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"New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman brings together modern mystery, Navajo traditions, and the evocative landscape of the desert Southwest in this intriguing entry in the Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito series. When Tribal Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito arrives to speak at an outdoor character-building program for at-risk teens, she discovers chaos. Annie, a young participant on a solo experience due back hours before, has just returned...
2) Coyote waits
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Investigating the murder of a Navajo Tribal Policeman, Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Sgt. Jim Chee unravel a complex plot of death involving a historical find, a lost fortune, and the mythical coyote, who is always waiting and always hungry.
3) Skinwalkers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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"Three shotgun blasts rip through the side of Officer Jim Chee's trailer as the Navajo Tribal Policeman sleeps. He survives, but the inexplicable attack has raised disturbing questions about a lawman once beyond reproach. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn wonders why Chee was a target and what connection the assault has to a series of gruesome murders that has been plaguing the reservation. But the investigation is leading them both into a nightmare of ritual,...
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 8
A Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito novel volume 26
Leaphorn and Chee
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 8
A Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito novel volume 26
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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.
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Fossil harvesting, ancient lore, greed, rejected love and murder combine in this gripping new installment of New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman's Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series.
An unexpected death on a lonely road outside...
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 7
A Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito novel volume 7
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 25
A Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito novel volume 7
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 25
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[2022]
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Sergeant Jim Chee's vacation to beautiful Antelope Canyon and Lake Powell has a deeper purpose. He's on a quest to unravel a sacred mystery his mentor, the Legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, stumbled across decades earlier. Chee's journey takes a deadly turn when, after a prayerful visit to the sacred Rainbow Bridge, he spots a body floating in the lake. The dead man, a Navajo with a passion for the canyon's ancient rock art, lived a life filled with...
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee volume 2
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee volume 2
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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"A noted anthropologist vanishes at an ancient Indian ruin where 'thieves of time' ravage sacred ground for profit. When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee must plunge into the past to unearth the astonishing truth behind a mystifying series of horrific murders.
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"Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette Manualito witnesses the cold-blooded shooting of someone very close to her. With the victim fighting for his life, the entire squad and the local FBI office are hell-bent on catching the gunman. Bernie, too, wants in on the investigation, despite regulations forbidding eyewitness involvement. But that doesn't mean she's going to sit idly by, especially when her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, is in charge of finding...
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 5
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 5
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 5
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 5
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 5
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English
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Legendary Navajo policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn takes center stage in this mystery that combines crime, superstition, and tradition and highlights the desert Southwest. 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 hired to find a missing biil, a traditional weaving that had been donated to the Navajo...
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Harper & Row
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©1989
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English
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The blessing way -- Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place -- a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer. There is palpable evil in the air, and...