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Kingsbury, ESV atop ECPA best-sellers list Print Email
Written by Christine D. Johnson   
Monday, 03 August 2009 01:06 PM America/New_York
Take Two

(Zondervan), the latest installment in novelist Karen Kinsgbury's movie-themed series, secures the top spot on the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association's (ECPA) August best-seller list, just released.

The rest of the top 10 books are: 2. The Love Dare by Stephen & Alex Kendrick (B&H Books); 3. The Shack by William P. Young (Windblown Media/Hachette Book Group USA); 4. Crazy Love by Francis Chan (David C. Cook); 5. Grace for the Moment: Morning & Evening Edition by Max Lucado (Thomas Nelson); 6. Take One by Karen Kingsbury (Zondervan); 7. Love & Respect by Emerson Eggerichs (Thomas Nelson); 8. The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman (Northfield Publishing); 9. What in the World Is Going On? by David Jeremiah (Thomas Nelson); and 10. Jesus Calling by Sarah Young (Thomas Nelson).

The top 10 Bibles for the month are: 1. ESV Outreach New Testament (Crossway); 2. Text Bible, NKJV (Thomas Nelson); 3. Abundant Life Bible New Testament, NLT (Tyndale House Publishers); 4. Operation Worship Bible, NLT (Tyndale House Publishers); 5. NIV Thinline Bible, burgundy bonded leather (Zondervan); 6. NIV Thinline Bible, navy bonded leather (Zondervan); 7. Adventure Bible, NIV hardcover (Zondervan); 8. NIV Thinline Bible, black bonded leather (Zondervan); 9. KJV Gift and Award Bible, black leatherflex (Thomas Nelson); and 10. KJV Gift and Award Bible blue imitation leather (Thomas Nelson).

The ECPA lists are drawn from Christian retail stores across the country, through its Pubtrack data system. Book lists are based on trade discounted titles selling in at least 20% of reporting stores. Tracts and booklets are excluded.

To see the ECPA's August best-seller lists in full, go to www.ecpa.org.