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McCall Smith Alexander: The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection

Скачать книгу (размер 1 325 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 261) Аннотация: Mma Ramotswe, normally a sound and peaceful sleeper, finds her slumbers disturbed by a dream of a tall man beneath an acacia tree. But she is not quite ready to discover what this vision may portend. Soon even Mma Makutsi, now in the first flush of married bliss, has to admit that untoward things are occurring around the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, not least with the construction of her new…

McCall Smith Alexander: The Sunday Philosophy Club

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethics — which addresses such questions as 'Truth telling in sexual relationships' — and she also hosts The Sunday Philosophy Club at her house in Edinburgh. Behind the city's Georgian facades its moral compasses are spinning with greed, dishonesty and…

McCall Smith Alexander: Sunshine on Scotland Street

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Scotland Street witnesses the wedding of the millennium of Angus Lordie to Domenica Macdonald, but as the newlyweds depart on honeymoon Edinburgh is in disarray. Recovering from the trauma of being best man, Matthew lurches into the arms of a Dane called Bo, while Cyril eludes his dog-sitter and embarks on an odyssey involving fox-holes and the official residence of a cardinal. Narcissist Bruce…

McCall Smith Alexander: Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Isabel Dalhousie thinks often of friends, sometimes of lovers, and on occasion of chocolate. As an Edinburgh philosopher she is certain of where she stands. She can review a book called In Praise of Sin with panache and conviction, but real life is... well, perhaps a bit more challenging — particularly when it comes to her feelings for Jamie, a younger man who should have married her niece, Cat.…

McCall Smith Alexander: Bertie Plays the Blues

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Even down to its well-set Georgian townhouses, Edinburgh is a hymn to measure and harmony. But on Scotland Street, domestic accord is in short supply. Matthew and Elspeth welcome three new arrivals, though the joys of multiple parenthood are somewhat lost due to sleep deprivation and the difficulties of telling their brood apart. Angus and Domenica are to marry, and Domenica has ambitious and…

McCall Smith Alexander: The No: 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Precious Ramotswe is a kind, warm-hearted and large African lady. She is also the only female private detective in Botswana. Her agency — the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency — is the best in the country. With help of her secretary, Mma Makutsi, and her best friend, Mr JLB Matekoni, she solves a number of difficult problems. A missing husband, a missing finger and a missing child — she will solve…

McCall Smith Alexander: The Forgotten Affairs of Youth

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Happy with her husband-to-be and beloved son, Isabel Dalhousie has feelings about parenthood that grow more tender daily. So when Jane, a visiting academic adopted and sent to Australia as a baby, asks for help in tracing her Scottish origins, she cannot refuse. However, habitually upright Isabel finds herself beset by temptation — for instance, to be suspicious of Professor Lettuce's latest…

McCall Smith Alexander: Unusual Uses for Olive Oil: A Von Igelfeld Novel

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Life is so unfair, and it sends many things to try Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, author of Portuguese Irregular Verbs and pillar of the Institute of Romance Philology in the proud Bavarian city of Regensburg. There is the undeserved rise of his rival (and owner of a one-legged dachshund), Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer; the interminable ramblings of the librarian, Herr Huber; and the…

McCall Smith Alexander: The Double Comfort Safari Club

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are called to a safari lodge in Botswana's Okavango Delta to carry out a delicate mission on behalf of a former guest. The Okavango makes Precious appreciate once again the beauty of her homeland: it is a paradise of teeming wildlife, majestic grasslands and sparkling water. However, it is also home to rival safari operators, fearsome crocodiles and disgruntled…

McCall Smith Alexander: The Importance of Being Seven

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Despite inhabiting a great city renowned for its impeccable restraint, the extended family of 44 Scotland Street is trembling on the brink of reckless self-indulgence. Matthew and Elspeth receive startling — and expensive — news on a visit to the Infirmary, Angus and Domenica are contemplating an Italian menage a trois, and even Big Lou is overheard discussing cosmetic surgery. But when Bertie…

McCall Smith Alexander: The Double Comfort Safari Club

Скачать книгу (размер 1 070 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 211) Аннотация: Readers will agree that this touching and dramatic new installment in Alexander McCall Smith's beloved and best-selling series is the finest yet. In this story, Precious Ramotswe deals with issues of mistaken identity and great fortune against the beautiful backdrop of Botswana's remote and striking Okavango Delta. Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi head to a safari camp to carry out a delicate mission…

McCall Smith Alexander: The Charming Quirks of Others

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: As well as its advantages, there are drawbacks to the enlightened village that is twenty-first-century Edinburgh, where every Saturday night ears burn at dinner parties across the city, and anyone requiring the investigative abilities of a philosophical soul knows where to find her. Jillian McKinlay — wife of a trustee of an illustrious school — is the latest petitioner; she asks Isabel to look…

McCall Smith Alexander: The Dog Who Came in from the Cold

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Welcome to Corduroy Mansions in Pimlico: a temple of Arts and Crafts architecture, with comforting, weathered brickwork and frankly frivolous dormer windows, it is home to a delightfully eccentric cast of Londoners.

McCall Smith Alexander: La's Orchestra Saves the World

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A heart-warming stand alone novel about the life-affirming powers of music and company during a time of war, from the best-selling and beloved author of The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency.

McCall Smith Alexander: Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: In this delightful second installment in Alexander McCall Smith's bestselling detective series, the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie gets caught up in a highly unusual affair of the heart. When Isabel is asked to cover for vacationing Cat at her delicatessen, Isabel meets a man with a most interesting problem. He recently had a heart transplant and is suddenly haunted by memories of events…

McCall Smith Alexander: A Conspiracy of Friends: A Corduroy Mansions Novel

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Following on from the huge success of the 44 Scotland Street series, Alexander McCall Smith has 'moved house' to a crumbling four-storey mansion in Pimlico — Corduroy Mansions. It is inhabited by a glorious assortment of characters: among them, Oedipus Snark, the first ever nasty Lib Dem MP, who is so detestable his own mother, Berthea, is writing an unauthorised biography about him; and one…

McCall Smith Alexander: Corduroy Mansions

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Welcome to Corduroy Mansions in Pimlico: an Arts and Crafts beauty with comforting weathered brickwork and frankly frivolous dormer windows, it is home to some delightfully eccentric Londoners. In the top flat lives William, with his wastrel son and an ex-vegetarian dog named Freddie de la Hay. Four lively young women share the first floor, including twinset-and-pearls Caroline, vitamin-addict…

McCall Smith Alexander: Good Husband of Zebra Drive

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The eighth instalment of Alexander McCall Smith`s wonderful No.1 Ladies` Detective Agency series.