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"Two Native-American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuni. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig ... and a steel hypodermic needle. And...
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 26
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 26
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 8
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When two suspicious deaths occur in the Bears Ears area, Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito must use all their experience, skill, and intuition to find justice.
An unexpected death on a lonely road outside of Utah's Bears Ears National Park raises questions for Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito. Why would a seasoned outdoorsman and well-known paleontologist freeze to death within walking...
10) The first eagle
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Navajo tribal policeman Jim Chee searches for the killer of a fellow policeman while a biologist hunts for the key to the most virulent form of bubonic plague since the Middle Ages.
11) The fallen man
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Lieutenant Leaphorn of the Navajo tribal police comes out of retirement for a solution to a case which eluded him 11 years earlier. The case was the disappearance of a local rancher, shortly after he inherited money, while on a hiking trip with his wife. Now his skeleton has been found.
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Dogs of World War II volume 4
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In September 1944, eleven-year-old Billie lives with her great aunt, Doff, eagerly waiting for her older brother Leo to return from boot camp, and desperate to find the father that left when she was little; but Leo brings a friend with him, a Navajo named Denny, and the injured dog they have rescued and named Bear--and when the two young men go off to war, Bear becomes the thread that ties them all together, and helps Billie to find a true friend....
14) The sinister pig
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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.
15) The tale teller
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Legendary Navajo policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn takes center stage in this riveting atmospheric mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman that combines crime, superstition, and tradition and brings the desert Southwest vividly alive. Joe Leaphorn may have retired from the Tribal Police, but he finds himself knee-deep in a perplexing case involving a priceless artifact--a reminder of a dark time in Navajo history. Joe's been...
16) Navajo strong
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Joyce Phillips
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2019
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A woman reconnects with her Navajo roots through a series of letters with her grandchild. "Sally has begun a life in Yangzhou, China. Will the discovery of her Navajo family lure her back to New Mexico?"
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 14
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Returning to her Navajo reservation after a stint with the FBI to oversee her family's struggles to balance their modern and traditional ways of life, Ella Clah investigates an attack on a powerful Navajo politician's son.
18) Skeleton man
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While assisting Sergeant Jim Chee to investigate a robbery, Joe Leaphorn turns up a clue that leads to a search for the remains of a passenger on a plane that went down in the Grand Canyon fifty years earlier.
19) Song of the lion
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 3
A Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 21
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 3
A Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 21
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 3
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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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Graywolf Press
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2022.
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A forceful vision of contemporary Navajo life depicts violent collisions of love, cultures, and racism as the characters strain to temper predatory or self-destructive impulses; deal with issues of family and abandonment; and endeavor to end cycles of abuse and remake themselves anew.
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