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Microcosm title The Enduring Legacy of Portland's Black Panthers: The Roots of Free Healthcare, Free Breakfast, and Neighborhood Control in Oregon

The Enduring Legacy of Portland's Black Panthers: The Roots of Free Healthcare, Free Breakfast, and Neighborhood Control in Oregon

In the 1960s through 1980s, the Black Panther Party rose up throughout the United States, envisioning a world…

Microcosm title Portland Stair Walks: Explore Portland, Oregon's Public Stairways

Portland Stair Walks: Explore Portland, Oregon's Public Stairways

Why is it so satisfying to walk up and down stairs? Maybe it's the new layer of discovery with each step up—a new…

Microcosm title Walking with Ramona: Exploring Beverly Cleary's Portland

Walking with Ramona: Exploring Beverly Cleary's Portland

This unique travel guide explores the streets, schools, characters, and neighborhoods of author Beverly Cleary’s…

Microcosm title This Is Portland: The City You've Heard You Should Like

This Is Portland: The City You've Heard You Should Like

Updated with a new edition for 2018 and 50% additional material, This is Portland is a first-hand look at a city that…

Microcosm title Zinester's Guide to Portland: A Low/No Budget Guide to the Rose City

Zinester's Guide to Portland: A Low/No Budget Guide to the Rose City

Billed as a "low/no budget guide to visiting and living in Portland, Oregon, the Zinester's Guide to Portland breaks…

Microcosm title PDX by Bike: Your Guide to Discovering Portland, Oregon by Bicycle

PDX by Bike: Your Guide to Discovering Portland, Oregon by Bicycle

In this hands-on guide, Meghan and Elly lay out a basic primer for getting your feet wet (often literally) in the City…

Pedal Portland: 25 Easy Rides for Exploring the City by Bike

Pedal Portland: 25 Easy Rides for Exploring the City by Bike

These 25 detailed routes for exploring Portland, Oregon by bicycle focus on low-traffic streets and avoid intense…

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Microcosm title Aftermass: How Portland Became North America's #1 Cycling Mecca

Aftermass: How Portland Became North America's #1 Cycling Mecca

The world looks to Portland, Oregon as an example of how bicycle culture can blossom out of the ruinous freeways of…

Sherwood Nation: A Novel

Sherwood Nation: A Novel

In a drought-stricken Portland, Oregon, a Robin Hood-esque water thief is caught on camera redistributing an illegal…

$16.00
Portland Made: The Makers of Portland's Manufacturing Renaissance

Portland Made: The Makers of Portland's Manufacturing Renaissance

Portland, Oregon is full of "makers"—people who make a living creating artisan products by hand or in small-batch,…

$24.95
Portland Noir

Portland Noir

Every city has a history. From its settlement in 1843 through today, Portland Noir paints a dark, intriguing, and not…

$15.95
Microcosm title Portland Queer: Stories of LGBTQ+ Life in Portland, Oregon

Portland Queer: Stories of LGBTQ+ Life in Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon, is a queer city in the queerest state in the US. It's also a place where, like anywhere in this…

City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales

City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales

City of Weird conjures what we fear: death, darkness, ghosts. Hungry sea monsters and alien slime molds. Blood drinkers…

$16.95
Cycling Sojourner: A Guide to the Best Multi-Day Tours in Oregon

Cycling Sojourner: A Guide to the Best Multi-Day Tours in Oregon

Breaking the mold of traditional bicycling guides, this handbook provides all the tools bicyclists need for multiple…

$17.95
Portlandness: A Cultural Atlas

Portlandness: A Cultural Atlas

The new cartography is about much more than just land! In 150 infographic maps of Portland, Oregon, two leading…

$24.95
Portland Baby

Portland Baby

The Portland babies are out for adventure! Building forts out of books and eating healthy treats in the greenest parks…

$8.95
Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon

Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon

Fugitives and Refugees is part travel guide, part memoir, giving reader's a view of Portland that they never knew…

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Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People: Portland's Bridges and a New Icon

Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People: Portland's Bridges and a New Icon

Named after the first bridge built in Portland since the 1970's, this book will give you the skinny on what on the ins…

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The Tall Trees of Portland

The Tall Trees of Portland

An art book on 40 Portland artists who embody the ethos of independence and courage that the city is so well known for.…

$49.00
Very Portland

Very Portland

A Korean language guide to Portland, from music to books to AirBnB. If you read Korean or know someone who does, this…

$18.58
Microcosm title X-Ray Visions: A Look Inside Portland's Legendary X-Ray Cafe

X-Ray Visions: A Look Inside Portland's Legendary X-Ray Cafe

In October of 1990 the small space at 214 W. Burnside was still known as the UFO Café, owned by a thickly-accented…

$25 Superpack: The Portland Pack

$25 Superpack: The Portland Pack

Here it is! Get yr Bicycles Allowed Full Lane patch, Zinester's Guide to Portland, This is Portland, and Aftermass with…

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Microcosm title Sticker #370: If You Rented Here You'd Be Homeless Now

Sticker #370If You Rented Here You'd Be Homeless Now

Priced out of your own neighborhood by quadrupling-plus rents? At least you can leave this tag behind. Don't let the…

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