Portland in Three Centuries: The Place and the People
By: Carl Abbott
3.66
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Abbott (urban studies and planning, Portland State U.) has written extensively about Portland, Oreg…
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1. Woken Furies (Takeshi Kovacs, #3)
By: Richard K. Morgan
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is high action, ideas driven noir SF of the highest order. Morgan has already established hims… read more
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"Rage at injustice is a forest fire — it jumps all divides, even those between generations."-Richard K. Morgan, Woken Furies (Takeshi Kovacs, #3)
"It's always far easier to murder and tear down than it is to build and educate. Easier to let power accumulate than diffuse."-Richard K. Morgan, Woken Furies (Takeshi Kovacs, #3)
"You know, the aspirants believe this is the only true existence. That everything outside is an illusion, a shadow play created by the ancestor gods to cradle us until we can build our own tailored re…"-Richard K. Morgan, Woken Furies (Takeshi Kovacs, #3)
"Kovacs to a female believer in New Revelation: "..I’m calling you a gutless betrayer of your sex. I can see your husband’s angle, he’s a man, he’s got everything to gain from this crapshit. But you? …"-Richard K. Morgan, Woken Furies (Takeshi Kovacs, #3)
2. Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
By: Linda Lawrence Hunt
3.73
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes a… read more
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3. Worlds' End (The Sandman #8)
By: Stephen King , Neil Gaiman , John Watkiss , Mike Allred , Bryan Talbot , Michael Zulli , Mark Buckingham , Vince Locke , Steve Leialoha , Todd Klein , Gary Amaro , Tony Harris , None , Alec Stevens , None
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A "reality storm" draws an unusual cast of characters together. They take shelter in a tavern, wher… read more
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4. Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)
By: Richard K. Morgan
0.00
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn'… read more
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5. Of Human Bondage
By: W. Somerset Maugham , Maeve Binchy , Benjamin DeMott
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an … read more
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6. H is for Hawk
By: Helen Macdonald
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more
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7. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more
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"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
8. Hidden History of Portland, Oregon
By: None
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In this engaging narrative, author JD Chandler crafts a people's history of Portland, Oregon, shari… read more
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9. Empire of the Summer Moon
By: S.C. Gwynne
4.23
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more
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"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
"For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed to the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression... Only in the mid 19th century, after the growt…"-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
10. In the Distance
By: Hernan Diaz
3.50
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
A young Swedish boy finds himself in penniless and alone in California. He travels East in search o… read more
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11. In.
By: Will McPhail
4.38
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
A poignant and witty graphic novel by a leading New Yorker cartoonist, following a millennial's jou… read more
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12. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
By: Andrea Lankford
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more
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"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
13. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
By: Kate Beaton
4.41
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more
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14. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
15. The Friend
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.77
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her do… read more
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"I like that the Aborigines say dogs make people human"-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
"I know this is all moronically anthropomorphic, but sometimes that is the form love takes."-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
"Anthropomorphism, I've decided, is inescapable, and though I might try to hide it I no longer fight it."-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
"There's a certain type of person who, having read this far, is anxiously wondering: Does something bad happen to the dog?"-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
16. The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more
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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
17. Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
By: Frans de Waal
4.16
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal explores sex and … read more
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18. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
19. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
By: Dan Egan
4.34
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
The Great Lakes―Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior―hold 20 percent of the world’s supply … read more
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"A normal lake is knowable. A Great Lake can hold all the mysteries of an ocean, and then some."-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"Sandy beaches still rim the lakes, but if Lake Michigan, for example, were drained it would now be possible to walk almost the entire 100 miles between Wisconsin and Michigan on a bed of trillions up…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"A thing is right when it tends to promote the integrity, beauty and stability of the biotic community," famed Wisconsin naturalist Aldo Leopold wrote in 1949, which happened to be teh peak of the lam…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"A single Seaway ship can hold up to six million gallons of vessel-steadying ballast water that gets discharged at a port in exchange for cargo. And that water, scientists would learn after it was too…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
20. Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
By: Thomas E. Ricks
4.44
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on… read more
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21. Portland in Three Centuries: The Place and the People
By: Carl Abbott
3.66
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Abbott (urban studies and planning, Portland State U.) has written extensively about Portland, Oreg… read more
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