Jina Moore Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
Jori LewisLewis’s book is a tour de force of history and imagination — and, above all, of witnessing.
Paperback, 2024
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda
Scott Straus@JasonPatinkin Order of Genocide by Scott Straus is necessary reading here. It won't support the conventional assumption about RTLM (but it's not a "it had no effect" binary either). Nuanced understanding of this stuff, and they key roles of politics, feels like an important part of the forest?
Paperback, 2008
$33.95Member price:$33.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
Lisa Cron@ortile Similar idea, very different language and take, in Lisa Cron's Wired for Story.
Paperback, 2012
$15.99Member price:$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime
Anjan SundaramMy grandmother, a librarian who owned like 5.000 books, most loved when my name surprised her in her local paper’s books section. She’s gone but I still feel like it talk to her when I write for @StribBooks. This time, on why to read @anjansun’s latest https://t.co/WSspNsJBPR
Hardcover, 2023
$26.00Member price:$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Yes, I CAN: This Week
Make It Happen NowAnd now, that's this week... All this week, Guernica considers Ukraine from many angles and voices. It's a small miracle than an operation like ours can make something like this happen this quickly. I hope you'll follow along this week. https://t.co/P43vUKaPdS https://t.co/E8und6QPUc
Paperback, 2017
$7.59Member price:$3.80 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
Tracy Kidder@melanie__pierce Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd's "good prose" is great, and a rare exchange between a writer and his longtime editor
Paperback, 2013
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book