Today&rsquos Best Nonfiction &ndash Selected and Edited by Reade (Catlett, VA)

Today&rsquos Best Nonfiction &ndash Selected and Edited by Reade

Local pick-up preferred but will ship at the buyer s expense 4 books in 1Kingston Books 14 IMG_6086Limited Illustrations.Excellent ConditionFREEING THE WHALES by Tom Rose. Publisher Birch Lane 1989With an Artic winter closing in fast a lone Eskimo hunter finds three California gray whales trapped by the encroaching ice of Barrow Alaska. When he tells some local biologists the story is out.. NBC news showed the first pictures of the magnificent battered creatures gasping for air and America fell in love. This is the remarkable account of how the power of television single-handedly turned and every day occurrence into the most spectacular animal rescue in history.EICHMANN IN MY HANDS by Peter Z. Malkin and Harry Stern. Publisher Warner 1990For fifteen years after the end of World War II the whereabouts of Adolph 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 Adolph 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 griping tale of crime and punishment illuminates one of the darkest moment in the history of civilization.SMALL VICTORIES by Samuel G. Freedman. Publisher Harper and Row 1990Seward Park High School is overcrowded underfunded dilapidated public school in the slums of New York s Lower East Side. Yet despite the specters of ghetto life poverty violence and drugs more than ninety 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.THE PLUMBER The True Story of How One Good Man Helped Destroy the Entire Philadelphia Mafia by Joseph Salerno and Stephen J. Rrivele. Publisher Knightsbridge 1990Joe Salerno was an ordinary man an honest hard working plumber from Philadelphia. The one day he witnessed a murder. It was a cold-blooded gangland slaying ordered by crime lord Nicodemo 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 that precarious position Joe Salerno continued his fight against evil. A riveting account of one man s heroic battle with the Mafia.Hard cover with jacket 573 pages ISSN 0893-9373