Two Christian Living authors published by Zondervan have reached 100,000 copies sold with their recent titles. The Christian Atheist (March 2010) by Craig Groeschel, pastor at LifeChurch.tv, and The Me I Want to Be (December 2009) by John Ortberg, pastor at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, both reached the milestone since the books released less than a year ago

Mary Beth Chapman's Choosing to SEE: A Journey of Struggle and Hope has risen to No. 13 on the Sept. 17 New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction list, up three spots from its debut ranking. Chapman, the wife of recording artist Steven Curtis Chapman, co-authored the book with New York Times best-selling author Ellen Vaughn.

Jane Kirkpatrick's A Flickering Light (WaterBrook Press) has been awarded the 2010 WILLA Literary Award for Original Softcover Fiction. Presented by Women Writing the West, the award is chosen by professional librarians, historians and university-affiliated educators, and represents the best of 2009 published literature for women's stories set in the American West.

The executive board of Book Blogger Appreciation Week, held Sept. 13-17, announced that Francine Rivers' Her Mother's Hope (Tyndale House Publishers) was named "Best Spiritual/Religious/Inspirational Book" in voting by its registered book bloggers. Released in March, Her Mother's Hope is a New York Times best-seller and book one in the "Marta's Legacy" series.

Bryan Davis has been awarded the 2010 Clive Staples Award for Christian Speculative Fiction, a readers' choice award for the year's best Christian worldview science fiction/fantasy/allegory/futuristic/supernatural novels published in English by a royalty-paying press. The award was given to Davis for The Bones of Makaidos (Living Ink/AMG Publishers) in the young adult "Oracles of Fire" series.

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