><b><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> by Gilbert King</span></u></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> (HarperCollins): <span style='color:black'>A richly detailed chronicle of four</span> black Florida men who, falsely accused of rape in 1949, were defended by civil rights crusader<span style='color:black'> Thurgood Marshall</span> -- <span style='color:black'>later</span> the first African-American Supreme Court justice.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><i><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Far From the Tree </span></u></i></b><b><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>by Andrew Solomon</span></u></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> (Scribner): In telling the stories of <span style='color:black'>exceptional children affected by a spectrum of cognitive, physical or psychological differences, Solomon uncovers the intense prejudice they face and meets the parents who embrace their differences and try to alter the world’s understanding of their conditions.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><i><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>About the Dayton Literary Peace Prize<br></span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The Dayton Literary Peace Prize honors writers whose work uses the power of literature to foster peace, social justice, and global understanding. Launched in 2006, it has already established itself as one of the world’s most prestigious literary honors, and is the only literary peace prize awarded in the United States. As an offshoot of the Dayton Peace Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize awards a $10,000 cash prize each year to one fiction and one nonfiction author whose work advances peace as a solution to conflict, and leads readers to a better understanding of other cultures, peoples, religions, and political points of view. An annual lifetime achievement award, renamed the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award in 2011, is also bestowed upon a writer whose body of work reflects the Prize's mission; previous honorees include Studs Terkel, Elie Wiesel, Taylor Branch, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Geraldine Brooks, Barbara Kingsolver, and Tim O'Brien. For further information on the award, lifetime achievement winners, nominees, and event festivities please see:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/">http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>