From the Thomas Nelson Newsroom:
New York Times #1 Best seller Sets New Thomas Nelson, Inc. Record
Since its release 16 weeks ago, sales momentum for Heaven Is for Real by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent has continued to surpass every expectation. For the week of March 6, Heaven Is for Real will be listed as the #1 “nonfiction paperback” and #1 “print hardcover and paperback combined” on the New York Times Best Seller List – its seventh week in the top spot and a record for Thomas Nelson, Inc. Inside My Heart by Robin McGraw held #1 nonfiction hardcover spot for four weeks (October 2006).
Heaven Is for Real also is listed currently at #6 (all books) by USA Today, #4 (nonfiction paperback) by Publisher’s Weekly, #4 (nonfiction paperback) by National Public Radio, and #3 (all books) by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. (Complete best-seller list information below.)
In addition to being ranked near the top on numerous best seller lists, the one millionth copy of the acclaimed title has recently been printed.
“It has been incredible to watch the contagious enthusiasm of readers drive the success of Heaven is for Real,” said Michael Hyatt, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Thomas Nelson. “Colton’s story gives a wonderful glimpse into what lies ahead for believers, and encourages us to embrace our childlike faith.”
In March 2003, Todd and Sonja Burpo were on the verge of their worst nightmare – losing a child. Their 4-year-old son Colton’s appendix had unknowingly burst days before, and he was now fighting a life-threatening infection. To save Colton, surgery was the only option. But what would happen during that surgery was more than healing through modern medicine.
Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back is the true story of the Burpo family and Colton, who during his life-threatening illness and sudden surgery, slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He narrowly survives. Several months later while passing by the same hospital that saved him, Colton begins talking about his experiences during surgery and making a trip to heaven. The family didn’t know what to believe, but soon the evidence was clear.
Written in the first-person narrative of Colton’s father, Todd, and by New York Times best-selling author Lynn Vincent, Heaven Is for Real walks readers through the revelation of Colton’s trip, his parent’s initial uncertainties, and the lessons learned by such a small child.
Todd Burpo is pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan and a volunteer fireman. His wife Sonja is a children’s minister, busy pastor’s wife, and mom. Colton, an active eleven year old, has an older sister Cassie and a younger brother Colby.
Lynn Vincent is the New York Times bestselling writer of Same Kind of Different as Me and Going Rogue: An American Life. The author or coauthor of nine books, Vincent worked for eleven years as senior writer, then features editor, at the national news biweekly WORLD Magazine where she covered politics, culture, and current events. A U.S. Navy veteran, Lynn is also a lecturer in writing at the World Journalism Institute and The King’s College in New York City.
Best-Seller’s Lists
New York Times
- December 5, 2010 #3 paperback nonfiction
- December 12, 2010 #11
- December 19, 2010 #5
- December 26, 2010 #5
- January 2, 2011, #13
- January 9, 2011, #13
- January 16, 2011, #9
- January 23, 2011, #1
- January 30, 2011, #1
- February 6, 2011, #1
- February 13, 2011
- #1 paperback nonfiction
- #2 E-book nonfiction
- #2 Combined Print and E-book nonfiction
- #3 Print Hardcover & Paperback
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