Christian Book Services has launched new imprint Clovercroft Publishing, which will focus on general topics from Christian authors.

Clovercroft will launch 12 new books through Ingram this summer and fall. Releasing May 26, the imprint’s lead title is Unbreakable by Thom Shea, a 23-year veteran of the Navy SEALs who has won Silver Star and Bronze Star medals during multiple deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. As the head of the Navy SEAL sniper school, Shea had the distinction of training several now-famous SEAL members, including Marcus Luttrell, who is played by Mark Wahlberg in the film Lone Survivor; the late Chris Kyle, whose book American Sniper became a No. 1 New York Times best-seller; Seal Team 6, which took down Osama bin Laden; and the sniper team that rescued Captain Phillips.

Needtobreathe’s Rivers In the Wasteland (Word Records/Word Distribution) debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Christian Albums Chart. Released April 15, the album went straight to No. 1 on the iTunes chart and stayed in the Top 10 all week.

The band's single "Difference Maker" continues to the climb the charts, hitting the Top 10 this week at CHR. The band's next single "Multiplied" went for adds last week and was picked up by 29 Christian AC stations, making it the most added single at Christian AC.

I am convinced that Bethel Music’s You Make Me Brave is a landmark worship album. The songs powerfully and prophetically speak of the season that God is ushering the church into. He is stripping off timidity. Impossibility is quickly becoming an abnormality to followers of Jesus Christ. Since the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead lives inside of you and me, we have every reason to agree with these lyrics and live like they are really true.

In short, God is bringing our Christian experience into agreement with the realities we are singing about. The songs emerging in this season are inviting worshippers across the Earth into a whole new way of living.

Don Piper’s 90 Minutes in Heaven (Revell/Baker Publishing Group) claimed a place on two New York Times best-sellers lists, ranking No. 7 on E-Book Best-sellers and No. 16 on Combined Print & E-Book Best-sellers. These rankings reflect sales for the week ending April 19 and are based on sales from thousands of nationwide venues where general books are sold.

In the 10 years since 90 Minutes in Heaven was released, it has spent more than five years on The New York Times best-seller list, was a USA Today best-seller, has sold more than 6 million copies and has been published in 46 languages. Piper has shared his story with more than 3,000 live audiences that included more than 1.5 million people altogether.

Ann Voskamp’s New York Times best-selling debut, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are (Zondervan) has officially surpassed 1 million copies sold.

“Ann’s inspiring words of grace and joy continue to encourage people all over the world to take the dare to live more fully,” said Zondervan Nonfiction Trade Book Publisher David Morris. “Zondervan is honored to be a part of this journey and are thrilled for this milestone.”

Francesca Battistelli’s GRAMMY-nominated single “Free to Be Me” was awarded Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Word Entertainment President and CEO Rod Riley surprised Battistelli with the Gold record at a private Nashville album launch event April 17. “Free To Be Me” is the second single off her debut album, My Paper Heart (Fervent Records/Word Distribution), and spent ten consecutive weeks at No. 1 on CHR and two consecutive weeks at No. 1 on AC Monitored in 2009. In 2012, Francesca received a Gold record for My Paper Heart marking the first debut album from a CCM artist in nearly a decade to receive RIAA-certified Gold status for sales in excess of 500,000 units.

New York Times best-selling author Wanda E. Brunstetter won a 2013 Romantic Times (RT) Career Achievement Award April 11. The best-selling Barbour Publishing author won the Career Achievement Award in the Inspirational category, which will be presented at the May 13-18 RT Booklovers Convention in New Orleans.

She is the author of more than 60 books that have sold more than 7 million copies and have been translated into four foreign languages. Many of her books have landed on best-seller lists, including the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, CBA, the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA), and Christian Book Distributors (CBD).