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Mostly True

By Bill Daniels

From the Publisher: It's possible Bill Daniel is the most inspiring filmmaker of our day. With an impressive filmography that includes work on Craig Baldwin's Sonic Outlaws and as Vanessa Renwick's long-time collaborator, Daniel has crafted a remarkable book to go with his twenty-years-in-the-making Who Is Bozo Texino? - a documentary about modern day hoboes, rail workers and a forgotten outsider subculture. It's a rollicking rail zine of boxcar graffiti and obscure railroad nostalgia - the result of a 25 year obsession with hobo and railworker folklore. Freight riding stories, interviews with hoboes and boxcar artists, historical oddities and tons of photos of modern day boxcar tags are all presented in the guise of a vintage rail fanzine.

$8.00

My Favourite Shirt Badge Set

By Mark Pawson

4 fabric covered buttons, mini booklet

My Favourite Shirt Badges is a collaborative button project celebrating favorite (favourite) shirts and their stories. 15 friends and colleagues donated their lovingly worn family heirlooms, thrift store treasures, and prized purchases to be commemorated in fabric covered buttons. Also included is a shirt pocket sized booklet retelling the stories behind the shirts and the evolution of the project. Each packet features different buttons, from stripes to checks to paisleys. What better way to decorate your own favourite shirt with a favourite shirt!

$7.00

N + 1 #12

Description coming soon.

$13.95

Night Home

By Becca Stadtlander

16pp., 7x6, saddle stapled

Illustrator Becca Stadtlander's lovely mini art book

hearkens back to quietertimes. It's full of beautiful black and white inkwash drawings inspired by the night, but in an imaginary antiquated era. There is no narrative, but you can read your own story into the images of dark hills, lit skies, dancing couples, nocturnal fauna, and shadowy figures.

$6.00

Off the Map

By Hib and Kikka

142 pgs, 7.5" x 4.75" perfect bound, offset

A thoughtful travelogue of two lady punks hitching and backpacking though Europe with the best intentions.This is the expanded version of Hib and Kikka's original zine, with cover art by Nikki McClure. Most entrees read like intimate journal entries, with several juicy details expounding on the beauty of Mediterranean beaches, BMW driving Samaritans,and their disillusionment with the punk boy squatting phenomenon. A must read for you impoverished arm chair adventures who need some encouragement!

$3.00

On Subbing: The First Four Years

By Dave R.

128 pgs, 5x7, perfect bound

From the publisher: Dave Roche's first book contains his tales of woe from working as an substitute education assistant in Portland's school system. He helps kids who can't function in normal classrooms focus on their work and keeps kids from fighting while they tease him or adorably flirt with him. It's a real heartwarming ticket to putting a smile on your face or developing a good feeling to turn your day around. Contains illustrations from Clutch McBastard, Nicole Georges, Keith Rosson, Nate Beaty, Shawn Granton, and Aaron Renier. It's a rewritten "best of" collection from issues #1-4 (The stuff Dave isn't too embarrassed about) plus his second to last year of Subbing.

$5.00

Portland Companion Walks

By Briar Levitt

63pp., 6x4.5, paperback, perfect bound

Part of the Unseen Guidebook Series, Portland Companion Walks offers 5 walks around the wilds of Portland to be enjoyed with your grandmother, sweetie, lil' one, furry buddy, and best friend. More than a simple guide book, Walks encourages adventurers to observe the distinct nature about them and maximize the unique attributes to each location. Full of handy tips, maps, and fun, this charmingly illustrated pocket guide will keep you and yours busy all year round!

$10.95

Print Workshop

By Christine Schmidt

175 pp., 9x7.5, perfect bound, color

description coming soon

$19.99

Rebel Bookseller: How To Improvise Your Own Indie Store and Beat Back the Chains

320 pgs, 5"x8", perfect bound

Renowned bookseller Andrew Laties offers a radical and creative new paradigm for independent booksellers on all sides of the cash register, written to inspire a revival of community bookselling. In his 20 years of revolutionary retail, Latie's ideas were adapted by Barnes & Noble, Zany Brainy and scores of independents. Rebel Bookseller challenges today's bookstore workers to improvise the wildly imaginative indie bookstores of tomorrow, and includes a behind-the-scenes history of the book industry, humorous anecdotes and bittersweet lessons, ten interlacing Rants, and three Rough Rules of Rebel Bookselling Blending adventurous memoir, satire and sharp-tongued jibe, the author dares the chains to sell this revolutionary book.

$14.95

Recipes for Disaster -- An Anarchist Cookbook

624 pgs, 5.5" x 8.5" perfect bound, offset print

Not to be confused with the deadly and slightly passe Anarchist Cookbook, Crimethinc's Recipes for Disaster contains a volatile mix of community building ideas, radical (and fun!) protest and parade instructions, and guidance for creating your own adventures. This is an irreverent, empowering, and informative tome suitable for most ages and levels of radical experience, with projects ranging from self healthcare to sabotage to reclaiming the streets!

$13.00