Tears of the Giraffe

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0748110623
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243

Book Description
The second book in the multi-million copy bestselling No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series The one where Precious gains a new family Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is hoping to set up home with Mr J.L.B. Maketoni. But first she must deal with his scheming, misbehaving maid. She also has to confront the most difficult case of her career so far: that of an American who went missing ten years ago, and about whom all leads have long since dried up. Then there are not one, but two sudden additions to Mma's family . . . 'One of the most memorable heroines in any modern fiction' Newsweek 'Soothing, full of hope' Sunday Telegraph 'Delightful' Evening Standard 'Enthralling... Mma Ramotswe is someone readers can't help but love' USA Today

The Kalahari Typing School for Men

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1400079411
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book 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 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 to business that Mma Ramotswe’s does. But, of course, Precious will manage these things, as she always does, with her uncanny insight and her good heart.

Questioning Linguistics

Author: Naomi Knight
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144381220X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 295

Book Description
QUESTIONING LINGUISTICS brings together different perspectives on language studies and applications into a single volume and allows readers to examine how linguists of diverse traditions study and use this expert knowledge of language. By doing so, this volume invites us to reconsider the nature and focus of the field of study and questions a number of current thoughts about language theory, application, and use. In effect, the nature of linguistics, linguistic theory, and languages are called into question, as are the methods that we as linguists may take for granted in our developed research traditions. Scholars and researchers from within linguistics and beyond will find this volume both accessible and engaging, as it gathers the thoughts and opinions of experts in the field alongside new theorists in an open forum for discussion that diminishes the borders between these diverse threads.

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141963468
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 95

Book Description
"The Pelican spread his huge white wings and flew down on to the road beside me. 'Hop in,' he said, opening his enormous beak . . ." MEET BILLY. A kid with a dream. He wants to turn an old wooden house into an incredible sweetshop full of treats! AND MEET THE LADDERLESS WINDOW-CLEANING COMPANY: Monkey, Pelican (Pelly) and Giraffe (who needs ladders when you've got a giraffe?!). They have just landed a big break cleaning all six hundred and seventy-seven windows of the mansion owned by the richest man in all of England! All they need now is a little help from Billy. Can these unlikely new friends make Billy's wildest dreams come true and take him on an adventure he'll never forget . . .?

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Box Set (Books 2-4)

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0525565027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434

Book Description
Here are three heartwarming books in Alexander McCall Smith’s No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Series—now available in a convenient ebook box set. This box set includes books 2-4 of the series: Tears of the Giraffe, Morality for Beautiful Girls, and The Kalahari Typing School for Men. 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.

Giraffes

Author: Sarah Albee
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 9780836890976
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of giraffes.

Raising Daisy Rothschild

Author: Betty Leslie-Melville
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description

Baby Tiger's Blanket

Author: Michèle Dufresne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932570441
Category : Readers (Elementary)
Languages : en
Pages : 20

Book Description
When Baby Tiger thinks his blanket has been stolen, Georgie Giraffe tracks it down.

The Lonely Giraffe

Author: Peter Blight
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780747571445
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
When a giraffe feels left out because the other animals can barely hear him or are afraid of him, an unexpected flood and an innovative idea by the giraffe changes the other animals' perspective.

Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale

Author: Lynda Rutledge
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101580607
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
SOON TO BE CLAIRE DARLING—A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CATHERINE DENEUVE! When a wealthy woman decides to sell all of her worldly possessions, she unearths the secrets of her family’s past in this charming debut. On the last day of the millennium, sassy Faith Bass Darling, the richest old lady in Bass, Texas, decides to have a garage sale. With help from a couple of neighborhood boys, Faith lugs her priceless Louis XV elephant clock, countless Tiffany lamps, and everything else in her nineteenth-century mansion out onto her long, sloping lawn. Why is a recluse of twenty years suddenly selling off her dearest possessions? Because God told her to. As the townspeople grab up five generations of heirlooms, everyone drawn to the sale—including Faith’s long-lost daughter—finds that the antiques not only hold family secrets but also inspire some of life’s most important questions: Do our possessions possess us? What are we without our memories? Is there life after death or second chances here on earth? And is Faith really selling that Tiffany lamp for $1? READERS GUIDE INCLUDED