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We’ve collected the books debuting on Indiebound’s Indie Bestseller Listfor the week ending January 22, 2012–a sneak peek at the books everybody will be talking about next month.
(Debuted at #5 in Hardcover Nonfiction) Ameritopia by Mark R. Levin: “what is this utopian force that both allures a free people and destroys them? Levin digs deep into the past and draws astoundingly relevant parallels to contemporary America from Plato’s Republic, Thomas More’s Utopia, Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan, Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto as well as from the critical works of John Locke, Charles Montesquieu, Alexis de Tocqueville, and other philosophical pioneers who brilliantly diagnosed the nature of man and government.” (January 2012)
(Debuted at #13 in Children’s Illustrated) One Cool Friend by Toni Buzzeo & illustrated by David Small: “On a momentous visit to the aquarium, Elliot discovers his dream pet: a penguin. It’s just proper enough for a straight-laced boy like him. And when he asks his father if he may have one (please and thank you), his father says yes. Elliot should have realized that Dad probably thought he meant a stuffed penguin and not a real one . . . Clever illustrations and a wild surprise ending make this sly, silly tale of friendship and wish fulfillment a kid-pleaser from start to finish.” (January 2012)
(Debuted at #15 in Hardcover Fiction) Raylan by Elmore Leonard: “Leonard’s Raylan shines a spotlight once again on the dedicated, if somewhat trigger-happy lawman, this time in his familiar but not particularly cozy milieu of Harlan County, Kentucky, where the drug dealing Crowe brothers are branching out into the human body parts business.” (January 2012)