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Jan 20, 2025 | 
graceatwood.substack.com | Jennifer Barnes |Grace Atwood
The past couple of months, I’ve been feeling like an old computer that needs its hard drive decluttered and its memory restored. So this week, I slowed it all down. A slower work pace. A slower social calendar. Slower movement (lots of gentle stretching and walks). This week was my final push with work before taking two weeks off. After the 23rd, I’m going off the grid (I think? Maybe I’ll want to post?) until January 6th. I need to go really offline for a bit. Let my brain grow back.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
destructoid.com | Jennifer Barnes |James Kestrel |Daphne Du Maurier |Stieg Larsson
Mystery and romance are both bedrocks of fiction, but their combination gives rise to something that remains as of yet unbeaten in the entire history of literature. Every great tale has a bit of romance in it. Every memorable story takes advantage of suspense and mystery to keep the readers hooked. And the two of them together turn out to be entirely too irresistible to bookworms all over the world.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Lauren Roberts |Jennifer Barnes |Alexandra Bracken
Now that school is out and summertime plans are in full effect, these brand-new reads are the perfect companions for every memory made and sleepover attended. From fantasy to mystery and heart-warming romance, these are the books we can’t wait to obsess over this July. Please enable javascript to add items to the cart. Please enable javascript to add items to the cart. We never wanted to leave the dazzling world of Powerless, and now we don’t have to.
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May 8, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Jennifer Barnes |Steven Weinberg |Hena Khan
Sequestered contestants vie for millions in this fiendishly clever thriller, the first in a spinoff series from Barnes’s Inheritance Games saga. After a sprawling inaugural event, the second annual Grandest Game—a “mind-twisting” competition run by Tobias Hawthorne’s four grandsons and Avery Grambs, the teen who inherited the eccentric billionaire’s fortune—promises to be a more intimate affair.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
lipstickalley.com | Jennifer Barnes |John Green
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. #1What's your favorite romance book/movie trope? There are many many tropes so I'll be listing the most common ones that everyone is most likely familiar with. Book examples in blue. Movie examples in purple.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
thewestsider.com.au | David Marr |Amy Brown |Jennifer Barnes |Jack Heath
By David Marr$39.99David Marr has written a compelling and shocking personal history of the brutal frontier killings of First Peoples in the quest for the colony’s expansion and take-over of indigenous land. What makes it personal are his direct ancestral links with the Native Police, the para-military group acting with indiscriminate violence and appalling impunity.
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Dec 27, 2023 | 
forbes.com | Jennifer Barnes
By Jennifer Barnes, CEO of Optima Office, a firm that provides fractional CFOs, COOs, controllers and HR professionals for businesses. Conflict is something that naturally occurs within any team. When people from diverse backgrounds, each with their unique ideas and perspectives, come together, it's only natural that disagreements will arise. But instead of viewing conflict as something to be feared, leaders can see it as an opportunity for growth and improved collaboration.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Steph Pinheiro |J. Elle |Jennifer Barnes |Andrew White
The odds are ever in your favor to find your next read — if you start with what the citizens of Panem are reading. See the Hunger Games movie The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and keep the excitement going as you expand your TBR. With 24 stories for 24 tributes, which will you bring home? Please enable javascript to add items to the cart. Please enable javascript to add items to the cart.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Ayana Mathis |Deborah A. Miranda |Alice McDermott |Jennifer Barnes
Amerie’s Book ClubThe book: One Hundred Days by Alice Pung Our reviewer says: "In the nuanced latest from Australian writer Pung, a teen mother-to-be reflects on her ill-fated pursuit of freedom in 1980s Melbourne." Read more. The Audacious Book ClubThe book: The Unsettled by Ayana MathisOur reviewer says: "Mathis offers a simmering family saga involving fraught efforts in building Black communities.... Readers won’t want to miss Mathis’s accomplished return." Read more.
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
forbes.com | Jennifer Barnes
By Jennifer Barnes, CEO of Optima Office, a firm that provides fractional CFOs, COOs, controllers and HR professionals for businesses. Finding good talent is essential for the success and growth of any business. To secure top-tier talent, organizations must embrace innovative approaches to talent acquisition.
