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If You Like Jan Karon's Mitford series, you might enjoy …

All titles shelved in Fiction collection, except as noted: M=mystery, SF=science fiction, SS=short story collection, Y=young adult, W=western, NF=non-fiction.

Atherton, Nancy: Aunt Dimity series

Lori Shepherd and her Aunt Dimity unearth secrets and solve a variety of puzzles in this cozy mystery series set in England.
Benson, E.F.: Mapp and Lucia titles

Mapp and Lucia disregard village conventions and carry on a continuing feud fueled by conflicting garden parties, musical soirées and bridge evenings.
Binchy, Dan: Fireballs

(1994)

The merry tales of the Irish village of Brulagh.
Brown, Carrie: Lamb in love: a novel

(1999)

Vida Stephen has been nanny for twenty years to the mentally handicapped son of a rich American widower. Every day for most of her life, she nods to Norris Lamb, the postmaster, when calling for her mail. A fussy, stampcollecting bachelor and church organist, Norris has falls suddenly, amazingly, and secretly in love with Vida.
DePree, Traci: A can of peas

(2002)

Enticed by the simple, small-town life, Peter Morgan and his new wife, Mae, follow in the footsteps of Peter's grandparents on the family farm. Soon, Peter is farming around the clock, barely one step ahead of failure, as Mae struggles to find her place in Peter's life and the community. Sometimes funny and often poignant, these vignettes draw readers into the reassuring rhythms of life as it is in the heart of America. Sequels: Dandelions in a jelly jar (2004) and Aprons on a clothesline (2005).
Evans, Richard Paul: The looking glass

(1999)

The author of The Christmas Box tells the story of two people who come together and make each other whole.
Franken, Rose: Claudia series

Written between 1939 and 1958, the Claudia series books follow the life of a young woman from late adolescence into adulthood, through marriage and a war and in and out of the trials of an ordinary, but cheerful, life.
Goudge, Elizabeth: The dean's watch

(1960)

The deacon of a mid-century English cathedral meets a clockmaker and their friendship changes not only each of them, but the lives of many people in the city as well.
Gulley, Philip: Harmony series

Sam Gardner, pastor of Harmony Friends Meeting, describes the adventures of leading his hometown church.
Hanff, Helene: 84, Charing Cross Road

(1970)

NF

818 H23e

For 20 years, a New York writer and a London bookseller carry on an increasingly touching correspondence.
Hill, Susan: Mrs. de Winter

(1993)

This sequel to Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca follows the De Winters after the fire that destroyed Manderly.
Hinton, J. Lynne: Hope Springs series

Five churchgoing women from Hope Springs, North Carolina, experience joys, sorrows, ups and downs.
Lindvall, Michael L.: Leaving North Haven: the further adventures of a small town pastor: a novel

(2002)

Ten years of pastoring in the Minnesota town of North Haven have given the Rev. David Battles a keen appreciation for grace in ordinary lives. In his final year with the lovable, always memorable people in his congregation, Battles recounts the pathos and humor of what happens in their lives between one All Saints Day and the next.
Medlicott, Joan A.: Covington, North Carolina novels

Circumstance has brought these disparate women of "a certain age" to a Pennsylvania boardinghouse where three square meals and a sagging bed is the most any of them can look forward to. But friendship will take them on a startling journey to a rundown North Carolina farmhouse where the unexpected suddenly seems not only welcome but delightfully promising.
Morgan, Robert: Gap Creek: a novel

(1999)

A winning and indomitable young heroine, 17-year-old Julie Harmon, endures an assortment of hardships in turn-of-the-century Appalachia.
Morgan, Robert: The truest pleasure

(2002)

Ginny, who marries Tom at the turn of the century after her family gives up on her marrying, narrates the story of their life together on her father's farm in the North Carolina mountains. Although Ginny's story is remote from today, its rendering of the nature of marriage is timeless and universal.
Parr, Delia: Abide with me

(2006)

The three Long sisters of Welleswood, New Jersey, feel they can handle any problem — until each faces the most critical challenge of her life.
Pilcher, Rosamunde: The shell seekers

(1987)

Passions and heartbreak have held one family together for three generations.
Pilcher, Rosamunde: Winter solstice

(2000)

A story told, chapter by chapter, by a beguiling array of characters.
Pym, Barbara: Some tame gazelle

(1978)

This is the first story of Pym's village spinsters, sisters Belinda and Harriet Bede.
Read, Miss: Thrush Green series

This long series of novels depicts English village life as seen through the eyes of Read's primary characters, Dorothy Watson and Agnes Fogerty.
Ross, Ann B.: Miss Julia series

With a cast of crazy characters and a strong Southern flavor, this series follows the adventures of a lively, sharp-tongued septuagenarian.
Turner, Jamie L.: A garden to keep

(2001)

Elizabeth Landis retraces the path of her life and her marriage, discovering along the way memories both painful and joyful.
Trobaugh, Augusta: Sophie and the rising sun

(2002)

Salty Creek is a sleepy Georgia town where everyone knows everyone else's business, along with their place in the hierarchy of color, class, and family history. Strangers rarely enter their midst and a mysterious arrival in the spring of 1939 soon sets tongues wagging.
Valentine, Katherine: A miracle for St. Cecilia's

(2002)

Poor in wordly goods but rich in faith and compassion, the townspeople of Dorsetville, Connecticut have been bound together for generations by the gaudy St. Cecilia's church, now slated to close after Easter Sunday. Sequels: A gathering of angels (2003) and Grace will lead me home (2004).
Wood, Jane Roberts: The Lucinda 'Lucy' Richards trilogy

The Train to Estelline, A Place Called Sweet Shrub and Dance a Little Longer span the years from 1911 to the 1930s, with a variety of landscapes, characters of all ages and social classes, and an overall tenderness that never lapses into sentimentality.