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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 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, forging 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. Exquisitely rendered and morally complex, News of the World is a brilliant work of historical fiction that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.

Кажется, кровопролитным «индейским войнам» на Западе США никогда не будет конца. Белые и краснокожие, осатанев от взаимной ненависти, безжалостно истребляют друг друга. Правда, десятилетнюю Джоанну Леонбергер, как и других белых детей, индейцы увезли с собой, чтобы воспитать в своих племенных традициях. Капитан Кидд, ветеран многих войн, привык жить сегодняшним днем, странствуя от поселения к поселению, где он зарабатывает публичным чтением газет для малограмотных покорителей Дикого Запада. Но на этот раз у него другое, более выгодное задание – сопроводить Джоанну через весь Техас к дяде и тете, которым чудом удалось разыскать и выкупить…

Кажется, кровопролитным "индейским войнам" на Западе США никогда не будет конца. Белые и краснокожие, осатанев от взаимной ненависти, безжалостно истребляют друг друга. Правда, индейцам хотя бы хватает милосердия щадить белых детей, которых они увозят с собой и воспитывают в своих племенных традициях… что создает немалые проблемы тем немногим родственникам, которым удается впоследствии чудом разыскать и выкупить юных пленников – таких, как десятилетняя Джоанна Леонбергер.

Капитан Кидд, ветеран многих войн, привык одиноко жить сегодняшним днем, странствуя от поселения к поселению, где он зарабатывает публичным чтением газет для малограмотных покорителей Дикого Запада. Но на этот раз у него другое, более выгодное задание – сопроводить Джоанну через весь Техас к дяде и тете.

Они едут вдвоем через бескрайние прерии – старик, умеющий стрелять без промаха, и девочка, не знающая ни слова по-английски. Едут по диким землям, где нужно постоянно держаться начеку, ведь смертельная опасность подстерегает на каждом шагу, за каждым поворотом…

In the aftermath of the American Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this morally complex, multi-layered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.

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.

It is a harsh world for an orphan like Nadia Stepan. Growing up, she dreams of a green vacation spot called Lighthouse Island, in a place called the Pacific Northwest. When an opportunity for escape arises, Nadia embarks on a dangerous and sometimes comic adventure. Along the way she meets a man who changes the course of her life: James Orotov, a mapmaker and demolition expert. Together, they evade arrest and head north toward a place of wild beauty that lies beyond the megapolis—Lighthouse Island.

For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family's avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee.

The treachery of a fellow traveler, however, brings about her arrest, and she is caged with the criminal and deranged in a filthy women's prison. But young Adair finds that love can live even in a place of horror and despair. Her interrogator, a Union major, falls in love with her and vows to return for her when the fighting is over. Before he leaves for battle, he bestows upon her a precious gift: freedom.

Now an escaped "enemy woman," Adair must make her harrowing way south buoyed by a promise...seeking a home and a family that may be nothing more than a memory.