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Dayton Literary Peace Prize Award Winners The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is the only U.S. based literary award created to recognize the impact literature has on the spread of peace. It began in 2006, but was inspired by the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords in 1995. According to the DLPP Foundation, works of adult fiction and nonfiction can be nominated for “increasing understanding between and among people as individuals or within and between families, communities, nations, ethnic groups, cultures and religions.” |
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The great glass sea : a novel
by Josh Weil
Two twins, inseparable since childhood, find themselves on opposite sides of opposing ideologies in a dystopian world where they labor together in a sea of glass lit by space mirrors that keep the citizens of Petroplavilsk in perpetual daylight.
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Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
The executive director of a social advocacy group that has helped relieve condemned prisoners explains why justice and mercy must go hand-in-hand through the story of Walter McMillian, a man condemned to death row for a murder he didn't commit. 30,000 first printing.
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All the light we cannot see : a novel
by Anthony Doerr
A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with their respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast. By the award-winning author of About Grace.
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2015 Nonfiction Runner-up
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Richard C. Holbrooke Award for Distinguished Achievement
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*The Holbrooke Award honors an individual for a lifetime of peaceful activism through the written and spoken word. This is only Gloria Steinem's most recent work, Please check the library catalog for additional titles. My life on the road : My Life on the Road by Gloria SteinemA feminist activist and co-founder of Ms. magazine presents a memoir comprised of reflections on definitive events in her career, from her time on the campaign trail and interactions with forefront political leaders to her visits to India and her encounters with civilian feminists. 75,000 first printing. |
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Fiction Winner
During the late 1990s, humanitarian lawyer Tom Harrington travels to Haiti to investigate the murder of a beautiful and seductive photojournalist named Jackie Scott during a time of brutal guerrilla warfare and civilian kidnappings. 25,000 first printing. |
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Fiction Runner-up
When a troubled Revolutionary War veteran requires his slave, Washington, to become a breeding sire, an ensuing power struggle and Washington's resolve to stay faithful to his West African spiritual legacy lead to a loving relationship with an enslaved healer woman who imparts her own experiences and inspires Washington to forge a new understanding of his heritage. A first novel. 35,000 first printing.
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Nonfiction Winner
A human rights activist and law professor interviews Muslim people from all walks of life in Lahore, Pakistan and even Minneapolis, to discuss their opinions on the rise of fundamentalism in their religion. 17,000 first printing. |
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Nonfiction Runner-up
The complex histories and memories of Jewish and Palestinian Israelis today frame Israel's future possibilities for peace. 1948: As Jewish refugees, survivors of the Holocaust, struggle toward the new State of Israel, Arab refugees are fleeing, many under duress. Sixty years later, the memory of trauma has shaped both peoples' collective understanding of who they are. After a war, the victors write history. Contested Land, Contested Memory examines how these tangled histories of suffering inform Jewish and Palestinian-Israeli lives today, and frame Israel's possibilities for peace.
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