Tyndale House Publishers will release an updated trade paper edition of missionary Gracia Burnham’s best-selling memoir, In the Presence of My Enemies, in early 2010. Originally published in 2003, the book became a New York Times best-seller and received a Gold Medallion Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association.

A retired teacher and homeschooling mother whose “DragonKeeper Chronicles” series (WaterBrook Press) has sold more than a quarter-million copies since the first of its five installments was released in 2004, Donita K. Paul returns to familiar ground with her latest fantasy offering.

Released June 2, The Vanishing Sculptor takes place in the same world as the “DragonKeeper Chronicles” series, but the main characters live on a different continent. Paul's new book tells the story of young Tipper, of the Emerlindian race, in the world of Amara who is responsible for the upkeep of her family’s estate during her sculptor father’s absence.

With book sales increasingly spread across various retail sectors and music sales taking a heavy hit from online purchasers, gifts have helped many Christian retailers keep their doors open by providing products with the potential for big returns from little investment, and which have not yet been cornered by mainstream retail.

In what it describes as "a tough year for publishing overall," the BISG's Book Industry Trends 2009 survey-to be published in full in July-found that the "religious segment underperformed the book publishing industry as a whole in 2008, with revenues declining 10% against total industry growth of 1%."