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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 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 almost all of your purchases. Thanks for visiting!
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Every month (last updated February 28, 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!
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Find out in this section what our employees (they call themselves 'book consultants') have been reading lately. Last updated MARCH 2009!
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A Beautiful Blue Death
by
Finch, Charles
Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, likes nothing more than to relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist the chance to unravel a mystery.
Prudence Smith, one of Jane's former servants, is dead of an apparent suicide. But Lenox suspects something far more sinister: murder, by a rare and deadly poison. The grand house where the girl worked is full of suspects, and though Prue had dabbled with the hearts of more than a few men, Lenox is baffled by the motive for the girl's death.
When another body turns up during the London season's most fashionable ball, Lenox must untangle a web of loyalties and animosities. Was it jealousy that killed Prudence Smith? Or was it something else entirely? And can Lenox find the answer before the killer strikes again--this time, disturbingly close to home? |
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To the Book Bin
What is this air visitors breath today?
What is the air they hear?
Why, they're the aroma of fresh books
And the music in hearts astir.
The Book Bin is both host and stage-
Welcoming all with open arms,
While a bright and caring staff
Work delightful magic in their roles.
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.
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Great Expectations
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Dickens, Charles,
Irving, John
In the marshy mists of a village churchyard, a tiny orphan boy named Pip is suddenly terrified by a shivering, limping convict on the run. Years later, a supremely arrogant young Pip boards the coach to London where, by the grace of a mysterious benefactor, he will join the ranks of the idle rich and "become a gentleman." Finally, in the luminous mists of the village at evening, Pip the man meets Estella, his dazzingly beautiful tormentor, in a ruined garden--and lays to rest all the heartaches and illusions that his "great expectations" have brought upon him. Dickens's biographer, Edgar H. Johnson, has said that--except for the author's last-minute tampering with his original ending--"Great Expectations" is "the most perfectly constructed and perfectly written of all Dickens's works." In John Irving's Introduction to this edition, the novelist takes the view that Dickens's revised ending is "far more that mirror of the quality of trust in the novel as a whole." Both versions of the ending are printed here. |
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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!
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Animals Up Close: Zoom in on the World's Most Incredible Creatures
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Siwanowicz, Igor
This visually stunning natural history book brings the animal kingdom closer than you've ever seen it before
Dramatically close-up images of animals from insects to reptiles to mammals to birds reveal spectacular patterns and shapes. The colors, textures, and structures of all parts of an animal are presented in breathtaking photographs, challenging the reader's understanding of animals and their habitats. |
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"Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end which all means go to effect?
They are for nothing but to inspire."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American Scholar
From The Quotable Book Lover (Lyons Press)
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