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Karen Kingsbury's 'The Chance' tops ECPA Fiction list Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Monday, 25 March 2013 01:00 AM America/New_York

Karen Kingsbury's The Chance (Howard Books) was ranked No. 1 on the Fiction best-sellers and at No. 5 on the General best-sellers from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA), tracking sales for the week ending March 16, according to Pubtrack Christian data. The novel was released March 5.

The rest of the Top 20 General best-sellers were: 1. Jesus Calling, Sarah Young, hardcover (Thomas Nelson); 2. Torn, Jud Wilhite (Multnomah Books); 3. Heaven Is for Real, Todd Burpo (Thomas Nelson); 4. Jesus Calling, Young, large print deluxe (Thomas Nelson); 6. Jesus Today, Young, hardcover (Thomas Nelson); 7. The 5 Love Languages, Gary Chapman (Northfield Publishing/Moody Publishers); 8. Pursued, Jud Wilhite (FaithWords); 9. Damascus Countdown, "The Twelfth Imam" No. 3, Joel C. Rosenberg (Tyndale House Publishers); 10. The Harbinger, Jonathan Cahn (FrontLine/Charisma House Book Group); 11. Jesus Calling, Young, women's edition (Thomas Nelson); 12. Jesus Calling, Young, deluxe (Thomas Nelson); 13. Truth-Stained Lies, "Moonlighter Series" No. 1, Terri Blackstock (Zondervan); 14. One Year Mini for Moms, Ellen Banks Elwell (Tyndale); 15. God Gave Us Easter, Lisa Tawn Bergren (WaterBrook Press); 16. Follow Me, David Platt (Tyndale); 17. The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven, Kevin and Alex Malarkey (Tyndale); 18. Gods at War, Kyle Idleman (Zondervan); 19. The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren (Zondervan); and 20. Battlefield of the Mind, Joyce Meyer (FaithWords).

The Top 10 Fiction best-sellers were: 1. The Chance; 2. Damascus Countdown; 3. The Harbinger; 4. Truth-Stained Lies; 5. The Bible: A Story of God and All of Us, Mark Burnett and Roma Downey (FaithWords); 6. Sacrifice, "Abram's Daughters" No. 3, Beverly Lewis (Bethany House/Baker Publishing Group); 7. Cross Roads, William P. Young (FaithWords); 8. The Icecutter's Daughter, "Land of Shining Water" No. 1, Tracie Peterson (Bethany House/Baker Publishing Group); 9. The Twelfth Imam, "The Twelfth Imam" No. 1, Joel C. Rosenberg (Tyndale); and 10. Abducted, "Pacific Coast Justice" No. 2, Janice Cantore (Tyndale).

The top five Bibles were: 1. The Story, NIV, deluxe, hardcover, New International Version (Zondervan); 2. NLT God Sightings, softcover, New Living Translation (Tyndale); 3. NIrV Backpack BibleItalian Duo-Tone, blue with cross, New International Reader's Version (Zondervan); 4. KJV Baby Gift Bible, hardcover, King James Version (Thomas Nelson); and 5. NKJV Pew Bible, black hardcover, New King James Version (Thomas Nelson).