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Only in its second year, Portland Book Week already feels like a fixture. Launched by Powell’s Books and the Cascade ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — The world's largest independent bookstore, Powell's Books, is returning to Portland International Airport with the approval of a seven-year lease. The famed bookseller operated ...
Portland Book Week launched in 2024 through a partnership with Powell’s Books and the Cascade Booksellers Association—a ...
Portland’s world-famous bookstore Powell’s is under fire for carrying a book by right-wing agitator and commentator Andy Ngo. The book, “Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy ...
Visitors come from all over the world to wander the stacks at Powell’s City of Books in downtown Portland. For Portlanders, Powell’s is a point of literary pride. For Katherine Morgan — it ...
In response to the coronavirus outbreak, Portland, Ore.,’s beloved Powell’s Books is laying off most of its employees in the coming days. The indie bookstore’s owner and CEO, Emily Powell ...
Powell’s Books in Portland. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Powell’s Books, the venerable independent bookstore in Portland, has had enough with Amazon and will no longer sell books through ...
The origin of Powell’s Books is a tale of two cities—Portland and Chicago. In 1970, Michael Powell was a graduate student at the University of Chicago and opened a small bookstore in the Windy ...
Nope. It's the best used bookstore in Portland. It doesn't have the selection that Powell's Books offers. Not even close. Powell's is a behemoth. If you know what you want, go to Powell's ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Employees at Powell’s Books, the world’s largest independent bookstore, have voted to authorize a strike after calling for contract negotiations with the company ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — All three Powell's Books locations in the Portland metro area closed shop on Monday as workers picketed outside the downtown location on Monday as part of a planned one-day strike.