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Portland Noir (Akashic Noir)
by Kevin Sampsell
Staff Pick
There are a million stories in the naked city. Portland Noir collects 16 of them. The contributor list is amazing: Karen Karbo, Monica Drake, Floyd Skloot, and more. Editor Kevin Sampsell does a great job of setting the stage for the wealth of narrative... ( read more)
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China Road: a Journey Into the Future of a Rising Power (07 Edition)
by Rob Gifford
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Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The... ( read more)
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This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
by Jay Allison
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Featuring 80 Americans--from the famous to the unknown--this series of insightful observations completes the thought that the books title introduces. Each piece compels readers to rethink not only how they arrive at their own personal beliefs but also... ( read more)
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
by Seamus Heaney
Staff Pick
"I resignedly picked it up at last on the tail end of a history binge, telling myself, 'Okay, I'm finally going to slog through it. Just get it over with.' And I discovered all my trepidation had been for naught. This isn't an 'accessible for a scholarly... ( read more)
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The Iliad
by Homer and Robert Fagles
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This timeless poem-more than 2,700 year old-still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amid devastation and destruction as it moves inexorably to its wrenching, tragic conclusion. Readers of... ( read more)
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100 Best-Loved Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Philip Smith
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Popular, well-known poetry: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Death, be not proud," "The Raven," "The Road Not Taken," plus works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, many others.<BR>... ( read more)
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The Best American Essays (Best American Essays)
by Adam Gopnik
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Here you will find the finest essays “judiciously selected from countless publications” (Chicago Tribune), ranging from The New Yorker and Harpers to Swink and Pinch. In his introduction to this years edition, Adam Gopnik finds that great... ( read more)
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The Voice That Is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century (Bantam Classics)
by Hayden Carruth
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This famous anthology includes the works of more than 130 major American poets of the modern period--Robert Frost, Paul Goodman, Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks among them--along with short biographies of each.... ( read more)
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Burnt Sugar: Contemporary Cuban Poetry in English and Spanish
by Lori M Carlson
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This bilingual showcase of luminous 20th-century and contemporary Cuban poetry is edited by bestselling translator Lori Marie Carlson and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos. Rather than an exhaustive survey, "Burnt Sugar" is filled with the... ( read more)
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Writers Under Siege: Voices of Freedom from Around the World
by Lucy Popescu
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View the Table of Contents Read the Foreword The freedom to write is under threat today throughout the world, with more than 1,000 writers, journalists, and publishers known to be imprisoned or persecuted in more than 100 countries. Writers Under Siege... ( read more)
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Guests | June 11, 2009
By Ibrahim Ahmad
"The noir impulse transcends borders, ethnic and political identities, and, to the surprise of some, literary genres"
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Guests | June 10, 2009
By Krista Wheeler
Don't listen to Bo Diddley. You're welcome to judge the cover of Portland Noir. It's a good one, in my opinion. I shot the cover photograph. I feel...
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Guests | June 9, 2009
By Jamie S. Rich
"All he needs to do is walk out his front door, point in any direction, and chances are, he'll be pointing at someone who works in comics."
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