Article: A Flood of New Titles Of Biblical Proportions

America's interest in things religious and spiritual has created a lucrative market for book publishers. That point became clear when "Embraced by the Light," an account of Betty J. Eadie's near-death experience, hit the bestseller list in The Washington Post's Book World section in June 1993 and stayed there for more than a year. The week the hardcover fell from the Top 10, the softcover edition appeared in the paperback category, where it remains today.

"The Celestine Prophecy," James Redfield's fictional rendering of ancient Peruvian insights into modern life, has done even better in hardcover -- 68 weeks and counting. Even Pope John Paul II made the charts last year with his personal ...

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