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Welcome to The Book Bin. We're a general bookstore that has provided a personalized service to its local customers for 38 years. We are excited about broadening our horizons through the internet and hope to give you the same attention here that you can expect if you walk into our store. Please feel free to give us a call using our toll-free number which is (877) 795 - 6949. You will have immediate service and answers to your book questions.
The Book Bin orders three times a week for timely receipt of your special orders, and our Frequent Reader punch cards are a way to save 10% on almost all of your purchases. Visit us online at www.bookbinnorthbrook. com!
Beginning December first our holiday hours begin. They are:
Monday through Thursday 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM, Friday and Saturday 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM and Sunday 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM
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Every month (last updated October 1, 2009) we revise the list of the titles that have been moving the fastest from the store (some with more help from us than others).
Please look also at Janis' List of Best Books 2008, found under the New Releases section! She creates this list in February each year, so check out www. bookbinnorthbrook. com for the best books of 2009... in February 2010.
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That Girl Lucy Moon
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Timberlake, Amy
Lucy Moon is the kind of girl who champions animal rights--during hunting season. She wears a woven hemp hat in support of third-world workers. She is the kind of girl who spots injustice and isn't afraid to fight it.
But now that she's in junior high, things have changed. The qualities that used to make Lucy distinctive now just mark her as uncool. It seems like everyone has been brainwashed-except for Lucy, who has activism in her DNA.
But when her latest cause lands her with a harsh detention sentence, a "bad influence" reputation, and a vandalized locker, Lucy begins to lose her verve. Can she stand up for her beliefs and survive junior high?
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Find out in this section what our employees- they call themselves "book consultants"- have been reading lately. Last updated AUGUST 2009! This and more information about our favorite books is available at www. bookbinnorthbrook. com
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
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Larsson, Stieg
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine "Millennium, " has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.
But he has no idea just how explosive the story will be until, on the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander--the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, " and who now becomes the focus and fierce heart of "The Girl Who Played with Fire."
As Blomkvist, alone in his belief in Salander's innocence, plunges into an investigation of the slayings, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all. |
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To the Book Bin
What is the air we breath today?
What is the tune we seem to hear?
Why, they're the fresh aroma of fine books
And the music in hearts astir with cheer.
Oh, the Book Bin is both host and stage-
Welcoming all with open arms,
While a bright and caring staff
Work wonders with their roles and charms.
With Love,
Dick Farwell
4-20-09
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The Book Bin sponsors an adult discussion group which meets the first Thursday evening of each month at 7:00 PM
Find out more about it by clicking below.
We'll have next year's list (2010) ready any day now.
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Mudbound
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Jordan, Hillary
In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm-a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, is everything her husband is not-charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, has come home with the shine of a war hero. But no matter his bravery in defense of his country, he is still considered less than a man in the Jim Crow South. It is the unlikely friendship of these brothers-in-arms that drives this powerful novel to its inexorable conclusion.
The men and women of each family relate their versions of events and we are drawn into their lives as they become players in a tragedy on the grandest scale. As Kingsolver says of Hillary Jordan, "Her characters walked straight out of 1940s Mississippi and into the part of my brain where sympathy and anger and love reside, leaving my heart racing. They are with me still." |
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This list is limited because we receive boxes of new books every day, but you must come into the store for the full Book Bin experience anyway! Most major new releases arrive on Tuedays, so add a stop to our store to your weekly schedule! Check us out at www. bookbinnorthbrook. com for your Book Bin news. Join our mailing list to receive a monthly newsletter about all the happenings here.
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Await Your Reply
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Chaon, Dan
The lives of three strangers interconnect in unforeseen ways-and with unexpected consequences-in acclaimed author Dan Chaon's gripping, brilliantly written new novel.
Longing to get on with his life, Miles Cheshire nevertheless can't stop searching for his troubled twin brother, Hayden, who has been missing for ten years. Hayden has covered his tracks skillfully, moving stealthily from place to place, managing along the way to hold down various jobs and seem, to the people he meets, entirely normal. But some version of the truth is always concealed.
A few days after graduating from high school, Lucy Lattimore sneaks away from the small town of Pompey, Ohio, with her charismatic former history teacher. They arrive in Nebraska, in the middle of nowhere, at a long-deserted motel next to a dried-up reservoir, to figure out the next move on their path to a new life. But soon Lucy begins to feel quietly uneasy.
My whole life is a lie, thinks Ryan Schuyler, who has recently learned some shocking news. In response, he walks off the Northwestern University campus, hops on a bus, and breaks loose from his existence, which suddenly seems abstract and tenuous. Presumed dead, Ryan decides to remake himself-through unconventional and precarious means.
Await Your Reply is a literary masterwork with the momentum of a thriller, an unforgettable novel in which pasts are invented and reinvented and the future is both seductively uncharted and perilously unmoored. |
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"True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy officials, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and
skeptics."
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
A Soviet Heretic
From The Quotable Book Lover (Lyons Press)
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