The Mitford Bedside Companion

The Mitford Bedside Companion
Author: Jan Karon
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 702
Release: 2006-10-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101218789

A must-have treasury filled with original essays and personal photos from Jan Karon, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the beloved Mitford series. For the millions of fans who love the Mitford Years novels, this lushly illustrated keepsake will be the perfect book to curl up with. What was that Uncle Billy joke about the census taker? Where was that beautiful prayer Father Tim offered? The Mitford Bedside Companion will make it easy to find the greatest of the countless gems that grace each of Karon's novels. Fans will relish favorite scenes, casts of characters, a Mitford crossword puzzle, and a bevy of original essays by Karon on everything from the life of a writer to her grandmother's secret to good health. With a color insert of family photos and Karon's early Mitford drawings, as well as new illustrations, this is a beautifully packaged volume everyone will cherish.

At Home in Mitford

At Home in Mitford
Author: Jan Karon
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1996-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780140254488

The first novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon’s beloved series set in America’s favorite small town: Mitford. It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable. Yet, Father Tim, the bachelor rector, wants something more. Enter a dog the size of a sofa who moves in and won't go away. Add an attractive neighbor who begins wearing a path through the hedge. Now, stir in a lovable but unloved boy, a mystifying jewel theft, and a secret that's sixty years old. Suddenly, Father Tim gets more than he bargained for. And readers get a rich comedy about ordinary people and their ordinary lives.

Violet Goes to the Country

Violet Goes to the Country
Author: Melanie Cecka
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780670061815

Violet, a little white cat, tries out several homes before she finds just the right one.

Violet Comes to Stay

Violet Comes to Stay
Author: Melanie Cecka
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Animals
ISBN: 9780670060733

Violet, a little white cat, tries out several homes before she finds just the right one.

Home to Holly Springs

Home to Holly Springs
Author: Jan Karon
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-10-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0143114395

Join Father Tim on a profoundly personal journey back to his childhood home in this charming novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon's Mitford series. Thirty-eight years have passed since Father Tim Kavanagh left his Mississippi hometown, determined not to return. Then he receives a handwritten note postmarked Holly Springs. Cryptic and unsigned, it says only Come home. These two words compel him to make the most challenging journey of his life. Traveling to his boyhood home doesn’t merely take Father Tim across hundreds of miles. Thanks to a thousand sights and smells, he also travels back through memories—some fond and some he’s tried for nearly forty years to forget, from his quick-to-anger father and his lovingly tender mother to the picturesque small town he’d tried desperately to leave behind. And once Father Tim discovers who was behind the mysterious note, a truth is revealed that will change his life—forever.

Bedside Companion for Gardeners

Bedside Companion for Gardeners
Author: Jane Mcmorland Hunter
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-10-26
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1849947139

A mix of fact and fiction, fantasy and experience, the Bedside Companion for Gardeners is a treasure trove of green-fingered inspiration where practical advice blends seamlessly with poetry and prose from intrepid gardeners past and present. Dip in and out of this collection with an entry for every night of the year that draws on writing through the ages and from across the globe. The Bedside Companion for Gardeners incorporates practical advice from the 17th-century gardening diarist John Evelyn; inspiring prose from Elizabeth von Arnim and John Milton; astute commentary from Horace Walpole on William Kent and Nancy Mitford on the vulgarity of a Surrey garden. Kipling offers practical advice, while Tennyson waxes lyrical on an Arabian night garden. The perfect gift for any gardener, this magical book is an invaluable source of inspiration and guidance to revisit throughout the year.

The Mitford Years

The Mitford Years
Author: Jan Karon
Publisher: Penguin Books
Total Pages:
Release: 1999-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780147712561

This boxed set edition, featuring "The Mitford Years" Readers Guide, includes: "At Home in Mitford, A Light in the Window, These High, Green Hills", and "Out to Canaan".

The Original Christmas Gift

The Original Christmas Gift
Author: Albert S. Lawrence
Publisher: Selah Publishing Group
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2001
Genre: Christmas
ISBN: 9781589300361

What--or who--is the original Christmas gift? There was truly an original Christmas and an original Christmas gift. In this book, the author will give you a new appreciation of what is so wonderful about Christmas.

Christian Popular Culture from The Chronicles of Narnia to Duck Dynasty

Christian Popular Culture from The Chronicles of Narnia to Duck Dynasty
Author: Eleanor Hersey Nickel
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-05-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1725281228

Christian popular culture has tremendous influence on many American churchgoers. When we have a choice between studying the Bible and reading novels, downloading movies, or watching television, we become less familiar with Numbers than with Narnia. This book examines popular Christian narratives with rigorous scholarly methods and assumes that they are just as complex, fascinating, and worthy of investigation as the latest secular Netflix series or dystopian novel. While most scholars focus on the religious aspects of Christian texts, this study takes a new approach by analyzing their social responsibility in portraying the complex dynamics of race, class, and gender in a profoundly unequal America. Close readings of six case studies--The Chronicles of Narnia, Francine Rivers's Redeeming Love, Jan Karon's Mitford novels, Left Behind, the films of the Sherwood Baptist Church, and Duck Dynasty--uncover both harmful stereotypes and Christians serving as leaders in social justice.

At Home in Mitford

At Home in Mitford
Author: Jan Karon
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2017-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0735217394

"A romance between an Anglican priest and a children's book writer who moves into his neighborhood. It is set in Mitford, North Carolina, where life is peaceful and problems are overcome with prayer and some good cooking." --Publisher.