Best Selling Books by Peter Abrahams

A modern-day Robin Hood by a New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author! Robbie Forester has learned the hard way that life isn’t fair. So have her friends Ashanti, Silas and Tut-Tut. But Robbie and her friends—who call themselves the Outlaws of Sherwood Street—want to change that. When Sheldon Gun, an evil business man, ends up killing Silas’s father so he can build a new apartment complex in Brooklyn, the Outlaws know it’s up to them to make Sheldon Gun pay. With street smarts, Silas’s inventions, and a little help from a charm bracelet, these friends know they can take on Sheldon Gun and win—at least, they hope so. If not, they may end up just like Silas’s dad. This story is filled with action, adventure, social justice and great friends--and is especially relevant during our current economy and the rise of the Occupy Everywhere movement. Perfect for fans of young detectives like Nancy Drew, Enola Holmes, and Gilda Joyce. Peter Abrahams, who also writes the Chet & Bernie mysteries as Spencer Quinn, is the award-winning and best-selling author of the Echo Falls series as well as teen novels Reality Check and Bullet Point. His adult novel, The Fan, was turned into a feature film starring Robert DeNiro and Wesley Snipes. Stephen King has called Abrahams “my favorite American suspense novelist."

A Jamaican family, descended from escaped slaves, is involved in the histories of both Africa and Jamaica.

For Nat, an all-American boy with blue-collar roots, acceptance to New England''s exclusive Inverness College seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. The chilling events that follow are nothing like what he imagined.Nat, unable to go home for Christmas break, is alone on the deserted campus. Alone -- until he meets Grace and Izzie Zorn, identical twin sisters who are utterly different. Nat enters a seductive new world of private Caribbean islands and personal jets.When classes resume, Nat and the twins fall under the influence of a charismatic philosophy professor with dangerous ideas and a secret of his own. His teachings will be used to justify a bold scheme, plotted deep beneath the school in the lair of a forgotten social club. But someone in the underground shadows is listening, someone who thinks he deserves a future just as bright as Nat''s. Suddenly, a risky but basically innocent game will take a horrifying turn.Abrahams weaves an intricate plot, relentless tension, stunning reversals, and vividly rendered characters into a masterpiece of psychological suspense.

''By the time these chronicles are made public we will, I suspect, be into the twenty-first century. I did not expect to live this long.'' These are among the first words of the memoirs from Peter Abrahams, novelist and writer, born in Vrededorp, South Africa in 1919. Best Known for such classic novels as Mine Boy (1946) and Tell Freedom (1954) (both still in print), Abrahams draws on a wealth of experience and the uniquely authoritative perspective that comes from having lived for almost the entire twentieth century and across three continents, to reflect on the black experience in the last century. The Coyaba Chronicles: Reflections on the Black Experience in the Twentieth 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 colour 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 colour the most crucial issue of our century?'' ''When will we get over the deep psychic and emotional damage done by the racial experience?'' This is one of the major themes of the memoir - that of the quest for an integrated identity - a challenge that faces people of colour in both first and third world countries. The Coyaba Chronicles is also the personal journey of Peter Abrahams. It is the odyssey of a young South African who worked for a time as a seaman in order to leave his homeland for wartime Britain and post-war France to become a writer; it is the story of his personal relationships with the Black literati of the day and his involvement in the pan-Africanist movement of the 1950s, which allows for his fascinating personal pen-portraits of men like W.E.B. Dubois, Julius Nyerere, Kwame Nkrumah, Richard Wright and Langston Hughes. It is how the journey takes him to the Caribbean island of Jamaica, where he and his wife, Daphne and their three children find sanctuary from racial divisiveness at ''Coyaba.'' Finally, it is about the author''s lifelong companionship with Daphne and how their multi-racial union reflects a symbolic ''one-bloodedness'' mirroring Abrahams''s own admirable sensibilities.

Presents five short stories about teens who stay up all night, written by award-winning authors.

Like her idol Sherlock Holmes, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill uses her intellect to solve a murder case in her home town of Echo Falls.

This easy to use workbook covers all the basic sciences inclinical context, and includes the full range of question typesused in medical school. It offers comprehensive advice on how totackle tricky examinations, how to deal with question types fromSAQs to essays, and will stimulate abstract skills like criticalthinking and the ability to deliver the key facts. Ideal for the pre-clinical years and USMLE candidates,Medical Sciences at a Glance: Practice Workbookfeatures: • An introductory section featuring step-by-stepguidance on exam technique and papers • Over 390 questions of varying formats - and fullexplanations to the answers • A topic-based structure reflecting vital foundationconcepts, including anatomy, physiology, pathology andpharmacology Medical Sciences at a Glance: Practice Workbook meets theneeds of medical students with a spectrum of educational approachesin mind. Whatever your course type, working through this book willgive you the advantage when it comes to basic science exams.

History of the island and its people from the days of the Arawak Indians to the present.

An underground movement working against apartheid in South Africa tries to enlist the sympathies of the Indian minority in Natil.

Emerging from a fifteen-year prison sentence for a crime he did not commit, Eddie Nye vows to learn who was really responsible and searches for answers from his Wall Street freebooter brother, his lover Karen, and a young sharpshooter. Reprint.

Robbie Forester always knew life wasn''t fair, but she never thought she could do anything about it--until one day when a powerful charm comes into her possession and guides her, her friends, and her dog Pendleton on the path to justice. Unfortunately, the path has gotten dangerous, and Robbie and her friends find themselves in a menacing world of thievery, arson, big yachts, and even bigger bank accounts. Will Robbie and her band of thieves end up in more trouble than they ever could have imagined?

After getting a strange charm bracelet from a homeless woman, thirteen-year-old Robyn Forester and new friends join together to fight injustice in their Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood.

With the game on the line on opening day, nervous rookie Thumby Duckling steps up to the plate.

A BELIEVER ARRIVES in a Marble Arch store in central London to buy what can be used to kill Covid. He finds himself in the company of a socialist shop assistant who dislikes the government intensely because of what it allowed Covid to do to his grandmother. All the Believer wants is to kill Covid because he has a guest trapped in one part of London because of Covid. He has three other guests trapped in another part of the city because of Covid. One of his best friends is critically ill and at the point of death in hospital because of Covid. His business and only source of income is not making any money and could collapse because of Covid. Should his business collapse a mission to Glastonbury that could help rescue hundreds of millions of people trapped in a living hell will be put in jeopardy, Will it be a happy ending or yet another total disaster brought about by cruel Covid?

Charlie Ochs, a former 1960s campus radical hunted down for his bombing of an ROTC building, finds his quiet existence in Cape Cod shattered when a renegade federal agent with a personal vendetta tracks him down. Reprint.