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Show "Dust on My Heart." "I am a Negra American all my life I have wanted to be an American" so Spencer Logan begins his book "A Negro's Faith in America." The author as a sergeant in the army has had opportunity to observe what the war has done to the Negro soldier and he tells what he thinks of America. "M 1 S T E R ROBERTS" by Thomas Heggen is a "rollicking and irreverent story of life aboard a navy supply ship, whose crew recognizes only one real enemy the captain." Bennett Ben-nett Cerf in Saturday Review of Literature advises us to watch this fellow Heggen he's terrific. ter-rific. Cliff Bograd thought that New Dixie, South America was "NO PLACE FOR WOMEN" (especially (especi-ally red-headed Janet Norman) when he went there to get rubber rub-ber for United States Rubber Division Di-vision and to solve a murder mystery. The romance is by Tom Gill, prolific story writer. Western "SLASH G HOMBRE," Hopkins. BOOKMAN'S NOTES BY AURELJA BEXNION Librarian, Sprague Branch Public Pub-lic Library, Sugar House The staff of Sprague Branch Library joins me in wishing all the readers of this column a very Merry Christmas and best wishes wish-es for everything that makes this season 'Of the year a happy one. Have you thought of books as Christmas gifts? There are many suitable ones for all kinds of people. Two that come to mind especially now are Lloyd Douglas' Doug-las' "The Robe" and Russell Janney's "Miracle Of The Bells." You who have enjoyed Gertrude Ger-trude Atherton's books will welcome wel-come her new book "My San Francisco" which is a "wayward biography" of the western city. Mrs. Atherton is 89 years old imagine that! and writes of her native city much as an old lady talks of people, telling their history, their family pedigree, pedi-gree, anecdotes, etc. This book will mean much to those who find San Ffrancisco one of the most fascinating cities of the world. Some of your friends might enjoy "The Reader's Shake-spears" Shake-spears" written in modern prose but retaining the best qualities of his writings. And don't forget the new "Colorado River" by Waters for friends who , enjoy travel and our western country. For children and young people peo-ple there are so many lovely new things being put out in much more durable binding this year. The Rainbow edition of many of the children's classics is a pleasing addition to children's chil-dren's literature. If these suggestions do n o t sti'ike the right chord, our staff will be very happy to make other suggestions for Christmas buying. The library will close Christmas Christ-mas and New Year's Eve. Recently Released United States Steel corporation corpora-tion has put out a beautifully illustrated book, "STEEL," which shows the processes of manufacture. "FABULOUS EMPIRE," Col. Zack Miller's story is told by Fred Gipson. It is the story of old G. W. Miller who left Kentucky Ken-tucky with his family soon after Civil war days, went to Oklahoma Okla-homa and established the famous fa-mous 101 Ranch where many famous people visited and his sons became famous in different differ-ent ways. The book is full of interesting anecdotes of western west-ern frontier history. You may think cold, snowy December is the wrong month to consider such books as "PLANNING "PLAN-NING AND BUILDING," a new book by Orlloff and Raymore, but remember that as early as February your garden starts to claim your attention again. So December and January are the months to draw plans, study seed catalogs and get your orders or-ders ready for next summer's plants. You will find other such liooks at Sprague advising flower flow-er colors, design, bulbs, vegetables vege-tables and ever so many other things pertaining to gardens. Neill James is the petticoat vagabond who has written this new book on travel in Mexico |