Carol Stream, Ill. — Tyndale House Publishers has announced that Ann Voskamp’s newest book, Unwrapping the Greatest Gift, which released in November 2014, has earned best sellers status from The New York Times and Publishers Weekly. In addition, one year after it had originally made The New York Times best sellers list, Voskamp’s The Greatest Gift returned to the Times’ list this past December as well.
Based on the overwhelming success of The Greatest Gift, Ann Voskamp expanded her presentation of the timeless Advent tradition of the Jesse Tree in Unwrapping the Greatest Gift. Her newest offering debuted at No. 8 on the Times’ “Religion, Spirituality, and Faith” best sellers list in January 2015. The Times releases that specialty list once per month. It debuted at No. 8 on the Publishers Weekly hardcover fiction list on December 4, 2014, and remained on that list for three consecutive weeks.
Unwrapping the Greatest Gift ‘s best seller rankings are as follows:
Publishers Weekly (based on BookScan numbers):
No. 8 Hardcover Non-Fiction List on 12/14/2014
No. 8 on Hardcover Non-Fiction List on 12/7/2014
No. 12 on Hardcover Non-Fiction List on 11/30/2014
The New York Times (based on its own proprietary formula):
No. 8 on “Religion, Spirituality, and Faith” list for January 2015
The USA Today (includes non-fiction and fiction soft and hardcover):
No. 70 on December 4, 2014
No. 75 on December 11, 2014
The Greatest Gift best seller ranking is as follow:
The New York Times (based on its own proprietary formula):
No. 7 on “Religion, Spirituality, and Faith” list for December 2014
No. 17 on the extended “Advice, How-to, and Miscellaneous” list on December 14, 2014
Ann Voskamp is a farmer’s wife, the home-educating mama to a half-dozen exuberant kids, and author of One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, a New York Times sixty-week bestseller. Named by Christianity Today as one of fifty women most shaping culture and the church today, she’s a global advocate for needy children with Compassion International, a loser of library books, a stirrer of soup, a loud laugher, a kid snuggler, a Jesus lover and honestly, a bit of a mess. It’s okay really. Grace is the most amazing of all. Her online journal, one of the top 10 most widely read Christian blogs online, is a relief of quiet vulnerability and an oasis of sacred, seeing God in the everyday ugly beautiful: www.aholyexperience.com
Tyndale House Publishers, founded in 1962, is the world’s largest privately held Christian publisher of books, Bibles, and digital media. Tyndale has published many New York Times bestsellers. The largest portion of its profit goes to the nonprofit Tyndale House Foundation, which makes grants to help meet the physical and spiritual needs of people around the world. Tyndale was founded to publish Living Letters, which later comprised part of The Living Bible, a contemporary paraphrase of the Bible that became a global publishing phenomenon. Tyndale now publishes the Holy Bible, New Living Translation (NLT), the translation of choice for millions of people.
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