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2) It devours!
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Welcome to Night Vale novels volume 2
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English
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When her leading scientist employer gives her an assignment to investigate mysterious rumblings in the desert wasteland outside of the town of Night Vale, Nilanjana Sikdar discovers the existence of a congregation of religious fanatics, including the powerfully attractive Darryl, who are plotting a ritual that threatens the local community.
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Hap and Leonard is now a Sundance TV series starring James Purefoy and Michael Kenneth Williams.
Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are in for an action-packed adventure when they cross paths with a towering Pentecostal preacher, a midget with a giant attitude, and a gang of bikers turned soldiers of fortune.
Even though a midlife crisis just hit Hap Collins like a runaway pickup truck, he's still got his job, he knows his
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"This real-life The X-Files and Close Encounters of the Third Kind tells the true story of a computer programmer who tracks paranormal events along a 3,000-mile stretch through the heart of America and is drawn deeper and deeper into a vast conspiracy. Like "Agent Mulder" of The X-Files, computer programmer and sheriff's deputy Zukowski is obsessed with tracking down UFO reports in Colorado. He would take the family with him on weekend trips to look...
7) 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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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...
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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.
10) Talking God
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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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Whether you're taking in the views at the Grand Canyon, gambling in Las Vegas, or enjoying the hot pools at Jemez Springs, this in-depth guidebook provides all the travel information you need. It covers the major areas from Utah, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque to Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Arizona, and explores the region's culture, history, national parks, architecture, entertainment, shopping, tours, and scenic walks.
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.
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"This powerful debut collection explores lives lived between worlds. Sylvester masterfully weaves together fiction, poetry, and nonfiction to give readers a poignant though fractured view of her characters' lives, their loves, and their struggles. Told from the perspective of an urban Native, the work details a journey led by the nomadic band, the Covers. It is an experience meant to heal generational trauma and bring back into the light people who...
14) Listening woman
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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
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"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...
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) 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) Hunting badger
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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.
18) 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.
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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
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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...
20) The first eagle
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760L
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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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