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Did you know: The iconic signpost at @thesquarepdx was installed as the result of a 1987 proposal from the Powell’s Travel Store, then located in Pioneer Square?
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No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
Pub. 2021
“I can’t decide if I want all fiction to be like this from now on or nothing to be like it ever again.”
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Tightrope by @NickKristof & @WuDunn
Pub. 2020
“ Tightrope rises above the pack with its compassionate portrayal of its subjects, careful research, intersectional analysis, and thoughtful policy solutions.”
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Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis
Pub. 1981
“Angela Davis gave me a history lesson like none I’d ever received in school.”
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White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Pub. 2000
“Propulsive and energetic in a way I’d never experienced.”
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Beaten Down, Worked Up by Steven Greenhouse
Pub. 2019
“Impressively researched, unflinchingly honest, and at times deeply moving.”
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The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Pub. 1988
“No matter your age, Calvin and Hobbes portrays an imaginative world full of wit, wonder, and laughter.”
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On Tyranny by @TimothyDSnyder
Pub. 2017
“If you are puzzled by how the world got to today, this book might help.”
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Watership Down by Richard Adams
Pub. 1972
“At five, it was an epic adventure story about bunnies. At 30, it is a remarkably deep epic adventure story about bunnies.”
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Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
Pub. 1998
“This book touches on something truer than true: no matter the banality of our experiences, the depth of human emotion bathes them in the light of an epic of old.”
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Happy birthday to our Small Press/Journals sections!
We were diving into some old Powell’s scrapbooks for the #PowellsArchiveProject and stumbled upon this event poster announcing the August opening the of section 30 YEARS AGO.
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Naked by David Sedaris
Pub. 1997
“He’s like a misanthropic anthropologist who populates all the spoken dialogue with a bizarre spin on Americana. And it’s hilarious.”
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The Hate U Give by @angiecthomas
Pub. 2017
“It opened the door for an explosion of YA fiction unafraid to demand action and young readers determined to do the same.”
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American Fictionary by Dubravka Ugrešić
First Published 1993
Revised Edition 2018
“Yugoslav author Dubravka Ugrešić may well be the smartest, wittiest, most captivating author you’re not (yet) reading.”
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Erosion: Essays of Undoing by @TempestWilliams
Published 2019
“An unwavering voice for environmental and social justice, encouraging compassion for and (re)connection with the natural world."
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Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Published 2017
“A novel that is both an elegy to homelands lost and an optimistic reframing of what "home" may mean in our rapidly changing world.”
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The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Published 2020.
“Somehow, hope is pulled out of utter hopelessness, kindness out of greed, humor out of darkness.”
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Before the rooms were color-coded it was “downstairs,” and before it was downstairs it was a garage. Time travel with us on 10th and Couch and watch three floors of books take shape.
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The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
Published 1978.
“Carve out an afternoon and, if possible, a peaceful outdoor reading spot for this quietly subversive tome — you'll be forever changed.”
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And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts
First Published 1987
“It is an emotional read, one that will open your heart and then break it.”
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