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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 3
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 3
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 21
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 21
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Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 3
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 21
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 21
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English
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"A deadly bombing takes Navajo Tribal cops Bernadette Manuelito, Jim Chee, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, back into the past to find a vengeful killer in this riveting Southwestern mystery from the bestselling author of Spider Woman's Daughter and Rock with Wings. 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...
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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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Lexile measure
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.
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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
Description
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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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 7
Leaphorn and Chee
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 07
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 7
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Leaphorn and Chee
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 07
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 7
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English
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Sergeant Jim Chee, after visiting the sacred Rainbow bridge, investigates the death of a Navajo artist, putting his own life at risk, while Officer Bernadette Manuelito searches for the killer of a hitchhiker connected to a Navajo Nation cannabis enterprise.
5) 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.
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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?
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 6
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 24
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito novel volume 06
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 6
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 24
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito novel volume 06
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 6
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English
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What begins as a typical day for Officer Bernadette Manuelito—serving a bench warrant, dealing with a herd of cattle obstructing traffic, and stumbling across a crime scene—takes an unexpected twist when she’s called to help find an old friend. Years ago, Bernie and Maya were roommates, but time and Maya’s struggles with addiction drove them apart. Now Maya’s brother asks Bernie to find out what happened to his sister. Tracing Maya’s whereabouts,...
8) Talking God
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Lexile measure
740L
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English
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Reunited by a grave robber and a corpse, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is trying to determine the identity of a murder victim, while Officer Jim Chee is arresting Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk for ransacking the sacred bones of his ancestors. But with each peeled-back layer, it becomes shockingly clear that these two cases are mysteriously connected--and that others are pursuing Highhawk, with lethal intentions. And the search...
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First there was the trouble at Saint Bonaventure boarding school. A teacher is dead, a boy is missing, and a councilwoman has put a lot of pressure on Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee to find her grandson. Sitting on a rooftop watching sacred clowns perform their antics in a Puebla ceremonial, Chee spots the boy. Then, suddenly, the crowd is in commotion. One of the clowns has been savagely murdered. Without a single clue, On and Leophorn...
10) Rock with wings
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 2
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 02
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito novel volume 02
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 2
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Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 02
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito novel volume 02
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 2
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English
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Navajo Tribal cops Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, investigate two perplexing cases involving a missing woman and a drug bust gone bad.
"Doing a good deed for a relative offers the perfect opportunity for Sergeant Jim Chee and his wife, Officer Bernie Manuelito, to get away from the daily grind of police work. But two cases will call them back from their short vacation and separate them-one...
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 06
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 04
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 05
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 04
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 05
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English
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In People of Darkness, Hillerman's first novel to introduce Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police, Chee is forced to use all of his powers of deduction and insight to extricated himself from a deadly series of incidences involving a mysterious millionaire, a sinister, peyote-eating Indian cult, and what the New York Times called "an ingenious long-acting way of murder." In The Dark Wind, a seemingly routine stakeout at a vandalized windmill...
12) Cave of bones
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 4
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 4
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 3
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 22
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Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 4
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 3
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 22
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English
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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...
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 08
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 26
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 08
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 26
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English
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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...
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 1
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 19
Navajo mysteries
Leaphorn and Chee mysteries volume 19
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Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 19
Navajo mysteries
Leaphorn and Chee mysteries volume 19
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English
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It happened in an instant: After a breakfast with colleagues, Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito sees a sedan career into the parking lot and hears a crack of gunfire. When the dust clears, someone very close to her is lying on the asphalt in a pool of blood. With the victim in the hospital fighting for his life, every person in the squad and the local FBI office is hell-bent on catching the gunman. Bernie, too, wants in on the investigation,...
15) 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
Description
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...
16) 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).
17) 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
Language
English
Description
"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...
18) The Blessing Way
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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.
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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
Description
"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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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
Description
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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