The just-released 2nd edition (newly updated and edited!) of this 100+ page quarter sized book on the life and times of Britney Spears…through the eyes of cancer patient? There’s unexpected depth and wackiness here that make this something special. “Working from an encyclopedic knowledge of all things Britney, Mason allows her own story and Spears’ story to become intertwined, detailing travails with men, motherhood, and paparazzi and her own travails with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma with the same grace and humor...[ continued ]

In The Cartography of Farmers' Wives, Colleen Weber Borst explores the westward immigration of her family through photographs taken by her grandmother and great-grandmother, Grace Shaw Weber and Emma Heckner Shaw. From Salt Lake City, Utah, to Alberta, Canada, to Eastern Washington State, these photographs are a haunting meditation on place and history. Black & white and color photos...[ continued ]

In D.I.Y. Magic, Portland author Anthony Alvarado ventures into the realms of everyday magic. He knows the associations, what this sounds like to the skeptic, knows the aversion. And, in this way, he's the best guide we could have for taking a different approach to daily life. From various forms of abstinence to personalized tarot, lucid dreaming to surrealism, fasting to simply drinking vast quantities of coffee, the book is a straight-forward introduction to rearranging how the world looks...[ continued ]

Olympia’s own Casey Fuller has produced a book of poetry worthy of the highest praise. Depth and humor run side by side, pointing to truths great and small. Moments that drop jaws- subjects that span from Patrick Swayze to what happens when we die, Keats to the pre-historic origins of spray painting penises on warehouse doors. Winner of this year’s Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Contest, and rightly so...[ continued ]

"Across eleven essays, Michael Heald compulsively measures himself against men like Eli Manning, Ryan Gosling, and Stephen Malkmus, and always comes up short. After a decade of failed relationships, estranged siblings, and abandoned hopes, he may or may not have learned his lesson. Goodbye to the Nervous Apprehension is not nearly as depressing as any of this sounds." 192 pages, trade paperback...[ continued ]

Nothing is as inspirational as Ilse Content. Even when it doesn’t try to be, by its very nature, it gives hope and power where there seems to be none. Never ceasing to be interesting and surprising, the first 8 years of Ilse Content is collected for the first time here.

Bringing back to life many long out of print issues, the first 10 volumes are anthologized in this clean and artistically beautiful book from Mend My Dress Press...[ continued ]

Brilliantly styled as a Choose Your Own Adventure book, this book is “about being an ace starfighter pilot who has crashed on a planet of malevolent space ants, but it is actually about a four year relationship with an incredibly self-destructive alcoholic.”

Amazingly raw, familiar to anyone who has been in a bad relationship, and sometimes tragically funny. Landing it somewhere between outstandingly clever, sad, and hilarious...[ continued ]

From the author of Make Your Place comes another amazing book about learning to do all the things you've always wanted to learn how to do. Beautifully handwritten and hand-drawn, Make it Last is a clean, easy to use, and accessible guide to creating a more sustainable life...[ continued ]

Raleigh Briggs brings us her wonderful guide to being consciously domestic. One of the most accessible and useful guides of its kind. A surprise and continual bestseller at independent bookstores the world over.

“Make Your Place is a forceful antidote to the cheapening of thrift culture: a meticulously hand-lettered, pint-size volume of natural first aid, nontoxic cleaning and body care, and gardening know-how...[ continued ]

A beautiful collection of the first six (long out of print) issues of Mend My Dress - a zine that for years has been constantly impressive in its openness and strength. Seeing it in this form puts into perspective how great it is. It’s also one of the best laid out and cleanest zine collections in book form that I have seen.

“Mend My Dress offers a complex, nuanced, and skillfully constructed picture of multifarious girlhood vulnerability...[ continued ]