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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><i><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>JUST MERCY</span></u></i></b><b><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> BY BRYAN STEVENSON AND <i>THE GREAT GLASS SEA</i> BY JOSH WEIL<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> NAMED WINNERS OF 2015 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE</span></u></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Short And Tragic Life Of Robert Peace</span></i></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>by Jeff Hobbs has been named non-fiction runner up <b><br><i>All the Light We Cannot See</i> </b>by Anthony Doerr has been named fiction runner-up<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Just Mercy</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> (Penguin Random House) is a personal narrative by Bryan Stevenson, one of the country's leading legal thinkers and social justice advocates. While recounting one of his first cases out of law school – the battle to free a black Alabama man sentenced to die for a murder he insisted he didn't commit – Stevenson also tells the stories of men, women, and children, innocent and guilty, who found themselves at the mercy of an often merciless system. The book traces the education of a young lawyer fighting on the front lines of a country in thrall to extreme punishments and careless justice.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2015-nonfiction_winner.htm">http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2015-nonfiction_winner.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In The Great Glass Sea </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>(Grove Atlantic), Weil sets his epic tragedy of brotherly love against the dystopian backdrop of an alternative present-day Russia. Swathed in all the magic of Russian folklore, the story centers on inseparable twin brothers who work in the largest greenhouse in the world. A chance encounter with their billionaire employer turns them into pawns for opposing ideologies, threatening to break their bond.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2015-fiction_winner.htm">http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2015-fiction_winner.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> by Jeff Hobbs (Scribner) is the brilliant, deeply-researched account of the life of Hobbs’ college roommate Robert DeShaun Peace, a talented young African-American man who grew up in the inner city of Newark, New Jersey with a father in jail and a mother earning $15,000 a year. Peace left Newark on a full scholarship to Yale University, but tragically succumbed to the dangers of the streets and his own nature when he returned home after graduation. <a href="http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2015-nonfiction_runner-up.htm">http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2015-nonfiction_runner-up.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In<i> All the Light We Cannot See</i></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> (Simon and Schuster) Anthony Doerr creates a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as they both try to survive the devastation of World War II. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2015-fiction_runner-up.htm">http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2015-fiction_runner-up.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“This year's winners tell the often tragic stories of lives shaped by outside forces – systemic injustice, political corruption, racism, war – that are beyond any one person's control," said Sharon Rab, founder and co-chair of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation. "While no one can singlehandedly topple those forces, these books remind us that we can and must work together to diminish them."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Previously, Gloria Steinem, the iconic author and activist whose writing helped shape modern feminism, was announced as the recipient the 2015 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award at the 10th Annual Dayton Literary Peace Prize Gala on November 1st.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To be eligible for the 2015 awards, English-language books must have been published or translated into English in 2014 and address the theme of peace on a variety of levels, such as between individuals, among families and communities, or among nations, religions, or ethnic groups. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A panel of prominent writers, including Ron Carlson, Christine Schutt, Faith Adiele, and Evelyn McDonnell, reviewed the 2015 finalists and selected this year’s winners and runners-up.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For additional information please see:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>http://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/</span></u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thank you.</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'>(cross postings to Publib-L, Libref-L and Oplinlist)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#002060'>Paul Gregor | Head Librarian | Jamestown Community Library | 86 Seaman Drive | Jamestown, OH 45335 | 937-736-7910</span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>