2006 Morning News Tournament
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Home Land
by Sam Lipsyte  
Powells.com Staff Pick A caustic and hilarious story about Lewis Miner, a man afflicted by a terrible high school experience and blessed with an acid tongue that takes no prisoners. Lipsyte's sentences are creations of absolute wonder and terrific angst. Recommended by Kevin...
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Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Powells.com Staff Pick Ishiguro takes a meditative look at childhood, loss of innocence, and human deception and the drive for survival. This is a haunting narrative that is joyous and sad at once — reminiscent of Philip K. Dick, but with a very literary and poignant eye...
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Anansi Boys: A Novel
by Neil Gaiman
Powells.com Staff Pick "Anansi Boys is Neil Gaiman's best novel yet. It may lack the epic scope of American Gods, but page for page it provides a higher level of satisfaction. This is Gaiman at his wittiest, most uninhibited; we feel the author having fun with his creations...
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On Beauty: A Novel
by Zadie Smith
Publisher Comments Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer...
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No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy
Powells.com Staff Pick This may not be Cormac McCarthy's best book, or even one of the best books of the year (in fact, its construction is a bit incoherent), yet I remain a sucker for the peculiar blend of melancholy and savagery that permeates all of McCarthy's work...
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The Historian: A Novel
by Elizabeth Kostova
Powells.com Staff Pick This is the perfect summer read — I promise. From Anne Rice to Stephen King to Bram Stoker and beyond, desire for tales from the crypt never seems to die. Even if you believe the Dracula legend has been bludgeoned to the thinnest pulp, you will be...
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Saturday
by Ian McEwan
Powells.com Staff Pick Ian McEwan's new novel is generous, contemplative, and moving — and in good company, joining classics like Mrs. Dalloway and Ulysses that take place during a single day. McEwan intricately weaves characters and themes towards an eloquent and...
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Powells.com Staff Pick I absolutely loved Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close a most precious and delightful novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. Oskar Schell made me laugh, smile, and just feel good. He is a charmer who's won my heart through the tears and the joy...
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The History of Love: A Novel
by Nicole Krauss
Powells.com Staff Pick In this brilliant work on love and loss, two stories, past and present, merge. With compassion and humor, Nicole Krauss writes a beautiful and incredibly imaginative novel, delivering readers through twists and turns to arrive at a wholly satisfying...
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The Accidental: A Novel
by Ali Smith
Powells.com Staff Pick The Accidental, Ali Smith's dazzling new novel, explores the modern family in all its chaos, darkness, and love, using some of the most inventive prose seen in recent years. Smith's story is bewitching, her characters empathetic, and her craft...
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Veronica: A Novel
by Mary Gaitskill
Publisher Comments The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behavior and Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Veronica is about flesh and spirit, vanity, mortality, and mortal affection. Set mostly in Paris and Manhattan in the desperately glittering 1980s, it has...
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The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole
by Stephanie Doyon
Publisher Comments For generations, Cedar Hole has been the armpit of Gilford County, a town full of apathetic underachievers trapped by a defunct railroad, distrust of the outside world, and their own lack of imagination. It has also been the home of the Pinkhams, a...
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Beasts of No Nation: A Novel
by Uzodinma Iweala
Powells.com Staff Pick See Africa through the words of a gifted young writer named Uzodinma Iweala, whose debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, exposes the genocide plaguing that continent in a car-crash voice that won't let you turn away. Recommended by Dave, Powells.com...
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Garner: A Novel
by Kirstin Allio
Publisher Comments "An elegant, luminous, moving work of lyric prose. Every page shimmers."-Carole Maso "Fiercely imagined, alive with incandescent imagery, Kirstin Allio's Garneris a memorable debut."-John Burnham Schwartz Landlocked, sail-shaped Garner, New Hampshire, is...
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