A New Song (A Mitford Novel, Band 5) - Softcover

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Jan Karon was an award-winning advertising executive before following her dream of writing books. She is the author of four previous Mitford novels, AT HOME IN MITFORD, A LIGHT IN THE WINDOW, THESE HIGH, GREEN HILLS and OUT TO CANAAN. She has a hugefan following in the USA. She lives in Blowing Rock, North Carolina.

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Though 600 miles from home, Father Tim and Cynthia find that Mitford is never far away. Another feast for fans of America's favorite small town.

Recently retired after years of serving as the rector of Lord's Chapel, Father Tim agrees to pastor a small parish off the Atlantic coast. There's only one problem: How can he and Cynthia leave the town -- and the boy -- they love?

Soon, however, the charming island of Whitecap reveals its own cast of unforgettable characters: a lovelorn bachelor trying his hand at personal ads, a church organist with a past, a gifted musician who never ventures beyond his gate, and a young mother struggling with paralyzing depression.

Father Tim and Cynthia become immersed in the challenges and quiet victories that make a community special, but the high, green hills of Mitford are never far from their minds -- especially when Dooley ends up on the wrong side of the law.

Like every other bestselling Mitford novel, A New Song is a book you can't bear to see end.

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Table of Contents

PENGUIN BOOKS

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Acknowledgements

CHAPTER ONE - Angel of Light

CHAPTER TWO - Social Graces

CHAPTER THREE - Going, Going, Gone

CHAPTER FOUR - The Smell of Salt Air

CHAPTER FIVE - A Patch of Blue

CHAPTER SIX - The Long Shining

CHAPTER SEVEN - A Little Night Music

CHAPTER EIGHT - The Spark in the Flax

CHAPTER NINE - Home Far Away

CHAPTER TEN - If Wishes Were Horses

CHAPTER ELEVEN - Worms to Butterflies

CHAPTER TWELVE - Over the Wall

CHAPTER THIRTEEN - Mighty Waters

CHAPTER FOURTEEN - Letting Go

CHAPTER FIFTEEN - Lock and Key

CHAPTER SIXTEEN - Dorchester Island

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - Bread and Wine

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - Simple Graces

CHAPTER NINETEEN - Jericho

CHAPTER TWENTY - Dearly Beloved

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - True Confessions

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO - A New Song

Sneak Peek: Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

PENGUIN BOOKS

A NEW SONG

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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Other Mitford books by Jan Karon

AT HOME IN MITFORD
A LIGHT IN THE WINDOW
THESE HIGH, GREEN HILLS
OUT TO CANAAN

VIKING
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First published in 1999 BY Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc.

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Illustrations by Donna Kae Nelson

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint excerpts from the following
copyrighted works: “If Once You Have Slept on an Island” from Taxis and Toadstools by
Rachel Field. Copyright 1926 by The Century Company. Used by permission of Random
House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc. “God’s Way” by Kao Chung-Ming,
appearing in Your Will Be Done, Youth Desk of Christian Conference of Asia,
1986. By permission of the author.

PUBLISHER’S NOTE

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Karon, Jan, date.
A new song/ Jan Karon.
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In memory of my aunt,
Helen Coyner Cloer,
who, when I was ten years old,
typed my first manuscript.

Sing unto the Lord a new song, and His praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the isles and the inhabitants thereof.

Isaiah 42:10, KJV

Acknowledgments

Gentle Reader,

In the Mitford books, there are nearly as many acknowledgments as there are characters in the story. That’s because I try to thank absolutely everyone who helps make the story more authentic. Sometimes I toss in a name out of sheer sentiment, like that of my sixth-grade teacher, Etta Phillips, who comes to my book signings and looks as youthful as ever. Many readers enjoy these acknowledgments because they occasionally find the name of an old school chum, friend, or family member.

Sometimes, they even find themselves.

Warm thanks to:

Brother Francis Andrews, BSG; Rev. Roy M. King; Flyin’ George Ronan; John Ed McConnell; Ralph Emery; Dr. Carl Hurley; Loyal Jones and Billy Edd Wheeler; Bonnie Setzer; Mary Richardson; Fr. John Mangrum; Fr. Jeffrey Scott Miller; Dr. George Grant; Austin Gragg; Roger David Craig; Frank Gilbert and his Mustang convertible; the Mitford Appreciation Society; Gwynne Crosley; Rev. Gale Cooper; Sue Yates; Dr. David Ludwig; Dan Blair; Linda Foster; Will Lankenau; William McDonald Parker; Blowing Rock police chief, Owen Tolbert; Officer Dennis Swanson; Bishop Christopher Fitz-Simons Allison; James F. Carlisle, Sr.; Betsy Barnes; Rayburn and Sheila Farmer; Fr. Scott Oxford; Bishop William C. Frey; Bishop Keith Ackerman; Rev. Stephen J. Hines; Larry Powell; Barry Hubert; Derald West; Sandy McNabb; Donna Kae Nelson for her outstanding cover illustrations for the Mitford series; Captain Weyland Baum, early keeper of the Currituck Light; Billy McCaskill; Major John Coffindaffer; “Bee” Baum; Drs. Melanie and Greg Hawthorne; John L. Beard; Greg and Kathy Fishel; Frank LePore; Garry Oliver; my first-grade teacher, Mrs. Downs; my fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Sherrill; Dr. Michael C. Ain; Captain Mike Clarkin of Fishin’ Frenzy; First Mate Matthew Winchester; Dr. Sue P. Frye; Ross and Linda Dodington; Fr. Richard B. Bass; Colonel Ron and Cathey Fallows; Murray Whisnant; Robert Williams; Chris Williams; Michael Freeland; Rabbi David and Barbara Kline; Officer Kris Merithew; Bruce Luke; Johnny Lentz; Judith Burns; Wonderland Books; Tom Enterline; J.W.D.; Loretta Cornejo; Tex Harrison; Jerry Gregg; Officer Tracy Toler; Jeff Cobb; Walter Green; and Anita Chappell.

Special thanks to:

Dr. Bunky Davant, medical counsel to Mitford and Whitecap; Tony DiSanti, legal counsel to Mitford; Grace Episcopal Church, the lovely architectural model for St. John’s in the Grove; Fr. Charles Gill, rector of St. Andrews by the Sea; Fr. James Harris, friend and helper; Judy Bistany South, for her warm encouragement over the years; my valued assistant, Laura Watts; Captain Horace Whitfield, master of the Elizabeth II; hardworking booksellers everywhere; and, as always, my devoted readers.

CHAPTER ONE

Angel of Light

Dappled by its movement among the branches of a Japanese cherry, the afternoon light entered the study unhindered by draperies or shades.

It...