Local booksellers tell us what Chicago is buying
Book Bin
1151 Church St.
Northbrook, 847-498-4999
1. Promise Me
By Harlan Coben (Dutton, $20.22)
Entertainment agent Myron Bolitar becomes a suspect in a young girl’s disappearance.
2. March
By Geraldine Brooks (Penguin, $14 paper)
Recounts the times and trials of the absent father from Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women.”
3. Miracle in the Andes
By Nando Parrado (Crown, $25)
A survivor of a 1972 plane crash in the Argentine Andes gives his first-person account.
4. Owen & Mzee
By Isabella and Craig Hatkoff (Scholastic, $16.99)
A photo book about an aged tortoise adopting a baby hippo stranded by the 2004 tsunami in Kenya.
5. Three Cups of Tea
By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Viking, $25.95)
Greg Mortenson tells of his efforts to build schools in Pakistan.
