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We’ve collected the books debuting on Indiebound’s Indie Bestseller List for the week ending February 5, 2012–a sneak peek at the books everybody will be talking about next month.
(Debuted at #10 in Children’s Illustrated) Love, Splat by Rob Scotton: “It’s Valentine’s Day and Splat has a special valentine for a certain someone in his class. Her name is Kitten, and Splat likes her even more than fish sticks and ice cream. But Kitten doesn’t seem to like him at all—she always ties his tail and pokes his belly when she sees him. And then there’s Splat’s rival, Spike, who also likes Kitten. Will Splat’s heartfelt valentine win Kitten’s paw in the end?” (November 2008)
(Debuted at #11 in Children’s Illustrated) Bad Kitty for President by Nick Bruel: “It’s time to elect a new president of the Neighborhood Cat Coalition! Who will win the election? The candidate chosen by the kitties on the right side of the street or the candidate chosed by the kitties on the left side of the street? When election time rolls around, one candidate (guess who?) will discover that she never bothered to register to vote and the entire election will be decided by a surprise, last minute absentee ballot sent by Old Kitty.” (January 2012)
(Debuted at #15 in Hardcover Nonfiction) Coming Apart by Charles Murray: “The top and bottom of white America increasingly live in different cultures, Murray argues, with the powerful upper class living in enclaves surrounded by their own kind, ignorant about life in mainstream America, and the lower class suffering from erosions of family and community life that strike at the heart of the pursuit of happiness. That divergence puts the success of the American project at risk. The evidence in Coming Apart is about white America. Its message is about all of America.” (January 2012)