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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Vintage) by Cheryl Strayed Staff Pick I know this title is everywhere right now. I was very fortunate to get an advanced copy, and I immediately fell in love. Why? Well, like many, my favorite books are those that seem to have been written just for me. I deeply understood the raw ache of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Orchardist (P.S.) by Amanda Coplin Publisher Comments A Best Book of the Year Washington Post • Seattle Times • The Oregonian National Public Radio • Amazon • Kirkus Reviews Publishers Weekly • The Daily Beast An Indie Next Pick A Barnes & Noble Discover Pick At the turn... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple Publisher Comments Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.49 Sale - Trade Paper
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Beautiful Ruins (P.S.) by Jess Walter Staff Pick Jess Walter gets nearer the Pulitzer with Beautiful Ruins. Chance meetings during the 1962 filming of Cleopatra in Italy set in motion events that spiral into the present day. Walter captures perfectly how the best part of life is that it doesn't turn... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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Wool by Hugh Howey Publisher Comments In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't by Augusten Burroughs Publisher Comments From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes a groundbreaking book by Augusten Burroughs that explores how to survive what you think you can't. If you're fat and fail every diet, if you're thin but can't get... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Point Your Face at This: Drawings by Demetri Martin Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling author and comedian is back in a smaller, softer format. In his first book, This Is a Book, Demetri Martin introduced fans and readers to his unique brand of long-form humor writing. Now Demetri returns with an eclectic... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Walking Portland: 30 Tours of Stumptown's Funky Neighborhoods, Historic Landmarks, Park Trails, Farmers Markets, and Brewpubs (Walking) by Becky Ohlsen Publisher Comments From a massive urban forest to the tiniest brewpub, Portland offers a huge variety of entertainments within a surprisingly compact area. Organic coffeeshops line the streets at the foot of an extinct volcano, and independent bookstores nestle up against... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson Publisher Comments Includes a new chapter! When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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On Mount Hood: A Biography of Oregon's Perilous Peak by Jon Bell Staff Pick Some 50 miles southeast of Portland lies the highest peak in the state of Oregon: Mount Hood, a 700,000-year-old stratovolcano. The fourth tallest in the Cascade range (around 11,240 feet high), Mount Hood is currently rated fourth by the U.S. Geological... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.87 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dandelion Hunter: Foraging the Urban Wilderness by Rebecca Lerner Publisher Comments In this engaging and eye-opening read, forager-journalist Becky Lerner sets out on a quest to find her inner hunter-gatherer in the city of Portland, Oregon. After a disheartening week trying to live off wild plants from the streets and parks near... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers Publisher Comments A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive. "The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.49 Sale - Trade Paper
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Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson Staff Pick Religion, metaphor, rebellion. The Quran and the Internet. Hackers, effrit, and sheikhs. Douglas Hofstadter shout-outs. Holy moly. Otherworldly elements swirl into the modern-day Middle East in this sandstorm of magic and mortals. The environments are... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Pacific Northwest's Best Trips by Lonely Planet Publisher Comments What's the Pacific Northwest got that other regions don't? Plenty. Start with hundreds of miles of coastline and throw in a stunning natural landscape: thousands of years of geological events have dramatically shaped this region, leaving behind snow... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $16.09 Sale - Trade Paper
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Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley Publisher Comments Lucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating... (read more) Your price: $17.99 New - Trade Paper
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Why Does the World Exist? Signed Edition by Jim Holt Publisher Comments Tackling the “darkest question in all of philosophy” with “raffish erudition” (Dwight Garner, New York Times), author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? This... (read more) List Price $16.95 Available May 27, 2013 Your price: $11.87 New - Trade Paper
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The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability -- Designing for Abundance by William McDonough and Michael Braungart Publisher Comments From the authors of Cradle to Cradle, we learn whats next: The Upcycle. The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, one of the most consequential ecological manifestos of our time. Now, drawing on the lessons ... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Be Interesting: (In 10 Simple Steps) by Jessica Hagy Publisher Comments You want to leave a mark, not a blemish. Be a hero, not a spectator. You want to be interesting. (Who doesn't?) But sometimes it takes a nudge, a wake-up call, an intervention! — and a little help. This is where Jessica Hagy comes in. A writer and... (read more) Your price: $10.95 New - Trade Paper
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Crapalachia: A Biography of Place by Scott McClanahan Publisher Comments Crapalachia is a portrait of Scott McClanahan's formative years, coming of age in rural West Virginia, during a stretch of time where he was deeply influenced by his Grandma Ruby and Uncle Nathan, who suffered from cerebral palsy. Peopled by colorful... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Orphan Train: Novel by Christina Baker Kline Publisher Comments Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by pure luck. Would they be adopted by a kind and... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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