The story of 71-year-old Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd and his unlikely ward, a 10-year-old girl rescued by the U.S. Army from Kiowa Indian capture.
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
(April 5, 2023)
Also available as an eBook or eAudiobook on OverDrive/Libby.
Towles follows three teenage boys and an 8-year-old as they travel along the Lincoln Highway from Morgen, Nebraska, to Manhattan in 1954. Emmett Watson, just released from a juvenile boys detention camp, has returned to Nebraska to find that his family's farm has been foreclosed on.
An intergenerational story about the love and pain passed down among women of four generations, holding close to one another during times of unimaginable fear and grief.