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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: Michael Crichton, Bernard Madoff, Willa Cather, Auction Service, Rick Moody
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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: University of California, Los Angeles, Movies, Dance, UCLA Bruins, Academy Awards
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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: Crime, Law and Justice, Michael Crichton, Hong Kong, Murder, Literature
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'Against All Enemies': A Tom Clancy summer
Jacket CopyThe big news for the Tom Clancy brotherhood was the return of the Jack Ryans, father and son, last December in "Dead or Alive" -- until then, the Ryan saga hadn’t made an appearance since 2003’s "The Teeth of the...... -
Book review: Tom Clancy's 'Dead or Alive'
Los Angeles TimesOK, so apart from those genuinely saintly souls sent by Providence as examples to the rest of us, is there anyone with a pulse in this country who wouldn't like to see Osama bin Laden dead? Should he yet fall into our hands, even this writer — an...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, National Basketball Association, John Clark, Osama bin Laden, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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On Movies: More running than beaming up in newest Star Trek
The Philadelphia InquirerIt's no walk in the park, this Captain Kirk business. Beaming down from the Enterprise to 23d-century Earth -- just think what that does to your molecules. Jet-packing through deepest space, with only a thin metal suit and a helmet protecting you from...Tags: The Philadelphia Inquirer, Ben Affleck, Karl Urban, Celebrities, Zachary Quinto
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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: Fiscal Cliff, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Missing Persons
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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: James Joyce, The Women (movie, 2008), Authors, Book, James Patterson
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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: Mystery (genre), Silo Point, Inner Harbor
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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: Cormac McCarthy, Max Payne (movie), Wii, Activision Blizzard, Inc., Transformers (movie)
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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: Canton (Baltimore, Maryland), Public Officials, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Baltimore Hotels, T. Rowe Price
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"Locked On" by Tom Clancy
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: White House, Politics, Terrorism, Central Intelligence Agency, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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