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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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History of Northwest Portland From the River to the Hills
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Jane Comerford
Bongodad
, June 06, 2012
157 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. Contents: Claiming the land Guild's Lake Old Town The Pearl Slabtown Nob Hill NW 23rd and Burnside Forest Park A sign of the times History preserved.
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Honey Badger Dont Care
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Randall
Bongodad
, January 20, 2012
In case you wondered: A mononymous person is an individual who is known and addressed by a mononym, or "single name".
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Power Tool Projects You Can Make
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Tom Riley
Bongodad
, August 25, 2011
This is copyright 1955 and full of great mid-century woodworking projects! I made three of them and, varnished appropriately, you can't tell them from their 1950s original counterparts.
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Bouvier des Flandres
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Claire D Mclean
Bongodad
, June 16, 2011
A comprehensive (for the date) Bouvier book at an affordable price. Denlinger's Publishers, Fairfax, Virginia. History, breed standards, top breeders, characteristics, competitions, trophy winners, obedience groups, and a pedigree section. Fifty-page breed chronology from 1930 (champions, records, etc). 352 pages.
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Taking Tree
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Shrill Travesty
Bongodad
, February 11, 2011
I enjoyed this book and I'm not one of those folks who has problems with the "The Giving Tree". "The Taking Tree" is cleverly done and well-written. The Burnside store has a sign near where the book is shelved that suggests it is not really for children and I'd hope that parents would read any book before reading it to a child, anyway. As a child, I'd STILL have found this funny and doubt it will mar many little psyches. If I could change anything, it would be to remove the topical reference to Palin on the tree-carving illustration because it doesn't add to the plot and will date the book in years to come. Even the author's alias is hilariously appropriate. One more thing: I knew Shel. He would have found this very funny indeed.
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Track Town USA Hayward Field Americas Crown Jewel of Track & Field
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Kenny Moore
Bongodad
, December 18, 2010
This picture book covers the history and significance of the University of Oregon's track venue - Hayward Field.
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The Buster Holmes Restaurant Cookbook: New Orleans Handmade Cookin'
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Holmes, Buster
Bongodad
, December 17, 2010
It's great to see that this book is coming back into print. Recipes include not only Buster's beloved red beans and rice recipe and other Creole specialties, but also for marsh hare, possum, nutria, and squirrel.
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Fantod Pack
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Edward Gorey
Bongodad
, December 04, 2010
Edward Gorey's trademark sense of impending doom is nowhere more darkly humorous than in this, his version of a tarot card deck. Each of the 20 cards forecasts a list of outcomes for the user ranging from the merely unpleasant (loss of hair, breakage, thwarted ambitions) to the downright horrible (catarrh, spasms, shriveling). The 32-page booklet provides interpretation of the cards courtesy of one Madame Groeda Weyrd, who Gorey tells us 'is of mixed Finnish and Egyptian extraction, has devoted her life to divination, and is the author of, among a shelf of other works, Floating Tambourines, a collection of esoteric verse, and The Future Speaks Through Entrails.' Who but Gorey to make mirth from a kaleidoscope of catastrophe? Twenty (2 1/2 x 4 3/4 inch) cards and a 32-page interpretive booklet in a decorative box. Box size is 3 1/16 x 5 5/16 x 3/4 inches.
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Stone Wind Water: Poems
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David Lee
Bongodad
, December 03, 2010
David Lee is the author of more than fifteen books of poetry including So Quietly the Earth, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2004. In 1997 he was named Utah's first Poet Laureate and has received the Utah Governor's award for lifetime achievement in the arts. A former seminary candidate, semi-pro baseball player, and hog farmer, he has a Ph.D. with a concentration in the poetry of John Milton. He taught in the Department of Language and Literature at Southern Utah University for three decades, where he received every teaching award presented, including teacher of the year three times.
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Ski Spot Run
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Matt Haakenstad
Bongodad
, November 12, 2010
It's not a typo! The subtitle for this book is: "The Enchanting World of Skijoring and Related Dog-Powered Sports" and it's a hoot for anybody who wants to take year 'round interactive excertise with a dog to the next level (that the dog is -- hopefully -- up for as well)! Published by KISATI Ventures, Minnetonka, Minnesota, 2004. Illustrated by Jack Lunde. Learn the basics of skijoring, canicross, bikejoring and rollerjoring. Gain insight into required equipment, proper fit and training techniques. Laugh at humorous drawings and stories, your dog's perspective and a fresh variation of Murphy's Law. Discover how to become a responsible participant and advocate for skijoring and related dog-powered sports. 204 pages, illustrated throughout.
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Special Place
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Straub, Peter
Bongodad
, March 30, 2010
If you are a Peter Straub fan, as I am, and have been following the strange writing and publishing evolution of his current project you may be confused about how his books, THE DARK MATTER, THE SKYLARK and A SPECIAL PLACE relate to each other. THE DARK MATTER is reaily available and the "polished" version of the tale. Straub felt that publication of THE DARK MATTER, which was a heavily edited version of his original manuscript, didn't provide a complete picture and so he contracted with Subterranean Press to publish THE SKYLARK which is an earlier state of THE DARK MATTER with 200 additional manuscript pages. Here's Straub's latest quote on the three books and how they relate to each other: "I have altered the section of THE SKYLARK now called A SPECIAL PLACE: THE HEART OF THE DARK MATTER in a hundred different places, and that version of the text is the one preferred by its author. Also, A DARK MATTER is no longer THE SKYLARK but something trimmer and tighter, and I would like those who read the finished version of the novel then to read the novella called A SPECIAL PLACE, which would alter their understanding of a central part of the novel — I see this as like having a wonderful meal, followed by a bomb for dessert. THE SKYLARK is a tremendously interesting way-station that I took for my final destination, and it bristles with all kinds of ideas and scenes and situations that were never really fully worked out, but it shows exactly what I thought I was doing at the time. However, it is not an alternative to A DARK MATTER: those who read it should also read the novel it became. Ideally, they should then go on also to also read the novella, which would have a different impact and create a different effect than it does and can in the early version of my novel."
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