We’ve collected the books debuting on Indiebound’s Indie Bestseller List for the week ending July 26, 2015–a sneak peek at the books everybody will be talking about next month.
(Debuted at #1 in Early & Middle Grade Readers) The Isle of the Lost by Melissa de La Cruz: “Mal learns from her mother, Maleficent, that the key to true darkness, the Dragon’s Eye, is located inside her scepter in the forbidden fortress on the far side of the island. The eye is cursed, and whoever retrieves it will be knocked into a deep sense for a thousand years. But Mal has a plan to capture it.” (May 2015)
(Debuted at #6 in Children’s Fiction Series) The Last Ever After (The School for Good and Evil series) by Soman Chainani: “Former best friends Sophie and Agatha thought their ending was sealed when they went their separate ways, but their storybook is about to be rewritten—and this time theirs isn’t the only one. With the girls apart, Evil has taken over and the forces of Good are in deathly peril. Will Agatha and Sophie be able to work together to save them? Will they find their way to being friends again? And will their new ending be the last Ever After they’ve been searching for?” (July 2015)
(Debuted at #11 in Hardcover Nonfiction) Barbarian Days by William Finnegan: “Finnegan shares stories of life in a whitesonly gang in a tough school in Honolulu even while his closest friend was a Hawaiian surfer. He shows us a world turned upside down for kids and adults alike by the social upheavals of the 1960s. He details the intricacies of famous waves and his own apprenticeships to them. Youthful folly—he drops LSD while riding huge Honolua Bay, on Maui—is served up with rueful humor. He and a buddy, their knapsacks crammed with reef charts, bushwhack through Polynesia. They discover, while camping on an uninhabited island in Fiji, one of the world’s greatest waves.” (July 2015)