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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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A noted anthropologist arrives at an Anasazi Indian ruin to dig for clay pots and is terrified by what looms out of the darkness. Weeks later she is reported missing. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn unearths a bizarre and mystifying series of murders.
3) Skeleton man
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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From the enduring "national and literary cultural sensation" (Los Angeles Times) Tony Hillerman, a crackling tale of myth, mystery, and murder featuring the legendary Leaphorn and Chee.
Though he may be retired, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn hasn't lost his curiosity or his edge. He's eager to help Sergeant Jim Chee and his fiancée Bernie Manuelito with their latest case-clearing an innocent kid accused of robbing a trading post.
Billy...
4) Talking God
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Separate police investigations become closely related when it becomes clear that Henry Highhawk is wanted by others besides the police and is involved in more than grave robbing.
5) Shifting
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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After bouncing from foster home to foster home since the age of five, almost-eighteen-year-old Maggie Mae Mortensen arrives in Silver City, New Mexico, to finish high school and try to escape her reputation as a trouble-maker, only to face ostracism in her new school and a band of evil Navajo Skinwalkers who want her dead.
6) Stargazer
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English
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Officer Bernie Manuelito risks her relationship with Jim Chee to investigate the disappearance of a former roommate, whose confession for the murder of her estranged husband, a prominent astronomer, does not add up.
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A dying man is murdered. A rich man's wife agrees to pay three thousand dollars for the return of a stolen box of rocks. A series of odd, inexplicable events is haunting Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police and drawing him alone into the Bad Country of the merciless Southwest, where nothing good can survive...including Chee. Because an assassin waits for him there, protecting a thirty-year-old vision that greed has sired and blood has nourished....
9) Coyote waits
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The car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez—a bullet did. And the old man in possession of the murder weapon is a whiskey-soaked shaman named Ashie Pinto. Officer Jim Chee is devastated by the slaying of his good friend Del, and confounded by the prime suspect's refusal to utter a single word of confession or denial. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believes there is much more to this outrage than what appears on the surface, as he and Jim...
10) The sinister pig
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Tony Hillerman's mysteries offer a combination of Native-American lore and intriguing crimes that has made each one an instant best-seller. A wealthy Washington businessman will do anything to protect a covert operation that earns him millions of dollars. But when his activities attract the attention of reservation police, his power becomes as unstable as the desert wind.
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David McKay
Pub. Date
1985, c1959
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Younger Brother lives in a dry land, and he dreams of finding the wide water of the Pacific Ocean. This gentle coming-of-age story, rooted in the traditional culture of the Navajo, recounts Younger Brother's journey toward finding his vocation as a medicine man. Under the guidance of his uncle, the boy learns about the ancient songs, customs, and ceremonies of his people as well as the modern-day magic of movies and airplanes. Written in the 1930s...
12) The wailing wind
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English
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Sergeant Jim Chee lures retired Lt. Joe Leaphorn out of retirement when Officer Bernadette Manuelito discovers the corpse of a white man who apparently had ties to the old Golden Calf Mine homicide--a case with loose ends that has been troubling Leaphorn for years.
13) The blessing way
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Lt. Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police and anthropologist Bergen McKee follow the horrifying trail of murder left by the Wolf-Witch.
16) Turquoise girl
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Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A serial killer stalks young Navajo men and women ... and Ella Clah's family might be next in his sights, in Aimee and David Thurlo's Turquoise Girl!
Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah has seen a lot of death in the decade since she returned to the Reservation, but nothing quite as bad as a series of violent murders of young Navajo. Something about the crime scene reminds Ella of her days in the FBI, and she calls on Agent Blalock for help....
17) The sinister pig
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 16
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
p2003
Language
English
Description
Discovering a link between the woman he loves and a political murder, Navajo tribal police Sergeant Jim Chee joins a map-wielding Joe Leaphorn on the heels of a fleeing Washington power broker.
18) The ghostway
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English
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Don't miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+!
The sixth installment in New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman's Leaphorn and Chee series—an electrifying thriller of revenge, secrets, and murder.
"One of the best of the series."—New York Times Book Review
Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers
...19) The fallen man
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English
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In his Chee/Leaphorn series, best-selling author and recipient of the Navajo Tribe's Special Friend Award, Tony Hillerman, magically combines Navajo lore and modern American culture. In The Fallen Man, he brings Leaphorn out of retirement to join Chee in solving one of his most chilling mysteries to date. When a human skeleton is discovered on sacred Navajo land, the publicity surrounding the find sets in motion a widespread investigation and a series...
20) Skinwalkers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police are united in a murder investigation that leads them into the dark world of Navajo witchcraft.
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