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Walt Longmire mysteries volume 8
Thorndike Press large print crime scene
Walt Longmire mystery volume 8
Walt Longmire mystery volume 08
Thorndike Press large print crime scene
Walt Longmire mystery volume 8
Walt Longmire mystery volume 08
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When the site of his daughter's upcoming wedding burns down, Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire and his friend, Henry Standing Bear, witness the falling death of a young Crow woman and are recruited into an investigation that incites the wrath of the bride-to-be.
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Jane Whitefield helps people disappear by giving them a new identity--new appearance, new social security card--and her clientele ranges from bankrupt businessmen to fleeing wives. On this occasion, things backfire and she must resort to her Native American talents to track a dangerous customer she helped disappear.
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Beautifully written with a riveting plot and a richly drawn, diverse cast of characters, Hearts of the Missing is the mesmerizing debut from 2017 Tony Hillerman Prize recipient Carol Potenza. When a young woman linked to a list of missing Fire-Sky tribal members commits suicide, Pueblo Police Sergeant Nicky Matthews is assigned to the case. As the investigation unfolds, she uncovers a threat that strikes at the very heart of what it means to be a...
4) Indian pipes
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"Victoria Trumbull, a ninety-two-year-old native of Martha's Vineyard, and her granddaughter, Elizabeth, spot a man in trouble near the top of a cliff. Elizabeth goes for help, but the man dies before he can be rescued. The man had been hired as a consultant on the proposed building of a controversial casino. The police call it an accident, but his death is just the first in what becomes a series of baffling murders. Victoria, now a deputy police...
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FBI Agent Anna Turnipseed, a Modoc Indian from California, and Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmett Parker, a Comanche from Oklahoma, are a team, sent by the Feds wherever there are problems in tribal territory. This assignment takes them to upstate New York where an elder of the Oneida tribe was found dead, every major bone in her body shattered. Their investigation puts them in the middle of a race war, and soon their lives depend on their...
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When Emmett Parker, Comanche and investigator for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, returns home on convalescent leave after a dangerous assignment, he finds himself caught up in a massive class action suit by the tribe against the BIA for oil well funds they never received--and then accused of murder.
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"A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx. Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that's hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation...
9) Ancient ones
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Though there are signs of foul play, BIA investigator Emmett Quanah Parker and FBI special agent Anna Turnipseed aren't looking for a killer—the remains dug out of a riverbank by an illegal fossil hunter are 14,000 years old. Parker and Turnipseed are sent to Central Oregon as official witnesses to the examination of John Day Man, as he is dubbed, for the bones have quickly provoked a controversy that threatens to erupt into violence: the skeleton...
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Howard Moon Deer mysteries volume 1
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A Native American working on his PhD. A cop blinded in the line of duty. A chic resort's only hope to stop a killer cold in his tracks. Once a land of Pueblo dwellers, the town of San Geronimo Peak, New Mexico, is prime ski country. P.I. Howard Moon Deer and ex-cop Jack Wilder are headed there to meet their first client-a former U.S. senator and the ski slope's owner. Instead, they find his body-and a murder case to solve. Overrun with pleasure seekers,...
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Howard Moon Deer mysteries volume 3
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In San Geronimo, New Mexico, the rich and famous mingle with the down and out-and the secrets of the past collide with the crimes of the present . . . Shortly after private eye Howard Moon Deer decides to settle down with his latest lady love, he accepts a new case that takes him away from the home front-and introduces him to the dangerous passions that drive San Geronimo's thriving art scene . . . Howard and ex-police commander Jack Wilder have been...
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The fiery midnight crash of a Stealth fighter on a New Mexico reservation and the disappearance of a young Navajo woman put psychologist Ben Pecos and tribal police officer Tommy Spottedhorse on a sinister and mysterious trail. Tribal police lock horns with air force personnel over jurisdiction and the right to search for the missing woman. The murder of a local park ranger and several livestock mutilations complicate the whole picture and take the...
13) Tainted mountain
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Nora Abbott mystery volume 01
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"A young ski area owner is determined to use man made snow, an energy tycoon has his own reasons for promoting it, enviros and tribes may use any means to stop it. But the spirits of the mountain just might have the last say"--From the author's web site.
14) Indian killer
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While a serial killer stalks and scalps white men in Seattle, John Smith, a Native American adopted into a white family, becomes dissatisfied with his life, and, as the killer searches for his next victim, John descends into the madness of Seattle's homeless.
15) The deerslayer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.2 - AR Pts: 44
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Natty Bumppo, a young white hunter brought up in the Delaware Indian tribe, has to defend settlers before returning to the Iroquois who have allowed him parole.
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Murder is unthinkable to the People--a Paleolithic tribe migrating across Alaska and becoming some of the first undocumented immigrants to enter the Americas. For them, murder isn't merely tragic, it's forbidden. Murder poisons the entire tribe and puts it at odds with nature, the Spirits, and the mighty Earth Mother. A murderer must be found and removed in order to put the world back in balance. Raven is the aging Spirit Man to a band in which a...
17) Shadow woman
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Jane Whitefield novels volume 3
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Jane Whitefield, who helps people in trouble to disappear, has to disappear herself after she becomes the target of killers who want to close her business. To find Jane one of the killers, a woman, puts her feminine charms to work on Jane's fiance, Carey, who is feeling lonely because of Jane's absence. By the author of Dance for the Dead.
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The Arapaho Indians' sacred tribal customs are abruptly halted when a beloved elder is found murdered in his tepee--and the evidence points to his own nephew's guilt. "Insightful commentary about Arapaho culture . . . likable, well-drawn characters and a lively pace".--Publishers Weekly.
19) Skinwalkers
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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 plaguing the reservation. But the investigation is leading Leaphorn and Chee into a nightmare of ritual, witchcraft,...
20) Wife of moon
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John O'Malley and Vicky Holden mysteries volume 10
Wind River Reservation
Wind River mystery volume 10
O'Malley mystery volume 10
Wind River Reservation
Wind River mystery volume 10
O'Malley mystery volume 10
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In 1907, photographer Edward S. Curtis arrived at the Wind River Reservation, hoping to document the Arapaho way of life before it vanished altogether. To preserve the legacy of warriors in battle, Curtis staged an attack on a village, planning to capture it on film. But it became all too real when the daughter of the tribe's chief was found murdered, and her killer was never identified. Now, Curtis's photographs are on display at the museum of St....
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