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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 fianc©♭e's controlling aunt.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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Mma Precious Ramotswe is content. Her business is well established with many satisfied customers, and in her mid-thirties (“the finest age to be”) she has a house, two adopted children, a fine fiancé. But, as always, there are troubles. Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni has not set the date for their marriage. Her able assistant, Mma Makutsi, wants a husband. And worse, a rival detective agency has opened in town—an agency that does not have the gentle approach...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
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Precious Ramotswe, the first female private detective in Botswana, juggles problems at home and at work when her husband is taken in by a doctor who promises a miracle cure for his daughter's medical condition, and Precious agrees to help a client who does not know her real name try to find a possibly non-existent family.
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Mma Ramotswe has her hands full both at home and in the office. To add to her current challenges, her devoted partner, Grace Makutsi, has decided to branch out on her own and open The Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe. But even "Miss 97 Per Cent" can't quite meet all the demands of running a business--not to mention those that a lightning strike makes on her building. Eventually, she'll have to accept all the help she can get--even if it comes from a completely...
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Precious Ramotswe learns that her old van is still up and running and sets out to get it back, but first she needs to team up with Grace Makutsi, whose relationship with Phuti Radiphuti is progressing toward wedding bells, to help a couple whose would-be groom has fled his own shot-gun wedding, solve a case in which cattle are being poisoned, and more.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
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In Morality for Beautiful Girls, Precious Ramotswe, founder and owner of the only detective agency for the concerns of both ladies and others, investigates the alleged poisoning of the brother of an important "Government Man," and the moral character of the four finalists of the Miss Beauty and Integrity Contest, the winner of which will almost certainly be a contestant for the title of Miss Botswana. Yet her business is having money problems, and...
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No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 2
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency volume 2
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency volume 02
The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 2
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency volume 2
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency volume 02
The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
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In this thoroughly entertaining book, the best-selling, critically acclaimed author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency continues the story of Mma "Precious" Ramotswe, the clever proprietor of the only detective agency in all of Botswana. Now engaged to Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe must contend with the hostility of her fianci's unscrupulous maid, who quickly begins plotting the disintegration of the arrangement. Then an American woman asks...
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The 10th entry in the internationally best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series finds Precious Ramotswe investigating a mystery that hits close to home. When she asks her dependable husband, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, to fix her tiny white van, Precious fears he might just sell the vehicle and buy her something more modern. And so he does. But this will not do. So Precious tries to track her beloved van down - and learns it has already been stolen...
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"Precious Ramotswe is back and, as usual, her plate is full! She's called in to tackle a mysterious disciplinary problem at her adopted daughter's school...Her infinitely trustworthy assistant, Grace Makutsi, is having trouble adjusting to wedded bliss, a problem to test even the formidable talents of Mma Ramotswe...And the estimable Clovis Andersen, author of The Principles of Private Investigation--the No. 1 Ladies' prized manual--has arrived, right...
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No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency volume 02
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2003.
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Precious Ramotswe, owner and operator of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in contemporary Botswana, accepts a job searching for a missing American man, while also dealing with her impending marriage, and her fiance's resentful maid.
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2003.
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Problems intrude upon the happy life of Precious Ramotswe, owner and operator of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Botswana, when she learns her adopted son is responsible for the death of hoopoe bird, her secretary needs help with love and business, and a rival opens shop across town.
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