Jan Karon. Putnam, $27.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-399-16744-7
Fans of the Mitford novels, rejoice: Father Tim Kavanagh is back in town, after sojourns to Mississippi and Ireland with his wife Cynthia. Father Tim is wrestling with the existential challenge of retirement and siren calls of various duties. He...
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Jan Karon, Author Viking Books $14.95 (333p) ISBN 978-0-14-025793-9
A ""cozy and satisfying read,"" said PW of the latest chronicle of the fictitious village of Mitford. (May)
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Jan Karon, Author Penguin Books $14.95 (413p) ISBN 978-0-14-025454-9
The first two novels in Karon's Mitford series chronicle the everyday eccentricities of a small North Carolina town. (Feb.)
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Jan Karon, Author Viking Books $14.95 (446p) ISBN 978-0-14-025448-8
The first two novels in Karon's Mitford series chronicle the everyday eccentricities of a small North Carolina town. (Feb.)
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Jan Karon, Viking, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-02212-0
In Karon's latest, Fr. Timothy Kavanagh, the moral center of the beloved Mitford series, hops the Atlantic for a long anticipated vacation in the Irish countryside. He and his wife settle in at Broughadoon, a B&B run by Liam and Anna Conor in County
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Jan Karon, Author . Viking $10.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-03019-4
Karon draws readers into a cozy Mitford short story centered around the town's familiar and beloved eccentrics. The plot is as fluffy as the snow falling outside the Main Street Grill, but this hardly matters; readers will find what they are...
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Jan Karon, Author . Viking $24.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-670-03364-5
Hard-core fans of Karon's fictional Mitford will welcome her latest offering, a sequel of sorts to Patches of Godlight
. Like Patches,
this "commonplace book" collects favorite quotations of Karon's protagonist Father Tim on things...
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Jan Karon, Author . Viking $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-670-03104-7
Fans of Mitford, N.C., will rejoice over this anticipated full-length seventh installment in the bestselling series, especially those disappointed with its shorter, rather lightweight predecessor, A Common Life. Although this offering is permeated...
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Jan Karon, Author . Viking $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-670-03120-7
Karon works more homespun magic with this latest uplifting story set in sleepy Mitford, N.C. Father Timothy Kavanagh, stalwart of the Mitford series, is approaching 70 when he comes across pieces of an old English nativity scene at his friend Andrew
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Jan Karon, Author , read by John McDonough. Penguin Audiobooks $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-280033-1
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Jan Karon
, read by John McDonough. Penguin Audiobooks
, unabridged, six CDs, 6.5hrs.,
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Jan Karon, Author . Viking $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-670-01838-3
Karon's bestselling series of Mitford novels has concluded with 25 million copies sold to date, but to the relief of eager fans, she introduces a new series featuring Father Tim. The beloved Episcopal priest returns to his childhood town of...
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Jan Karon, Author Viking $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-670-87485-9
In this fourth book of the Mitford Years series (following At Home with Mitford, A Light in the Window and These High, Green Hills), Karon continues to develop her Heartland of America town. The plot deals with the mayoral race between long-time...
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Jan Karon, Author Viking $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-670-87810-9
In this fifth volume of Karon's popular series (Out to Canaan, etc.) set in the quaint North Carolina town of Mitford, where people chuckle and say ""dadgummit,"" Father Timothy Kavanagh is leaving town for a post-retirement interim appointment at a
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Jan Karon, Author Viking $24.95 (186p) ISBN 978-0-670-89437-6
Fans of Mitford, Karon's delightful fictional village in western North Carolina, will be thrilled with this newest installment, which relates an episode she skipped over in her earlier books: Father Tim and Cynthia's wedding. (He proposed at the...
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Jan Karon, Author, Donna Kae Nelson, Illustrator Viking Books $22.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-670-86934-3
This third in the Mitford series (At Home in Mitford--a 1996 ABBY Book of the Year finalist--and Light in the Window) is another sympathetic portrayal of small-town Southern life with just enough drama to carry the plot and gracefully developed...
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Jan Karon, Author, Jan Karon, Read by Penguin Audiobooks $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-086901-9
Karon reads the fifth installment of her popular Mitford series with gentle authority, nimble in her Southern enunciation and the depiction of colorful local characters (the four previous titles are available on tape, with the author at the...
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Jan Karon, Author, Teri L. Weidner, Illustrator Viking Books $15.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-670-88104-8
Bestselling author Karon (Miss Fannie's Hat; the Mitford series for adults) shares a thickly nostalgic tale she crafted for her daughter, Candace, more than 40 years ago. Between serving up kidney pie and making tea for her husband, a young British...
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Jan Karon, Author, Joy Peskin, Editor, Toni Goffe, Illustrator Puffin Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-056812-7
PW called this tale about an elderly lady who sells her prized hat to finance a new church garden ""a cheerful story that offers a worthy message while avoiding a didactic tone."" All ages. (Feb.)
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Jan Karon, Author, Toni Goffe, Illustrator Augsburg Fortress Publishers $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8066-3526-2
In her first book for children, Karon (Out to Canaan) uses her own grandmother as model for the good-natured Miss Fannie, famous for the dazzling, wide-brimmed hats she wears to church each Sunday. Her most celebrated is a pink straw hat with silk...
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Jan Karon, Author, Martha McIntosh, Editor , edited by Martha McIntosh. Viking $29.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-03239-6
"Food is a great way of communicating," says Mitford series author Karon in her charming cookbook brimming with comforting recollections, quotations, homespun kitchen wisdom and more than 150 mouthwatering recipes for foods that have...
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