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Billy Graham’s ‘Nearing Home’ makes debut Print Email
Written by Christine D. Johnson   
Monday, 31 October 2011 09:46 AM America/New_York

Billy Graham’s Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well debuts at No. 3 on the general weekly best-sellers list for sales ending Oct. 22, according to Pubtrack Christian data from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA).

Published by Thomas Nelson and in stores this month, Nearing Home shares Graham’s experience of growing older and aims to help readers look at their latter years from God’s point of view.

The general Top 20 list is: 1. Heaven is for Real, Todd Burpo (Thomas Nelson); 2. Jesus Calling, Sarah Young (Thomas Nelson); 3. Nearing Home, Billy Graham (Thomas Nelson); 4. Every Day a Friday, Joel Osteen (FaithWords); 5. The Well, Mark Hall, Tim Luke (Zondervan); 6. Beautiful Outlaw, John Eldredge (FaithWords); 7. The Tehran Initiative, Joel C. Rosenberg (Tyndale House Publishers); 8. Jesus Calling: Deluxe Edition, Young (Thomas Nelson); 9. The Resolution for Men, Stephen Kendrick and Alex Kendrick (B&H Books); 10. Crazy Love, Francis Chan (David C. Cook); 11. Heaven is for Real for Kids, Todd Burpo, Sonja Burpo (Thomas Nelson); 12. The Resolution for Women, Priscilla Shirer (B&H Books); 13. I Never Thought I’d See the Day!, David Jeremiah (FaithWords); 14. Not a Fan, Kyle Idleman (Zondervan); 15. Courageous, Randy Alcorn, Alex Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick; 16. Radical, David Platt (Multnomah Books); 17. The 5 Love Languages, Gary Chapman (Northfield Publishing); 18. Jesus Calling: Large Print Deluxe Edition, Young (Thomas Nelson); 19. Advent Conspiracy, Rick McKinley, Chris Seay and Greg Holder (Zondervan); and 20. One Thousand Gifts, Ann Voskamp (Zondervan).

The fiction Top 10: 1. The Tehran Initiative, Rosenberg (Tyndale); 2. Courageous; 3. The Mercy, Beverly Lewis (Bethany House/Baker Publishing Group); 4. Shadow in Serenity, Terri Blackstock (Zondervan); 5. Learning by Karen Kingsbury (Zondervan); 6. Love on the Line by Deeanne Gist (Bethany House/Baker Publishing Group); 7. The Twelfth Imam, Rosenberg (Tyndale); 8. Longing by Kingsbury (Zondervan); 9. Valley of Dreams, Lauraine Snelling (Bethany House/Baker Publishing Group); and 10. A Log Cabin Christmas Collection, Wanda E. Brunstetter, et al. (Barbour Publishing).

Top five Bibles: 1. The Story, NIV, hardcover (Zondervan); 2. NIV Adventure Bible, hardcover (Zondervan); 3. Life Application Study Bible, NIV, Italian Duo-Tone, honeysuckle pink (Zondervan); 4. The Life Recovery Bible, Personal Size, NLT (Tyndale); and 5. The Story: Teen Edition, NIV, softcover (Zondervan).