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Show New Books at S. H. Library The adventure stories in Doug Allan's "Gamblers With Fate," have been selected from his television tele-vision program, "Thrills and Chills from Everywhere," which includes stories told by famous scientists, explorers, news-cameramen, writers and hunters. The first of the thirteen thrillers i's Bob Ripley's adventure in a pit of poisonous reptiles. "Broadside to tlye Sunj," by Don West, is another heartwarming heart-warming book of a man who made a success of a reclaimed farm and who gained a sense of pride in his accomplishment. There are interesting characters in the book, all of which makes pleasurable reading. Versatile Louis Bromfield has now written, "A Few Brass Tacks" setting down his doubts and convictions as he attempts to arrive at some answer to the tragic political, economic and social so-cial problems of our time. "A Solo in Tom-Toms," is Gene Fowler's account of his own life, particularly as a journalist jour-nalist in the turbulent days of Denver history. "The Snake-Pit," by Mary Jane Ward is the story of a girt who lost her mind and found it and the picture of life in a mental hospital. It is a book you can't lay down once you start it. "Road to Calvary" by Alexei Tolstoy is a Stalin prize novel and tells of Russian history at the time of World War I, the Russian Revolution and the Civil War. |