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Our bestsellers are updated monthly (or close to it) on the Book Bin's website: updated July 1, 2019.
This is the perfect read for the final days of summer. Delia Owens' debut novel has romance and mystery told against the lush setting of coastal North Carolina. Kya Clark's family has deserted her one by one, forcing her to live on her own at a very young age. While fending for herself, she learns to "read" the flora and fauna of the shore even though she only spent one day in school. Ostracized by almost everyone in the nearby town, Kya, known as The Marsh Girl, eventually forms a relationship with two young men, only to learn that humans are the least reliable life form in nature.
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If you turn to the back cover of Mr. Noah's highly praised memoir, it reads "Trevor Noah is a comedian from South Africa". This single line author description may seem to leave much to be desired, but in Born A Crime readers learn how much that one statement means to him. Between hilarious, knock you off your seat stories, tragic misfortunes and so-called miracles from God, readers experience the heartbreak of domestic violence, the atrocity of apartheid adn the resilience of one family. Born a Crime is required reading- smarter, funnier and truer than any other. Maddy
In the wake of the bestseller Hillbilly Elegy, there is an opening for others to tell their story of rising from meager beginnings to great heights. With acute insight, Ms. Westover writes a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes. Mr. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy, says: "Educated shines a light on a part of our country that we too often overlook. Tara Westover's powerful tale--of trying to find a place for herself in the world, without losing her connection to her family or her beloved home--deserves to be widely read."
The Great Believers is a two part story that alternates between Chicago in the late 1980's and early 1990's and Paris in 2015. The Chicago part focuses on Yale Tishman, a gay young man-his job, his friends and how he and his community were affected by the AIDS epidemic. The main character in the Paris sections is Fiona Marcus. Her brother was one of the first of Yale's friends to die from AIDS, and because of this, she becomes a champion for gay equality. She is in Paris searching for her daughter and granddaughter.
Kate Quinn has written a book that is even more compelling than her novel The Alice Networkwhich we enjoyed. In the aftermath of World War II and Nuremburg, there are people who are continuing to hunt Nazi war criminals. One is Ian, a British war reporter and the other is Nina, a Russian female bomber pilot. Their main goal is to track down the nefarious criminal only known as the Huntress. She is said to have escaped to the United States with a new identity. Nina may be the only one who has seen the face of this cold blooded killer. Jordan is 17 years old growing up in post WWII Boston. Her goal is to become a photographer/war correspondent. Jordan's widower father brings home a German woman who becomes his fiancé. Jordan thinks she is secretive and may be hiding something. Anneliese does not like to have her picture taken but the one that Jordan does take makes her uneasy. As a concerned daughter, Jordan delves deeper and what she finds may threaten all those she loves.
