“She flies with her own wings,” is the Oregon state motto and sums up Portland perfectly. No city has a greater reputation for being “weird” than Oregon’s biggest city, which is just another way of saying that people feel free to express themselves here. The city serves as the perfect backdrop for Secret Portland: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. The stories and places detailed within rarely get mentioned in most travel books or advertised—but they should grab your interest im...

Alan Watts is a boy who was born with flashlight eyes! There are great things about having bright lights for eyes, and not so great things. This book explores some of the fantastic advantages, while humorously exploring some of the downsides. Beautifully illustrated in a nod to mid century classics, Flashlight Eyes shows us that while life will never be all good, nor all bad, we can always choose to look at things in a favorable light.