We’ve collected the books debuting on Indiebound’s Indie Bestseller List for the week ending July 17, 2016–a sneak peek at the books everybody will be talking about next month.
(Debuted at #2 in Children’s Fiction Series) The Land of Stories: An Author’s Odyssey by Chris Colfer: “When the twins and their friends enter worlds crafted from Conner’s imagination, finding allies no one else could have ever dreamed of, the race begins to put an end to the Masked Man’s reign of terror. Can the twins finally restore peace in the fairy tale world?” (July 2016)
(Debuted at #2 in Hardcover Fiction) The Black Widow by Daniel Silva: “Gabriel Allon, the art restorer, spy, and assassin described as the most compelling fictional creation ‘since Ian Fleming put down his martini and invented James Bond’ (Rocky Mountain News), is poised to become the chief of Israel’s secret intelligence service. But on the eve of his promotion, events conspire to lure him into the field for one final operation. ISIS has detonated a massive bomb in the Marais district of Paris, and a desperate French government wants Gabriel to eliminate the man responsible before he can strike again.” (July 2016)
(Debuted at #12 in Children’s Illustrated) A Unicorn Named Sparkle by Amy Young: “When Lucy sees an ad in the newspaper for a unicorn, she sends in her twenty-five cents and waits four to six long weeks for her very own unicorn to arrive. She imagines the flowers that she’ll braid into his beautiful pink mane, and she even picks the perfect name for him: Sparkle. But when Sparkle arrives, his ears are too long, his horn is too short, he smells funny–and oh, he has fleas.” (July 2016)