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02758aam a2200397Ii 4500 001 2113A5C299DB11E7BDA9F53097128E48 003 SILO 005 20170915010007 007 tb 008 170703t20172016miu d 000 1 eng 020 $a 1432839977 020 $a 9781432839970 035 $a (OCoLC)992711972 040 $a JJG $b eng $e rda $c JJG $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d VP@ $d BKL $d OCL $d RIOJG $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 082 04 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Jiles, Paulette, $d 1943- $e author. 245 10 $a News of the world / $c Paulette Jiles. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Farmington Hills, Mich : $b Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, $c 2017. 300 $a 289 pages (large print) ; $c 22 cm 340 $n large print $2 rda 520 $a 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. 650 0 $a Voyages and travels $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Widowers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Orphans $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Kiowa Indians $v Fiction. 651 0 $a United States $x History $y 19th century $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Large type books. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 945 $a lpt 952 $l WKPE185 $d 20230310011633.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20200620010030.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2113A5C299DB11E7BDA9F53097128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search