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Welcome to Night Vale novels volume 3
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English
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"In the town of Night Vale, there's a faceless old woman who secretly lives in everyone's home, but no one knows how she got there or where she came from... until now. Told in a series of eerie flashbacks, the story of The Faceless Old Woman goes back centuries to reveal an initially blissful and then tragic childhood on a Mediterranean Estate in the early nineteenth century, her rise in the criminal underworld of Europe, a nautical adventure with...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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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.
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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 that has been plaguing the reservation. But the investigation is leading them both into a nightmare of ritual,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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For acting Lieutenant Jim Chee, the murder of a Navajo Tribal Police officer seems like an open-and-shut case when he discovers a Hopi poacher huddled over the victim's butchered corpse. However, Chee's newly retired predecessor, Joe Leaphorn, believes otherwise. Hired to find a missing biologist who was searching for the key to a virulent hidden plague--and who vanished in the same area and on the same day the policeman was slain--Leaphorn suspects...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"Two Native-American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuni. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig ... and a steel hypodermic needle. And...
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Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
©1998
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English
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A mother learns that her daughter has been forced into prostitution by a gang of neo-Nazis in Oklahoma. The mother asks her boyfriend, Hap Collins, to rescue her and he raises an armed posse composed of oddball characters. By the author of Bad Chili.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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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 due, On and Leophorn...
10) The ghostway
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Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1985, ©1984.
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English
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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 in to the dry lands of the Big Reservation, but not befoe he shows the old Navajo a photo of the man he seeks. This is enough to send Tribal Police man Jim Chee after a killer ... and on an odyssey of murder and revenge that moves from an Indian hogan and its trapped ghost, to the dark underbelly of L.A., to a healing ceremony whose cure...
11) Talking God
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Series
Publisher
Harper & Row, Publishers
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Washington politics and protest lead Chee and Leaphorn to cases of grave robbing and to a body that was found stripped of all identification. The two Navaho police officers, Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn, featured together in the author's earlier A Thief of Time (1988) and Skinwalkers (1988) once more solve a puzzling, complex murder mystery set in New Mexico.
12) Coyote waits
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Series
Publisher
Harper & Row, Publishers
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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The car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez, a bullet did. Officer Jim Chee's good friend Del lies dead, and a whiskey-soaked Navajo shaman is found with the murder weapon. The old man is Ashie Pinto. He's quickly arrested for homicide and defended by a woman Chee could either love or loathe. But when Pinto won't utter a word of confession or denial, Lt. Joe Leaphorn begins an investigation. Soon, Leaphorn and Chee unravel a complex...
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 1
Leaphorn and Chee volume 19
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 1
Leaphorn and Chee volume 19
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette Manualito witnesses the cold-blooded shooting of someone very close to her. With the victim fighting for his life, the entire squad and the local FBI office are hell-bent on catching the gunman. Bernie, too, wants in on the investigation, despite regulations forbidding eyewitness involvement. But that doesn't mean she's going to sit idly by, especially when her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, is in charge of finding...
14) The haunted mesa
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1987.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Mike Raglan is summoned to No Man's Mesa located in Southwestern Utah near the San Juan River by a long time friend, Erik Horkart. Mike doesn't know for sure what it's all about but thinks it may have something to do with a map given him by a prospector a year before. Raglan's investigation of the mesa turns up a gate to a parallel universe. Crossing to the other side, he finds the river boat, Iron Duke, which disappeared after the Civil War. There...
15) 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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Three men stage a predawn raid on the Ute tribe's gambling casino. They kill one policeman, wound another and disappear into the maze of canyons on the Utah-Arizona border. Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn are called in to help with the investigation.
16) The fallen man
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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.
17) 3:10 to Yuma
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Arizona in the late 1800s. Infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the train that will take the killer to trial. On the trail, Evans and Wade, each from very different worlds, begin to earn each other's respect. But with Wade's outfit on their trail,...
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Series
Leaphorn and Chee volume 1-3
Publisher
Harper & Row, Publishers
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
A collection of three complete novels featuring Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn.
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Series
Leaphorn and Chee volume 4-6
Publisher
Wings Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Includes "People of Darkness", "The Dark Wind", and "The Ghostway."
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