A New Song
A New Song
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Just the Series: Mitford Novel Vol. 5   

Series and Publisher: Mitford Novel   

Annotation: Father Tim agrees to pastor a small parish off the Atlantic coast.
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #6738033
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Copyright Date: 1999
Edition Date: 1999 Release Date: 04/01/00
ISBN: 0-14-027059-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-14-027059-4
Dewey: Fic
Language: English
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Kirkus Reviews

This fifth installment in Karon's popular Mitford Saga (Out to Canaan, 1997, etc.) follows Father Tim Kavanagh and his wife, Cynthia, as they wander farther afield to Whitecap Island, North Carolina. Now retired from his longtime post as rector of the Episcopal parish of Mitford, Father Tim accepts a position as "interim minister" at a parish on a small coastal island just off the nearby Outer Banks. Karon is an old-fashioned writer'she even addresses her opening lines to a Gentle Reader—and much of her story revolves around the homely details of cooking, socializing, and keeping house that are familiar to any minister's wife or daughter. But domestic crises arise as well, and Father Tim and Cynthia both have to find ways to help parishioners who suffer from loneliness, depression, and other (usually secret) griefs. Much of their concern is for Dooley Barlowe, a'mountain boy" Tim took into his home at Mitford five years before and raised almost as his own son, sending him to a Virginia prep school for education and guidance. Dooley, now in his teens, has stayed behind in Mitford but soon finds himself back in the kind of trouble from which Father Tim and Cynthia have worked hard to extract him. A story of small traumas and small victories, Karon's account manages to avoid the worst excesses of sentimentality and to provide a rather charming portrait of life in the slow lane. (Literary Guild selection; author tour)

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Word Count: 131,552
Reading Level: 5.5
Interest Level: 9+
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.5 / points: 20.0 / quiz: 54929 / grade: Upper Grades
Reading Counts!: reading level:8.6 / points:25.0 / quiz:Q17324
Lexile: 870L
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Jan Karon, who lives in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, was an award-winning advertising executive before following her dream of writing books. She is the author of five bestselling Mitford novels: At Home in Mitford; A Light in the Window; These High, Green Hills; Out to Canaan; and A New Song (all available from Penguin). At Home in Mitford was nominated for an ABBY Award by the American Booksellers Association in 1996, 1997, and 1998. Her book Jeremy: The Tale of an Honest Bunny will be published in 2000 by Viking Children’s Books.

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In the fifth novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon's beloved series, fans old and new will discover that when it comes to Mitford, absence only make the heart grow fonder...

Mitford’s longtime Episcopal priest, Father Tim, has retired. But new challenges and adventures await when he agrees to serve as interim minister of a small church on Whitecap Island. He and his wife, Cynthia, soon find that Whitecap has its own unforgettable characters: a church organist with a mysterious past, a lovelorn bachelor placing personal ads, a mother battling paralyzing depression. Whitecap has more than its fair share of challenges, but in the end, Father Tim and Cynthia find that Mitford is never far away when circumstances back home keep their phone ringing off the hook...


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