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What They're Saying About the Books in This Volume FREEING THE WHALES "Few novels could match the characters, plot and dramatic tension of this gripping re-creation of the most massive animal rescue of all time. [The author] . . . scrutinizes [the] whale saving off Barrow as one of those rare cliffhangers that unified the entire world, if only for a fortnight." -Chicago Tribune EICHMANN IN MY HANDS "A masterful combination of gripping drama and compelling moral issues as . . . now, 25 years later, we are grateful to share this remarkable-and remarkably well told-slice of history." -Kirkus Reviews "A fascinating narrative by the person who (really) caught Eichmann." -Elie Wiesel Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1986 SMALL VICTORIES "Sam Freedman gives us a unique opportunity to experience what caring, determination, drive and commitment can do in the face of insurmountable odds. His recounting of Jessica Siegel's efforts to overcome these odds and succeed is inspirational. We desperately... Tovább

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What They're Saying About the Books in This Volume FREEING THE WHALES "Few novels could match the characters, plot and dramatic tension of this gripping re-creation of the most massive animal rescue of all time. [The author] . . . scrutinizes [the] whale saving off Barrow as one of those rare cliffhangers that unified the entire world, if only for a fortnight." -Chicago Tribune EICHMANN IN MY HANDS "A masterful combination of gripping drama and compelling moral issues as . . . now, 25 years later, we are grateful to share this remarkable-and remarkably well told-slice of history." -Kirkus Reviews "A fascinating narrative by the person who (really) caught Eichmann." -Elie Wiesel Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1986 SMALL VICTORIES "Sam Freedman gives us a unique opportunity to experience what caring, determination, drive and commitment can do in the face of insurmountable odds. His recounting of Jessica Siegel's efforts to overcome these odds and succeed is inspirational. We desperately need that kind of commitment throughout our education system." -Bill Bradley U.S. Senator, New Jersey THE PLUMBER The True Story of How One Good Man Helped Destroy the Entire Philadelphia Mafia "Joe's testimony was the most damaging thing that ever happened to the Family." -Philip Leonetti former underboss of the Philadelphia Mafia "A dark, frightening book." -The New York Times Book Review
FREEING THE WHALES by Tom Rose Birch Lane, $18.95 With an Arctic winter closing in fast, a lone Eskimo hnnter finds three California gray whales trapped by the encroaching ice off 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 an everyday occurrence into the most spectacular animal rescue in history. Page 7 EICHMANN IN MY HANDS by Peter Z. Malkin and Harry Stein Warner, $22.95 For fifteen 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 I960 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. Page 151 SMALL VICTORIES by Samuel G. Freedman Harper & Row, $22.95 Seward Park High School is an 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. Page 283 (continued on back flap) Vissza