Search Results | Arapahoe

Series

Publisher

Anchor/Pantheon

Pub. Date

2002, c1998

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10

Language

English

Description

This first novel in Alexander McCall Smiths widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to "help people with problems in their lives." Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that tugs...

2) The Kalahari Typing School for Men

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Series

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English

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Description

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.

Mma Precious Ramotswe is content. Her business is well established...

3) The Kalahari typing school for men

Author

Series

Publisher

Pantheon

Pub. Date

2003?, c2002

Language

English

Description

Now that The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (the only detective agency for ladies and others in Botswana) is established, its founder, Precious Ramotswe, can look upon her life with pride: shes reached her late thirties ("the finest age to be"), has a house, two children, a good fiancé -- Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni -- and many satisfied customers. But life is never without its problems. It turns out that her adopted son is responsible for the dead hoopoe...

4) Morality for Beautiful Girls

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2003

Language

English

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Description

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.

In Morality for Beautiful Girls, Precious Ramotswe,...

5) The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: A No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2003

Language

English

Formats

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...

6) Tears of the Giraffe

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2003

Language

English

Formats

Description

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.

Precious Ramotswe is the eminently sensible and cunning proprietor...

7) The Full Cupboard of Life

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2004

Language

English

Formats

Description

THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY - Book 5

Fans around the world adore the best-selling 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.

Still...

8) The full cupboard of life

Author

Series

Publisher

Pantheon/Anchor

Pub. Date

2004, c2003

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10

Language

English

Description

THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY.FOR ALL CONFIDENTIAL MATTERS AND ENQUIRIES. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED FOR ALL PARTIES.UNDER PERSONAL MANAGEMENT.Mma Ramotswe and Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni are still engaged, but with no immediate plans to get married. Mma Ramotswe wonders when a wedding date will be named, but she is anxious to avoid putting pressure on her fiancé. For indeed he has other things on his mind -- particularly a frightening request (involving...

9) In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2005

Language

English

Formats

Description

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.
Precious is busier than usual at the detective agency when she discovers...

10) Blue Shoes and Happiness

Author

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11

Language

English

Formats

Description

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.

Life is good for Mma Ramotswe as she sets out with her usual resolve

...

11) Blue shoes and happiness

Author

Series

Publisher

Pantheon/Anchor

Pub. Date

c2006

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11

Language

English

Description

There is considerable excitement at The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. A cobra has been found in Precious Ramotswe's office. Then a nurse from a local clinic reveals that faulty blood-pressure readings are being recorded. And Botswana has a new advice columnist, Aunty Emang, whose advice is rather curt for Mma Ramotswe's taste. All this means a lot of work for our heroine and her assistant, Grace Makutsi. But there's trouble brewing in Mma Makutsi's...

12) The Good Husband of Zebra Drive

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2007

Language

English

Formats

Description

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.

There is rarely a dull moment in the life of Precious Ramotswe,

...

13) The Miracle at Speedy Motors

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Series

Pub. Date

2008

Language

English

Formats

Description

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.

Under the endless skies of Botswana, there is always something

...

14) Tea time for the traditionally built

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2009

Language

English

Formats

Description

Precious Ramotswe uses her formidable detection talents to track down her tiny white van--sold by her estimable husband Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni and stolen from its new owner--while simultaneously helping to explain the dreadful losing streak of a local football team and smoothing out a snag in Mma Makutsi's engagement to Mr Phuti Radiphut.

15) The Double Comfort Safari Club

Author

Series

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Pub. Date

2010

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

Description

Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi, of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, travel to a safari lodge in the Okavango Delta to find an heir to an unexpected legacy, while also working on cases involving adultery, a greedy girlfriend, and Grace's fiancée's controlling aunt.

16) The Double Comfort Safari Club: No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series, Book 11

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Series

Publisher

Recorded Books, Inc

Pub. Date

2010

Language

English

Description

In this story, Precious Ramotswe deals with issues of mistaken identity and great fortune against the beautiful backdrop of Botswana's remote and striking Okavango Delta. Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi head to a safari camp to carry out a delicate mission on behalf of a former guest who has left one of the guides a large sum of money. But once they find their man, Precious begins to sense that something is not right. To make matters worse, shortly before...

17) The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

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Series

Pub. Date

2011

Language

English

Formats

Description

THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY - Book 12

Fans around the world adore the best-selling 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.
At

...

18) The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection

Author

Series

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Pub. Date

2012

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

Description

THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY - Book 13

Fans around the world adore the best-selling 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.

Precious

...

19) The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon

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Series

Pub. Date

2013

Language

English

Formats

Description

Modern ideas get tangled up with traditional ones in the latest intriguing installment in the beloved, best-selling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.

Precious Ramotswe has taken on two puzzling cases. First she is approached by the lawyer Mma Sheba, who is the executor of a deceased farmer’s estate. Mma Sheba has a feeling that the young man who has stepped forward may be falsely impersonating the farmer’s

...

20) The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Author

Series

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Pub. Date

2014

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

Description