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Current bestsellers from the WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group Christian Retailing
Top 100 (for July 1- 15)
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE WATERBROOK MULTNOMAH MOURNS LOSSES OF AUTHORS KENNEDY AND L'ENGLE (September 11, 2007) Dr. D. James Kennedy Colorado Springs, CO (September 6, 2007)—The WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group was saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. D. James Kennedy yesterday. WaterBrook Multnomah President Stephen Cobb said, “Dr. Kennedy will be dearly missed. He was not only the founder of Coral Ridge Ministries—and architect of numerous related ministries—he was also a prolific writer, famous for revealing foundational truths about the Bible and the Christian Faith.” Dr. Kennedy’s current publishing track with Multnomah Books includes four titles: New Every Morning (January 1999), Skeptics Answered (October 2005), Cross Purposes (February 2007), and The Presence of a Hidden God (May 2008). With WaterBrook Press, Dr. Kennedy is scheduled to release How Would Jesus Vote? in January of 2008. Many of Dr. Kennedy’s titles are co-authored with his long-time writing partner Jerry Newcombe. Both WaterBrook and Multnomah plan to remain on schedule in releasing Dr. Kennedy’s 2008 titles, The Presence of a Hidden God and How Would Jesus Vote. Ken Petersen, Vice President and Publishing Director for Multnomah Books stated, “We are confident both new titles from Dr. Kennedy will be well received. Each book contains an “evergreen” message that will only serve to extend Dr. Kennedy’s legacy and encourage the body of Christ.” Cobb went on to say, “As an integral part
of the WaterBrook Multnomah publishing program, Dr. Kennedy brought
to the table a depth of knowledge, moral clarity and intellectual
strength unmatched among many evangelical writers today. He will
certainly have a lasting legacy.” Madeleine L'Engle Madeleine L'Engle Camp Franklin, 88, of Goshen,
CT and New York City, died Thursday, September 6th. She is survived by her two daughters, Josephine Jones of Goshen, CT and Maria Rooney and her husband John of Mystic, CT; her five grandchildren, Madeleine Jones Roy and her husband Rob, Charlotte Jones Voiklis and her husband John, Edward Jones, Bryson Rooney, all of New York City, and Alexander Rooney, of Mystic CT; and five greatgrandchildren, Kosta and Magda Voiklis, and Cooper, Finn, and Scarlett Roy. She was preceded in death by her husband, Hugh Franklin, and her son, Bion Barnett Franklin. L'Engle's extensive publishing track with Shaw Books
and WaterBrook Press includes the titles: The Twenty-Four Days
Before Christmas, And It Was Good, Anytime Prayers, A Cry Like a
Bell, A Full House, Love Letters, Miracle on 10th Street and Other
Christmas Writings, Mothers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons, The
Rock that Is Higher, Sold into Egypt, A Stone for a Pillow, The
Swiftly Tilting Worlds of Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water, The
Weather of the Heart, A Winter's Love, The Genesis Trilogy, Walking
on Water, Bright Evening Star, Madeleine L'Engle Herself, Penguins
and Golden Calves, and The Ordering of Love. RANDOM HOUSE, INC. ACQUIRES MULTNOMAH PUBLISHERS TO EXPAND DOUBLEDAY BROADWAY’S EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN PUBLISHING (August 3, 2006) Random House, Inc., the largest English-language
trade book publisher, announced today that it has purchased one
of the nation’s leading evangelical Christian book publishing
houses, Multnomah Publishers. The acquisition significantly strengthens
the company’s presence in the burgeoning Christian book marketplace.
The Oregon-based Multnomah publishes more than 100 new titles annually
by such popular authors as Randy Alcorn, Shaunti Feldhahn, Robin
Jones Gunn, and Andy Stanley. Its active backlist of more than 600
works of fiction and nonfiction includes classic books of faith
by Dr. James Dobson, Francine Rivers, and Joshua Harris, and THE
PRAYER OF JABEZ by Bruce Wilkinson, the eight-million-copy #1 New
York Times bestseller and the bestselling book published in the
U.S. in 2001. Multnomah will become Random House, Inc.’s second
evangelical Christian imprint, following the creation of WaterBrook
Press in 1996. WaterBrook is an editorially autonomous division
of Random House’s Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group. Multnomah
will be integrated operationally with WaterBrook, relocating to
WaterBrook’s offices in Colorado Springs. Together they will
form the new WaterBrook Multnomah division within Doubleday Broadway,
with each imprint maintaining its distinct editorial identity. The
purchase was announced by Stephen Rubin, President and Publisher
of Doubleday Broadway, and Don Jacobson, President and Publisher
of Multnomah, the company he and his wife founded in 1987. Both
Random House and Multnomah are privately held and financial terms
of the acquisition, which closed yesterday, were not disclosed.
Mr. Jacobson will be a consultant during the transition and integration.
“The decision to sell Multnomah was a difficult one,”
said Mr. Jacobson, “but in Random House we have an acquiring
publisher with a strong shared commitment to our mission for our
authors and their books and the resources to bring their writing
to the widest readership. In my new consultant capacity, I will
do all I can to make the efforts ahead as smooth as possible for
everyone.” WaterBrook Multnomah will bring together two highly
complementary publishing programs under the leadership of Steve
Cobb, President and Publisher, WaterBrook Press. Mr. Cobb was one
of the imprint’s founding executives in 1996, and over the
past decade has helped guide its growth and rise to prominence in
the Christian book publishing world. It publishes more than seventy-five
new titles each year, with an active backlist of 500 books. Among
its best-known authors are Stephen Arterburn, Kay Arthur, Shannon
Ethridge, Liz Curtis Higgs, Joanna Weaver, and David Gregory.
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