And so the year has run out. Time to put up your feet and relax with book. Thank you to everyone who has supported LAPA and our imprints through this year!

Nonfiction

A Road Called Down on Both Sides

Caroline Kurtz

Imprint: Catalyst Press

Memoir

9781946395153

R245,00

Today the term “third-culture kid” is all over the internet. It has become a huge field of research, but when Caroline Kurtz grew up, only a handful of misunderstood kids knew what it was like never to belong anywhere. Those kids, with parents in the mission field, military or diplomatic services, had no support and no-one studied their needs.Caroline Kurtz grew up in the remote mountains of Maji, Ethiopia in the 1950s. Inside their mud hut, living with her missionary parents and three sisters, she enjoyed an American family life.Outside, her world was shaped by drums; Jeep and mule treks into the countryside; ostriches on the air strip; and several Ethiopian languages she barely understood but longed to learn.Finally, she returned to the USA, a country she did not understand, despite her upbringing. Caroline felt like she had been exiled to a foreign country when she went to college in Illinois.After completing her studies, she returned to Ethiopia to teach, only to discover how complex working in another culture and language really is.The best-known book with a similar theme is Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible. It was a mega-seller about American girls from missionary parents who struggled to find their home – neither belonging in Africa, nor in the USA.Closer to home, Kopano Matlwa wrote a big seller called Coconut about a girl who grew up between cultures.

For the young ones

In Opleiding-reeks

Cath Ard

Drukaam: LAPA

Kinderniefiksie

Ouderdom: 7+

9780799392500 (Veearts)

9780799392517 (Atleet)

9780799392531 (Brandbestryder)

9780799392524 (Kodeerder)

R140,00

These books are packed with bite-sized chunks of information and fun facts about careers, like being a vet, an athlete, a firefighter or a coder.

My groot lofkleuterbybel

Jan de Wet

Kleuterniefiksie

Druknaam: LAPA

Ouderdom: 5+

9780799398144

R220.00

Read, listen and enjoy the Bible stories, songs and illustrations in this book along with your children. The stories are written along with an audio recording of the stories. Children can listen to the stories while they look at the pictures. You can introduce your child to the stories while they are looking at the illustrations, or by reading the stories while listening to the recordings.

Keegan en Samier

André Trantraal

Kinderfiksie

Druknaam: LAPA

Ouderdom: 7+

9780799397666

R60,00

Keegan and Samier are best friends. Samier’s twin sister Samia are also part of their circle. Then there is also Jenni-Lee, Keegan’s little sister, and his smart, but strict, grandmother. These friends have a lot of fun together! Unfortunately, Brent Peterson always spoils some of the fun, he is the bully!

Drama

Môre as ons groot is

Fanie Viljoen

Tienerdrama – slegs as e-boek te koop

Druknaam: LAPA

Ouderdom: 15+

9780799397147

R150.00

It is the matric farewell – the greatest night in every teenager’s life. But what happens when it is all over, when even the after party comes to an end? Four young people are on the brink of adulthood.

Tonight, they will bid farewell to their school, their friends, their childhood… and perhaps even their dreams.

Romance

Sonvanger

Frenette van Wyk

Druknaam: LAPA

SuperRomanza

9780799396768

R240,00

Narissa and Franz are different as night and day. She’s a hippy and he’s a widower with a dark past. All they need is a little luck and a lot of sunshine to find the love they both desperately crave.

Want hy praat tjoklits

Elsa Winckler

Druknaam: Romanza

Romanse

9780799396645

R95,00

Friede had a nasty experience with a surfer. Then she meets Matthys – the local deli baker. There are all kinds of emotions between them, but does she have the courage for a man who bakes bread for a living?

Die onwillige strooimeisie

Alma Carstens

Druknaam: Romanza

Romanse

9780799396676

R95,00

Anja is secretly in love with Alec, her best friend’s fiancé. Now they have to arrange a wedding while Zita goes to London for nine months.

Wat jy gee

Karlien Badenhorst

Druknaam: Romanza

Romanse

9780799396737

R95,00

Mieke is back in the Lowveld after three years abroad. Migal, her former university friend, ended their friendship with a quick and passionate kiss – but true love is not so easily extinguished.

Ter wille van Nina

Cheryl Rogers

Druknaam: Romanza

Romanse

9780799396706

R95,00

Olivia dreams of a caring man with blue-green eyes. When she meets Zak, his eyes look familiar, but he makes her nervous and she doesn’t trust him. Will she learn to feel safe and cherished by him for his daughter’s sake?