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The lost art of gratitude / Alexander McCall Smith.
"While attending a second birthday party with her son, Charlie, Isabel meets Minty Auchterlonie, a ruthlessly ambitious high-flying financier who first appeared in The Sunday Philosophy Club. Minty heads a small investment bank and may or may not be deceiving her shareholders. Isabel faces a dilemma: she has information which could prevent the investors from being cheated — but how can she be sure of it? Meanwhile, Isabel’s niece, Cat, becomes engaged to a stunt man who is also a funambulist. However, the fiancé is about to take up a highly dangerous engagement that Isabel fears will end in disaster, even as Isabel herself considers embarking on an extreme adventure of her own…"-- from publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307397010
- ISBN: 0307397017
- Physical Description: 262 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition: First Canadian edition.
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Knopf Canada, 2009.
- Copyright: ©2009.
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| Genre: | Detective and mystery stories. Mystery fiction. Mystery fiction. |
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| Elkford Public Library | FC SMI (Text) | 35170000290874 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Burns Lake Public Library | AF (Text) | 35198000452285 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Castlegar Public Library | MYS MCC (Text) | 35146001448810 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Greenwood Public Library | Fic MCC (Text) | 35141000110073 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Houston Public Library | F MCC (Text) | 35150001615816 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Nakusp Public Library | FIC MCC (Text) | 35160000581497 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Prince Rupert Library | McCa Is6 (Text) | 33294001686393 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Salmo Public Library | FIC MCC (Text) | 35163000017199 | Adult Fiction (hardback or trade paperback) | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Sechelt Public Library | F MCCA (Text) | 33260000100462 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Taylor Public Library | FIC MCC (Text) | 35156000059005 | TPL - PBK/FIC - Downstrs | Volume hold | Available | - |
Alexander McCall Smith is the author of four international bestselling series. He is professor emeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and has served on many national and international bodies concerned with bioethics. He lives in Scotland, where in his spare time he is a bassoonist in the RTO (Really Terrible Orchestra).
