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Catalyst Press
is an independent publishing company based in Texas, USA. They publish
stories of African origin. LAPA is proud to act as a distributor for
Catalyst Press in South Africa.
For more information about Catalyst Press, please visit their website
at www.catalystpress.org.
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A Road Called
Down on Both Sides
She grew up as an American in Ethiopia. When she returned to the USA to
study, she felt African. After her studies, she returned to Ethiopia,
only to find that she does not really belong there either.
Caroline Kurtz is the quintessential “third-culture kid”, but she was
that long before the term became known, so there was no-one to help
her.
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A Road Called Down on Both Sides:
Growing up in Ethiopia and America was recently awarded the Best First
Book Award by the Presbyterian Writers Guild! The award honors the best
debut by a Presbyterian author written during 2018-2019. Caroline’s
thoughtful memoir of her life as the child of missionaries explores
faith, family, and what it means to find home when you’ve grown up between
cultures and continents. Read the full article here.
A Road Called Down
on Both Sides: Growing up in Ethiopia and America is
available at your nearest bookstore and on LAPA's website.
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The Farm
Somewhere in South Africa, another farm comes under heavy attack. No
shooters in sight. Only one thing is certain: The attackers are
savagely resolute.
A diverse group of people barricade themselves inside the farmhouse:
women, men, and children; bosses and workers; blacks and whites; a
police officer; random visitors.
Who is the target of the attack? What has motivated it? Politics?
Revenge? Greed? Drugs? Weapons? Do the people outside know more
than those indoors?
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Who are these snipers, trying to
operate in the dark of night? Who will die, who will survive? Who is
pulling the strings? Who will be the winners, who will be the losers?
And how long can eight hours actually be?
Eight hours, minute by minute. Constant changes in perspective,
piercing precision; this is an explosive mixture of a psychological
thriller, with a twist of Neo-Western and a deep political subtext.
The Farm
by Max Annas is available at your nearest bookstore and on LAPA's website.
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The Wall
The Pines, a gated community in East London, protects homeowners from
crime. But nobody's going to protect the young man trapped behind its
walls.
Moses wants one thing: to get home, where his girlfriend and a cold
beer are waiting for him, but his car breaks down on an empty street,
not a single human being in sight.
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Moses slips into The Pines, a gated
community, in hopes to find help from a university classmate who lives
there. Over there, in the “white” world, everything seems calm,
orderly, safe. But once inside, he feels like more of an outsider than
ever. And he makes a terrible mistake.
Mistaken identities, racial profiling, and class politics form the
backdrop of this intense thriller. Annas does not shy away from issues
like gun violence, racism, and exclusion in contemporary South Africa.
The Wall
is available at your nearest bookstore and on LAPA's website.
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This thing
called the future
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.
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Is that too much in an environment
where some men believe that raping virgins, like Khosi, will cure them
of AIDS?
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.
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’s disdain for traditional healers,
her grandmother’s faith in their sangoma, and the terrible curse her
next-door neighbour has cast on their household.
This beautifully crafted young-adult novel never preaches and never
falls into the trap of “warning” teenagers against anything. It simply
deals with the realities of township life and the hardships a young
virgin faces. This
Thing Called the Future has won several prizes in the USA.
LAPA and Catalyst Press are proud to bring it back to its country of
origin.
This Thing Called
the Future by J.L. Powers is now available at your
nearest bookstore and on LAPA's website.
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Under Water
When her beloved grandmother dies, 17-year-old Khosi must learn to
survive on her own. She has to take care of her little sister, Zi,
while making a living as a traditional healer, and somehow try to
finish school.
When violence flares up again in Imbali, the township near
Pietermaritzburg, Khosi finds herself at the centre of the storm. A
taxi war threatens the safety of every person in Imbali, including Khosi’s
best friend and boyfriend, Little Man.
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The body of a murdered man is dumped
on her doorstep. Accusations of witchcraft swirl around her, despite
her every effort to keep her healing practice above board. When Little
Man chooses the wrong path, Khosi builds a new romance, but her past
might catch up with her.
This is the sequel to Powers’ award-winning novel This Thing Called the Future.
In Under Water,
we meet Khosi three years after the end of the first book. Can Khosi be
a part of change in her community? And can she raise her sister while
finishing school?
Under Water is
available at your nearest bookstore and on LAPA's website.
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Dark video
A minibus taxi flipping spectacularly on its head; two teenagers
engaged in illicit sex in a shopping-mall rest room; a raunchy table
dance in a Cape Town strip club... What have these scenes got to do
with a beautiful young woman running through Newlands Forest early on a
Sunday morning?
Alistair Morgan is the key.
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A gifted law student with a glittering
career in the offing, Alistair seems to have it all: looks, charm and
money—and the attention of the hottest girls on campus. But his
privileged lifestyle is about to be turned upside down as he is lured
deeper and deeper into the sinister online world of Dark Video, where
reality blurs and morals unravel.
From the ominous slopes of Table Mountain and the murky depths of False
Bay to a dusty Karoo farm and the limestone cliffs of Arniston, Dark Video is an
intense thriller that will keep you spellbound from the word go.
Dark Video by
Peter Church is available at your nearest bookstore and on LAPA's website.
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Bitter Pill
Between the USA and SA lies the deep Web. Inside the heaving party hub
that is Cape Town’s student playground, someone is preying on the young
and unwary.
As allegations of drink spiking and illicit sex hit the local papers,
university authorities move quickly to limit the damage...
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A world away in Seattle, Carlos De
Palma, the shadowy operator behind Dark Video, is plotting his survival
strategy in the ever-changing Internet landscape. With his precious
clients clamouring for heightened thrills, Carlos begins tapping into a
new service that blur the boundaries between the real and virtual
worlds...
Enter Robbie Cullen, nice guy and average student, dumped by his
girlfriend and struggling with grades. But when it comes to the crunch,
Robbie doesn’t know the meaning of stepping back.
Once he encounters the beautiful and mysterious Fallon, his small-town
bravado is set to make him some powerful enemies. Bitter Pill is a
gripping thriller that sweeps through the intoxicating haunts of Cape
Town’s nightlife and lingers on the sugary sand of Plettenberg
Bay—before exploding on the streets of the Mother City’s exclusive
southern suburbs.
Bitter Pill by
Peter Church is available at your nearest bookstore and on LAPA's website.
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Crackerjack
Young, bright and sexy, Carla Vitale has been handpicked to run
Supertech, Africa’s leading independent engineering firm. Then, one
Friday afternoon in Cape Town, her dream is shattered. Her boss and
mentor, Nial Townley, disappears, his luxury vehicle is found in a
crevice at the bottom of Chapman’s Peak, and 20 million is missing from
the Supertech’s overseas accounts.
Three months later the police is no closer to solving the riddle.
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With no job, no car and no phone,
Carla turns to the one person she believes can help: software hacker
turned day-trader, Daniel Le Fleur. But Le Fleur is maintaining a low
profile in Bantry Bay and he is in no mood to ruin the serendipity.
Crackerjack is available at your nearest bookstore or on LAPA's website.
The e-book is also available at LAPA and Amazon.
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