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We’ve collected the books debuting on Indiebound’s Indie Bestseller List for the week ending June 17, 2012–a sneak peek at the books everybody will be talking about next month.
(Debuted at #2 in Hardcover Fiction) Mission to Paris by Alan Furst: “It is the late summer of 1938, Europe is about to explode, the Hollywood film star Fredric Stahl is on his way to Paris to make a movie for Paramount France. The Nazis know he’s coming—a secret bureau within the Reich Foreign Ministry has for years been waging political warfare against France, using bribery, intimidation, and corrupt newspapers to weaken French morale and degrade France’s will to defend herself.” (June 2012)
(Debuted at #9 in Children’s Interest) The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens: “Kate, Michael, and Emma have been in one orphanage after another for the last ten years, passed along like lost baggage. Yet these unwanted children are more remarkable than they could possibly imagine. Ripped from their parents as babies, they are being protected from a horrible evil of devastating power, an evil they know nothing about.” (April 2012)
(Debuted at #12 in Children’s Illustrated) How to Babysit a Grandpa by Jean Reagan & illustrated by Lee Wildish: “This is a hilarious and accessible picture book about a child spending time with his grandpa. Written in a how-to style, the narrator gives important tips for “babysitting” a grandpa, including what to eat for snack (anything dipped in ketchup, ice cream topped with cookies, cookies topped with ice cream) what to do on a walk (find lizards and dandelion puffs, be on the lookout for puddles and sprinklers), and how to play with a grandpa (build a pirate cave, put on a scary play).” (April 2012)