George Guidall
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 18
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 18
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 12
Navajo mysteries volume 18
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 18
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 12
Navajo mysteries volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"Since his retirement from the Navajo Tribal Police, Joe Leaphorn has occasionally been enticed to return to work by former colleagues who seek his help when they need to solve a particularly puzzling crime. They ask because Leaphorn, aided by officers Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito, always delivers. But this time the problem is with an old case of Joe's -- his 'last case, ' unsolved, is one that continues to haunt him. And with Chee and Bernie just...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"Officer Bernadette Manuelito finds the dead man slumped over in the cab of a pickup, with a rich ex-con's phone number in his pocket...and a tobacco tin filled with placer gold. She figures he{u2019}s just another drunk--an assumption that gets her in trouble for mishandling a crime scene and brings down the wrath of the FBI on her supervisor, Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police. For Chee{u2019}s mentor, former Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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As the FBI ineptly pursues three men who raided a Ute tribe's gambling casino, Joe Leaphorn uncovers a pattern connecting this crime with the exploits of a legendary Ute hero-bandit, and Jim Chee finds a fatal flaw in the federal theory that makes a wounded deputy a suspect.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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The investigations of Navajo Tribal Police sergeant Jim Chee and his love interest border patrol officer Bernadette Manuelito converge when the murder of an ex-CIA agent on reservation property turns out to be tied to an exotic game ranch near the Mexican border, and the embezzlement of tribal funds.
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 2
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 2
Navajo mysteries volume 02
Leaphorn and Chee volume 02
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Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 2
Navajo mysteries volume 02
Leaphorn and Chee volume 02
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
870L
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English
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When two young boys disappear, one of them leaving a pool of blood behind, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police finds himself not only tracking a ruthless and brutal killer but caught up in the intricate mysteries of the Zuni religion as well. For the dead boy was to have played a key role in an important ritual of the Zuni people. An added complication in the investigation and search is the missing boys' interest in an archeological...
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Lexile measure
760L
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English
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Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn are at it again in the Southwest in search of a killer of a young Navajo Tribal Police officer. At first it seems an open-and-shut case and they are ready to charge a Hopi man. In addition, Leaphorn has been hired to find a woman biologist who disappeared while studying a new form of bubonic plague found in the dry land of the Southwest. Are these cases linked?
7) Skeleton man
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 17
Navajo mysteries volume 17
Navaho Jim Chee and Leaphorn volume 17
Leaphorn and Chee volume 17
Navajo mysteries volume 17
Navaho Jim Chee and Leaphorn volume 17
Leaphorn and Chee volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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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 Tuve claims he received the precious diamond from a strange old man in the canyon. Could it be one of the gems that went missing in an epic plane crash decades earlier? Now that...
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 4
Navaho Jim Chee and Leaphorn volume 4
Leaphorn and Chee volume 4
Navaho Jim Chee and Leaphorn volume 4
Leaphorn and Chee volume 4
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English
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Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is asked to investigate the theft of a box of keepsakes belonging to "The People of Darkness." Then people associated with the keepsakes begin dying mysteriously and a hired assassin is stalking Chee.
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 3
Navajo mysteries volume 03
Leaphorn and Chee volume 03
G.K. Hall large print book
Navajo mysteries volume 03
Leaphorn and Chee volume 03
G.K. Hall large print book
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
850L
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English
Description
"The state police and FBI are baffled when an old man and a teenage girl are brutally murdered. The blind Navajo Listening Woman speaks of ghosts and of witches. But Lieutenant Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police knows his people as well as he knows cold-blooded killers. His incredible investigation carries him from a dead man's secret to a kidnap scheme, to a conspiracy that stretches back more than one hundred years. Leaphorn arrives at the threshold...
10) The fallen man
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 12
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 12
Navajo mysteries volume 12
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 12
Navajo mysteries volume 12
Lexile measure
770L
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English
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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.
11) Skinwalkers
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
820L
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English
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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 plaguing the reservation. But the investigation is leading Leaphorn and Chee into a nightmare of ritual, witchcraft,...
12) The dark wind
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 5
Leaphorn and Chee volume 5
Leaphorn and Chee volume 05
Joe Leaphorn; bk 05
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Leaphorn and Chee volume 5
Leaphorn and Chee volume 05
Joe Leaphorn; bk 05
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HL 780L
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English
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For Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police, the case begins when he finds a pair of boots in the rabbit brush beside a wilderness trail. The boots' owner lies nearby, his palms and soles "scalped" in what appears to be a witch's scavenging. The federal investigators tell Chee to mind his own business. But a series of disturbing events draws Chee into a dangerous web of intrigue spun by Navajo sorcery and white greed.
13) The Blessing Way
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
920L
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English
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When Lt. Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police discovers a corpse with a mouthful of sand at a crime scene seemingly without tracks or clues, he is ready to suspect a supernatural killer. Blood on the rocks ... A body on the high mesa ... Leaphorn must stalk the Wolf-Witch along a chilling trail between mysticism and murder.
14) A thief of time
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 8
Joe Leaphorn; bk 08
Leaphorn and Chee volume 08
Navajo mysteries volume 08
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Joe Leaphorn; bk 08
Leaphorn and Chee volume 08
Navajo mysteries volume 08
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Navajo Tribal Policemen Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee must plunge into the past to unearth the astonishing truth behind a mystifying series of horrific murders. Movie rights sold and characters of Leaphorn and Chee licenses to Wildwood Enterprises (Robert Redford's production company).
15) Coyote waits
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 10
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 10
Navajo mysteries volume 10
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 10
Navajo mysteries volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
720L
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English
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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...
16) The ghostway
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Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off into the dry lands of the Big Reservation, but not before he shows the old Navajo a photo of the man he seeks.
17) Finding moon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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An American undertakes a dangerous search in Asia for his Amerasian niece. When his brother is killed in a helicopter crash and the Vietnamese wife dies soon after, Mathias Moon, a Colorado newsman, flies to find the girl. In the course of the search--from the teeming streets of Manila to the jungles of Cambodia--Moon finds himself too.
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As he counsels a woman considering conversion to Judaism, Rabbi Small takes a break from murder mysteries to discuss the mysteries of his religion.
In Conversations with Rabbi Small, the rabbi finds himself taking a well-deserved vacation at a Jewish retreat in the mountains, where he reads, plays cards, and furthers his studies, which have been languishing for too long. When the rabbi’s wife is called back to the city...
In Conversations with Rabbi Small, the rabbi finds himself taking a well-deserved vacation at a Jewish retreat in the mountains, where he reads, plays cards, and furthers his studies, which have been languishing for too long. When the rabbi’s wife is called back to the city...
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Set deep in the heart of Texas, The Gay Place consists of three interlocking novels-The Flea Circus, Room Enough to Caper, and Country Pleasures-each with a different protagonist. Unifying the stories is Texas governor Arthur Fenstemaker, a canny master politician modeled on Lyndon Johnson, for whom the author served as a press aide. The governor uses any means necessary to do what needs to be done, while the other characters struggle with their...