2008 Morning News Tournament
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Then We Came to the End: A Novel
by Joshua Ferris  
Powells.com Staff Pick Then We Came to the End tells the story of an ad agency in decline, circa 2001. "We had a toy client, a car client, a long-distance carrier and a pet store," readers are told. We. Ferris uses the first person plural to present the agency's collective...
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
Powells.com Staff Pick Darkly funny and at times heartbreaking, The Brief Wondrous Life is about Díaz's unlikely hero (an obese Dominican Trekkie terrified of dying a virgin) with a rich narrative voice that compels sympathy over pity as the inner workings of both Oscar and...
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The Savage Detectives: A Novel
by Roberto Bolano
Powells.com Staff Pick A decidedly Mexican novel that spans the entire globe, The Savage Detectives is Homer's Odyssey, Hemingway's A Moveable Feast and Borges's Ficciones all rolled into one — and somehow becomes more than the sum of its parts in the process. Beautifully...
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Tree of Smoke: A Novel
by Denis Johnson
Powells.com Staff Pick Ambition doesn't always translate into success, which is why some books that take authors nearly ten years to write become massive paperweights. Then there's Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson's first novel in nine years and an unconditional masterpiece...
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Remainder (Vintage Originals)
by Tom McCarthy
Publisher Comments A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it. Then, one night, an ordinary sight sets off a series of bizarre visions he can't quite place. How he goes...
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On Chesil Beach: A Novel
by Ian McEwan
Special Offer Buy the set! Order On Chesil Beach now and receive the acclaimed 28-minute film about Ian McEwan for only $5 more....
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Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name (P.S.)
by Vendela Vida
Powells.com Staff Pick Let me say first that I read this book because of the title. Much like buying a book for its cover, I was drawn in by the possibility that this poetic directive would yield a satisfying story. I was not disappointed; there's a lot to appreciate here...
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Run: A Novel
by Ann Patchett
Powells.com Staff Pick Run, a worthy successor to Bel Canto, shows off Patchett's trademark gorgeous prose and emotional depth. Her characters are believably flawed, but ultimately good and decent human beings who you want to spend time with. Recommended by Jill, Powells...
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Shining at the Bottom of the Sea
by Stephen Marche
Publisher Comments A virtuoso performance from an emerging new literary talent who crafts a vividly drawn history of an imaginary country. In this stylistic tour de force, Stephen Marche creates the entire culture of a place called Sanjania-its national symbols...
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What the Dead Know: A Novel
by Laura Lippman
Publisher Comments Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and those familiar with the case have always been tortured by these questions: How do you kidnap two girls? Who'or what'could have lured the two sisters away...
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Ovenman: A Novel
by Jeff Parker
Publisher Comments Skateboarder, punk rocker, kitchen slave, and general ne'er-do-well with a slightly tarnished heart of gold, When Thinfinger tries mightily to survive a seemingly endless round of troubles in small-town Florida. After getting fired from his job at the...
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You Don't Love Me Yet: A Novel
by Jonathan Lethem
Publisher Comments From the incomparable Jonathan Lethem, a raucous romantic farce that explores the paradoxes of love and art. Lucinda Hoekke spends eight hours a day at the Complaint Line, listening to anonymous callers air their random grievances. Most of the time...
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An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
by Brock Clarke
Powells.com Staff Pick Hilariously twisted and yet somehow still burning with heart, An Arsonist's Guide will be eminently accessible (and very funny) to readers of any background. Lit majors, however, may take special delight in watching the source of so many dull lectures go...
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New England White: A Novel
by Stephen L. Carter
Powells.com Staff Pick I rarely read anything that could even vaguely be described as a thriller, but New England White, with its page-turning pace, multiple murders, and complex and far-reaching mysteries, must undoubtedly be called one. It is also a fascinating sociological...
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The Shadow Catcher
by Marianne Wiggins
Publisher Comments The Shadow Catcher dramatically inhabits the space where past and present intersect, seamlessly interweaving narratives from two different eras: the first fraught passion between turn-of-the-twentieth-century icon Edward Curtis (1868-1952) and his muse...
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Petropolis
by Anya Ulinich
Publisher Comments Sasha Goldberg is the ultimate outsider: she's a chubby, biracial Jewish girl from the Siberian town of Asbestos 2. Her father takes off for the United States, and leaves Sasha to navigate adolescence in a bleak apartment bloc with her overbearing mother....
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