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May 23, 2024 · News of the World present an unlikely couple: an old man in his early 70s, Captain Kidd, and a young orphan girl who had lived with the Kiowa after they’d killed her parents. Johanna is 10 years old, but she has forgotten how to speak English and to live among “civilized” people. Captain Kidd is given the mission to take the girl to her ...
May 21, 2024 · May 21/2024. It’s now been almost a month since the dedication of the new, improved town square, where Debora Westmoreland, Diane Causey-Brice, Tommy Brice and many other were recognized, congratulated and cheered.
May 4, 2024 · Jiles is known for her books “Enemy Women Stormy Weather,” “The Color of Lightning,” “Lighthouse Island,” and “News of the World,” which was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award. Jiles talks with Ben Cater, director of the Point Loma Nazarene University Honors Program.
May 2, 2024 · That’s why when I came across Paulette Jiles’ novel, ‘The Color of Lightning’, I was immediately intrigued. Set in the aftermath of the Civil War, this historical fiction follows the story of a former slave named Britt Johnson and his quest to rescue his captured wife and children.
May 10, 2024 · Paulette Jiles’ 2002 novel ENEMY WOMEN describes the untenable situations so many Missouri households found themselves in during the Civil War in that divided state. Bands of guerrillas loyal to either the Union or the Confederacy terrorized the land. Even families attempting neutrality became suspected of sympathies for one side or the other.
May 15, 2024 · Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd drifts through northern Texas, performing live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world-of the Irish pouring into New York City, of the railroad driving into the new state of Nebraska.
May 15, 2024 · Summary, Analysis & Review of Paulette Jiles's News of the World — Instaread, — Summary, Analysis & Review of Paulette Jiles's News of the World by Instaread Preview: News of the World by Paulette Jiles is the story of an unlikely friendship between an old man, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, and a 10-year-old girl, Johanna Leonberger, who was rescued from the Kiowa Indians. The novel is set ...
