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From Baltimore book seller to CIA
The life of an independent bookstore owner is perilous these days. Having to fend off deadly competition from giant Barnes & Noble, online merchants such as Amazon, and big box stores including Target and Walmart. Still, even with that cut-throat...
Tags: Target, Amazon.com Inc., Fells Point, Central Intelligence Agency
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The Bernard Madoff book collection: Rick Moody, Fyodor Dostoevsky
How does an author of seriously literary fiction discover one of his books was owned by Bernie Madoff, the investor who defrauded his clients of billions of dollars? He sees it listed in an auction on EBay. That's how Rick Moody came to know that Madoff's...
Tags: Authors, Auction Service, Caleb Carr, eBay Inc., Rick Moody
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Millions slip away from city as condo values set too low
In a database with a lot of numbers, this one jumped out: $55,000. How on earth could a condo at the prestigious Ritz-Carlton Residences – where author Tom Clancy owns a sprawling multimillion-dollar penthouse – have an assessed value that...
Tags: Inner Harbor, Silo Point, Mystery (genre)
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PASSINGS: Neil Travis, Jack Ellena
Neil Travis Film editor earned Oscar for 'Dances With Wolves' Film editor Neil Travis, 75, who received an Academy Award for his work on the 1990 film "Dances With Wolves" and an Emmy for the 1977 miniseries "Roots," died March 28 at his home in...Tags: Sports, University of California, Los Angeles, Obituaries, Los Angeles Times, Kevin Costner
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15 to play
Thank you, "Mass Effect 3." The year's first blockbuster has whet our appetites for an incredible slate of high-end releases and potential sleeper hits due in the coming months. And "Game Cache," b's new gaming blog, will be all over them. We'll be...Tags: Microsoft Corporation, Activision Blizzard, Inc., Sports, Auction Service, Cormac McCarthy
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Top property tax bills in Baltimore add up to big bucks
When the city sends Tom Clancy his property tax bill, finance officials might want to tuck in a thank-you note.
The multimillionaire novelist's supersized digs at the Ritz-Carlton Residences along the Inner Harbor have by far the highest tax payment of...Tags: Public Officials, Taxation, Companies and Corporations, Credit and Debt, Economy, Business and Finance
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"Locked On" by Tom Clancy
!["Locked On" comes to us as the latest production out of the Tom Clancy studio of researchers and assistants. He wrote this one with an intelligence studies wonk (or so Mark Greaney's bio on the book flap would attest) with firearms and combat training from around the world. The novel picks up the Jack Ryan family saga without missing a beat from "Dead or Alive": Ryan Sr. is trying for a return to the White House while son Jack has become deeply enmeshed in the anti-terror forays of The Campus, the off-the-books covert intelligence unit staffed by alums of various other Clancy novels.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-12/67026859-30131730-187105.jpg ""Locked On\" comes to us as the latest production out of the Tom Clancy studio of researchers and assistants. He wrote this one with an intelligence studies wonk (or so Mark Greaney's bio on the book flap would attest) with firearms and combat training from around the world. The novel picks up the Jack Ryan family saga without missing a beat from \"Dead or Alive\": Ryan Sr. is trying for a return to the White House while son Jack has become deeply enmeshed in the anti-terror forays of The Campus, the off-the-books covert intelligence unit staffed by alums of various other Clancy novels.")
Special to Tribune Newspapers"Locked On" comes to us as the latest production out of the Tom Clancy studio of researchers and assistants. He wrote this one with an intelligence studies wonk (or so Mark Greaney's bio on the book flap would attest) with firearms and combat training...Tags: Elections, Terrorism, Politics, White House, Central Intelligence Agency
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Thrillers, fantasy and science fiction
The Affair
A Reacher Novel
Lee Child
Delacorte Press, $28
Knuckle-busting crime-solver Jack Reacher returns with a story from his early years involving a murder near a military base and how he became a maverick hero.
After the Apocalypse
Stories...Tags: Fiction, Literature, Patricia Cornwell, Lee Child, Michael Connelly
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Patriot with a pen: Brad Thor's high-octane thrillers burn up the bestseller lists
Cultural criticDerring-do and deadly attacks are the elements that make his books bestsellers, but there's nothing Brad Thor likes better than sitting down with a good book. The author, a Chicago native who still lives here, has simple advice for those who aspire to...Tags: Julia Keller
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
5 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Greg Jarrett 6:39 a.m. Greg Jarrett will go inside the White House where ABC’s Ann Compton has the latest on what we can anticipate hearing tonight from President Obama. 7:09 a.m. Dick Coffman, who is a former CIA agent whom...Tags: Steven Soderbergh, ABC (tv network), Chicago, Matt Damon, White House
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E-readers debut at Anne Arundel libraries
Electronic readers will make their debut this week at Anne Arundel County public libraries, when 200 e-readers become available for patrons to take home. E-reader technology allows a user to have hundreds of hours of reading materials on a portable,...Tags: Animals, Literature, George W. Bush, Harry Potter (fictional character), James Patterson
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UCF professor-writer Peter Telep’s book with Tom Clancy out Tuesday
Orlando Arts BlogUCF professor Peter Telep has written nearly 40 books, but is under no illusion about his celebrity status. “I always tell my students I’m the hardest-working writer you’ve never heard of,” he says with a laugh. “Forty...
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