The Careful Use of Compliments: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
 Amazon.com Review: A Message from Author Alexander McCall Smith Three great places to visit in Scotland: The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh This gallery, housed in an extraordinary red sandstone building topped with spikes and twirls, [... more]
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Akimbo and the Crocodile Man
Akimbo The Innovator: In this Akimbo book, Smith brings us an Akimbo wizened by age and adventure. Here Akimbo wishes to accompany the crocodile man who is tagging baby crocodiles in order to study survival rate in that part of the jungle. Most baby [... more]
$9.95
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The Cowgirl Aunt of Harriet Bean
Easy reading mystery a treat.: Harriet loves a good mystery, and together she and her aunts are always interested in a new case, so when she discovers lost cowgirl aunt named Formica, she already envisions an addition to their detective force. But cattle [... more]
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The Right Attitude to Rain: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
End of the line for me: This book was a great disappointment. I don't know what I expected after the very good second book, but it certainly was not this. The Right Attitude to Rain reads like a long, ponderouss, unfunny episode of Seinfeld. For all of [... more]
$13.95
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The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Took me a while but.....: To be honest, I started this book about 3 times and then put it down, until I read the reviews here on Amazon. It was recommended to me by a friend who said I would love it, but I did not know what the heck it was about at first. [... more]
$21.95
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Akimbo and the Lions
Amazon.com Review: Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling author of the celebrated No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, connects with an entirely new audience with his beginning chapter book series featuring a young African boy fiercely devoted to the [... more]
$5.99
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Espresso Tales
A Taste Of Edinburgh: This book, the second in the "44 Scotland Street" series truly gives the reader's palate a taste of Edinburgh. Taking off from his first book, this one develops to a far greater degree those characters introduced in the [... more]
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The Kalahari Typing School for Men: More from the No. 1 ...
Delightfully charming...: The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith is a delightfully charming book and is just as good as the other books in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Taking place in Botswana, Precious Ramotswe runs [... more]
$22.95
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Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies Detective ...
Another Hit For Alexander McCall Smith: Is there anyone who does not find the character of Precious Ramotswe charming? This traditionally built (fat) African lady detective takes a back seat to her homely assistant detective, Mme. Makutsi, in this [... more]
$12.95
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Errors, Medicine and the Law
Book Description: Merry and McCall-Smith question the understandable, but often inappropriate, tendency to blame individuals for medical errors. They point out that the goal of safety is far better served by a sophisticated understanding of the [... more]
$39.99
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The Miracle at Speedy Motors
Endearing: This is the next little episode in the series of books, set in Botswana, and starring Mma Precious Ramotswe. It's difficult to explain to people who haven't met Mma Ramotswe just how these simple tales affect the reader and draw one into such [... more]
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Folk Tales from Africa: The Baboons Who Went This Way ...
McCall Smith fan: I like other books by McCall Smith better. I bought this because I expected it would be like The First Ladies Detective mysteries he wrote--would shed more light on Botswanan culture. But I was disappointed. It seemed like he published [... more]
$7.45
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