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1) 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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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is called out of retirement to investigate a crime that seems to be linked to Joe's last case, which remains unsolved and continues to haunt him.
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 16
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English
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Ella Clah, a member of the Navajo nation and special investigator for the Navajo police, returns home from a trip to Washington D.C., and tries to decide whether to accept a promising job offer that would force her and her daughter to leave the reservation, but is distracted when gunfire makes her one of three suspected targets in attempted murder.
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 14
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English
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Ella Clah, a Special Investigator with the Navajo Police is called in to investigate when the son-in-law of a powerful Navajo businesswoman and politician is attacked, and when Ella uncovers evidence of Navajo witchcraft, she fears she is exposing herself to skinwalker magic by searching for the culprit.
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English
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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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Ella Clah mysteries volume 9
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English
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Rose Destea has always struggled to find a balance between the modern world and the traditional, natural world of the Navajo, and when she uncovers a theft in her tribe, she must challenge the old beliefs while staying true to the new ones.
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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.
8) Earthway
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Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011, c2009
Edition
1st trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
336 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ella Clah, a special investigator for the Navajo Tribal Police, finds a pipe bomb in her friend's classroom and attempts to track down a group of activists opposed to the construction of a nuclear power plant on the reservation.
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 13
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English
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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....
10) Skeleton man
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Series
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...
11) Blackening song
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 1
Publisher
FORGE
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
1st trade paperback ed.
Physical Desc
380 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Ella Clah returns to her Navajo reservation to find the killer of her father, a Christian minister. The probe is complicated by her long stay in the white world. While she is convinced that she has retained her Indian soul, the locals don't think so. By the authors of Second Shadow.
12) Song of the lion
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 3
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 3
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 21
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 3
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 21
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English
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When a car bomb kills a young man in the Shiprock High School parking lot, Officer Bernadette Manuelito discovers that the intended victim was a mediator for a multi-million-dollar development planned at the Grand Canyon. But what seems like an act of ecoterrorism turns out to be something far more nefarious and complex. Piecing together the clues, Bernadette and her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, uncover a scheme to disrupt the negotiations and inflame...
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Sunshine Vicram volume 2
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English
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Running a small-town police force in the mountains of New Mexico should be a smooth, carefree kind of job. Sadly, full-time Sheriff--and even fuller-time coffee guzzler--Sunshine Vicram, didn't get that memo. All Sunshine really wants is one easy-going day. You know, the kind that starts with coffee and a donut (or three) and ends with take-out pizza and a glass of chardonnay (or seven). Turns out, that's about as easy as switching to decaf. (What...
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Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A mummified corpse, over half a century old, is found in the cellar of an abandoned building in a remote New Mexico ghost town. Junior FBI Agent Corrie Swanson needs to ID the body, and determine cause of death. When archaeologist Nora Kelly lends her expertise to the investigation, they uncover that the deceased died in a fetal position, skin coming off in sheets, a rictus of horror frozen on his face. And hidden on the corpse is a sixteenth century...
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Sunshine Vicram volume 3
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"A Hard Day for a Hangover is another humorous installment in Darynda Jones's wine mystery series deemed: "Laugh-out-loud funny, intensely suspenseful, page-turning fun." -New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan Some people greet the day with open arms. Sheriff Sunshine Vicram would rather give it a hearty shove and get back into bed, because there's just too much going on right now. There's a series of women going missing, and Sunny feels...
16) The sinister pig
Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 16
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
p2003
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (5.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
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