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The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon  Cover Image Book Book

The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon / Alexander McCall Smith.

Summary:

"In the latest book in the series of mysteries set in Botswana, Mma Ramotswe is asked to help the proprietor of the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, who is having trouble with her business. The salon has suffered some unfortunate events, including face cream that burns the skin. Could someone be trying to put the salon out of business? Meanwhile, on the home front, Mma Makutsi is going to have a baby. But in Botswana--a land where family has always been held above all else but which is on the crossroads between old and new--this may be cause for as much controversy as celebration"-- Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9780307378415 (hbk.)
  • ISBN: 0307378411 (hbk.)
  • Physical Description: 242 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First United States edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2013]
Subject: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization) > Fiction.
Ramotswe, Precious (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Women private investigators > Botswana > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Pregnant women > Fiction.
Botswana > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Genre: Mystery fiction.

Summary: "In the latest book in the series of mysteries set in Botswana, Mma Ramotswe is asked to help the proprietor of the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, who is having trouble with her business. The salon has suffered some unfortunate events, including face cream that burns the skin. Could someone be trying to put the salon out of business? Meanwhile, on the home front, Mma Makutsi is going to have a baby. But in Botswana--a land where family has always been held above all else but which is on the crossroads between old and new--this may be cause for as much controversy as celebration"--

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