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Lynn Johnston Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich

Nickel and Dimed

Barbara Ehrenreich
Lynn JohnstonLynn Johnston

Nickel and Dimed is one of those books every nonfiction agent and editor wishes they had worked on. RIP Barbara Ehrenreich https://t.co/aUEBg7ml8c

Hardcover, 2021

$38.80$19.40 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime, Renee Dudley

The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime

Renee Dudley
Lynn JohnstonLynn Johnston

The Ransomware Hunting Team narrated by @wongbd is an Audie Award finalist for best audiobook. Congrats @DanLGolden @Renee_Dudley @alexbstar @fsgbooks @MacmillanAudio 🙌🙌 https://t.co/QNPC3p3jJn

Hardcover, 2022

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America, Jeff Ryan

Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America

Jeff Ryan
Lynn JohnstonLynn Johnston

Check out @ericsmithrocks’s breakdown of a winning book proposal and master class for aspiring NF authors. (Also tickled to see Jeff Ryan’s Super Mario listed as a comp book in the proposal.) #amquerying #amwriting #pubtip https://t.co/LnjgotE81B

Paperback, 2012

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility, Annabelle Gurwitch

You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

Annabelle Gurwitch
Lynn JohnstonLynn Johnston

Writing that makes ppl cry is hard. Getting them to laugh harder. A book that makes them laugh & cry is rare & what @LAGurwitch does in YOU’RE LEAVING WHEN. Thrilled it’s a @ThurberHouse finalist. Congrats Annabelle, editor @DanSmetanka & @CounterpointLLC 🙌 https://t.co/sSavaj94kl

Paperback, 2022

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime, Renee Dudley

The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime

Renee Dudley
Lynn JohnstonLynn Johnston

Omg we won! 🙌 Deserved recognition of the incredible reporting & writing by @Renee_Dudley & @DanLGolden made more riveting by the narration of @wongbd. TY @MacmillanAudio for the wonderful production of The Ransomware Hunting Team audiobook. https://t.co/2FeSfzIpkL

Paperback, 2023

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Crying in H Mart: A Memoir, Michelle Zauner

Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

Michelle Zauner
Lynn JohnstonLynn Johnston

After Michelle Zauner’s editor told her to aim for a 80K word book, she wrote 1000 words every day until she hit the target. Then she went back and worked on what became Crying in H Mart. #writingtips

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest, Carolyn Dewar

CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest

Carolyn Dewar
Lynn JohnstonLynn Johnston

Here is @NextBigIdeaClub’s best leadership book of 2022: CEO Excellence by Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller & Vikram Malhotra published by @ScribnerBooks. https://t.co/4MQ1EHZth4

Hardcover, 2022

$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, Thomas Frank

What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

Thomas Frank
Lynn JohnstonLynn Johnston

One of my favorite nonfiction books is What’s the Matter with Kansas by Thomas Frank published in 2004 by Metropolitan Books about how the GOP stoke social issues like abortion to keep power. NO MORE🔥

Paperback, 2005

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A River Runs Through It, Norman MacLean

A River Runs Through It

Norman MacLean
Lynn JohnstonLynn Johnston

My favorite: Norman MacLean only started writing a novella based on his life after retiring. A River Runs Through It published when he was 74. Two years after his death at 87 years old, the movie directed by Robert Redford came out. https://t.co/UwiAoYGOAe

Hardcover, 1989

$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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