C. in August 2010 for my book The Wizard of Lies (Times Books, 2011).

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Henriques needed some of the correspondence for her 2010 book, The Wizard of Lies.

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He did so at the insistence of SEC regulators, after they had bungled yet another investigation of tips that Madoff was dishonest. (You can find details of that and other failed SEC investigations of Madoff in The Wizard of Lies, my book on his historic Ponzi scheme.) Unable to find any sign of fraud, regulators concluded that Madoff was merely operating as a money-manager without having registered.

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K. Rowling, was on welfare raising her little girl when her agent called to tell her that Bloomsbury would publish her book about an adolescent wizard named Harry Potter.

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Fans of the seven-book series chronicling a young wizard's coming-of-age in a fantastic and dangerous, magical world have a lot of emotion invested in the franchise.

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An upcoming book on Madoff, Wizard of Lies , by Diana Henriques should be a more in-depth look at Madoff based on her interview with Madoff in federal prison.

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Children's Book of the Year was awarded to JK Rowling for the third of her phenomenally successful novels about apprentice wizard Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - a book named by the judges as runner-up to the overall winner.

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Sharon Stone goes cold in this botched thiller maybe from the effort of pretending that her character, a beauteous book editor, would fall for the preening young computer wizard played by the vacant-and-proud-of-it William Baldwin.

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