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1 month ago | 
cincinnatimagazine.com | Brooke Robinson
Composer and percussionist Sarah Hennies is bringing a deeply personal and immersive musical experience to CAC’s Black Box Theater on March 18. Memory Box: Featuring Sarah Hennies, presented by concertnova, is more than just a concert—it’s a multisensory installation that intertwines sound, identity, and visual art.
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1 month ago | 
cincinnatimagazine.com | Brooke Robinson
March is here, and it’s time to honor and celebrate the women around us. Whether you’re looking to enjoy live music, support women-owned businesses, or get active, there’s no shortage of ways to honor Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day in Greater Cincinnati. Grab your friends, or go solo, and make March a month of empowerment with these must-attend activities.
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2 months ago | 
cincinnatimagazine.com | Brooke Robinson |Jaclyn Youhana Garver
Jaclyn Youhana Garver knows the power of a good story. From her early days as a journalist to her current status as an award-winning author recognized by the Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists and the Cleveland Press Association, writing has been a constant in her life. Now, she brings that passion to her latest novel, Then, Again, which explores themes of love, loss, and the pull of the past.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
salient.org.nz | Brooke Robinson
Words by: Brooke Robinson (she/her)As a woman, I’ve had my fair share of unavoidable, painful conversations with self-proclaimed ‘male feminists’ that lead nowhere. No matter how many points I bring up about the female experience, there always seems to be a key player missing—empathy! It’s hard to imagine such a widespread, well-known cause being so difficult for people to back. But here we are.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
baylorlariat.com | Baylor Lariat |Brooke Robinson
By Brooke S. Robinson | Student Body Attorney GeneralDear Baylor University Student Activities, As a distinguished institution of higher education, it is imperative that we uphold the recognition and preservation of the rights of our students. However, I recently learned that the due process rights of our student organizations have been overlooked for an extended period.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
crimereads.com | Brooke Robinson
It’s the detectives, the private investigators and the lawyers who are usually front-and-center in crime fiction, but there are scores of professionals working in the criminal justice system to whom most of us give little thought. There are archivists who manage police records, people who clean police stations, who service their cars, and IT specialists who maintain computer systems. We all know what it’s like to feel unappreciated and undervalued at work.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Brooke Robinson
Innocent or guilty: it all hinges on a single word . . . Thanks to a nomadic childhood, Revelle Lee is fluent in ten languages, which she puts to use at crime scenes and in courtrooms across London. Being a court interpreter is a stressful job, one that makes her privy to the most personal and often dark details of others’ lives.
In the meantime, she’s close to adopting a six-year-old boy named Elliot from foster care.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Brooke Robinson
Revelle Lee lives in London, and is an interpreter. She speaks ten languages, and works for a company that works with the police, hospitals, and other organizations. She has to listen carefully, and make sure she gets what anyone is saying just right, one wrong word and it could mean someone’s life. Furthermore, she’s also a foster mom to Elliot, and is hoping to adopt him. When she’s assigned to translate a Polish man’s testimony, she alters a word, she knew the person that was killed.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Brooke Robinson |Ragnar Jonasson |Katrín Jakobsdóttir |Katrín Jakóbsdottir |Ritu Mukerji
Burt Solomon. Forge, $32.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7653-9272-5What if President Andrew Johnson’s 1875 death was the result of a deliberate poisoning instead of natural causes? Solomon poses that provocative question in his entertaining third mystery featuring Lincoln-aide-turned-reporter John Hay (after 2019’s The Attempted Murder of Teddy Roosevelt).
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Stephanie Barron |Brooke Robinson |Ragnar Jonasson |Katrín Jakobsdóttir |Katrín Jakóbsdottir
Stephanie Barron. Soho Crime, $27.99 (312p) ISBN 978-1-64129-505-5Barron’s poignant 15th and final whodunit featuring Jane Austen as a sleuth (after 2022’s Jane and the Year Without a Summer) is set in 1817, the year of the author’s death. Suffering from an unknown ailment and determined not to brood on the ravages of her declining health, Jane agrees to investigate the case of 16-year-old Winchester College student William Heathcote, a friend of her nephew, Edward.
