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Book Beat CR March 2011 Print Email
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Friday, 04 March 2011 03:12 PM America/New_York

HeavenIsForRealHeaven Is for Real by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent hit No. 1 on the New York Times Paperback Nonfiction list Jan. 23 and stayed there the following week. USA Today ranked the title on its Jan. 16 Top 150 at No. 19, and it also made a strong showing on the Jan. 24 Publishers Weekly Top Trade Paper list (No. 3) and on the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association January list (No. 5). The Thomas Nelson title is also approaching a half-million copies shipped since the book’s November launch. 

 

Radical by David Platt has 500,000 copies in print, after less than 10 months in print. The book was at the top of the December 2010 CBA Top 50 and has spent 31 weeks on The New York Times Paperback Advice list, where it was No. 6 on the Jan. 30 list. This spring Multnomah Books release Platt’s Radical Together.

 

PlainWisdomNew York Times best-selling novelist Cindy Woodsmall and Miriam Flaud, an Old Order Amish mother of nine, share the truths that bring them together in Plain Wisdom: An Invitation into an Amish Home and the Hearts of Two Women. Releasing March 15 and retailing for $14.99, the WaterBrook Press book also includes Amish family recipes.

 

Listen to the Children humanizes the hot topic of immigration and allows the reader to eavesdrop on fictionalized conversations between immigrant parents, their children and their caregivers. Releasing this month, the Judson Press title by Elizabeth Conde-Frazier retails for $13.99.

 

With humor and compassion, Erin McPherson offers advice to moms—and dads—in The Christian Mama’s Guide to Having a Baby: Everything You Need to Know to Survive (and Love) Your Pregnancy. The Guideposts title releases this month and retails for $14.99.

 

Correction: In February 2011 Book Reviews, Christian Retailing misspelled June Hunt’s name in the review. Hunt’s book, Hope for Your Heart, released last month and is published by Crossway.