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Heather B. Armstrong

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton

From blogger Heather B. Armstrong (dooce), author of It Sucked and Then I Cried, comes The Valedictorian of Being Dead (Gallery), an irreverent new memoir – reminiscent of Brain on Fire – about her experience as one of only a few people to participate in an experimental treatment for depression involving 10 rounds of a chemically-induced coma approximating brain death. Disarmingly honest, self-deprecating, and scientifically fascinating, The Valedictorian of Being Dead brings to light a groundbreaking new treatment for depression.

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Landfill: Notes on Gull Watching and Trash Picking in the Anthropocene

Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland

Over the past 100 years, gulls have been brought ashore by modernity. They now live not only on the coasts but in our slipstream following trawlers, barges, and garbage trucks. In many ways they live as we do, walking the built-up world and grabbing a bite where they can. Tim Dee’s Landfill (Chelsea Green) is the compelling story of how in the Anthropocene we have learned about the natural world, named and catalogued it, and then colonized it, planted it, or filled it with our junk.

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