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<p class="MsoNormal">Fiction Winner and Runner-up:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="color:#1155CD"><a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-love-songs-of-web-du-bois-honoree-fanonne-jeffers?variant=39813771132962">The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois</a></span></i><span style="color:black">
<b>by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (HarperCollins)</b>: This intimate yet sweeping novel, with all the luminescence and force of
<i>Homegoing</i>; <i>Sing, Unburied</i>, and <i>The Water Dancer</i>, chronicles the journey of one American family from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era.</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="color:#1155CD"><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611515/what-comes-after-by-joanne-tompkins/">What Comes After</a></span></i><span style="color:black">
<b>by JoAnne Tompkins (Penguin Random House)</b>: offers an unforgettable story of loss and anger, but also of kindness and hope, courage and forgiveness. It is a deeply moving account of strangers and friends not only helping each other forward after tragedy,
but inspiring a new kind of family.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">Nonfiction Winner and Runner-up:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><a href="https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/clint-smith/how-the-word-is-passed/9780316492935/"><i>How the Word is Passed</i></a><i><span style="color:black">
</span></i><b><span style="color:black">by Clint Smith (Little, Brown): </span></b><span style="color:black"> This compelling
<i>#1 New York Times </i>bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/241846/invisible-child-by-andrea-elliott/"><i>Invisible Child</i></a><span style="color:black">
<b>by Andrea Elliott (Penguin Random House)</b> winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize, this is the unforgettable story of Dasani Coates, a homeless girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by poverty and racism in an unequal America.</span><i><span style="color:#1155CD"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For more information please visit: <a href="https://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/">
https://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Posted on behalf of Helen Prichard and the Library Committee of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Paul Gregor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Head Librarian<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jamestown Community Library<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jamestown, Ohio 45335<o:p></o:p></p>
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