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Oakwood Adds 13 New Titles For Circulation

Among new books now circulating at Oakwood - Wright library is Ilka Chase's "In Bed We Cry". This is the story of Devon Elliott, who was a success by all standards-professionally, socially and personally. The book's primary concern is with froth, which it dispels gaily, warmly and with a touch of malice.

"The Apostle" by Shalom Asch, tells of the slow spread of Christianity, under the heroic leadership of Paul, the apostle who brought a message of hope to the oppressed throughout the empire of Rome.

"Dancing Saints" by Ann George Leslie, has as its theme the losing struggle of a Shaker community against destruction, both from within its own ranks and from the menace of the outside world.

Also new are "Thunderhead" by Mary O'Hara and "Big Rock Candy Mountain" by Wallace Stegner.

Among non-fiction is found "Love at First Flight" by Charles Spalding and Otis Carney. This is a humorous account of the training of a naval aviator beginning with his attempts at enlistment and ending with his graduation.

"Kaiser Wakes the Doctors" by Paul H. DeKruif, tells of the effort of Henry Kaiser and California doctors, mainly Dr. Garfield, to bring maximum medical care within the reach of all the people.

"Silent Night" by Hertha Pauli is the story of one of the best loved Christmas carols-how it came to be written on Christmas Eve 1818 in an Austrian village, the mystery which surrounded its authorship for so long and its spread throughout the world.

"Young Lady Randolph" by Rene Kraus, tells of the social, political and literary life to 1900 of Jennie Jerome, American mother of Winston Churchill.

"Vanishing Virginian" by Rebecca Yancey Williams is the humorous and loving biography of remarkable father as the daughter remembers him. It is the Virginia of the last generation, still aristocratic, but with all the modern problems nicely flavored by the past.

"U-Boat Prisoner" by Archie Gibbs is the life story of a merchant seaman from Texas who has been torpedoed twice in West Indian waters and held captive for four days aboard a Nazi submarine.

"Excuse My Dust" by Bellamy Partridge continues the reminiscences of the author's life in Phelps, N. Y., as told by his earlier books "Country Lawyer" and "Big Family."

A book for younger readers is "Youngest WAC" by Bernadine Bailey.

This book is all about Teresa Nan Thompson (nick-named TNT) who joined the WACs and found plenty of adventure.