01591cam a2200313 4500 551461514 TxAuBib 20170524120000.0 160830s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016040096 9781410489531 large print : hardcover 1410489531 large print : hardcover TxAuBib Jiles, Paulette, 1943- News of the world / Paulette Jiles. Large print ed. hardcover. Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016. 2016. 291 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. In the wake of the Civil War, retired army captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels northern Texas giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. He is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan - raised by the Kiowa raiders who killed her family - to relatives she doesn't remember 400 miles away. The reunion in San Antonio is neither happy nor welcome. Captain Kidd, a respectable elderly man, faces a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become - in the eyes of the law - a kidnapper himself. (from back cover). 20170524. Voyages and travels Fiction. Widowers Fiction. Orphans Fiction. Kiowa Indians Fiction. Large type books. Historical fiction. United States History 19th century Fiction.