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From the moment Madeling Hammond steps off the train in New Mexico, she walks straight into t5rouble. Almost tricked into marriage by a handsome, drunken cowboy, Madeline quickly realizes she has a lot to learn if she is going to survive life on her brother's ranch in the southwestern territory.
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 18
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 12
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 18
Navajo mysteries volume 18
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 12
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 18
Navajo mysteries volume 18
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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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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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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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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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.
5) 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
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
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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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Life may have been hard on Addie French, but when she meets friendless Emma Roby on a train, all her protective instincts emerge. Emma's brother is seeing her off to Nalgitas to marry a man she has never met. And Emma seems like a lost soul to Addie-someone who needs Addie's savvy and wary eye. It isn't often that Addie is drawn to anyone as a friend, but Emma seems different somehow. When Emma's prospective fails to show up at the train depot, Addie...
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"An expansive, epic tale like Philipp Meyer's The Son, and in the wonderful storyteller vein of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, McGarrity's Backlands showcases his keen eye for historical detail, awe-inspiring scenery, and the bitter harshness of life on the last vestiges of the twentieth-century frontier West. Michael McGarrity returns with the second installment of his sweeping, richly authentic New York Times bestselling American West trilogy set...
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St. Kilda Consulting volume 01
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Hired by the eccentric aunt of New Mexico's multimillionaire governor Quintrell to research their family, genealogist Carolina May stumbles into a dark and dangerous secret about the Quintrell family that threatens her life.
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Charlie Parker mysteries volume 5
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Praise for USA Today bestseller Connie Shelton:
"This novel offers memorable details . . . and an edgy, paranoid atmosphere." –Booklist
"Connie Shelton has another winner." –The Book Report
"Charlie is a good detective and a pleasant companion to unravel a mystery with." –Mystery News
"The best of the series. Memories Can Be Murder demonstrates Connie Shelton's talent as the audience will find a night with
...10) The drifter
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Once, Frank Morgan had a wife and a future on the land-- until a rich man with a grudge drove him out of Colorado. Since then, Morgan's taken up the one skill that always came easy-- gun fighting-- and drifted to a mining town in the New Mexico Territory. But there is nothing easy about two vicious gangs descending on the town, threatening to wreck havoc.
11) Radigan
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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When beautiful Angelina Foley presents Tom Radigan with a Spanish grant and claims ownership of his land, he realizes he's up against a cunning and deadly opportunist. Foley wants him off Vache Creek immediately, and with three thousand head of cattle, an outfit of hardcase gunfighters, and winter coming on, she is unwilling to take no for an answer. But Radigan has worked four hard years building up his ranch. Fighting for it--and, if he has to,...
13) Race to the sun
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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680L
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"Guided by her Navajo ancestors, seventh-grader Nizhoni Begay discovers she is descended from a holy woman and destined to become a monsterslayer, starting with the evil businessman who kidnapped her father. Includes glossary of Navajo terms"--
14) Doubtful canon
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Three twelve-year-olds, two notorious gunfighters, a half-crazed albino, and a grieving woman vie for $30,000 in gold coin, buried twenty years ago in treacherous Doubtful Cañon.
15) Burn
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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Janeal agrees to help Salazar Sanso recover a vast sum of money from her father in exchange for freedom from her father's Gypsy culture, but when the plan takes a violent turn and Sanso burns the camp to the ground, Janeal is forced to make a decision that will haunt her forever.
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Rachel Taylor's dedication to hard work has secured her a rare position as the house manager for the newest Harvey House in New Mexico. The job seems like an answered prayer until she hears that she will be working with Braeden Parker, a man she had hoped was part of a past long buried. The feelings she still holds conflict with her shattered trust and Rachel struggles to reconcile the two when a cunning new Harvey Girl, Ivy, appears on the scene....
17) Standoff
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Tiel McCoy is driven beyond ambition to the point where her television journalism career is her whole life, meant to compensate for loneliness and guilt about a failed marriage to a husband who died before they could get things straight. A long-postponed vacation is sidetracked when Tiel stops at a convenience store in a desolate part of Texas and gets caught up in a robbery attempt. The robbers are teenage runaways. Ronnie Davison is being sought...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 12
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The narrative follows Bishop Jean Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant, friends since their childhood in France, as they organize the new Roman Catholic diocese of Santa Fe subsequent to the Mexican War. While seeking to revive the church and build a cathedral in the desert, the clerics, like their historical prototypes, Bishop Jean Laury and Father Joseph Machebeuf, face religious corruption, natural adversity, and the loneliness of living in a strange...
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Tycoon Gloria Garrison, née Goldberg, has a kingdom to bequeath to one of the grandchildren she barely knows. They're all twentysomethings who foolishly believe money isn't everything. Just shy of eighty, Gloria doesn't wish to watch the minutes tick by while the three dither over the issues of their generation-love, meaning, identity. She has summoned them all from New York for a weekend at her palatial home in Santa Fe. She has a single question...
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Charlie Parker mysteries volume 7
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Praise for USA Today bestseller Connie Shelton and her Charlie Parker mysteries:
"Charlie is slick, appealing, and nobody's fool—just what readers want in an amateur sleuth." —Booklist
"Connie Shelton gets better with every book she writes." —The Midwest Book Review
"...Shelton's engaging story, likable heroine, and comfortable prose make this a good choice." —Library Journal
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