Shannon B.
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Shannon's biggest aspiration is to remain eternally lost, because she claims it is the only way she has ever successfully found what she needed. She was raised by pack rats and has a tendency to collect things of no value: rocks (ones that resemble planets, encountered on the way home), plants (to be pressed, potentially sewn into a wardrobe), and stamps (a recent acquisition: one from Vietnam, depicting a cock fight). If you haven't seen her around Portland, it's because she finally got a ride to the Benedictine monastery in Abiquiu, New Mexico. The nearest phone is a mile away, and she plans on staying till she has a vision.
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Persepolis 2 : Story of a Return (04 Edition)
by Marjane Satrapi  
Powells.com Staff Pick I must admit I read this, the second installment of Satrapi's illustrated autobiography, before reading the first. Without the full premise of how she left her native country of Iran for Europe, it was easy to think that I had found a interesting...
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A Personal Matter
by Kenzaburo Oe
Powells.com Staff Pick If you like your books to be a punch in the face, then consider A Personal Matter a good nose bleed of a novel. This is a depiction of human frailty, alienation, despair, and ultimate triumph. Coming to grips with the narrator proved to be quite a...
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Holy Skirts: A Novel of a Flamboyant Woman Who Risked All for Art (P.S.)
by Rene Steinke
Powells.com Staff Pick My coworker Adrienne recommended this book to me, and I just gobbled it up whole. It's based on the life of the Baroness Elsa, a mess of a woman who did everything unthinkable, including unabashedly eating the heart out of the American art world. She...
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Suffragettes to She-Devils: Women's Liberation and Beyond
by Liz McQuiston
Powells.com Staff Pick You need to have this book on your coffee table, to stimulate good conversation, offend, and rejoice. Liz McQuiston has put together a beautiful collection of the shocking, honest, and sassy graphics that have illustrated the journey of women in our...
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Hand-Grenade Practice in Peking: My Part in the Cultural Revolution
by Frances Wood
Powells.com Staff Pick Frances Wood was one of few Westerners lucky enough to study abroad in China during the Cultural Revolution. She caught the country in a transitional period. China was slowly beginning to open its doors to the rest of the world; Mao was just about to...
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The Bake Shop Ghost
by Jacqueline K. Ogburn and Marjorie Priceman
Powells.com Staff Pick Two very exciting things in this world are tiramisu and spiritual beings, and The Bake Shop Ghost has both. Annie Washington is our fearless heroine, challenged to a celestial bake-off in an attempt to appease a stubborn ghost. Marjorie Priceman's...
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