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Author
Series
Precious Ramotswe's first cases volume 1
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Before becoming the first female private investigator in Botswana, eight-year-old Precious Ramotswe tracks down a thief who has been stealing her classmates' snacks.
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Isabel Dalhousie is asked to help a doctor who has been disgraced by allegations of scientific fraud concerning a newly marketed drug.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. What must it have been like to be them? We hold our breath for them. Our heart beats faster for them. We look again at the photograph in a new light, and say Yes, it might have happened just like that. This...
Author
Series
School Ship Tobermory volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The students and crew aboard the School Ship Tobermory head to Australia to take part in a tall ships race, but an unexpected change of course brings a different kind of adventure.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a new short story collection: half spy stories, half tales of revenge, all highlight the kinder, funnier, and gentler side of espionage and retribution. In this dual collection of short stories, Alexander McCall Smith brings his trademark humor and warmth to inventive tales of spying and vengeance. In one story, a spy dropped deep into enemy territory manages to disguise himself--quite...
Author
Series
School Ship Tobermory volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When two siblings attend an unusual school, aboard a ship, they make new friends, learn about all things nautical, and become involved in a mystery they feel compelled to help solve"--
Author
Series
School Ship Tobermory volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old twins Ben and Fee MacTavish, along with their schoolmates, head to a small island in the Caribbean aboard the School Ship Tobermory, they learn extraordinary details about their captain's past and come face to face with modern-day pirates.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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...
9) Tiny tales
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency offers a collection of very short fiction and comics that celebrate the joy and absurdity of the human experience.
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