A Wreath for Udomo

Literature & Fiction

PETER ABRAHAMS

Genre Fiction

Collier Books

In Echo Falls you never know what's coming next -- and everyone has a secret. Things are amiss at 99 Maple Lane: Ingrid's dad's job is in jeopardy, but h e won't explain why. Ingrid's brother, Ty, is getting buff -- really buff -- but when Ty starts getting moody, Ingrid wonders if there's more to his physical fitness than lifting weights. Meanwhile, Ingrid's beloved soccer coach is replaced by an icy newcomer named Julia LeCaine, who seems a little too savvy to be in it for the postgame pizza. True to her hero, Sherlock Holmes, Ingrid begins fishing around to find out who's really pulling the strings in Echo Falls. But one morning, while en route to the dreaded MathFest, Ingrid is kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a car. Even if she escapes, will anyone believe her story?
In this sequel to Down the Rabbit Hole a clever young girl learns that mysterious forces are at work in her town -- and exposing them could put her life in jeopardy.
Performed by Colleen Delaney

Behind the Curtain (Echo Falls Mystery)

Teen & Young Adult

Harper Children's Audio

The unfaithful wife. With her no-nonsense business savvy and exquisite eye for acquisition, Francie is a rising star in the Boston art world. But her personal life is about to take a decidedly dark turn. . . The cheating lover. A virile and charismatic radio psychologist, Ned hosts a popular show poised on the brink of syndication. Though married and successful, he has one fatal weakness. . . The loyal friend. Anne, a vulnerable and trusting wife and mother, desperately needs to confide in someone. Unfortunately, some secrets aren't meant to be shared. . . The jealous husband. Exeter, first in his class, Harvard, summa in economics. Now out of work and falling fast, Roger conceives a brilliant, violent plan that could put him back on top. . .

A Perfect Crime

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Crying Wolf

CRYING WOLF

The Tutor

When Scott and Linda Gardner hire a tutor for their wayward son, he's quickly embraced as part of the family. He's charming and capable, the answer to their prayers. But he's about to become every family's worst nightmare. As each family member takes him into their confidence they feed his sinister plan. Only eleven-year-ol

The Black Experience in the 20th CenturyAn Autobiography and MeditationPeter AbrahamsA brave and powerful memoir by a well-known Third World writer on the problem of the color line in the last century.The Black Experience in the 20th Century is both a personal memoir and a powerful meditation on what W. E. B. Dubois defined at the beginning of the century as "the problem of the color line; of the relations between the lighter and darker races of man...." Using Dubois as a point of departure, Abrahams writes passionately about the inherent "wrongness" of racial hatred and contemplates such timeless questions as: "Why was color the most crucial issue of our century?" and "When will we get over the deep psychic and emotional damage done by the racial experience?" One of the major themes of the memoir—the quest for an integrated identity—depicts the challenge that faces people of color in both First- and Third-World countries.The Black Experience in the 20th Century is also the personal odyssey of Peter Abrahams, a young South African who worked as a seaman, leaving his homeland for wartime Britain and postwar France in order to become a writer. He recalls his personal relationships with the black literati of the day and his involvement in the pan-Africanist movement of the 1950s, giving intriguing glimpses of other prominent writers like George Padmore, W. E. B. Dubois, Julius Nyerere, Kwame Nkrumah, Richard Wright, and Langston Hughes. Abrahams’s journey takes him to the Caribbean island of Jamaica, where he, his wife, Daphne, and their three children find sanctuary from racial divisiveness at "Coyaba." It is in his lifelong companionship with Daphne and their multiracial union that Abrahams perceives symbolic "one bloodedness," mirroring his own admirable sensibilities.Peter Abrahams, South African novelist and essayist, was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg in 1919. Among his best-known works are Mine Boy, The Path to Thunder, Tell Freedom, A Wreath for Udomo, and The View from Coyaba. He has been credited for the example he set as one of the first black African writers of the 1950s and ’60s, and for the encouragement he offered to fellow writers Chinua Achebe and Ngugi wa Thiong’o, among others. Since 1951 Abrahams has lived and worked in Jamaica.Sales territory is limited to North America March 2001420 pages, 5 5/8 x 8 5/8cloth  0-253-33890-5  $29.95 t

The Black Experience in the 20th Century: An Autobiography and Meditation

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Indiana University Press

Master of psychological suspense Peter Abrahams returns with an ingenious tale of an ordinary family that unknowingly invites the agent of their destruction into their own home. When Scott and Linda Gardner hire Julian Sawyer to tutor their troubled teenage son Brandon, he seems like the answer to a prayer. Capable and brilliant, Julian connects with Brandon in a way neither of his parents can. He also effortlessly helps Linda to salvage a troubled business deal and gives Scott expert advice on his tennis game. Only eleven-year old Ruby—funny, curious, devoted to Sherlock Holmes—has doubts about the stranger in their midst who has so quickly become like a member of the family. But even the observant Ruby is far from understanding Julian’s true designs on the Gardners. For Julian, the Gardners are like specimens in jars, creatures to be studied— and manipulated. Scott is a gambler with no notion of odds, festering in the shadow of his more successful brother. Linda is ambitious, hungry for the cultured stimulation Julian easily provides. Brandon is risking his future late at night in the town woods. And Ruby—well, she’s just a silly little girl. And in that miscalculation lies the Gardner family’s only possible salvation. In The Tutor, Peter Abrahams creates a living, breathing portrait of an American family, their town, their secrets, their dreams—and a portrait just as compelling of the menace they welcome into their home. It is his most chilling, suspenseful novel to date.

Contemporary

Ballantine Books

Language:Chinese.MINE BOY (AFRICAN WRITERS S.) (Map)

Mine Boy (African Writers Series)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

Xuma faces the complexities of urban life in Johannesburg.

Mine Boy: The First Modern Novel of Black South Africa

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A Wreath for Udomo

Behind the Curtain (Echo Falls Mystery)

A Perfect Crime

CRYING WOLF

The Tutor

The Black Experience in the 20th Century: An Autobiography and Meditation

The Tutor

Crying Wolf

Mine Boy (African Writers Series)

Mine Boy: The First Modern Novel of Black South Africa