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Off the Shelf: Portland Noir

When you live in the best city in the world, why leave, even in a book? Our beloved Portland is a rich backdrop for mystery series, bizarre short stories, and even a zombie western. Books and Series...

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Blurbs From the Branch: Nonfiction Ghost Story!

American Ghost, by Hannah Nordhaus, is not your average ghost story. First of all, it’s nonfiction. Second, the aim of this book isn’t to creep readers out with extra spooky details. Instead, the book...

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Checking In: Real Answers to Silly Hypotheticals

“Q. From what height would you need to drop a steak for it to be cooked when it hit the ground? Q. If every human somehow simply disappeared from the face of the Earth, how long would it be before the...

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Checking In: What’s the Deal with Airline Food?

“In 1919 anything seemed possible, including this ‘flying hotel’- a biplane with a thousand-foot wingspan and multiple dining rooms. Apparently nobody considered what might happen to dishes, glasses...

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Blurbs From the Branch: A Perfect Pair

One for the Murphys and The Boy on the Porch are a perfect pair. Each fiction book presents a tale that will require a tissue during the final chapters. One for the Murphys is Lynda Mullaly Hunt’s...

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Checking In: The Secret History of Star Wars

“Kane Starkiller and his friend the elderly General Luke Skywalker are the only two surviving Jedi left in the galaxy, having escaped death at the hands of the Sith knights who have hunted down all the...

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Blurbs From the Branch: Recommended Juvenile Fantasy Novel

READER’S ADVISORY: This story is dark, creepy, and scary in parts, but is also an interesting and entertaining story with a great mix of darkness, humor, friendship, and imagination. I recently read a...

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Checking In: Bindlesticks and Hat Takes: Deciphering the Comedy of Yore

“Sometimes you wonder how she knows the difference, since Bushmiller’s hoboes look exactly like his bums – battered hats, patched coats and pants, and heavy stubble (though never full beards) – except...

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Checking In: Los Bros Hernandez: Love and Rockets

Aging punks, lucha libre, small-town ennui, the enigmatic Luba and everyone else in the Central American village of Palomar – all signature elements of Love and Rockets, Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez’s...

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Checking In: The DIY Toaster

A quick recommendation from us at Checking In HQ this week: The Toaster Project, or A Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance From Scratch, 191 pages of tilting at modern industrial...

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