The Untold Story of the Mount Hood Tragedy A Journey of Adventure, Love, and Loss

(Nashville, TN) In December 2006, millions of people across the world waited in anguish to learn the fate of three climbers trapped on Mt. Hood. The massive search through the harshest storm on the mountain in more than a decade dominated news coverage.

Climber Kelly James was trapped in a snow cave and made a final call to his wife, Karen, which left the world hoping for a Christmas miracle. The climbers’ family members huddled below the mountain praying for the safe return of their loved ones. While the climbers faced a tragic fate, their families did not lose faith.

Now, Karen James, who spent the year after her husband’s death gathering facts and information, is telling her story about what really happened on the mountain in her new book, Holding Fast: The Untold Story of the Mount Hood Tragedy (Thomas Nelson, November 2008, ISBN: 1595551751). READ MORE »

Kids join Jungle Jack on an exciting interactive and educational
excursion across the seven continents
(Nashville, Tenn.) A true adventurer at heart, Jungle Jack Hanna has been all over the world and now is inviting children to travel along with him in his new book, Passport into the Wild (ISBN: 978-1-4003-1138-1, $16.99, September 2008) based off of Jack’s travels for his Emmy award winning series, Jack Hanna’s Into the Wild.

Each continent begins with an intro including the vital stats of the region including world maps, coordinates and facts. Through your travels, the pages come to life with double gatefolds that open up to forty inches wide and are filled with facts, breathtaking pictures from Jack’s photo album and exclusive stories from Jack’s travel around the globe. Then after each journey, there is a review where kids use their pocket size passport and colorful animal stickers to record every exciting moment of their trek through the wild. READ MORE »

(Nashville, Tenn.) Thomas Nelson, Inc. announced today that twenty-two of their products have been chosen to be finalists for Christian Retailing’s 2008 Retailer’s Choice Awards. Products nominated for the 2008 Retailer’s Choice Awards must have been published or released in 2007 and include clear Christian content, message or worldview. Retailers judge nominations on the impact they have had on staff and customers, including their ability to speak to people’s hearts and evoke emotion, open people’s minds to new ways of thinking, and encourage and affirm Christlike living.

The winner in each category will be announced on Monday, July 14, during the International Christian Retail Show in Orlando, Florida. The Thomas Nelson finalists are:
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New Book Guides Encourages Us all to Make: 10 Choices: A Proven Plan to Change Your Life Forever

Nashville, TN –
“I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life.” (Deut.30.19).

In, 10 Choices: A Proven Plan to Change Your Life Forever, (ISBN: 978-0-7852-2820-2, September, $22.99), Dr. James MacDonald describes ten high impact choices that will help you and your family achieve the life God wants you to have. This book is about getting beyond self help and blame shifting and reaching for change at the deepest level.
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Hill Pens the “Antidote to permissive parenting” in Her New Book, I’m Not Your Friend, I’m Your Parent

Nashville, TN – FOX News anchor and mother of eight, E.D. Hill leads what we all would call a hectic life. Between writing and producing her own show, commuting from her New England home to New York City everyday for work and taking care of her family of eight, E.D. knows the definition of juggling. Now in her sophomore book, E.D. divulges her secrets to effective and positively influential parenting in, I’m Not Your Friend, I’m Your Parent (ISBN: 978-0-7852-2810-3, September, $24.99).
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