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Series
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 1
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe—with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi—navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, good humor, and the occasional cup of tea.
This first novel in Alexander McCall...
This first novel in Alexander McCall...
Author
Series
Botswana mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
One night in Chobe National Park, Ole Anderson, an expert on hyena behavior who's leading a group of trustees from the foundation that funds his research, spots a human skull after witnessing a group of hyenas chasing off a lone lion. Ole brings the grim discovery to park ranger Sanderson, now superintendent of her district, who has been dealing with a "rash of deaths, bodies, and/or their separated parts appearing in her park." Kgabo Modise, her...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Mma "Precious" Ramotswe is now engaged to Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, the kind owner of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. This new development provokes a hostile reaction from Mr. Matekoni's unscrupulous maid, who quickly begins plotting the disintegration of the engagement. Despite all this, duty calls, and Mma Ramotswe is asked to help find an American woman's son who has been missing in Africa for 10 years.
Author
Series
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 5
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
Precious Ramotswe, the only female private investigator in Botswana, is hired by a prosperous owner of several hairdressing salons who wants to discover the genuine intentions of her four suitors.
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Author
Series
Botswana mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After World Cup fever grasps South America, a game ranger finds a corpse in Chobe National Park, and she and Kgabo Modise soon realize that their findings in the case could lead to an international incident.
Author
Series
Precious Ramotswe's first cases volume 3
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Staying with Aunty Bee at a safari camp in the Botswana countryside where a film crew is making a movie about a lion, nine-year-old Precious Ramotswe and her resourceful new friend Khumo use their detective skills to find the movie star lion when he goes missing.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Documents the author's adventures growing up in Botswana with her eccentric family, an upbringing marked by her doctor father's yearnings to be a vet, her holistic and home-schooling mother, and the apartheid mind-set embraced by their white neighbors.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A portrait of 1970s Botswana is told through the intertwined stories of three people, including a medical student who is forced to flee apartheid South Africa after witnessing a murder and an American Ph.D. student who abandons her studies to follow her husband to Africa.
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Twin explorers Gannon and Wyatt go to Botswana for an African safari, but a poacher has shot and wounded a lioness. As they set off to try to save the mother and her cubs, they encounter many of Africa's big animals. Based on real-life brothers, this series is supported by video, photos, and more stories found online at travelswithgannonandwyatt.com.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Business is slow at the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, so at Mma Makutsi's suggestion, Mma Ramotswe is persuaded to take her first-ever holiday. But just as she's about to depart, a new client arrives: a young woman whose father was considered a hero in Botswana but whose reputation is now being called into question. Mma Ramotswe almost cancels her trip, but Mma Makutsi is adamant that she and Charlie have the situation in hand. Precious can't relax,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"This latest installment of the beloved No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series finds Botswana's premier detective agency as busy as ever, with no shortage of sensitive situations requiring Mma Ramotswe's keen eye and discerning input. Through it all, Mma Ramotswe will demonstrate that there are solutions to all manner of difficulties, there to be discovered as long as one is led by kindness, grace, and logic, and can rely on the wise counsel of close...
Series
Unforgettable journeys volume 33
Publisher
International Masters Publishers AB
Pub. Date
2011, c2006
Language
English
Description
From the temperate savanna grasslands of the Kalahari Desert to the seasonally lush Okavango Swamps, landlocked Botswana has one of Africa's most diverse landscapes. Modern Gaborone is a thriving city, with its mix of traditional and 21st century arts and bustling life, while the hunter-gatherer culture of the Kalahari Bushmen stretches back over thousands of years.
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