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'Submerged' debuts on weekly fiction best-sellers Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Monday, 02 July 2012 11:19 AM America/New_York

Dani Pettrey's Submerged, the first installment of the "Alaskan Courage Series" (Bethany House/Baker Publishing Group), debuted at No. 10 on the Top 10 Fiction best-sellers list. The list from ECPA tracks sales for the week ending June 23, according to Pubtrack Christian data.

The Top 20 General best-sellers are: 1. Be a Better Dad Today!, Gregory W. Slayton (Regal Books); 2. Jesus Calling, Sarah Young, hardcover (Thomas Nelson); 3. Jesus Calling, Young, large print deluxe (Thomas Nelson); 4. Heaven Is for Real, Todd Burpo (Thomas Nelson); 5. Crazy Love, Francis Chan (David C Cook); 6. The Necessity of an Enemy, Ron Carpenter (WaterBrook Press); 7. The Harbinger, Jonathan Cahn (FrontLine/Charisma House Book Group); 8. Jesus Calling, Young, deluxe (Thomas Nelson); 9. Not a Fan, Kyle Idleman (Zondervan); 10. Implosion, Joel C. Rosenberg (Tyndale House Publishers); 11. The Resolution for Men, Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick, Randy Alcorn (B&H Books); 12. The Circle Maker, Mark Batterson (Zondervan); 13. The 5 Love Languages, Gary Chapman (Northfield Publishing); 14. One Thousand Gifts, Ann Voskamp (Zondervan); 15. Battlefield of the Mind, Joyce Meyer (FaithWords); 16. Kingdom Man, Tony Evans (Tyndale House Publishers); 17. Nearing Home, Billy Graham (Thomas Nelson); 18. Boundaries, Henry Cloud, John Townsend (Zondervan); 19. Spirit Rising, Jim Cymbala (Zondervan); and 20. I Am Second, Dave Sterrett, Doug Bender (Thomas Nelson).

The Top 10 Fiction best-sellers are: 1. The Harbinger; 2. Loving, "Bailey Flanigan Series," No. 4, Karen Kingsbury (Zondervan); 3. The Fiddler, Beverly Lewis (Bethany House/Baker Publishing Group); 4. The Touch, Randall Wallace (Tyndale House Publishers); 5. Mortal, "Books of Mortals Series," No. 2, Ted Dekker, Tosca Lee (Center Street); 6. Courageous, Randy Alcorn (Tyndale); 7. Longing, "Bailey Flanigan Series" No. 3, Kingsbury (Zondervan); 8. The Betrayal, "Precinct 11 Series," No. 2, Jerry B. Jenkins (Tyndale); 9. The First Gardener, Denise Hildreth Jones (Tyndale); and 10. Submerged.

The top five Bibles are: 1. The Story, hardcover, New International Version (Zondervan); 2. ESV Thinline Value Edition Bible, TruTone, chestnut, filigree design, English Standard Version (Crossway); 3. ESV Thinline Value Edition Bible, TruTone, midnight, flame design, English Standard Version (Crossway); 4. NIV Adventure Bible, hardcover, (Zonderkidz); and 5. NIV Adventure Bible, softcover, (Zonderkidz).