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SOMEBODY DOESN’T LIKE SARAH LEIGH

When a long-time friendship dies, will murder follow? Decades past junior high, Caroline Batzer is suddenly snubbed by her best friend. At first confused, she's later stunned to learn Sarah Leigh betrayed her in a way she'd never have suspected. In an all-too-public setting, Caroline airs her anger at the woman everyone else in town considers saintly, and when Sarah disappears soon afterward, it appears that Caroline murdered her. Desperately she tries to figure out who else could have done it--Sarah's philandering husband? Her useless son? Caroline's nightmare is just beginning, because those responsible for what happened to Sarah come after her, and they won't stop at just one murder. Somehow it ties in with Bay View, the historic community near Petoskey, Michigan, but Caroline might not have time to figure out how. She's running for her life, around and even through the sinkholes of northern Michigan. Aside from a helpful herd of elk and the one person in the world she'd rather not associate with, Caroline has only herself to depend on.

IMMIGRANT SOLDIER

Immigrant Soldier, The Story of a Ritchie Boy, based on a true story, begins on Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom that marks the beginning of the Holocaust. Herman watches in horror as his cousin and a friend are arrested.  As a Jew, he realizes it is past time to flee his homeland. Herman’s life is changed forever by the gathering storm of world events. He evades arrest and flees Germany to shelter in England until his US visa arrives. There he falls in love with Molly, an English girl. But all too soon,  Herman must leave for America.  He travels to Chicago and then on to California, where he begins to make a golden life for himself. Thus begins a series of adventures, part coming of age story, part immigrant tale. But Herman's ideal California life is destined to end with the growing war in Europe and America's eventual entry into the conflict. Secret orders send Herman to Intelligence Training School at Camp Ritchie, Maryland, where he is surrounded by other refugees.  The days at Camp Ritchie are full of surprises, both mental and physical. After graduation, he returns to Europe as an intelligence officer. His experiences as an interrogator of German prisoners–some that make him proud and some that make him ashamed–bring him to an understanding of his values and his feelings about his homeland. His skills also bring him to the attention of General Patton.  Near the end of the war, he visits a concentration camp where the horror he sees shakes him to his core.  By the time Herman is ready to return to the US, he has evolved from a frustrated teenager, looking for a place to belong, into a confident U.S. Army Intelligence officer who has made his peace with hate and forgiveness. This Second Anniversary edition contains Readers' Group Discussion Questions, perfect for use with book groups.  

ADVENTURE IN PLAY

First published in 1957, ?Adventure in Play? is a report on one of the first experimental adventure playgrounds in the UK, funded by the National Playing Fields Association (now ?Fields in Trust?). An original idea of the Danish landscape architect, C.T. S?renson, adventure playgrounds aimed to provide children with designated space to do what mattered to them, rather than to the adults for whom urban spaces were designed. The adventure playground pioneers saw adventure playgrounds as a potential solution to a fundamental problem in society, described by Mays as ?the wide cleavage between youth and age, childhood and maturity?. Children and adults were understood to have differing perspectives and different priorities, and for the adventure playground pioneers it was simply a matter of fairness that children were provided with some time and space in which their perspectives and priorities took precedence. Following the model of the first Danish adventure playground in Copenhagen, the UK adventure playground pioneers set about discovering how best to develop these unorthodox spaces for children through trial