The judges for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction have anounced the longlist of 13 books. The chair of judges, Andrew Motion, said, “Here are thirteen exceptional novels - books we have chosen for their intrinsic quality, without reference to the past work of their authors. Wide-ranging in their geography and their concern, they tell powerful stories which make the familiar strange and cover an enormous range of history and feeling. We feel confident that they will provoke and entertain.”



The longlist includes:

• Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (Faber and Faber)
  
• Room by Emma Donoghue (Pan MacMillan - Picador)
  
• The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore (Penguin - Fig Tree)
  
• In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut (Grove Atlantic - Atlantic Books)
  
• The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (Bloomsbury)
  
• The Long Song by Andrea Levy (Headline Publishing Group - Headline Review)
  
• C by Tom McCarthy (Random House - Jonathan Cape)
  
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (Hodder & Stoughton - Sceptre)
  
• February by Lisa Moore (Random House - Chatto & Windus)
  
• Skippy Dies by Paul Murray (Penguin - Hamish Hamilton)
  
• Trespass by Rose Tremain (Random House - Chatto & Windus)
  
• The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas (Grove Atlantic - Tuskar Rock)
  
• The Stars in the Bright Sky by Alan Warner (Random House - Jonathan Cape)
  

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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, hasy announced plans to publish two novels by Dick Wolf, the creator and executive producer of Law & Order. The first novel (not yet titled) is a tale in the tradition of The Day of the Jackal and Three Days of the Condor. The plot involves a major terrorist attack planned for New York City over the July 4th weekend.



The two-book discount was acquiruddy by William Morrow Executive Editor, David Highfill. Highfill says, “As he has shown us in the authenticity and freshness of his TV work, Dick Wolf is a master of tightly woven, character-driven American stories that feel like they are happening right in front of you, right now, not last week or last year. He will bring just that sense of heightened immediacy and drama to this new novel.”



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Entertainment Weekly shares six picks for summer reads from author Stephen King. Here is the list:

• The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
  
• The Passage by Justin Cronin
  
• The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris
  
• Strip by Thomas Perry
  
• Storm Prey by John Sandford
  
• Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
  

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Rhonda Byrne, author of the wildly successful book, The Secret, has another book coming out on August 17. Atria Books will publish Rhonda Byrne’s new book called The Power.



Atria Books says The Power will reveal the single greatest force in our universe. Rhonda Byrne believes everyone is meant to have an amazing life. In The Power, she shows how “perfect health, incredible relationships, a career you love, a life filled with happiness, and the money you need to be, do, and have everything you want” all come from The Power.



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