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- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
For Mara, mother of four, sole provider for her family, life has never been easy. In a community that relies upon traditional magic to cure AIDS, and blames bad luck upon a bewitching curse, women carry a heavy burden...
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
Mma Ramotswe and Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni are enjoying a nice meal out at a peri-peri restaurant when an American woman named Julia approaches seeking Mma Ramotswe’s help. Julia’s beloved late grandfather was Botswanan, and he instilled in her an...
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Crime
In this latest installment in the cherished No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Mma Ramotswe must balance family obligations with the growing needs of one of Charlie’s pet projects. Precious Ramotswe loves her dependable old van. Yes, it sometimes...
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Botswanan childhood of Monei Ntuka is shaped by stories from her mother, father, and grandmother as well as from the colonizers and the Christian church in this novel about the tensions between modernization and tradition in postcolonial Africa.
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Read worldwide for her wisdom, authenticity, and skillful prose, South African born Bessie Head (1937-1986) offers a moving and magical tale of an orphaned girl, Margaret Cadmore, who goes to teach in a remote village in Botswana where her...
- Location(s): Botswana, Kalahari
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
An American anthropologist is at a loose end in Botswana. She is ferociously intelligent and wonderfully inquisitive. She is also in love with Nelson Denoon, a charismatic intellectual who runs an experimental women-only utopian village in the Kalahari. At...
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ray Finch is a middle-aged Milton scholar and a CIA agent in Botswana. His doted-upon wife, Iris, may be an adulteress. And her physician, the quixotic Davis Morel, may be her lover. Mortals is a riotous political adventure, a...
- Location(s): Botswana, Maun
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1990s
24-year-old Caitlin Davies was studying in America when she met and fell in love with the enigmatic Ron. When Ron returned to his home in Botswana, Caitlin joined him in Maun, the ‘Place of Reeds’, and the two began...
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
One bright morning, Precious Ramotswe – head of Botswana’s No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – receives a visitor: a woman from Australia. This woman asks Precious to take on a case: to find the nursemaid who raised her during...
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Leo Painter is the CEO of Earth Global, a large energy, mining and real-estate development firm. He and his party of company executives are traveling in Botswana to consult with the government of Botswana about accessing their extractable resources.
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