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Our bestsellers are updated monthly (or close to it) on the Book Bin's website: updated November 1, 2019. This is mostly a new list of titles. Only 3 held over from last month!
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Alice Wright is the English woman who doesn't quite fit into her mother's idea of what a young woman should do and say. When a handsome young man, Bennett Van Cleve from America, romances her, Alice quickly marries and moves to what she hopes will be a big town. Unfortunately, small town Kentucky proves quite different from Alice's dreams. Living with her husband and overbearing father-in-law is stifling. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt's traveling library program, Alice signs on. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally and friend, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who's never asked a man's permission for anything. They are joined by three other women who become known as the Horseback Librarians of Kentucky. Set in Depression-era America, this is a wonderful story of five special women, their courage, their loves, their lives.
Part Huckleberry Finn, part Oliver Twist, this novel is about 4 orphans during the 1930's who are living in an orphanage/school in Minnesota. Many of the children living there have been forcibly separated from their parents. It is the home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, whose spirit has earned him the superintendent's wrath.
Forced to flee, Odie, his brother, and their best friend steal away in a canoe with a sad little girl named Emmy.
They are on a journey of a lifetime, meeting others who are adrift, struggling and lost as they canoe down the Gilead River toward the Mississippi and a better life. This is a big-hearted epic that shows how courage and compassion can help you find your dreams.
Bill Bryson's long-awaited new book is available this month! A master of detail, Mr. Bryson's list of bestsellers goes on and on, from A Walk in the Woods to A Short History of Nearly Everything, with many others peppered in between. His new book The Body: A Guide for Occupants is just exactly what it sounds like, but you would not believe how interesting he makes his subject matter. This will be a great holiday gift for adult readers that you aren't sure about; it's a fact-filled walk through all things human.
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.
