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Sarasota News Leader September 21, 2012 best-seller list, and it has been hailed by Time magazine as the best nonfiction book of the year, a county news release notes. It won the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year Award for nonfiction. Thousands of votes were cast for the 'Un- broken," the true story of Louis Zamperini, who competed on the 1936 U.S. Olympic Track Team in Berlin, crashed his Army Air Force bomber into the Pacific Ocean during World War II, was lost at sea for 47 days and served time as a Japanese pris- oner of war. As in years past, One Book community part- ners include high schools, New College of Florida, University of South Florida Sara- sota-Manatee, Asolo Repertory Theatre, the Sarasota Herald Tribune Community Cen- ter and area bookstores, the news release adds. Since 2003, Sarasota County Libraries and the One Book, One Community supporting organizations have annually promoted this read-together project, which engages mem- bers of the community in discussion, the county news release notes. Interested people may look on the One Book, One Community website, www.one- booksarasota.com, for a calendar of events featuring discussions and programs about "Unbroken" at the nine Sarasota County public libraries and participating One Book partners. For more information, contact the Saraso- ta County Call Center at 941-861-5000, or visit www.onebooksarasota.com. Page 65 RIVERVIEW ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL NAMED TO GLOBAL IB COMMITTEE Paul Gallagher Americas, the Sarasota County Schools dis- trict has announced. Paul Gallagher, assis- tant principal and coor- dinator of the Riverview High School Internation- al Baccalaureate Pro- gram, has been named to the diploma pro- gram's Review Commit- tee to represent IB of the The 14-member committee provides strat- egies for, and supervises the direction and quality of, IB diploma programs in about 2,400 schools in 143 countries around the world. Gallagher will represent more than 1,200 diploma programs in the 40 countries of the Americas, the news release says. Gallagher is the former president and cur- rent chairman of the College Relations Committee for the Florida League of Inter- national Baccalaureate Schools. When the IB program was authorized at Riverview High in January 1999, Riverview became the 29th IB Diploma School in Flor- ida. The state has more than 70 high school IB programs. In Sarasota County, Brookside Middle School hosts an International Baccalaure- ate Middle Years Program, and Phillippi Shores Elementary School is home to an IB Primary Years Program. Riverview High School is located at One Ram Way in Sarasota. The principal is Lin- da Nook