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Jina Moore Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Jina Moore is a writer and editor. I write but I'd rather edit you. Editor in Chief @guernicamag, magazine editor @publichealthmag, board @adi_magazine & @offassignment. jina@

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Book Cover for: Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History, Jori Lewis

Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History

Jori Lewis
Jina MooreJina Moore

Lewis’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
Book Cover for: The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda, Scott Straus

The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda

Scott Straus
Jina MooreJina Moore

@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)
Book Cover for: Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence, Lisa Cron

Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

Lisa Cron
Jina MooreJina Moore

@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
Book Cover for: Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime, Anjan Sundaram

Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime

Anjan Sundaram
Jina MooreJina Moore

My 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
Book Cover for: Yes, I CAN: This Week, Make It Happen Now

Yes, I CAN: This Week

Make It Happen Now
Jina MooreJina Moore

And 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
Book Cover for: Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction, Tracy Kidder

Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction

Tracy Kidder
Jina MooreJina Moore

@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