{"id":198355,"date":"2019-09-09T13:41:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T11:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/new-at-lapa-in-september-3\/"},"modified":"2024-10-28T16:09:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T14:09:54","slug":"new-at-lapa-in-september-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/new-at-lapa-in-september-3\/","title":{"rendered":"New at LAPA in September"},"content":{"rendered":"

September sees seven new English titles, many of them are from strong women. Scroll down and enjoy! We are really proud of these voices.<\/p>\n

Fiction<\/strong><\/h5>\n

\"\"Vegters<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lucia Prinsloo<\/p>\n

Druknaam: Wenkbrou<\/p>\n

Algemene Fiksie<\/p>\n

9780799397246<\/p>\n

R295,00<\/p>\n

This story takes two South African Soldiers who has joined a British Parachute Brigade into the heart of the Afghanistan war. Back in South Africa they battle memories and new rivalries by rowing the Duzi Canoe Marathon.<\/p>\n

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Uit die hart van \u2019n vrou<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rozaan de Wet<\/p>\n

Druknaam: LAPA<\/p>\n

Vrouefiksie<\/p>\n

9780799396546<\/p>\n

R285,00<\/p>\n

When two women are forsaken by their husbands, they chose to overcome their past by creating a future for themselves. This is an exciting debut novel.<\/p>\n

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\u2019n Goeie jaar vir rose<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Santie van der Merwe<\/p>\n

Druknaam: LAPA<\/p>\n

Vrouefiksie<\/p>\n

9780799396515<\/p>\n

R285,00<\/p>\n

When a family member dies, a number of people in one family has to face their own demons. We get to know each through their battles. Santie van der Merwe is a veteran, always surprising with her sublime, understated stories.<\/p>\n

Non fiction<\/strong><\/h5>\n

\"\"A Road Called Down on Both Sides<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Caroline Kurtz<\/p>\n

Imprint: Catalyst Press<\/p>\n

Memoir<\/p>\n

9781946395153<\/p>\n

R245,00<\/p>\n

Today the term \u201cthird-culture kid\u201d 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\u2019s The Poisonwood Bible<\/em>. It was a mega-seller about American girls from missionary parents who struggled to find their home \u2013 neither belonging in Africa, nor in the USA. Closer to home, Kopano Matlwa wrote a big seller called Coconut<\/em> about a girl who grew up between cultures.<\/p>\n

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The Bosasa Billions: How the ANC sold its soul for braaipacks, booze and bags of cash<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

James-Brent Styan and Paul Vecchiatto<\/p>\n

Imprint: LAPA<\/p>\n

Nonfiction, Politics & Current Affairs<\/p>\n

9780799396089<\/p>\n

R295,00<\/p>\n

With South Africans still reeling from the revelations of state capture, the next bombshell hit the country: Bosasa \u2013 grand-scale corruption that had cost taxpayers billions.<\/p>\n

Whistle-blower Angelo Agrizzi and Bosasa boss Gavin Watson soon became household names while gripping testimony before the Zondo commission held the public in thrall: little black books, elaborate bribes and walk-in vaults.<\/p>\n

When President Cyril Ramaphosa \u2013 the man tasked with reforming the country \u2013 became entangled in the web himself, it sparked a political firestorm that threatened to engulf his presidency.<\/p>\n

In The Bosasa Billions<\/em>, best-selling author James-Brent Styan and co-writer Paul Vecchiatto tell the story of how one company hijacked the state to establish an extensive tender network stretching right to the top of the ANC government.<\/p>\n

Watson\u2019s employees likened the workings of his company to that of a cult. Ultimately, however, Bosasa was not in the business of saving souls. It was selling them.<\/p>\n

James-Brent Styan, a former financial and parliamentary journalist, is the best-selling author of Steinhoff: Inside SA\u2019s Biggest Corporate Crash<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Paul Vecchiatto has more than 16 years\u2019 experience as a parliamentary correspondent for several publications and wire services.<\/p>\n

Pieter-Louis Myburgh, author of Gangster State<\/em> said: \u201cA timely, thorough account of the Bosasa saga. The chronicle of the transition from freedom fighters to unscrupulous state captors is astonishing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Young adult<\/strong><\/h5>\n

\"\"Die ses weke van Thomas & Ella<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Zelda Bezuidenhout<\/p>\n

Drukaam: LAPA<\/p>\n

Jeugfiksie<\/p>\n

Ouderdom 13+<\/p>\n

9780799395846<\/p>\n

R185,00<\/p>\n

This delightful young-adult novel explores the relationship between two people who are socially never supposed to meet. Zelda Bezuidenhout is a masterful storyteller.<\/p>\n

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This Thing Called the Future<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

J.L. Powers<\/p>\n

Imprint: Catalyst Press<\/p>\n

Young adult<\/p>\n

Age 13+<\/p>\n

9781946395313<\/p>\n

R245,00<\/p>\n

This Thing Called the Future,<\/em> the multiple-award-winning young-adult novel from J.L.\u00a0Powers, is finally coming to South Africa, its country of origin.<\/p>\n

The book is set in Imbali, the sprawling township outside Pietermaritzburg. Khosi is fourteen years old. She lives with her grandmother and her little sister Zi. Both her parents tell her of the past, about a time when hundreds of Imbali residents were killed in political violence. Khosi wants a future; she wants to help make South Africa a better place. Is that too much in an environment where some men believe that raping virgins, like Khosi, will cure them of AIDS?<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Khosi has fallen in love and really, really just wants to experience that warm, fuzzy feeling that happens when Little Man, the handsome boy in her class, touches her hand.<\/p>\n

In a world where HIV and Aids are treatable for those with money and access to good state-sponsored care, Khosi has to negotiate hours in clinic lines, vengeful men, her mother\u2019s disdain for traditional healers, her grandmother\u2019s faith in their sangoma and the terrible curse her next-door neighbour has cast on their household.<\/p>\n

This beautifully crafted young-adult novel never preaches and never falls into the trap of \u201cwarning\u201d teenagers against anything. It simply deals with the realities of township life and the hardships a young virgin faces.<\/p>\n

This Thing Called the Future<\/em> has won several prizes in the USA.<\/p>\n