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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Cambria-Bold;color:black">The 2024 fiction finalists are:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#0563C2">A History of Burning
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black">by Janika Oza (Grand Central Publishing)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#0563C2">Dust Child
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black">by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (Algonquin Books)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#0563C2">Prophet Song
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black">by Paul Lynch (Grove Atlantic)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#0563C2">River Sing Me Home
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black">by Eleanor Shearer (Berkley)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#0563C2">The Postcard
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black">by Anne Berest (Europa Editions)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#0563C2">We Meant Well
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black">by Erum Shazia Hasan (ECW Press)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"SymbolMT",sans-serif;color:black">•
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#0563C2">An Inconvenient Cop
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black">by Edwin Raymond with Jon Sternfeld (Viking)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Cambria-Bold">The 2024 nonfiction finalists are:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#0563C2">An Inconvenient Cop
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black">by Edwin Raymond with Jon Sternfeld (Viking)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#0563C2">Built From the Fire
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black">by Victor Luckerson (Random House)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#0563C2">All Else Failed
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black">by Dana Sachs (Bellevue Literary Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#0563C2">Red Memory
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black">by Tania Branigan (Faber)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#0563C2">The Talk
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black">by Darrin Bell (Henry Holt)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#0563C2">Who Gets Believed?
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black">by Dina Nayeri (Catapult)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black">Please See
<a href="https://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/">https://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/</a> for further details</span><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>
<p class="MsoNormal">(937) 736-7910<o:p></o:p></p>
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