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Tony Dungy softcover debuts on ECPA list Print Email
Wednesday, 09 July 2008 08:00 PM America/New_York

Almost a year after the release of his chart-topping Quiet Strength, Super Bowl-winning football coach Tony Dungy is back on the best-sellers list. The softcover version of his Tyndale House Publishers memoir has debuted at No. 5 on the July Top 50 books list from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA).

Other titles in the top 10 are: 1. The Shack by William P. Young (Windblown Media); 2. The List by Robert Whitlow (Thomas Nelson); 3. Walking With God by John Eldredge (Thomas Nelson); 4. 90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper (Revell/Baker Publishing Group); 6. The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman (Northfield Publishing/Moody Publishers); 7. The Greatest Life of All: Jesus by Charles Swindoll (Thomas Nelson); 8. Captivating by John and Stasi Eldredge (Thomas Nelson); 9. My Utmost for His Highest: An Updated Edition in Today's Language by Oswald Chambers/James Reimann (Barbour Publishing); and 10. Dead Heat by Joel C. Rosenberg (Tyndale House Publishers).

The CBA-led campaign to see 100,000 Bibles sent to American military personnel saw the special edition Operation Worship Bible NLT (Tyndale House Publishers) become the third best-selling Bible for the month.

Other top-selling Bibles this month are. 1. Outreach New Testament-ESV (Crossway Books and Bibles); 2. Text Bible-NKJV (Thomas Nelson); 4. Thinline Bible-NIV (Zondervan); 5. The Word of Promise New Testament Audio Bible (Thomas Nelson); 6. The Adventure Bible (Zonderkidz/Zondervan); 7. King James Gift and Award Bible, black leatherflex (Thomas Nelson); 8. King James Gift and Award Bible, navy leatherflex (Thomas Nelson); 9. Thinline Bible-NIV, black (Zondervan); and 10. Thinline Bible-NIV, navy (Zondervan).

The ECPA lists are drawn from Christian retail stores across the country through the association's PubTrack Christian data system. Book lists are based on trade discounted titles selling in at least 20% of reporting stores. Tracts and booklets are excluded.

To see the ECPA's July best-seller lists in full, go to www.ecpa.org.