Book of the Year finalists named Print
Sunday, 20 May 2007 08:00 PM America/New_York

Authors Hayley DiMarco and Angela Hunt both have two of their works included in the list of finalists for the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association's (ECPA) Christian Book Awards 2007.

The winners are due to be announced at a combined July 9 awards ceremony with CBA, which will honor leading stores and suppliers, at the International Christian Retail Show in Atlanta.

Bibles: Archaeological Study Bible NIV (Zondervan); Family Foundations Study Bible NKJV (Nelson Bibles); New Women's Devotional Bible NIV (Zondervan, with Livingstone Corporation); The English-Greek Reverse Interlinear New Testament: ESV (Crossway Books & Bibles); TNIV Study Bible (Zondervan).

Bible Reference & Study: Mounce's Complete Expository Dictionary of Old & New Testament Words, William D. Mounce (Zondervan); Preaching, Calvin Miller (Baker Books/Baker Publishing Group); Proverbs, Tremper Longman III (Baker Academic/Baker Publishing Group); Psalms, Volume 1: Psalms 1-41, John Goldingay (Baker Academic/Baker Publishing Group); The IVP Atlas of Bible History, Paul Lawrence (IVP Academic).

Children & Youth: A Young Woman's Walk With God, Elizabeth George (Harvest House Publishers); Heaven for Kids, Randy Alcorn (Tyndale House Publishers); Sexy Girls, Hayley DiMarco (Fleming H. Revell/Baker Publishing Group); Technical Virgin, Hayley DiMarco (Fleming H. Revell/Baker Publishing Group); Your Special Gift, Max Lucado (Crossway Books & Bibles).

Christian Life: Captured by Grace, David Jeremiah (Thomas Nelson); Finding God Beyond Harvard: The Quest for Veritas, Kelly Monroe Kullberg (InterVarsity Press); Just Walk Across the Room, Bill Hybels (Zondervan); Prayer: Does It Make a Difference?, Philip Yancey (Zondervan); The Papa Prayer, Larry Crabb (Thomas Nelson); What Jesus Demands From the World, John Piper (Crossway Books & Bibles).

Fiction: Ever After, Karen Kingsbury (Zondervan); Magdalene, Angela Hunt (Tyndale House Publishers); The Nativity Story, Angela Hunt (Tyndale House Publishers); When Crickets Cry, Charles Martin (WestBow Press/Thomas Nelson); When the Heart Cries, Cindy Woodsmall (WaterBrook Press).

Inspiration & Gift: Battlefields & Blessings: Stories of Faith and Courage From the Civil War, Terry Tuley (Living Ink Books/AMG Publishers); Pearls of Great Price, Joni Eareckson Tada (Zondervan); Praying: Finding Our Way Through Duty to Delight, J.I. Packer and Carolyn Nystrom (InterVarsity Press); The Nativity Story, New Line Cinema (Tyndale House Publishers); Through the Bible, Through the Year, John Stott (Baker Books/Baker Publishing Group).