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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 HILBruchac, 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 BRULasky, 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 WARTahe, 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 TAHThurlo, 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, 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: 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: "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 YOUHillerman, 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, 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 HILHarrison, C. C.
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: HarperLargePrint 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HILHillerman, Tony.
Summary: Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is called upon once again to solve a crime. This time it's Joe's last case, a case that remains unsolved and contines to haunt him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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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, Tony.
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 Large Print, Call number: LP M HILHillerman, Anne
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M HILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M HILThurlo, Aimée.
Summary: A group of activists is determined to do whatever is necessary to stop the building of a nuclear power plant--assault, sabotage, domestic terrorism. When a fellow Navajo Police officer is injured in an attack aimed at Ella Clah's boyfriend, Ella vows to do whatever it takes to find the terrorists and bring them to justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THUHillerman, Tony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILHillerman, Tony.
Summary: Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn solve a crime that involves the murder of a Pueblo tribal official, the death of a schoolteacher, and the disappearance of a tribal memento.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILHillerman, Tony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004