Best-sellers: 1. Catecismo de la Iglesia Católica (Doubleday Religion); 2. El desafío del amor by Alex and Stephen Kendrick (B&H International); 3. Juntos para toda la vida by Joseph Champlin (Liguori Publications); 4. Libro católico de oraciones (Catholic Book Publishing Co.); 5. Una vida con propósito by Rick Warren (Editorial Vida); 6. Imitación de Cristo by Thomas à Kempis (Catholic Book Publishing Co.); 7. Los cinco lenguajes del amor by Gary Chapman (Editorial Unilit); 8. Púlpito by Justo L. González and Pablo A. Jiménez (Abingdon Press); 9. Promesas eternas para ti de la Nueva Versión Internacional (Editorial Vida); 10. Comunicación por medio de la predicación by Orlando Costas (Grupo Nelson).

List based on Spring Arbor sales, Aug. 1-31.

Editorial Concordia, the Spanish division of Concordia Publishing House, has just released the biography Casiodoro de Reina, patriarca del protestantismo hispano (Casiodoro de Reina, patriarch of Hispanic Protestantism) by Raymond S. Rosales. The $16.99 hardcover is the first-known effort to gather the writings of the monk and Spanish reformer who played a vital role in translating the Reina-Valera version of the Bible.

In Las enseñanzas de Jesús para la mujer de hoy: Aprende de las mujeres del Nuevo Testamento (A Woman Jesus Can Teach: Lessons From New Testament Women), academic dean Alice Mathews brings to life some of the women—named and unnamed—in the New Testament. Originally released in English in 1991 by Discovery House Publishers, the $8.99 Whitaker House paperback releases next month.

Televangelist Benny Hinn offers his personal perspective on events in the Middle East in Sangre en la arena (Blood in the Sand), released this month by Casa Creación, simultaneously with the English edition from FrontLine, also part of Strang Book Group. The 256-page softcover book retails for $9.99.

Spanish best-sellers: 1. El desafío del amor by Alex and Stephen Kendrick (B&H International); 2. San José: Libro de Bolsillo de oraciones by Thomas Donaghy (Catholic Book Publishing Corp.); 3. Mentiras que las mujeres creen y la verdad que las hace libres by Nancy Leigh DeMoss (Editorial Portavoz); 4. Libro católico de oraciones (Catholic Book Publishing Corp.); 5. Promesas eternas para ti de la Nueva Versión Internacional (Editorial Vida); 6. Una vida con propósito by Rick Warren (Editorial Vida); 7. Liderazgo by John Maxwell (Grupo Nelson); Promesas de Dios (Grupo Nelson); 9. Imitación de Cristo by Thomas À Kempis (Catholic Book Publishing Corp.); 10. Catecismo de la iglesia católica (Doubleday Religion). List based on Spring Arbor sales, June 15-30.

Max Lucado draws from his 20-plus years’ writing to explore the lives of Bible characters such as Nicodemus and Esther in Gente Común (Cast of Characters ). Available next month from Thomas Nelson, which released the English edition in October 2008, the 256-page softcover will retail for $13.99

Don Gossett & E.W. Kenyon explain how Christians can make sure the words they speak match up with the truths of God’s Word in El poder de tus palabras (The Power of Your Words ). The Whitaker House softcover releases this month for $8.99, 25 years after its original publication in English.

Another May title from Whitaker House is Larry Huch’s Libre al fin (Free at Last , $10.99), in which he teaches how people can break free from destructive life patterns. The publisher’s English edition debuted in 2004, and a Spanish edition was previously published by Casa Creación.

Concordia Publishing House releases this month Martín Lutero: Segundo comentario a Gálatas (Martin Luther: second commentary on Galatians ). The 230-page work is priced at $15.99.

Best-selling Spanish titles in February were: 1. El evangelio de Juan NTV (The gospel of John, Tyndale House); 2. Una vida con propósito by Rick Warren (The Purpose-Driven Life, Zondervan); 3. Catecismo de la iglesia Católica (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Doubleday); 4. ¿Y ahora qué? by Rafael W. Harris (Now What?, Editorial Vida); 5. El Escudero de Dios by Terry Nance (God’s Armorbearer, Editorial Unilit); 6. Himnos de gloria y triunfo (Hymns of Glory and Triumph, Editorial Vida); 7. Promesas eternas para ti de la Nueva Versión Internacional (Bible Promises for You NIV, Editorial Vida); 8. ¡El cielo es tan real! by Choo Thomas (Heaven Is So Real!, Casa Creación); 9. El progreso del peregrino ilustrado by John Bunyan (The Illustrated Pilgrim’s Progress, Editorial Portavoz); 10. Amor y respeto by Emmerson Eggerichs (Love & Respect, Casa Creación). List based on Spring Arbor sales.