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The online magazine The Morning News presents its candidates for the 2007 Tournament of Books, an NCAA-style battle between literary titans for the (soon to be) coveted Rooster Award.
Featured Titles in Featured Titles-2007 Morning News Tournament:
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The Road
by Cormac McCarthy  
Powells.com Staff Pick Being one of the few who didn't care for No Country for Old Men, I couldn't wait to read The Road. It is a spare, fierce novel, more a return to the writing in Outer Dark. It drew me in immediately; I didn't want to put it down, and kept reading until I...
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The Emperor's Children
by Claire Messud
Powells.com Staff Pick Absolutely brilliant. The best novel I've read in months, if not years, The Emperor's Children has left me powerfully moved; Claire Messud's knowledge of the human psyche is uncanny, and her characters became, in one afternoon, more important to me than...
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Arthur & George (Vintage International)
by Julian Barnes
Powells.com Staff Pick Can I already announce the best book of 2006 in January? If so, here it is! With his customary elegant prose and intricate and wry observational skill, Julian Barnes narrates the true story of the relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and George...
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The Echo Maker: A Novel
by Richard Powers
Powells.com Staff Pick The Echo Maker is the story of Mark Schluter, a 27-year-old man who has a mysterious accident in his hometown in Nebraska, the site of the magnificent Sandhill Crane migration along the river. When he comes to, he has developed Capgras syndrome, a...
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One Good Turn: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson
Powells.com Staff Pick It's hard to believe Kate Atkinson could follow up Case Histories with such a superb — may I suggest even superior? — novel: sly and witty, honest and humane, and, finally, complex and suspenseful. One could not ask for more than the whole...
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English, August: An Indian Story
by Upamanyu Chatterjee
Publisher Comments Agastya Sen, the hero of English, August, is a child of the Indian elite. His father is the governor of Bengal. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. He himself has secured a position in the most prestigious and exclusive of Indian government agencies, the...
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Pride of Baghdad
by Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon
Publisher Comments From one of America's most acclaimed comics writers — a startlingly original look at life on the streets of Baghdad during the Iraq War inspired by true events. Based on a true story, Vaughan and Henrichon have created a unique and heartbreaking...
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Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher Comments A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by the Washington Post Book World as "the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe," Half of a Yellow Sun re-creates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to...
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Alentejo Blue: A Novel
by Monica Ali
Publisher Comments Alentejo Blue is the story of a village community in Portugal, told through the lives of men and women whose families have lived there for generations and some who are passing through. For Teresa, a beautiful girl not yet twenty, Mamarrosa is a place...
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Against the Day: A Novel
by Thomas Pynchon
Powells.com Staff Pick Against the Day switches as smoothly from Tom Swift-style "boys adventure" to a Gothic prairie tale in the vein of Cormac McCarthy, as it does from reverence for historical figures and events to explosive iconoclasm. Its world is filled with dirigibles...
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Brookland: A Novel
by Emily Barton
Publisher Comments Since her girlhood, Prudence Winship has gazed across the tidal straits from her home in Brooklyn to the city of Manhattan and yearned to bridge the distance. Now, established as the owner of the enormously successful gin distillery she inherited from...
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Apex Hides the Hurt (06 Edition)
by Colson Whitehead
Powells.com Staff Pick Fans of the extended junketeering riffs in John Henry Days, rejoice: Colson Whitehead is back with a short, satirical novel about a city — and a man — looking for a fresh start. Gone are the extended digressions and extravagant stylistic...
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The Lay of the Land: A Novel
by Richard Ford
Powells.com Staff Pick Richard Ford's anti-hero Frank Bascombe has returned, middle-aged, possibly wiser, more cynical, and heading into a Thanksgiving season without his wife, but with other family members that he might not want to see. Ford is a great writer; in The Lay of...
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Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
by Sam Savage
Publisher Comments "I had always imagined that my life story...would have a great first line: something like Nabokov's 'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins;' or if I could not do lyric, then something sweeping like Tolstoy's 'All happy families are alike, but every...
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The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo
by Peter Orner
Publisher Comments An utterly original debut novel from the prize-winning author of Esther Stories takes a young American to a school in Africa, where he falls for a woman of far deeper experience. First she came. Then she came back. Set in Namibia just after...
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