Tony Hillerman
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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The police dispatcher sends Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn to retrieve the body of a young man found alongside the road, apparently dead of an alcohol overdose. But when Leaphorn arrives, he suspects the cause of death isn't so simple: the dead man's face is set in a grimace of terror. And as the lieutenant searches for the cause, all the clues point to Navajo witchcraft.
2) Skeleton man
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to investigate a simple robbery. But soon the trail leads back 50 years, to a plane crash in the Grand Canyon that killed a man protecting a fortune in diamonds.
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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).
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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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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English
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New York Times best-selling author Tony Hillerman packs his flawless mysteries with evocative southwestern scenery, Native American lore, and finely-crafted characters. In The First Eagle, fear has been sweeping the Navajo reservation ever since a vicious killer and an unusually virulent strain of bubonic plague started claiming victims. When Tribal policeman Jim Chee discovers a blood-stained Hopi man hovering over a young officer's body, it looks...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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The blind shaman called Listening Woman speaks of witches and restless spirits, of supernatural evil unleashed. But Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police is sure the monster who savagely slaughtered an old man and a teenage girl was human. The solution to a horrific crime is buried somewhere in a dead man's secrets and in the shocking events of a hundred years past. To ignore the warnings of a venerable seer, however, might be reckless...
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Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 15
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Author
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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In 1998, three "survivalists" murdered a pliceman and eluded an epic manhunt. The bungled FBI investigation left behind a web of mysteries. Sergeant Jim Chee and Lt. Joe Leaphorn (retired) are assigned to solve the crime when three men stage a pre-dawn raid ont the Ute Tribe's gambling casino, and then disappear in the maze of canyons on the Utah-Arizona border. Chee and Leaphorn discover an intriguing pattern connecting the crimes.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Lt. Joe Leaphorn investigates the disappearance of two Native-American boys one of them a young Zuñi. The investigation is complicated by an archaeological dig, a steel hypodermic needle, and the unique laws and sacred religious rites of the Zuñi.
10) The ghostway
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Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1985, c1984
Language
English
11) The sinister pig
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Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 16
Language
English
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12) The dark wind
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Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1982
Language
English
13) Skinwalkers
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
16) Coyote waits
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Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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English
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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 have been taken? Why was he murdered? The Bears Ears...
18) The tale teller
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 5
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 5
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 5
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 5
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 5
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English
Description
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 reminder of a dark time in Navajo history. Joe's been...
19) Cave of bones
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 4
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 4
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 4
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 4
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 4
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English
Description
When Tribal Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito arrives to speak at an outdoor character-building program for at-risk teens, she discovers chaos. Annie, a young participant on a solo experience due back hours before, has just returned and is traumatized. Gently questioning the girl, Bernie learns that Annie stumbled upon a human skeleton on her trek. While everyone is relieved that Annie is back, they're concerned about a beloved instructor who went...
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English
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While investigating a car bomb meant for a mediator for a development planned at the Grand Canyon, tribal police officers Manuelito, Chee, and their mentor Lieutenant Leaphorn piece together clues that link the bombing to a cold case and a very patient killer with a long-range plot for revenge.