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 make next weeks best-seller list. We nominate the following for the Base Library's Hit Parade.
 THE SEA EAGLE, by James Aldridge. Plenty of action in this account of two Australians who join with five Britishers in their at tempt to escape from German-oc- cupied Crete. It should be popular, for it's forerunner, Signed with their Honour, enjoyed a long run on last years best-seller list.
 BROKEN RIVER, by John and Ward Hawkins. The Oregon spruce country is the setting for the stock basic plot of rivalry between two logging companies for a contract. An undisclosed fact in the hero's past adds mystery; and the red haired owner of the timber tract brings romance. Pilebuck, by the same authors, was popular last Fall.
 DRAGONWYCK, by Anya Seton. Good entertainment in mid-nine- teenth century historical novel that verges on the thriller type. This book is one of the "on again, off again" items on the current list of best-sellers.
 LIBERTY STREET, by Ira Mor- ris. A Literary Guild selection, which fact immediately assures it's place on the best-seller list. It is the story of three refugees, strand ed in a Caribbean town on the last lap of their long, tormented es- cape from Europe. All power over their lives lies in the hands of the American diplomat, a cold schem- ing career man, jealous of his au- thority and interruptions in his use of it. Written with dramatic affect and sympathy.
 !. BEDFORD VILLAGE, by Her vey Allen. This is second volume in series of six, the first of which was The Forest and the Fort. This re-creates the Pennsylvania that Salathiel Alpine saw from 1763 through 1764. Salathiel is involved in affairs at Fort Bedford, life in the village that found it's social center in Pendergass' tavern, the political work of the Masons, and Indian fighting in which the blood jest massacre is committed by the whites. A good digest of historical material enlivened by the novelist's imagination. Remember his first novel, Anthony Adverse?
 WHILE STILL WE LIVE, by Helen Machines. The author of As signment in Brittany comes for ward with another story of war and espionage. This time the scene IS Poland, and the narrative covers the devastation of Warsaw, Nazi terrorism, and the organization of the Polish underground, in all of which a young British girl was in volved. For the reader who likes his thriller done with skill in writ ing and characterization.
 THE STEEP ASCENT, by Anne Lindbergh. This is a stream-of-con- sciousness record of an American wife's flight, with her English avi- ator husband, from England to Ita- ,ly, the first lap of a journey to Egypt, where she is to rest in the sun while awaiting the birth of child. As always, the writing is sensitive and poetic, the ebb and flow of emotion subtly but clearly conveyed.
 COLCORTON, by Edith Pope. A gripping story, unusual in atmo- sphere and characterization. The coast of Florida, near a great swamp is the setting where the chief character, Abby Clanghearne, struggles to keep secret the trace of Negro blood that came from her blackbirder grandfather's colored wife. A natural" for the best-sell- CT list because of its timeliness in these days when race relations form such a big part in the news.
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