The books were aimed at born-again Christians and were marketed in religious bookstores.
J. Levine & Company is not the typical old-fashioned religious bookstore.
The little paperbacks turn up in secular and religious bookstores alike, featuring short, upbeat reflections meant to be taken a page a day through the year.
There are, of course, many other religious bookstores.
Today the building houses a religious bookstore and a real estate office.
The Persian Gulf war filled religious bookstores with a new crop of similar books.
Until then, the most fiction in religious bookstores tended toward frontier romances.
Harper has long had a religious book division in San Francisco, which now publishes 150 titles a year for secular and religious bookstores and schools.
Soon he moved to Columbus, settling on the West side where he became a partner in a religious bookstore.
Among other things, the company plans to market the book heavily to religious bookstores and to Spanish-speaking Catholics in a Spanish-language edition.