News of the world / Paulette Jiles.
Record details
- ISBN: 1410489531 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781410489531 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781410489531 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1410489531 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781410489531 (large print ; hardcover)
- ISBN: 1410489531 (large print ; hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781432839970
- ISBN: 1432839977
- Physical Description: 291 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-286). |
Summary, etc.: | In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna's parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows. Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act "civilized." Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forming a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land. Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember -- strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become -- in the eyes of the law -- a kidnapper himself. |
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Subject: | Voyages and travels > Fiction. Widowers > Fiction. Orphans > Fiction. Kiowa Indians > Fiction. United States > History > 19th century > Fiction. Large type books. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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Available copies
- 11 of 12 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Mark Twain Library Association - Redding. (Show)
Holds
- 1 current hold with 12 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Mark Twain Library Association - Redding | FIC Jil LP (Text) | 33620131441376 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | F/JILES LARGE PRINT (Text) | 34029138764625 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | LP FIC JILES (Text) | 34014140343725 | Adult Large Type | Checked out | 04/04/2024 |
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | LP FIC JILES,P (Text) | 34026138358663 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
Hagaman Memorial Library - East Haven | LTE F JILES (Text) | 31953154044963 | Adult New Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
Hagaman Memorial Library - East Haven | LTE F JILES (Text) | 31953154045549 | Adult New Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
Milford Public Library | JILES Paulette (Text) | 34013138340727 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
Milford Public Library | JILES Paulette (Text) | 34013141960644 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | LP FIC JIL (Text) | 36123132892991 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
Oxford Public Library | LP FIC JILES (Text) | 33530140491348 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |