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Type of bind: School & Library Type of bind
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780613124669
ISBN number: 0613124669
Label: Topeka Bindery
Manufacturer: Topeka Bindery
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 446
Printing Date: 1999-10
Publishing house: Topeka Bindery
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Studio: Topeka Bindery
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A heartwarming portrait of the mysteries and miracles of everyday life in a small town introduces the charming North Carolina town of Mitford and its colorful inhabitants, including Tim, a bachelour rector, who is falling in love with his neighbor. Reprint.
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Father Tim, a cherished small-town rector, is the steadfast soldier in this beloved slice of life story set in an American village where the grass is still green, the pickets are still white, and the air still smells sweet. The rector's forthright secretary, Emma Garret, worries about her employer, as she sees past his Christian cheerfulness into his aching loneliness. Slowly but surely, the empty places in Father Tim's heart do get filled. First with a gangly stray dog, later with a seemingly stray boy, and finally with the realization that he is stumbling into love with his independent and Christian-wise next-door neighbor. Much more than a gentle love story, this is a homespun tale about a town of endearing characters-- including a mysterious jewel thief--who are as quirky and popular as those of Mayberry, R.F.D. --Gail Hudson
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all the books in this series, with this one very first & the wedding story second are truly funny, warm, deep and christian.i completely forgot that it was all in a book and believed everything and everyone to be really there. i still do. it was also very peaceful book, though not slow. peaceful and pacifying. it's the place in the world i would love to live in and the kind of people i would love to meet.
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I love Jan Karon's Mitford books -- they're so well-written, so sweet and touching without being cloying, so laugh-out-loud funny at times, so full of sincere religious feeling without being heavy-handed. There's one thing I have to say, though -- as a Catholic, now that I've read most of her Mitford novels, I do feel a bit uncomfortable with the complete absence of Catholicism in Karon's Christian world. Maybe it's the setting in the South, but the fact that there are Christians who are Catholics is never, ever mentioned -- she has one minor character who's Jewish, but nary a Catholic anywhere. I wish she wouldn't leave us out completely -- her happy Mitford world is otherwise so inclusive, and now that I've realized it, it does give me an uncomfortable feeling that there might be some (perhaps unconscious?) anti-Catholic prejudice on the part of this wonderful author.
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This book was fine for my sight impaired mother..... however the packaging from Amazon was very poor....two loose books in a cardboard box. substandard for Amazon!!!!!
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I didn't think anyone else would mention this so thought it could be helpful to SOME people but there is some mild bad language in this book.
I can understand why people love this kind of book, just everyday life centered around a clergy and his staff. I did find some nice Christian thoughts etc BUT a warning for those of you christians that really like a 100% clean language book. This isn't it sadly. I am not saying its really bad but I stopped reading it as there were too many "oh my G**" and not done in a 'prayer like way!' There were other few mild language. The very first one I could see as a non christian character and the pastor putting up with it but then there were more that didn't fall into this category.
I realise that this warning may not be applicable to a lot of people but for those including myself that like a 100% clean language book then I am just letting you know, that there is that small anount in there.
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The very first of the Mitford series, this book takes you to a town where we all wished we lived, where there are friends wherever you look and characters aplenty! Jan Karon writes the way these North Carolina people talk, and the reader can actually "hear" them chattering away. Once you go to Mitford, you can't wait to go back, can't wait for the subsequent book, and the subsequent and the next! There are pages that will make you smile, laugh out loud, make you cry, too, and send you down your own memory lane because many of the people in this book are like people that you know. So, start reading about Father Tim, his nosey secretary, and his huge dog Barnabas who responds to commands so much better when they're accompanied with a Bible verse--and it doesn't matter what verse, any will do. And that's just the beginning of the list of citizens of Mitford who await you!
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