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English
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Sergeant Jim Chee lures retired Lt. Joe Leaphorn out of retirement when Officer Bernadette Manuelito discovers the corpse of a white man who apparently had ties to the old Golden Calf Mine homicide--a case with loose ends that has been troubling Leaphorn for years.
2) Shifting
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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After bouncing from foster home to foster home since the age of five, almost-eighteen-year-old Maggie Mae Mortensen arrives in Silver City, New Mexico, to finish high school and try to escape her reputation as a trouble-maker, only to face ostracism in her new school and a band of evil Navajo Skinwalkers who want her dead.
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Westward chronicles volume 2
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English
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Rachel has secured herself a rare position at the newest Harvey House in New Mexico. She looks forward to a new life there, far from the memories and longings of her heart--only to find that the very man her heart refuses to forget will be working right alongside her! Westward Chronicles Book 2.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Guided by her Navajo ancestors, seventh-grader Nizhoni Begay discovers she is descended from a holy woman and destined to become a monsterslayer, starting with the evil businessman who kidnapped her father. Includes glossary of Navajo terms.
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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 out of retirement to investigate a crime that seems to be linked to Joe's last case, which remains unsolved and continues to haunt him.
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English
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Tony Hillerman's mysteries offer a combination of Native-American lore and intriguing crimes that has made each one an instant best-seller. A wealthy Washington businessman will do anything to protect a covert operation that earns him millions of dollars. But when his activities attract the attention of reservation police, his power becomes as unstable as the desert wind.
7) Standoff
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Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
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In this suspenseful thriller, a journalist who stumbles upon a deadly crime while pursuing the scoop of a lifetime will find her strength and conviction tested in new and frightening ways.
TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving to New Mexico for a well-earned vacation when she hears the news on the radio: The teenage daughter of Forth Worth tycoon Russell Dendy has been kidnapped. Immediately, she ditches her holiday to chase down the story that...
TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving to New Mexico for a well-earned vacation when she hears the news on the radio: The teenage daughter of Forth Worth tycoon Russell Dendy has been kidnapped. Immediately, she ditches her holiday to chase down the story that...
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Wyman Ford novels volume 1
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English
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A stunning new archaeological thriller by the New York Times bestselling co-author of Brimstone and Relic. A moon rock missing for thirty years...Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico canyon...A scientist with ambition enough to kill...A monk who will redeem the world...A dark agency with a deadly mission...The greatest scientific discovery of all time...What fire bolt from the galactic dark shattered the Earth eons ago, and now...
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Series
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2001]
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English
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Deputy State Police Chief Kevin Kerney is weeks away from trading in his badge for a rancher's hat, when six murders are committed at a remote campground in New Mexico. Most of the evidence points to the work of a spree killer, but peculiarities at one crime scene suggest another grisly possibility: that five random people have been shot to death to cover the premeditated murder of the sixth, Vernon Langsford, a retired judge and wealthy businessman....
10) Skeleton man
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Tony Hillerman is an Edgar, Silver Spur and Nero Wolfe Award winner. Skeleton Man received starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly. 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. ". considerable suspense in the...
11) Stargazer
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English
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Officer Bernie Manuelito risks her relationship with Jim Chee to investigate the disappearance of a former roommate, whose confession for the murder of her estranged husband, a prominent astronomer, does not add up.
12) Saige
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Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Upset that her New Mexico school can only afford music and art teachers in alternate years, fourth-grader Saige works with her grandmother, Mimi, to plan a fundraiser but when Mimi has an accident, Saige relies on new friend Gabi to help.
13) Fated
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Series
Soul seekers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
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"Since coming to Enchantment, New Mexico everything in Daire Santos life has changed. And not all for the better. While she's come to accept and embrace her new powers as a Soul Seeker, Daire struggles with the responsibility she holds navigating between the worlds of the living and the dead"--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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"Seventeen year-old dirt-bike-riding daredevil Arlo Santiago catches the eye of the U.S. military with his first-place ranking on a video game featuring drone warfare, and must reconcile the work they want him to do with the emotional scars he has suffered following a violent death in his family"--
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Painting in her grandmother's studio and riding her favorite horse, Georgia, helps fourth-grader Saige cope with missing Mimi and sparks an idea for funding the school art program, but more creativity will be needed to keep Georgia from being sold.
16) Hour of the bees
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by his amazing stories.
17) Yossel's journey
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2022
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
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"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"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1997, c1996
Edition
1st mass market ed.
Language
English
Description
Guy Carlson, a scientist at a biotechnology company, volunteers to work at a secret facility where researchers are working on a cure for the flu, but it does not take him long to discover that something is terribly wrong with the project, and the results could be deadly.
19) Flint
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Language
English
Description
After his wife tries to kill him, Jim Kettleman heads back West to die alone at an old friend's hide-out.
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Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 2
Language
English
Description
A mummified corpse, over half a century old, is found in the cellar of an abandoned building in a remote New Mexico ghost town. Junior FBI Agent Corrie Swanson needs to ID the body, and determine cause of death. When archaeologist Nora Kelly lends her expertise to the investigation, they uncover that the deceased died in a fetal position, skin coming off in sheets, a rictus of horror frozen on his face. And hidden on the corpse is a sixteenth century...
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