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Welcome!  
Welcome to The Book Bin. We're a general bookstore that has provided a personalized service to its local customers for 35 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 your purchases. Thanks for visiting!

Local Bestsellers  
Every month (last updated May 15, 2008) we revise the list of the titles that have been moving the fastest from the store (some with more help from us than others). (Read More!)

Hold Tight Hold Tight
by Coben, Harlan
#1 bestselling author Harlan Coben asks that provocative and terrifying question with his fifteenth thriller. How much do parents really want to know about their kids?
#1 bestselling author Harlan Coben has become an unstoppable force in suspense fiction. His most recent novel, "The Woods," spent more time on the "New York Times" bestseller list than his previous books and sales reached his highest levels to date. His latest page-turner, which is about just how far parents will go to protect their kids, is destined for the top of every bestseller list.
Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they'd become the type of overprotective parents who spy on their kids. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately, and after the suicide of his classmate Spencer Hill - the latest in a string of issues at school - they can't help but worry. They install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer, and within days are jolted by a message from an unknown correspondent addressed to their son: "Just stay quiet and all safe."
Meanwhile, browsing through an online memorial for Spencer put together by his classmates, Betsy Hill is struck by a photo that appears to have been taken on the night of her son's death . . . and he wasn't alone. She thinks it is Adam Baye standing just outside the camera's range; but when Adam goes missing, it soon becomes clear that something deep and sinister has infected their community. For Tia and Mike Baye, the question they must answer is this: When it comes to your kids, is it possible to know too much?

Our Recommendations  
Find out in this section what our employees (they call themselves 'book consultants') have been reading lately. Last updated February 15, 2008 (Read More!)

Mr. Dixon Disappears: A Mobile Library Mystery Mr. Dixon Disappears: A Mobile Library Mystery
by Sansom, Ian
Mr. Dixon a member of the Ulster Association of Magicians, has gone missing--along with one hundred thousand pounds in cash. Israel Armstrong, bighearted and overly inquisitive, should stick to delivering library books to out-of-the-way readers and not get involved in the investigation. But of course, he can't help himself--which costs him his job and earns him a place of dishonor among the police's prime suspects. Can Israel clear his name and get his van back? Will the exhibition of old local photos he's been driving around County Antrim offer clues to Mr. D.'s whereabouts? And is a romance in the offing with winsome barmaid Rosie Hart?

All will be revealed

Indie Next List  
Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America. (Read More!)

Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
by Allison, Peter
"Allison is a guide with nothing to lose but his pride. He starts out as a greenhorn and, by book's end, is a seasoned veteran of the land...sort of. Animals abound, friends come and go, and his tales are so outlandish they must be true." --Brent Blank, Nomad Bookhouse, Jackson, MI


Store Info

The Book Bin is owned by Janis and Lex Irvine and has been in business for 35 years. (Read More!)




Discussion Groups

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. (Read More!)

The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Wilder, Thornton, Banks, Russell
This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder.

"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins "The Bridge of San Luis Rey," one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world.

By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper then embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths of those who perished in the tragedy. His search leads to his own death -- and to the author's timeless investigation into the nature of love and the meaning of the human condition. This new edition of Wilder's 1928 Pulitzer Prize winning novel contains a new foreword by Russell Banks.




New Releases

This list is limited because we receive books in 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! (Read More!)

Never Glue Your Friends to Chairs
by Applegate, Katherine, Biggs, Brian
If the kids can't sit still for the class performance, Roscoe's teacher could be in big trouble. Fortunately Roscoe has a plan to save her--a super, mega, gonzo plan What could go wrong?



Quote of the Day

"When you re-read a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."

- Clifton Fadiman
Any Number Can Play
From The Quotable Book Lover (Lyons Press)


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