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Chee, Jim (Fictitious character) Fiction Indian reservation police Fiction Leaphorn, Joe, Lt. (Fictitious character) Fiction Navajo Indians Navajo Indians Fiction Navajo Indians Juvenile fiction New Mexico Fiction Police New Mexico Fiction Police Southwestern States Fiction Southwestern States FictionBruchac, Joseph
Summary: After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BRUTahe, Rose Ann
Summary: "A Navajo family welcomes a new baby into the family with love and ceremony, eagerly waiting for that first special laugh. Includes brief description of birth customs in different cultures."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FLOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TAHHillerman, Tony
Summary: After Sgt. Jim Chee discovers the body of a Navajo man with horribly flayed feet and hands, a number of apparently unrelated events leads him along a path of confusion. Was Chee being duped in a magician's elaborate sleight of hand?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILLasky, Kathryn
Summary: "Yossel, along with his family, flees anti-Jewish Russian pogroms in the late nineteenth century and settles in the American Southwest where he forges a friendship with Thomas, a Native American Navajo boy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2022
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Summary: While visiting a Navaho Indian reservation in New Mexico, the Aldens try to save a forest under threat of development by proving it is the site of a lost, buried village, but someone is sabotaging their dig.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARHillerman, Anne
Summary: 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 distance of his car? A second death brings more turmoil. Who is the unidentified man killed during a home invasion where nothing seems to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILGrey, Zane
Summary: "When John Curry, galloping across the desert to save the life of an Indian child, was thrown from his horse and badly injured, he was rescued by a woman whose husband became his deadly enemy. For Wilbur Newton was both jealous and afraid. He was jealous of the love of his beautiful and lonely wife, who seemed each day more powerfully attracted to the dashing Curry, and fearful for the safety...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walter J. Black 1954
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREHillerman, Tony
Summary: Native American policeman Joe Leaphorn probes the murder of an old Indian soothsayer and a young Indian girl, and ends up investigating the strange kidnapping of a group of Boy Scouts and evading a plot on his own life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HILYoung, Brian
Summary: "When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, he knows he's in for a pretty uneventful summer, with no electricity or cell service. Still, he loves spending time with Nali and with his uncle Jet, though it's clear when Jet arrives that he brings his problems with him. One night, while lost in the nearby desert, Nathan finds someone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YOUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YOUThurlo, Aimée.
Summary: Discovering a link between the murder of a Navajo police officer and the plans for a new power plant, Navajo Police special investigator Ella Clah tries to figure out who has been killing the people who oppose the plant's construction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THUThurlo, Aimée.
Summary: Shocked by the murder of a young Navajo woman, Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah calls in FBI Agent Dwayne Blalock for help, but she soon realizes that the murderer may have a link to her own past and to her father, murdered a decade earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THUThurlo, Aimě.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THUHillerman, Anne
Summary: Sergeant Jim Chee's vacation to beautiful Antelope Canyon and Lake Powell has a deeper purpose. He's on a quest to unravel a sacred mystery his mentor, the Legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, stumbled across decades earlier. Chee's journey takes a deadly turn when, after a prayerful visit to the sacred Rainbow Bridge, he spots a body floating in the lake. The dead man, a Navajo with a passion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M HILHillerman, Tony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Armchair Detective Library 1991
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Summary: The victim, well dressed but stripped of identification, is found at the edge of the vast Jicarilla Apache natural gas field just inside the jurisdiction of the Navajo Tribal Police, facing Sergeant Jim Chee with a complex puzzle. Why did the Washington office of the FBI snatch custody of this case from its local agents, cover it with secrecy, and call it a hunting accident? What was the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HILHillerman, Tony.
Summary: In this evocative tale that unfolds in the Southwest, a puzzling death revives interest in a murder case gone cold, a long-time missing person, and a legendary gold mine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HILLHillerman, Anne
Summary: Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth parents of a woman who was raised by a bilagáana family but believes she is Diné based on one solid clue, an old photograph with a classic Navajo child's blanket....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M HILHillerman, Tony.
Summary: In this evocative tale that unfolds in the Southwest, a puzzling death revives interest in a murder case gone cold, a long-time missing person, and a legendary gold mine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HILHillerman, Anne
Summary: Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth parents of a woman who was raised by a bilagáana family but believes she is Diné based on one solid clue, an old photograph with a classic Navajo child's blanket....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: Investigative journalist Keegan Thomas has been living a nightmare of guilt and grief since her little girl, Daisy, was kidnapped practically in front of her eyes. When the police investigation stalled, she turned her grief to anger and buried herself in her work searching for missing children, her own included. The result was an award-winning series of articles on unsolved child abductions....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHillerman, Tony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buccaneer Books 1973
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILHillerman, Tony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HILHillerman, Tony.
Summary: PI Joe Leaphorn of Arizona investigates the murder of an Indian policeman for which an eagle poacher has been arrested. Leaphorn thinks someone else did it. By the author of The Fallen Man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HILHillerman, Anne
Summary: Legendary Navajo policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn takes center stage in this riveting atmospheric mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman that combines crime, superstition, and tradition and brings the desert Southwest vividly alive. Joe Leaphorn may have retired from the Tribal Police, but he finds himself knee-deep in a perplexing case involving a priceless artifact--a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019