PETER ABRAHAMS

This is an Upper Level story in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles - some original and some simplified - from modern and classic novels, and designed to appeal to all age-groups, tastes and cultures. The books are divided into five levels: Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner Level (600 basic words); Elementary Level (1100); Intermediate Level (1600); and Upper Level (2200). Some of the titles are also available on cassette.

The forerunner of an entire school of African literary art.Sunday TimesThose men who are history now; did they feel like this?A 1950s Hampstead pub; a freezing night. Lois cant tear her eyes away from the haunted, restless African man in the corner. Over brandy and stew, she discovers he is in awe of her friend, Panafricas greatest political writer and fighter. Their meeting inducts this stranger, Udomo, into Londons revolutionary community of exiled African activists: the start of a life-changing journey. Amidst the internal politics and love affairs, Udomo is inspired by other leaders independence uprisings; but when he returns to his native land to overthrow the colonial oppressors, his idealism is put to the ultimate test ... Inspired by Peter Abrahams befriending of future African heads of state in mid-century London, A Wreath for Udomo (1956) is a radical lost classic, unforgettably exploring the nature of freedom, power, leadership and love.

One of my all-time favourite novels.Tsitsi DangarembgaThe first African novel in English to draw international attention.New York TimesThe forerunner of an entire school of African literary art. Sunday TimesAnd the black man and the white were like two men alone in the world ..Xuma will never forget the day he arrived in the Johannesburg slums: the charismatic woman who takes him in, the brutal police raids, the fights, friendships, dancing, drinking and romances - yet it soon feels like home. But when he becomes a leader in the citys gold mines, he is shocked by the racist treatment of the labourers. And as he begins to question whether man could be without colour, Xuma stages an act of defiance that changes his life forever . . .In 1946, Peter Abrahams classic novel Mine Boy exposed South Africas fledgling racial apartheid system and townships to the world - and its wisdom, vividness and political power endures to this day.What readers are saying:Beautiful, memorable characters [Ive] remembered since my childhood. These are the kind of stories that make the world better for having been written.A seminal work of African fiction ... Prose as unadorned as Solzhenitsyn or Hemingway.I can still recall Xuma almost 20 years later ... A beautiful book.An unsung gem, amazing ... Its simplicity makes the story such a dramatic tale.

Las cosas no van bien en el 99 de Maple Lane. El padre de Ingrid está más tenso que de costumbre, su hermano Ty está desarrollando una musculatura sospechosa y, para colmo, su entrenador de fútbol ha sido reemplazado por una recien llegada que parece ocultar algo. Asi pues, inspirada como siempre por su heroe Sherlock Holmes, Ingrid se pone a indagar que esta ocurriendo en Echo Falls, esa ciudad que alberga un millar de secretos. Pero una mañana, camino del temido Festival de Matematicas, Ingrid es secuestrada y encerrada en el maletero de un coche. Desde luego, esta muy claro que las cosas no marchan nada bien, y si logra escapar, ¿quien va a creer su historia? Despues de Al otro lado del espejo, llega la segunda entrega de la exitosa serie sobre la astuta detective de trece años Ingrid Levin-Hill y la enigmatica ciudad donde vive, Echo Falls, en la que todo el mundo parece esconder mas de un secreto.

Enciclopedia de consulta científica sobre el funcionamiento del cuerpo humano (sistema circulatorio, respiratorio, digestivo, urinario, linfático, etc.) en un manual de Fisiología que estudia en profundidad huesos, musculos y otros organos, asi como las celulas y estructuras corporales. Con mas de 400 fotografias.

Durante un tranquilo paseo por la granja de su abuelo, Ingrid y su amigo Joey encuentran sobre la nieve el cadáver de un hombre recientemente desaparecido en extrañas circunstancias. El hallazgo provoca una terrible conmocion en la ciudad y, para inquietud de todos, saca a la luz una serie de hechos convenientemente olvidados. El abuelo es acusado del crimen e Ingrid, empeñada en demostrar su inocencia y limpiar el apellido familiar, se propone investigar hasta las ultimas consecuencias. Emulando a Gretel, la heroina de Hansel y Gretel cuyo papel esta interpretando en la version teatral, Ingrid se interna en un laberinto tenebroso decidida a encontrar finalmente la verdad. Sin embargo, muy a su pesar, esa obstinacion la llevara a descubrir mucho mas de lo que en realidad quisiera.Tercera entrega de los Misterios de Echo Falls, la enigmatica ciudad donde vive Ingrid Levin-Hill, una chica espabilada y admiradora de Sherlock Holmes que acaba siempre desvelando los secretos mejor guardados de la comunidad.

Als die idealistische junge Schriftstellerin Ivy Seidel das Angebot bekommt, in einem Hochsicherheitsgefängnis für Gewalttäter nahe der kanadischen Grenze Schreibkurse zu geben, sagt sie sofort zu. Ivys »Schüler« sind ein Querschnitt durch das amerikanische Verbrechen. Einzig Vance Harrow fällt aus dem Rahmen, und die Storys, die er schreibt, sind beeindruckend gut. Offenkundig kreisen sie um den Raubmord in einem Spielkasino, für den Harrow zu 25 Jahren verurteilt wurde. Auf eigenartige Weise fasziniert, kommt Ivy zu der Überzeugung, dass der attraktive Mann unschuldig ist. Innerhalb weniger Tage verstrickt sie sich nicht nur in eine gefährliche Liebschaft, sondern auch in ein undurchdringliches Dickicht der Täuschung und Gewalt ...

Guía de fácil consulta con más de 500 fotografías a todo color e ilustraciones de alta precisión científica. Descripción detallada de más de 110 afecciones, síndromes y dolencias, con un análisis de los trastornos pediatricos mas importantes, sin tecnicismos y de facil consulta.Un manual de refencia sobre la salud de los bebes y la primera infancia.

Una tarde que amenaza tormenta, Ingrid Levin-Hill, admiradora de Sherlock Holmes y aspirante a actriz de teatro, se pierde camino de su entrenamiento de futbol y acaba en casa de katie la Chiflada, q

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-old Ruby seems able to sense the evil in him - and even she is far from understanding his designs on her family, or that she may be the one in most danger. In his most chilling book yet Peter Abrahams creates a living, breathing portrait of a family's hopes, fears and secrets. And of the menace they welcome into their home that threatens to destroy them.

Lastest from the author of ''A Perfect Crime'', ''Crying Wolf'' and ''The Tutor''.

El investigador Nick Petrov recibe el encargo de resolver la desaparición de una adolescente de 16 años. Al poco tiempo la madre desaparece. Cuando por fin encuentra a la chica sufre un desmayo y debe ser internado.Al recuperar el conocimiento, se da cuenta de que no recuerda nada de los dias previos a su internacion, es decir, desde que comenzara a investigar el caso de la muchacha desaparecida. Ademas, debe enfrentarse con la terrible noticia de que tiene un tumor en el cerebro.Sin embargo, Nick sabe que tiene un caso pendiente: reconstruir el tiempo en blanco se convierte en una obsesion, especialmente cuando realiza un descubrimiento sorprendente que dara un giro inesperado a su investigacion.

Read the vivid story of the hardships endured by a young Zulu migrant worker.Xuma sees the brutality of the bosses of the mine and the squalor of the township where he lives. In the city, white people lead privileged lives. Xuma begins to question the racial injustices which surround him.Recommended for older readers.

Obra de gran importancia para los estudiantes de Medicina y Ciencias de la salud al enseñar una materia fundamental, como es la anatomía, de la manera en la que es más fácil hacerlo hoy en día: mediante la visualizacion e identificacion de las distintas estructuras y entidades anatomicas a traves de las diferentes tecnicas de imagen.

Obra de consulta sobre anatomía humana dividida en nueve grandes bloques (cabeza, cuello, tórax, etc.) y en cada uno de ellos se detallan huesos, músculos, nervios y órganos internos con textos clarificadores y magníficas ilustraciones.

Un manual de referencia para saber cómo actuar ante cualquier enfermedad o accidenre doméstico. Vienen reseñadas las afecciones más comunes, sus tratamientos y síntomas, acompañado de gráficos reportajes fotográficos muy clarificadores.

Peter Abrahams is my favorite American suspense novelist.Stephen King Mackie dreaded the mail. From this simple beginning, Peter Abrahams opens the curtains on a mesmerizing world down on the Mexican border, a world of complex and passionate people whose ambitions will lead them on a relentless collision course, a desert world that rises to the mythic in Their Wildest Dreams. The suspense will grab you and not let go, the surprises will shock you, but in the end it will be the wonderful characters who linger in your mind. Characters like Mackie Larkin, a suburban mother desperate for money, who finds she can earn it as a stripper; Kevin Larkin, her ex-husband whose get-rich-quick schemes left her with a mountain of debt, and who now dreams up an even better one; Lianne, their beautiful, impulsive teenage daughter, for whom almost anything, even bank robbery, is possible; Jimmy Marz, the wrangler she loves, who gets a dangerous onetime offer that could take him to the life hes always wanted; Buck Samsonov, the charismatic strip-club owner building a southwestern empire in the lawless style of a 19th-century robber baron; Clay Krupsha, a twenty-first-century captain of detectives in a border town where no crime is what it seems; and Nicholas Loeb, a struggling mystery writer whose encounter with an unstable muse entangles him in a web of true crime more mysterious than anything he imagined. Utterly original, multilayered, and marked by the gripping suspense, sharp wit, and fascinating psychological insights for which Peter Abrahams has been acclaimed, here is a major worka riveting story of modern-day desperadoes living their wildest dreams.

A perfect page-turner . . . Books this well written and involving dont come along often. . . . Peter Abrahams is my favorite American suspense novelist.Stephen King An unfaithful wife. A cheating lover. A loyal friend. A jealous husband. In this stunning thriller, four lives hang in precarious balanceas a cunning killer prepares their roles in A Perfect Crime. Distraught by a failing marriage, Francie Cullingwood enters into a secret affair with charismatic radio psychologist Ned Demarco. But what seems like a refuge takes a decidedly dark turn. For when the liaison is discovered, a seething, enraged genius begins to construct the perfect, flawless murder, manipulating Francie, her lover, and her best friend like chess pieces in a lethal game. But even the most brilliant mind can make mistakes. And soon the intricate plan is spinning wildly out of controlin shocking, fatal directions. . . . Praise for A Perfect Crime Abrahams gets the human dimensions just right. . . . Each stage of this perverse puzzle has been constructed with deadly artistry.The New York Times Book Review A first-rate psychological thriller . . . a plot filled with Machiavellian maneuvers and subtle irony . . . Drawing the reader unrelentingly through the chain of events, this novel is a must-read.The Denver Post Abrahams has written more than a crime story here. His prose is elegant by any literary standard. . . . Abrahams grips us so closely, line by line, making everything hyper-real.Los Angeles Times A Perfect Crime is a perfect reada novel of malice and retribution that crackles from page one like a live wire.New York Times bestselling author Michael Palmer