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Show New Books Include Whispering Sands New books at the Davis County Library include: "WHISPERING SANDS," by Erie Stanley Stan-ley Gardner. This collection of stories concerns con-cerns survival in the beautiful yet deadly deserts of Western America at the height of the Gold Rush. A main figure, threads his intrepid way through all the stories tracking robbers, rescuing city folk, saving girls from Indians, and matching wits with psychotic killers, all on the trail of golden fortunes lost in the burning, sandy wasteland. waste-land. "Pay Dirt." by Erie Stanley Gardner. More riproaring Western stories of gold feverand the Great American Desert by the author of "Whispering Sands." The same rugged hero rushes headlong through this anthology outwitting murderous gangsters, surviving poisonous alkali springs, beating claim jumpers, and hunting gold in Death Valley. "EI. VAGO," by Laurence Gonzales. This is a stirring novel of the Mexican Revolution. Re-volution. T he Vagabond encounters all manner of electrifying adventure as he rides w ith Zapata and Pancho Villa through the madness of a nation at war w ith itself. The story is sure to please readers who enjoy excitement, high adventure, stormy passions and sweeping drama. " The Barefoot Brigade." by Douglas C. Jones. A highly acclaimed writer of historical histor-ical fiction has given us this novel of the Civil War in epic style. The story follows a ragged company of Confederate soldiers from recruitment and hasty training through some of the war's most cataclysmic cataclys-mic conflicts: Gettysburg, the Wilderness. Chickamauga. and the trenches of Richmond. Rich-mond. The realities of battle are graphically drawn, and the bravery and fighting spirit of the common soldiers are movingly portrayed. por-trayed. OTHER ARRIVALS: "The Secret Diaries Di-aries of Hitler's Doctor." by David Irving: "Winston Churchill. The Wilderness Years." by Martin Gilbert: "Bette. the Life of Bette Davis," by Charles Higham: "DeGaulle." by Bernard Ledwidge; "The Longest War, Northern Ireland and the IRA." by Kevin Kelley: "A History of Chinese Civilization," by Jacques Gernet. |