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Krivak</span></b></a>, <i>The Sojourn</i></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mexrb7cab&et=1108081590862&s=6980&e=001ioJGpP-5lw6KEeR5fQJk3OeL_MAGUJ1j3IhoNS-yrbaL6PVj7VBCAgouGu2qBi0AaDrUnmOxweQG8ZKMECWePG2tjAHSwb1DRSK76KpAbSAfJBFF7p6b3kcjiZYOHffSS1ykwfsRdcV4-Y94ynvk-w==" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">Téa
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">(Random House)</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mexrb7cab&et=1108081590862&s=6980&e=001ioJGpP-5lw55cPWIlkwERrDlwqUW2a7JmxUSuQ8QxHGzRZQLbT0GGi1eRTxC-T_tFjtaPcuLvF_kGWFWClz1Al6eoqVl_z8rif6fb2ex14_ALiCKUAMkDtHHEYppFPie2emJX8skEvPJsqW-WF9Jcg==" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">Julie
Otsuka</span></b></a>, <i>The Buddha in the Attic</i></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mexrb7cab&et=1108081590862&s=6980&e=001ioJGpP-5lw7OLRl2Ga01DThoLgFbyS16WISPMMyXMfSHT_O7MEvFbbQP426WiS-jDEnqkcvCmskJqXewVEsRQdxL8ASZpDwSmBvAGAAtxwpdXbtsGkR41PUPfhNtQpvhormj3woj-zbQuSlo2zVq1w==" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">Edith
Pearlman</span></b></a>, <i>Binocular Vision</i></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">(Lookout Books, an imprint of the Department of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington)</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mexrb7cab&et=1108081590862&s=6980&e=001ioJGpP-5lw5HlAYlh9mlpPZXw8qj9xhNgp3yVLTS-sTuMnTHwO_4dA0IFUfT7m8WvLkq4W4vzm74D0exCnKPS2qeSre9NCHyeAz4OYt2rIQjn8ThdejqMeFKCoz4-9cPYZ6OlPxPVE63t4JRFJXQ_w==" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">Jesmyn
Ward</span></b></a>, <i>Salvage the Bones</i></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">(Bloomsbury USA)</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Nonfiction</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mexrb7cab&et=1108081590862&s=6980&e=001ioJGpP-5lw5fdfYtBGNCrLNTx8zTGLrCK19StJw-b8fu3CBeL8IL1jTmDTKmug4FQZrNiWmDXVojA-O0Ew86Qb9Yhj5kz4hYEBxxWp6hkMmXdx71M199ci0OKBmfIViwnc5FfqqYG0YbGA5HI-k9pw==" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">Deborah
Baker</span></b></a>, <i>The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism</i></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">(Graywolf Press)</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14px">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mexrb7cab&et=1108081590862&s=6980&e=001ioJGpP-5lw4_xbsOE42WhNnniqfRbRXcJ-ZIRGkY1Uy866SrvZ3MSSLDnwi6LFFrvjOERnmEF8EUmhfdliUPLERbea7kwXve3nbxRwk6hlrdW8Z78OHmtO1_4Zit0uab7bNPhTFdarcuoaTdJyQhDg==" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">Mary
Gabriel</span></b></a>, <i>Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution</i></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">(Little, Brown and Company)</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14px">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mexrb7cab&et=1108081590862&s=6980&e=001ioJGpP-5lw5Ov2AgyhIRynXb-rN4yAw6vcrcAbA6brK11YkKGTACSmSthJWzRVD3tLJUQEhFa5SqLn6SVN5WbEzhMU2HrtpCLA2KT0am7xVUs4Jh2dosn2PjGro2aj2ESU0YlNANne4w_lPugWiwWapkSA0OWisM" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">Stephen
Greenblatt</span></b></a>, <i>The Swerve: How the World Became Modern</i></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">(W. W. Norton & Company)</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14px">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mexrb7cab&et=1108081590862&s=6980&e=001ioJGpP-5lw6xvKQuJ1QBAthC2PWWEi5v5huyiYqTOi_uzv5Ky6O425CgnZeZ2NtrJOkrryvjAbUXrtURJ3pC8PjeAzvByKQbn0Rmag9_zY8m0EvxurYYiJmFwEbTEEMDcRr0BSZPlC2w9bIxYjcAlQ==" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">Manning
Marable</span></b></a>, <i>Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention</i></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">(Viking Press, an imprint of Penguin Group USA)</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14px">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mexrb7cab&et=1108081590862&s=6980&e=001ioJGpP-5lw4GlQ3kac2k9KmoyHJ_3PVArhFOW0--KhH2czeeWVAGLqQ6f45kbGbqiYwLEcfd6F2CckaJLr9UCKdK8eVl8FVnCRRTbOsiKyjLESqckkmjh_vyM82WVgCoNBFgQrYf9MtPr6b0VQlNGA==" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">Lauren
Redniss</span></b></a>, <i>Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout</i></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">(It Books, an imprint of HarperCollins<i>Publishers)</i></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Poetry</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mexrb7cab&et=1108081590862&s=6980&e=001ioJGpP-5lw6s8WqfBqJa6-hTAnZgbKk6S7GZkX5Wk9bGWz0f9BL9lKf7yFNSVb8ROZJqYwsZOMu0TtUOfWhQ0c_xGYIEDtbXmiywgyJz54CkX9663qtcgCGzt2xrS4A737AaEZr7ZDuCf5hK91FpFA==" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">Nikky
Finney</span></b></a>, <i>Head Off & Split</i> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">(TriQuarterly, an imprint of Northwestern University Press)</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14px">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mexrb7cab&et=1108081590862&s=6980&e=001ioJGpP-5lw6PixE4fl7Fy1GBwD81TRq7yqzk9Ndt8fNVAHo5kX-POUtl12g25GWMAEjIk35c8fE70qGomqSTA5FDmc77DkSXic8mzMaXBdivV0fkcyi1226EiLVbmHQvqMnteSDXjJ5CXhaecCpJIg==" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">Yusef
Komunyakaa</span></b></a>, <i>The Chameleon Couch</i></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14px">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mexrb7cab&et=1108081590862&s=6980&e=001ioJGpP-5lw7Dgc_DnSNX8Wmh8rNI6FwkKW53amwWF4nll0JUbiJRnFexpWbN3TTILif19ID6fnzHVh6nec3rf1iUjYbyEht69kUy_VXo6q1AXIiJHODkSojQXCd6uzTfbUSJOxPUBmAcagEnvDIbUg==" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">Carl
Phillips</span></b></a>, <i>Double Shadow</i></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14px">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mexrb7cab&et=1108081590862&s=6980&e=001ioJGpP-5lw5awuoOkIfNYBr1DTaFUZr2lYTOF6BVopTnl5tmV32xOxVQuxU4DkDyOJoXQNbd8mYOAgyReV8XhiOF6IMZFNn_77tIJdz9rFaeoTaZxZl4DVFrLlzjRotIXJ_dmKifrCFuFsFRwjAREw==" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">Adrienne
Rich</span></b></a>, <i>Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010</i></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">(W.W. Norton & Company)</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14px">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mexrb7cab&et=1108081590862&s=6980&e=001ioJGpP-5lw4XiefG8bZUMzDdOCCaF_gPE_zV3iW4IaDqnI7evlESyctT-shvJBFTJsOQK3IA4bVWsvUQLe1s0r5KKUro-gkIAdLgs4mYOAAjwYJdcPFqBuqOPhKXAOvP5eh3qtc1mYMTbIpR0DDH6Q==" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">Bruce
Smith</span></b></a>, <i>Devotions</i></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">(University of Chicago Press)</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Young People's Literature</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003366"> </span><span style="color:#003366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#33661D"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mexrb7cab&et=1108081590862&s=6980&e=001ioJGpP-5lw4VA1x7e5lC8MxSYjBgMIaM2fEB6rpnYdJww_rdU6f1YEUDzeqKouEFAM_ibqfa750PrtJHhyHgFNuqv-6BVD7uo68J7EBeQkQsFz2A7FNCinDCnXAmDjIp9Srk8G-RolYeqSSnqO6hE_Qv0Zo9D9e_" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">Franny
Billingsley</span></b></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">,
<i>Chime</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group USA, Inc.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#33661D"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mexrb7cab&et=1108081590862&s=6980&e=001ioJGpP-5lw4yS8-IfSgMBrbbgXbZFzISZ-tcWo_V_nBPMc37rxI4f0kom3U39rJkYJ2oM8cVqjSNNtht-lTHBBWtHsEoGlWu3nrshso4CmF4krqjo6q_D-6PrCCqDET_4vP0TXVw56l3VKbLIJJ1vFf8Gv-A5jwY" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">Debby
Dahl Edwardson</span></b></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">,
<i>My Name Is Not Easy</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(Marshall Cavendish)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mexrb7cab&et=1108081590862&s=6980&e=001ioJGpP-5lw5dA_sTQYjGdsUHNzwwWXfoyvfwVqLZiws8Feh-d_DHlJdbCtf47gEcj2Cur9ju5OoxwsAHovrjHfJTdhwx66RLNAf8HmG2ob0fd5vr3V-c2Tp0bu_G_YoYprOseJA5lixxxtayiH2TvA==" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">Thanhha
Lai</span></b></a>, <i>Inside Out and Back Again</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins<i>Publishers</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mexrb7cab&et=1108081590862&s=6980&e=001ioJGpP-5lw6OeakXeth2_nj02AAM4X2iVMFAD9Qf6LYT0JhdL5IVeoKd8Ln1Cz68G7ye6-KscyHOQG9CUugqM0QydYNfiOaoRqVnwqdtjeKSt1Bb_Bw_Wg0AFp_TK_fHpRgn9HqkLWnovdwkfFetvg==" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">Albert
Marrin,</span></b></a> <i>Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Myracle</span></b></a>, <i>Shine</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mexrb7cab&et=1108081590862&s=6980&e=001ioJGpP-5lw5iK2ZS_E822HvuimSrvzIC_5g2_N7fIQGdEDJIL7u4OHEhugQQGreRs3MaTzJh6OcZi8h-H92a0tR6Qr3IN_4tqY6AAdEdxB0MPmB5-1uvwWmIUqoRP1AbKO5ee_CmdVREDAZ0ELZ_SA==" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">Gary
D. Schmidt</span></b></a>, <i>Okay for Now</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nonfiction<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Alice Kaplan (Panel Chair), Yunte Huang, Jill Lepore, Barbara Savage <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Poetry<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Elizabeth Alexander (Panel Chair), Thomas Sayers Ellis, Amy Gerstler, Kathleen Graber, Roberto Tejada<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Young People's Literature<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">New York, NY (October 12, 2011)</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> -The twenty Finalists for the 2011 National
Book Awards were announced by past National Book Award Winners, Finalists, and Judges in front of a live audience at the new Literary Arts Center in Portland, Oregon as part of Oregon Public Broadcasting's morning radio program,
<i>Think Out Loud</i>, and streamed live at <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mexrb7cab&et=1108081590862&s=6980&e=001ioJGpP-5lw5C15Ce3kB7bUSxg0Zq111OpNSWzlL4nOnhf1OI3UrrMW0jZ9lpxTC0LtwlD0f_MFXRFh9rkuky-_Ht304ngrSJ8KgA3wG_4_V5U4H33gDGt-S4hv0g-c6rfcFR1LIsGVQWwhKZ97MkKrr1tCdglpSpoIXE293Eb8s=" target="_blank">
<b><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">www.opb.org/nationalbookawards</span></b></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Winners in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature will be announced at the 62<sup>nd
</sup>National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on Wednesday, November 16. Actor, writer, and musician John Lithgow will host the event. Winners receive $10,000 and a bronze statue; Finalists receive a bronze
medal and $1,000. Poet John Ashbery will receive the <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mexrb7cab&et=1108081590862&s=6980&e=001ioJGpP-5lw7hOzAALKCJ_2v-mQ2LGs9s-2k4LMuh-zbgDmaB81QIuupE9Bj8hz0ZBD6uNv2kQcPWsHej6Wf80xBUxQxma65xPjeOJV-1hRU9lv_rQ-G0lELToDMP7WXQ3RlaSosixoEvz-2CsoteWR3eA0fAAXeQ" target="_blank">
<b><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters</span></b></a>, to be presented by poet Ann Lauterbach. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Mitchell
Kaplan, co-founder of the Miami Book Fair International, will receive the Foundation's <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mexrb7cab&et=1108081590862&s=6980&e=001ioJGpP-5lw7ctABKGhqlFG5P2p6kkPpukAx2FQg3MkDHxA9deVgN-5eIi_q80kBhxkDx-H9JdIveCUC6UtvR3p_UD8H9t9T_2v7jM3UEKK-iQGiIYkgymFYWqdFUrkLxzJYlPJ37HgY=" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#336600;text-decoration:none">Literarian
Award for Outstanding Contribution to the American Literary Community</span></b></a>, to be presented by writer Walter Mosley.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The invitation-only Awards Ceremony is the culminating event of National Book Awards Week. The celebration begins on November 14 with
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Under 35</span></a></b>, the Foundation's sixth annual invitation-only celebration of emerging fiction writers selected by National Book Award Winners and Finalists. On November 15, for the first time, the
<b><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=mexrb7cab&et=1108081590862&s=6980&e=001ioJGpP-5lw7akgNsiggMEqA1evnkUV27e5HK4IolncKAWDjwwMa1bLd_sIE8UBj3DdfCOwfL_Tc9rGz4Rr3s99bX3XLe392JiXfiu0AzdKiHWn2_MfXLu2n_iyBAOmHksCjh1_AyG6zQtqcU7etRckFlPlNi8_9p" target="_blank"><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">National
Book Awards Teen Press Conference</span></a></b> will be streamed live online, from Scholastic in Soho, hosted by acclaimed young adult author and Scholastic editor David Levithan. Streaming will allow students from across the country to play the role of reporters
as they direct questions to the five Finalists for the National Book Award in Young People's Literature. That evening, all twenty Finalists will read from their nominated works at the
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<b><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">National Book Award Finalists Reading</span></b></a> at The New School. The Finalists Reading is open to the public; tickets are $10 and are available through The New School box office by calling 212-229-5488
or by emailing <a href="mailto:boxoffice@newschool.edu" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#336600;text-decoration:none">boxoffice@newschool.edu</span></b></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For more information about the 2011 Finalists and upcoming National Book Awards Week events, visit
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