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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: Bernard Madoff, Willa Cather, Authors, Rick Moody, Michael Crichton
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The cliff is here
In Tom Clancy’s novel “The Hunt for Red October,” the American and Russian submarines are charging toward each other trying to avoid a runaway torpedo. The American captain says that in a game of chicken, the hard part is knowing when to...Tags: Missing Persons, Government Health Care, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Fiscal Cliff
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Getting kids reading is author's goal
“The Man Who Can’t Miss” and “Author of the Year” James Patterson has sold over 260 million books worldwide. Writing novels from middle grade level to adult detective novels, Patterson even has movie deals on his novels. He...
Tags: The New York Times, James Joyce, James Patterson , Book, The Women (movie, 2008)
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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: Silo Point, Mystery (genre), Inner Harbor
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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: College Football, Football, Rose Bowl Game, Entertainment, Dance
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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: Companies and Corporations, Sports Organizations, Activision Blizzard, Inc., Entertainment, Sony Corp.
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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: Harbor, Downstream Oil and Gas Activities, Government, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Personal Service
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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: Politics, Terrorism, Central Intelligence Agency, Elections, White House
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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: Michael Connelly, Thriller (genre), Literature, Hong Kong, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: New York City, High School Sports, Chicago, Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Phillips
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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: World War II (1939-1945), Animals, Rudyard Kipling, Literature, Amy Chua
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