Reader&rsquos Digest &ndash Today&rsquos Best Non Fiction. 4 Boo (Ocean View, CA)

Reader&rsquos Digest &ndash Today&rsquos Best Non Fiction. 4 Boo

Local pick-up preferred but will ship at the buyers expense Kingston Books 15 IMG_6940 Limited Black and White illustrations in each chapter. Authors Tom Rose Freeing the Whales With the arctic winter closing in fast a lone Eskimo hunter finds 3 California gray whales trapped by the encroaching ice off Barrow Alaska. When he tells some local biologists the story is out. NBC News shows the first pictures of the magnificent battered creatures gasping for air and America fell in love. This is the remarkable account single-handedly turned an everyday occurrence into the most spectacular animal rescue in history Joseph Salerno and Stephen J. Rivele The Plumber The True Story of How One Good Man Helped Destroy the Entire Philadelphia Mafia. Joe Salerno was an ordinary man an honest hardworking plumber from Philadelphia. Then one-day he witnessed a murder. It was a cold-blooded gangland slaying ordered by a crime lord NNicodermo Little Nicky Scarfo. Willing to testify against the mob Joe with his family entered into the shaky care of the Federal Witness Protection Program and so became destined to spend the rest of his life on the run.. But even from that precarious position Joe Salerno continued his fight against evil. A riveting account of one man s heroic battle with the Mafia. Peter Z. Malkin and Harry Stein Eichmann In My Hands For 15 years after the end of World War II the whereabouts of Adolf Eichmann remained a mystery. Once the most hunted of all Nazi war criminals the notorious architect of Hitler s Final Solution had vanished without a trace. But in May 1960 a team of Israeli agents left for Buenos Aires on a mission to bring Adolf Eichmann to Jerusalem to stand trial. The author for many years under a government order to keep silent for security reasons is only now free to speak. This gripping tale of crime and punishment illuminates one of the darkest moments in the history of civilization. Samuel G. Friedman Small Victories Seward Park High School is an overcrowded underfunded dilapidated public school on the slum s of New York s Lower East Side. Yet despite the specters of ghetto life poverty violence and drugs more than 90 percent of its graduates go on to college trade school or the military. One reason is Jessica Siegel s English classes where students discover that reading and writing are a way out. Jessica savors each small victory but teacher burnout is never far away. A searing portrait of a teacher on the front lines of American education. Hardcover with jacket 573 pages ISSN 0893-9373