NARRATIVE
Southern fiction author River Jordan's PRAYING FOR STRANGERS, in which the author tells of her decision in December 2008, while she was wracked with worry over her two sons about to be shipped off to war, to undertake a New Year's resolution to pray for a different stranger who crossed her path every day, and the amazing and inspiring true stories that came out of that resolution, to Berkley. 

TRUE CRIME
Michael Greenburg's THE MAD BOMBER OF NEW YORK, the extraordinary story of the jovial yet utterly insane George Metesky, New York's "Mad Bomber," who, in 1940, single handedly began a reign of terror that would span nearly sixteen years, and would give birth to the science of modern criminal profiling, as a little-known crime psychiatrist is brought in to assist in the frantic search to identify and capture the Mad Bomber, to  Union Square Press.  

FICTION
SAVANNAH FROM SAVANNAH and THE WILL OF WISTERIA author Denise Hildreth's A PLACE CALLED PARADISE, in which a new director of guest relations at a posh Bahamian resort puts together the final pieces of her once broken life while forging an unlikely friendship with a trio of guests who wrestle with their own paralyzing secrets, to Tyndale, in a two-book deal,

MEMOIR
Popular blogger Angie Smith's I WILL CARRY YOU, recounting the story of the loss of her newborn daughter and reaching out to readers with inspiring advice on how to embrace pain--not flee from it--and find a way to healing, to B&H in a 2-book deal.

Dave Bruno's THE 100 THING CHALLENGE, recounting his one-year adventure of paring down everything he owns to 100 personal possessions, while attempting to carry on with life as usual as a businessman, father, and husband, motivating us to live simpler, more meaningful lives, to Harper Perennial.

RELATIONSHIPS/ADVICE
Popular novelists Denise Hildreth's FLYING SOLO, which takes readers, who may be struggling with their own divorces, on the author's one-year journey of discovering the beauty of God in the middle of heartbreaking divorce.

RELIGION
Mark Scandrette's JESUS DOJO: A SIMPLE PATH TO ACTION, COMMUNITY, AND CHANGE, in which the author calls readers to enter the "Jesus Dojo," the place where they can wrestle with the radical instructions of Jesus and learn a new way of living and being, to IVP.

Frank Viola's (with coauthor Leonard Sweet) JESUS MANIFESTO, in which the authors prophetically call readers to turn away from left and right ideologies, philosphies, and "isms" and instead embrace the person of Christ, to Thomas Nelson, with Mark Sweeney.  

Old Testament professor David Lamb's O MIGHTY SMITER!: IS THE GOD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT REALLY ANGRY, SEXIST AND RACIST?, in which the author examines popular misperceptions of God in the Old Testament and how those misconceptions affect our attitudes today, to IVP.

Theologian Lee Camp's WHO WOULD JESUS BOMB?, shattering the misconceptions Christians have about religious violence and terrorism and proving that American Christians often have more in common with the sword-wielding prophet Mohammed than they do the cross-bearing messiah Jesus, to Brazos.

Host of the DailyAudioBible.com's podcast Brian Hardin's BEAUTIFUL REVOLUTION: HOW READING THE BIBLE IN A YEAR WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING FOR YOU, the story of how his life was turned upside-down when he decided to read through the Bible in a year, and he encourages readers to commit to do the same; and an accompanying 365-day Bible to be released simultaneously, to Zondervan.

Jon Sweeney's THE POPE WHO QUIT: THE BIZARRE LIFE AND MYSTERIOUS DEATH THAT BROUGHT THE MIDDLE AGES TO AN END, telling the story of Peter the Hermit -- the 85-year-old man who in 1294 was elected Pope Celestine V against his will -- his bizarre five months of ruling western Christendom, his decision to quit the papacy (as no other pope has voluntarily done since) and the strange circumstances and mysterious way in which he died, to Doubleday.

Professor of religion Sharon Baker's HELL HATH NO FURY: RETHINKING EVERYTHING YOU'VE BEEN TAUGHT ABOUT GOD'S WRATH AND JUDGMENT, in which the author examines what the Bible really says about eternal punishment, and offers readers an eye-opening, hope-inspiring answer for the nagging questions we all have about hell, Westminster John Knox.

Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove's DAILY PRAYER: LITURGY FOR ORDINARY RADICALS, with meditations and prayers for morning, noon and evening for every day of the year, bringing to life the ancient tradition of praying the daily offices, to Zondervan.