A Light In The Window (novel)
''A Light in the Window'' is a novel written by American author Jan Karon. It is book two of ''The Mitford Years ''The Mitford Years'' is a series of fourteen novels by American writer Jan Karon, set in the fictional town of Mitford, North Carolina. The novels are Christian-themed, and center on the life of the rector, Father Tim. Novels * '' At Home in Mit ...'' series. The first edition () was published in hardcover format by Doubleday in 1994. List of characters * Father Tim * Cynthia Coppersmith * Edith Mallory * Dooley Barlowe External links *The Mitford Years official website 1995 American novels Novels by Jan Karon Doubleday (publisher) books Novels set in North Carolina {{1990s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jan Karon
Jan Karon is an American novelist who writes for both adults and young readers. She is the author of the ''New York Times''-bestselling Mitford novels, featuring Father Timothy Kavanagh, an Episcopal priest, and the fictional village of Mitford. Her most recent Mitford novel, ''To Be Where You Are'', was released in September 2017. She has been designated a lay Canon for the Arts in the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy (Illinois) by Keith Ackerman, Episcopal Bishop of Quincy,Jan Karon Infosite site and in May 2000 she was awarded the Degree, Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa by Nashotah House, a theological seminary in Nashotah Wisconsin. In 2015, she was awarded the Library of Virginia's Literary Lifetime Achievement Award. Early life Jan Karon was born on March 14, 1937, in the Blue Ridge foothills town of[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Mitford Years
''The Mitford Years'' is a series of fourteen novels by American writer Jan Karon, set in the fictional town of Mitford, North Carolina. The novels are Christian-themed, and center on the life of the rector, Father Tim. Novels * '' At Home in Mitford'' (1994) * '' A Light in the Window'' (1995) * ''These High, Green Hills'' (1996) * ''Out to Canaan ''Out to Canaan'' is a novel written by American author Jan Karon. It is the fourth book of ''The Mitford Years ''The Mitford Years'' is a series of fourteen novels by American writer Jan Karon, set in the fictional town of Mitford, North Carol ...'' (1997) * ''A New Song'' (1999) * ''A Common Life: The Wedding Story'' (2001) * ''In This Mountain'' (2002) * ''Shepherds Abiding'' (2003) * ''Light from Heaven'' (2005) * ''Home to Holly Springs'' (2007) * ''In the Company of Others'' (2010) * ''Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good'' (2014) * ''Come Rain or Come Shine'' (2015) * ''To Be Where You Are'' (2017) References {{Reflist Novel ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lion Hudson
Lion Hudson is UK's largest publisher of children's Christian books. It is based in Oxford, UK. It had its origins as Lion Publishing (founded in 1971) and Hudson International (founded in 1977) which merged to become Lion Hudson PLC in 2003. The company became owned by the AFD Group in the Isle of Man in August 2017 upon the acquisition of the assets of "Lion Hudson PLC in administration" (now liquidated). Lion Hudson was purchased by SPCK in 2021 and is now an imprint of SPCK. See also * UK children's book publishers List of UK children's book publishers. For UK children's authors, see Children's non-fiction authors. A * Albury Books * Allen Lane * Andersen Press * Austin Macauley Publishers B * Barefoot Books - Canadian not British * Barrington Stoke * ... References External links * {{Authority control Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom Christian mass media companies Christian publishing companies ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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At Home In Mitford
''At Home in Mitford'' is a novel written by American author Jan Karon. It is book one of ''The Mitford Years'' series. The first edition () was published in hardcover format by Doubleday in 1994. Penguin Books Penguin Books is a British publishing, publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.television film airing on the Hallmark Channel. List of characters * Father Tim * Cynthia Coppersmith * Miss Sadie Baxter * Barnabas * Dooley Barlowe * Hoppy Harper * Miss Rose * Uncle Billy * Emma Garrett ...[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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These High, Green Hills
These may refer to: *the plural proximal demonstrative in English *These, a variation of the Greek Theseus Theseus (, ; grc-gre, Θησεύς ) was the mythical king and founder-hero of Athens. The myths surrounding Theseus his journeys, exploits, and friends have provided material for fiction throughout the ages. Theseus is sometimes describe ... in Etruscan mythology {{Disambig Etruscan mythology ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Doubleday (publisher)
Doubleday is an American publishing company. It was founded as the Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 and was the largest in the United States by 1947. It published the work of mostly U.S. authors under a number of imprints and distributed them through its own stores. In 2009 Doubleday merged with Knopf Publishing Group to form the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, which is now part of Penguin Random House. In 2019, the official website presents Doubleday as an imprint, not a publisher. History The firm was founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 by Frank Nelson Doubleday in partnership with Samuel Sidney McClure. McClure had founded the first U.S. newspaper syndicate in 1884 (McClure Syndicate) and the monthly ''McClure's Magazine'' in 1893. One of their first bestsellers was ''The Day's Work'' by Rudyard Kipling, a short story collection that Macmillan published in Britain late in 1898. Other authors published by the company in its early years include W. Somerset M ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1995 American Novels
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Novels By Jan Karon
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historica ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Doubleday (publisher) Books
Doubleday may refer to: * Doubleday (surname), including a list of people with the name Publishing imprints * Doubleday (publisher), imprint of Knopf Doubleday, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House * Doubleday Canada, imprint of Penguin Random House Canada * Image, formerly Doubleday Religion, imprint of Crown Publishing Group, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House Baseball * Doubleday Field, Cooperstown, New York, USA; baseball stadium * ''Doubleday Field'', United States Military Academy, West Point, New York State, USA; a region of the academy; see Johnson Stadium at Doubleday Field * Auburn ''Doubledays'', single-A baseball team, from Auburn, New York State, USA Other uses * SS ''Abner Doubleday'', Liberty ship built during World War II * ''Henry Doubleday Research Association'', UK organic growing charity See also * * * Doubleday myth The Doubleday myth is the claim that the sport of baseball was invented in 1839 by future American Civil War general Abner Dou ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |