Summary: "Wildsam explores the Rose City alongside a few of our favorite Portland writers, chefs, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs and change makers. Rain or shine, we love the Oregon epicenter of creative thought"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wildsam Field Guides 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.954 PORTLAND WILWatson, Renée
Summary: "Middle school is just around the corner for Ryan Hart, which means it's time to start thinking about the future--and not just how to prank her brother, Ray! During Black History Month, Ryan learns more about her ancestors and local Black pioneers, and their hopes for the future, for her generation. She wonders who she wants to be and what kind of person her family hopes she becomes. Drawing on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WATWatson, Renaee
Summary: The Hart family of Portland, Oregon, faces many setbacks after Ryan's father loses his job, but no matter what, Ryan tries to bring sunshine to her loved ones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WATMeloy, Colin.
Summary: When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh-grader Prue McKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness--a dangerous and magical forest in the middle of Portland, Oregon--and soon finds herself involved in a war among the various inhabitants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MELSummary: A hit sketch comedy series that is driven by hilarious character-based shorts, all of which take place in "Portlandia", the creators' dreamy and absurd rendering of Portland, Oregon, where 90s culture reigns supreme and political correctness is all the rage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Video Service Corp. 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PORMeloy, Colin
Summary: In the aftermath of a young's girl's midnight seance that awakens a long-slumbering, malevolent spirit, a band of runaway orphans teams up with an underground collective of saboteurs to rescue friends imprisoned in an industrial wasteland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MELCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MELBledsoe, Lucy Jane
Summary: Louisa loves to play basketball, but in 1974, her Portland, Oregon high school only offers a team for boys. An encounter with feminist Gloria Steinem teaches her about Title IX--the law that bans discrimination based on gender--so she asks her principal to start a girls team. Little does she know that she'll soon be viciously targeted by male coaches at her school, lied to by the school board,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rooms Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLEPalahniuk, Chuck.
Summary: The author takes readers on a walking tour of Portland, Oregon, revealing the city's quirky, cheap, and wild side as he visits unusual museums, offbeat annual festivals, scenes of ghostly hauntings, and strange local customs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Journeys 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A sketch-comedy series that parodies life in Portland, Oregon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Unobstructed View Inc. 2018
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Summary: Addicted to painkillers and still bound to Gretchen Lowell, the beautiful serial killer who had abducted and tortured him before turning herself in, Portland detective Archie Sheridan is caught in another deadly duel with a murderer targeting teenage girls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CAIStanford, Phil
Summary: Portland, Oregon, in the 1970s. Portland is often called the Rose City, but the denizens that inhabit its underbelly rarely smell so sweet. Dirty cops, dirty robbers. These shady characters and their illicit connections reveal the boiling corruption in Phil Stanford's true crime stories. Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. Welcome to the City of Roses. Dark Horse is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2014
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Watson, Renaee
Summary: In the summer before fifth grade, Ryan Hart continues to grow through changes and challenges, such as waiting for a new baby sister to be born, a summer camp trip, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2021
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Summary: "Distant lovers. Shady friends. Racist strangers. Estranged parents. Insufferable bosses. Who says your twenties are fun? Julian Strickland is seemingly the lone Black man in the hipster dreamland of Portland, Oregon. To his friends, he's the coolest member of the scene: the soulful drummer from Chicago in an indie rock band that's just about to break through. But to himself, he's a sheltered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYFrench, Wendy.
Summary: Claire McLeod's peaceful life in Portland, Oregon, is turned upside down by the arrival of her tyrannical mother as she tries to negotiate peace between her mother and her lesbian sister and find out why her father remained home in Omaha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREKeil, Michelle Ruiz
Summary: In 1990s Portland, Oregon, seventeen-year-old Iph, aided by George, a modern-day Robin Hood, seeks her sensitive fifteen-year-old brother, Orr, while Orr has escaped wilderness boot camp and is residing with The Furies, an all-girl punk band.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Teen 2021
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Summary: "When Maddie West discovers that she was adopted as an embryo and may have a sister, she feels betrayed, angry, and confused. Maddie moves away, leaving her job, fiancé, and family. Dawson Gage is mourning the death of his best friend, London Quinn. Then London's mother reveals she and her husband donated a frozen embryo decades ago, meaning that London might have a sibling. When Dawson finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2001
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Summary: "A personal memoir about downsizing and the author's experience building her own home and living the minimalist lifestyle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, DEE WILSummary: IFC's hit sketch comedy series, created, written by, and starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, is driven by a series of hilarious character-based shorts all of which take place in Portlandia, the creators' dreamy and absurd rendering of Portland, Oregon, where '90s culture reigns supreme and political correctness is all the rage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PORMargolin, Phillip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARPerry, Thomas
Summary: When the cousin of a crime boss is found shot to death, the man's missing girlfriend, Tanya Starling, becomes the prime suspect, but as detective Catherine Hobbes investigates the crime, she discovers a deceptive killer who has become more elusive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PERRaintree, Jamie
Summary: Dr. Dylan Michaels cannot start married life with her long-time boyfriend Cooper with her sister's death on her conscience, but when Cooper reveals a secret of his own, Dylan is no longer sure of her future happiness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAISummary: Each episode's character-based shorts draw viewers into 'Portlandia,' the dreamy and absurd rendering of Portland, Oregon. Season one inhabitants include: the owners of a feminist bookstore; a militant bike messenger; an artsy couple who attach cut-outs of birds to everything ('put a bird on it!'); an organic farmer who turns out to be a cult leader; and a couple negotiating a safe word to help...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PORPercy, Benjamin
Summary: The Dark Net is real. An anonymous and often criminal arena that exists in the secret far reaches of the Web, some use it to manage Bitcoins, pirate movies and music, or traffic in drugs and stolen goods. And now an ancient darkness is gathering there as well. This force is threatening to spread virally into the real world unless it can be stopped by members of a ragtag crew. Set in present-day...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017