Holy cow. I’ve been using the good people at Powell’s for years (imagine, bookstore people who actually read books—don’t try this at Hastings!) They can find the most obscure volume based on practically no information of which half is wrong. I once asked (for a friend) if they’d ever heard of a book by an Asian author with some kind of bird in the title, maybe a swan. I got the author’s gender wrong and it wasn’t a swan either, but when I sent my friend the title they came up with (in less than 12 hours, natch) she was like, “THAT’S IT!” She’d been trying to find it for years. They had several used copies.

So now my NaNoWriMo character has flown to Portland to visit Powell’s, and in researching I found their vastly improved website (haven’t been there for years). Oh…wo…I have GOT to go to this store!