Akimbo and the Snakes

Akimbo and the Snakes
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0747586233

A thrilling story of Africa, snakes and a dangerous mission, from the bestselling author of the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Akimbo always looks forward to Uncle Peter's visits, because Uncle Peter has a very exciting job: he runs a snake park!

Akimbo and the Elephants

Akimbo and the Elephants
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2007-01-23
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1599900319

On the African game preserve where his father works, Akimbo devises a dangerous plan to capture a ring of elephant poachers.

Akimbo and the Baboons

Akimbo and the Baboons
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2009-02-01
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN: 9780747594581

Includes brilliant baboon facts! Akimbo loves his life in Africa and the animals that live there. In this newest Akimbo story, a lady comes to study the baboons in the game reserve where Akimbo's father is the head ranger. Akimbo is keen to help and find out all he can about baboons - and in so doing comes closer to a much more dangerous animal …

Akimbo and the Snakes

Akimbo and the Snakes
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2007-10-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1599900343

On a trip to the snake park with his Uncle Peter, Akimbo has an adventure involving a deadly green mamba snake.

Akimbo and the Crocodile Man

Akimbo and the Crocodile Man
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2007-07-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1599900335

Akimbo goes to the rescue of a zoologist who is injured on his father's game preserve.

The Akimbo 2-Book Omnibus

The Akimbo 2-Book Omnibus
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0345808819

Bestselling novelist Alexander McCall brings the majesty and dangers of Africa to life in these vividly imagined adventures for young readers. Imagine living in the heart of Africa, where the sun rises each morning over blue mountains, and great plains stretch as far as the eye can see. Imagine living in a place where wild animals still roam freely--elephants, lions, crocodiles. Akimbo lives in such a place. But Africa can be as dangerous as it is beautiful . . . In Akimbo and the Snakes, Akimbo can't believe his luck when his father allows him to visit his uncle Peter's snake park. And when a local village calls to report the sighting of a green mamba snake--the rarest and deadliest snake of all--Akimbo hopes to help his uncle catch it for the park. But little does he expect to find himself trapped face-to-face with the deadly reptile. In Akimbo and the Baboons, Akimbo and his cousin, Kosi, are excited to join a scientist who has come to study baboons in the wild. But when a black leopard is seen near their camp, and Akimbo and Kosi get lost in the bush, it will take all the courage the boys can muster--plus some help from an unusual friend--to lead them back to safety.

My Year in the No-man's-bay

My Year in the No-man's-bay
Author: Peter Handke
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 485
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374217556

A collection of stories in which an Austrian writer analyzes the craft of writing and describes the people he met over the years. One of them is a former Miss Yugoslavia with whom he had a romance.

The No 1 Car Spotter

The No 1 Car Spotter
Author: Atinuke
Publisher: Kane/Miller Book Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Automobiles
ISBN: 9781610670517

Oluwalase Babatunde Benson is Number 1. He's the Number 1 car spotter in his village.The Number 1 car spotter in the world! The start of an exciting new series about the irresistible Number 1, whose hobby is car spotting, but who is good at solving all sorts of problems for his village.

Portuguese Irregular Verbs

Portuguese Irregular Verbs
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2010-04-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307370372

A deliciously entertaining new series by the bestselling author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency The many fans of Precious Ramotswe will find further cause for celebration in the protagonist of Alexander McCall Smith’s irresistibly funny trilogy, the eminent (if shamefully under-read) philologist Professor Dr. Mortiz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute at Regensburg. Unnaturally tall, hypersensitive to slights, and oblivious to his own frequent gaucheries, von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he knows is due him. Portuguese Irregular Verbs follows the Professor from a busman’s holiday researching old Irish obscenities to a flirtation with a desirable lady dentist. In The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, von Igelfeld practices veterinary medicine without a license, transports relics for a schismatically challenged Coptic prelate and is mobbed by marriage-minded widows on board a Mediterranean cruise ship. In At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, the final novel in the trilogy, we find our hero suffering the slings of academic intrigue as a visiting fellow at Cambridge, and the slings of outrageous fortune in an eventful Columbian adventure.

All Our Pretty Songs

All Our Pretty Songs
Author: Sarah McCarry
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2013-07-30
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250027098

This is a story about love, but not the kind of love you think. You'll see... In the lush and magical Pacific Northwest live two best friends who grew up like sisters: charismatic, mercurial, and beautiful Aurora, and the devoted, watchful narrator. Each of them is incomplete without the other. But their unbreakable bond is challenged when a mysterious and gifted musician named Jack comes between them. His music is like nothing I have ever heard. It is like the ocean surging, the wind that blows across the open water, the far call of gulls. Suddenly, each girl must decide what matters most: friendship, or love. What both girls don't know is that the stakes are even higher than either of them could have imagined. They're not the only ones who have noticed Jack's gift; his music has awakened an ancient evil—and a world both above and below which may not be mythical at all. We have paved over the ancient world but that does not mean we have erased it. The real and the mystical; the romantic and the heartbreaking all begin to swirl together in All Our Pretty Songs, Sarah McCarry's brilliant debut, carrying the two on journey that is both enthralling and terrifying. And it's up to the narrator to protect the people she loves—if she can.