We’ve collected the books debuting on Indiebound’s Indie Bestseller List for the week ending August 14, 2016–a sneak peek at the books everybody will be talking about next month.
(Debuted at #14 in Hardcover Fiction) Three Sisters, Three Queens by Philippa Gregory: “United by family loyalties and affections, the three queens find themselves set against each other. Katherine commands an army against Margaret and kills her husband James IV of Scotland. But Margaret’s boy becomes heir to the Tudor throne when Katherine loses her son. Mary steals the widowed Margaret’s proposed husband, but when Mary is widowed it is her secret marriage for love that is the envy of the others. As they experience betrayals, dangers, loss, and passion, the three sisters find that the only constant in their perilous lives is their special bond, more powerful than any man, even a king.” (August 2016)
(Debuted at #15 in Hardcover Fiction) Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson: “Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything—until it wasn’t. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant—a part of a future that belonged to them.” (August 2016)
(Debuted at #15 in Children’s Illustrated) School’s First Day of School written by Adam Rex and illustrated by Christian Robinson: “It’s the first day of school at Frederick Douglass Elementary and everyone’s just a little bit nervous, especially the school itself. What will the children do once they come? Will they like the school? Will they be nice to him?” (June 2016)