Ramsay, Frederick

Summary: 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2016

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Summary: The incredible story of a baby elephant who was born into a rescue camp in the wilderness of Botswana. When she is suddenly orphaned at one-month-old, it is up to the keepers who look after the herd to keep her alive. This one elephant's tale remains both intimate and epic, a journey of tragedy and triumph, because when her entire species faces extinction, one life means everything.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2017

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McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: "In this latest installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Grace Makutsi encounters a pair of quandaries that will require all of her and Mma Ramotswe's cleverness and generosity to resolve. Grace Makutsi's husband, Phuti, is in a bind. An international firm is attempting to undercut his prices in the office furniture market. Phuti has always been concerned with quality...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction McCall Smith

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M MCC

McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: Detective Grace Makutsi has domestic troubles involving her husband's furniture store and a friend's troubled son. She must turn to Mma Ramotswe and the formidable Mma Potokwani to set it right.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Patterson, James

Summary: "James Patterson and award-winning Zambian writer Ellen Banda-Aaku deliver an unforgettable survival story of a Maasai girl who faces down poachers to find a future among the elephants. Clever, sensitive Jama likes elephants better than people. While her classmates gossip - especially about the new boy, Leku - Jama takes refuge at the watering hole outside her village. There the twelve-year-old...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company 2022

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Maddox, Jake

Summary: Malcolm loves baseball and science, but his teammates are not always pleased with the ideas he comes up with--until he uses science to come up with a winning pitch, the knuckleball.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023

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McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: "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,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023

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McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: Mma Ramotswe's attention is focused on a pesky disciplinary problem at her adopted daughter's school--while Grace Makutsi adjusts to wedded bliss and the famed Clovis Andersen arrives in Botswana looking for more than bush tea.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012

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Stanley, Michael

Summary: "Recent university graduate David 'Kubu' Bengu joins the Botswana Criminal Investigation Department directly rather than via the normal route of a constable on the beat. This does not sit well with existing detectives. Shortly after he joins the CID, the richest diamond mine in the world is robbed of 100,000 carats of diamonds in transit. The robbery is well-executed and brutal. Police...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Stanley 2020

McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: 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.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2014

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McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: Mma Ramotswe's attention is focused on a pesky disciplinary problem at her adopted daughter's school--while Grace Makutsi adjusts to wedded bliss and the famed Clovis Andersen arrives in Botswana looking for more than bush tea.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012

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McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: While both Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi are puzzled by prophetic dreams, life goes on at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Precious finds herself investigating a case of rural jealousy, while Grace inches closer to her wedding.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011

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McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: "Grace Makutsi's husband, Phuti, is in a bind. An international firm is attempting to undercut his prices in the office furniture market. Meanwhile, Mma Makutsi is approached by an old friend who has a troubled son. Grace and Phuti agree to lend a hand, but the situation is more than they can handle on their own. It will require not only all of their patience and dedication, but also the help...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

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McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: "Precious Ramotswe learns valuable lessons about first impressions and forgiveness in this latest installment of the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are approached by their part-time colleague, Mr. Polopetsi, with a troubling story: a woman, accused of being rude to a valued customer, has been wrongly dismissed from her job at an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017

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McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: As the temperature rises in Gaborone, Precious Ramotswe, founder of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, wonders whether the heat could be the reason that business is particularly slow. But then a distant cousin of Mma Ramotswe's comes to the agency with a plea for help and the ladies decide to pursue the issue together. Armed with Mma Ramotswe's circumspection and Mma Makutsi's sharp eye, they...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2020

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McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: "Mr. J.L.B. Matekone is unsure about how to grow the successful Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. When an old friend approaches him about a new business venture, Mr. Matekone would need to mortgage his property to pursue this endeavor. Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi wonder what this will mean for his current business--as well as their own. And Botswana's premier detective agency agree to investigate...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

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McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: "In the latest book in the widely beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe takes on a case for a childhood acquaintance but her inquiries will require an even more delicate touch than usual. Mma Ramotswe reconnects with an old friend who has been having problems with her daughter. Though Precious feels compelled to lend a hand, she discovers that getting involved in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019

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McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: "Precious Ramotswe learns valuable lessons about first impressions and forgiveness in this latest installment of the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are approached by their part-time colleague, Mr. Polopetsi, with a troubling story: a woman, accused of being rude to a valued customer, has been wrongly dismissed from her job at an...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCC

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction McCall-Smith 2017

McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: "The delightful seventeenth installment of the ever-popular, perennially best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective, is a little short on help. The co-director of the agency, Grace Makutsi, is busy with her own case, her client none other than their erstwhile assistant, Mr. Polopetsi, who has unwittingly involved himself in a pyramid...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCC

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction McCall-Smith 2016

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McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: Hoping to reclaim a van that was featured in a possible prophetic dream, Precious and Grace find themselves helping an apprentice of Phuti Radiphuti, investigating a cattle poisoning, and considering Grace's possible marriage to Phuti.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCC

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction McCall-Smith 2011

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Gibbs, Stuart

Summary: "Someone is trying to hunt FunJungle's Asian greater one-horned rhinoceros, and twelve-year-old Teddy Fitzroy is on the case"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2015

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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JT Series Gibbs

McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: Mma Ramotswe has a loving family, good friends, and a thriving business doing what she enjoys most: helping people. But her latest mystery is distinctly trickier than it initially appears.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Osborne, Mary Pope

Summary: "The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to Africa where they must use magic to save a rhino and her baby from poachers"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2023

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE OSB

McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: They say it takes a village to raise a child, but can Mma Ramotswe and the rest of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency come together to raise a pipsqueak pachyderm?

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020

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