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Jan Karon: Home to Holly Springs
November 5, 2007
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Jan Karon discusses her new novel, Home to Holly Springs. The Margaret Mitchell House, in partnership with the Jimmy Carter Library, presents author Jan Karon. In Home to Holly Springs, Karon tells the story of a newly retired priest's spur-of-the-moment adventure. For the first time in decades, Father Tim returns to his birthplace, Holly Springs, Mississippi, in response to a mysterious, unsigned note saying simply: Come home.

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Image of Home to Holly Springs (Father Tim, Book 1)
Author: Jan Karon
Publisher: Penguin Group (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 368 pages
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