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.