The July title is "News of the World" by Paulette Jiles. Copies of the book are available at the El Mirage Library Customer Service desk and online electronically through Overdrive on the Library’s homepage.

 Book synopsis: Texas, 1870's. In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of "Enemy Women" that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. Longlisted for the National Book Award–Fiction.