March 2017 Newsletter
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
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• eBook
• Talking Book (Restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings 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 paren'ts 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, forging a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land.
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April
The Conjoined by Jen Sookfong Lee
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• eBook
Cleaning her mother’s home after her death, social worker Jessica Campbell discovers the bodies of two dead girls in the basement freezers. Campbell believes they may be a pair of sisters who were briefly housed as foster children with the family. As she struggles to understand what has happened, Campbell finds herself reevaluating everything in her life.
May
Victoria by Daisy Goodwin
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• Audiobook
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• eBook
• Large Print
• Talking Book (Restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
Alexandrina Victoria is a teenager until one day, just after her eighteenth birthday when the death of her uncle makes her Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Exhaustively researched, this novel uses Victoria’s diaries to capture the transition of Victoria from young woman to powerful ruler.
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