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81) Listening woman
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2005], p1990
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (6 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Finfarran Peninsula volume 1
Language
English
Description
As she drives her mobile library van between villages of Ireland's West Coast, Hanna Casey tries not to think about a lot of things. Like the sophisticated lifestyle she abandoned after finding her English barrister husband in bed with another woman. Or that she's back in Lissbeg, the rural Irish town she walked away from in her teens, living in the back bedroom of her overbearing mother's retirement bungalow. Or, worse yet, her nagging fear that,...
84) Medicine walk
Author
Publisher
Milkweed edition
Pub. Date
2016., c2015.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Franklin Starlight's comfort in solitude and experience in the wilderness make him appear wise beyond his sixteen years. But when his ailing father, Eldon, summons him back to town, Franklin's sense of duty clashes with the deep resentment he feels for his father's many years of absence and neglect. Finding Eldon near death after years of drinking, Franklin grudgingly agrees to help carry out his father's final wish to be buried in the warrior way,...
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
115 pages.
Language
English
Description
"A day after N. first crossed the U.S. border from Mexico, he was caught and then released onto the streets of Tijuana. Undeterred, N. crawled back through a tunnel to San Diego, where he entered the United States forever. Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant is his timely and compelling memoir of building a new life in America. Authorial anonymity is required to protect this life. Arriving in the 1990s with a 9th grade education, N....
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the city of Egunu, Nigeria, fifteen year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a somewhat cloistered life. Their father is a wealthy businessman, they live in a beautiful home, and attend private school. But, through Kambili's eyes, we see that their home life is anything but harmonious. Her father, a fanatically religious man has impossible expectations of his children and his wife, and if things don't go his way he becomes physically abusive....
Author
Series
Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 6
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 24
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 6
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 24
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 6
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"What begins as a typical day for Officer Bernadette Manuelito serving a bench warrant, dealing with a herd of cattle obstructing traffic, and stumbling across a crime scene takes an unexpected twist when she's called to help find an old friend. Years ago, Bernie and Maya were roommates, but time and Mayas struggles with addiction drove them apart. Now Mayas brother asks Bernie to find out what happened to his sister. Tracing Mayas whereabouts, Bernie...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1796 Trinidad, young Rosa Rendón quietly but purposefully rebels against the life others expect her to lead. Bright, competitive, and opinionated, Rosa sees no reason she should learn to cook and keep house, for it is obvious her talents lie in running the farm she, alone, views as her birthright. But when her homeland changes from Spanish to British rule, it becomes increasingly unclear whether its free black property owners-Rosa's family among...
89) Skull water
Author
Publisher
Spiegel and Grau
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Growing up outside a US military base in South Korea in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Insu--the son of a Korean mother and a German father enlisted in the US Army--spends his days with his "half and half" friends skipping school, selling scavenged Western goods on the black market, watching Hollywood movies, and testing the boundaries between childhood and adulthood. When he hears a legend that water collected in a human skull will cure any sickness,...
90) Rock with wings
Author
Series
Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 2
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 2
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 2
Leaphorn and Chee volume 20
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 2
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 2
Leaphorn and Chee volume 20
Language
English
Description
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.
91) Song of the lion
Author
Series
Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 3
Leaphorn and Chee
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 3
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 21
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Leaphorn and Chee
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 3
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 21
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Language
English
Description
When a car bomb kills a young man in the Shiprock High School parking lot, Officer Bernadette Manuelito discovers that the intended victim was a mediator for a multi-million-dollar development planned at the Grand Canyon. But what seems like an act of ecoterrorism turns out to be something far more nefarious and complex. Piecing together the clues, Bernadette and her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, uncover a scheme to disrupt the negotiations and inflame...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
472 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The heart is a battlefield. War has raged for a decade in Lir, and orphaned soldier Talasyn has learned to keep her powers hidden to survive. As the last known Lightweaver on the continent, she can create radiant weapons that cut through the invading Shadowforged warriors' dark magic. But all that changes when she is forced to reveal her abilities on the battlefield to defend herself from the Shadowforged prince himself, Alaric Ossinast. In a clash...
93) Gun island
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A dealer of rare books, Dr. Deen Datta is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice via a tangled route through the memories and experiences of those he meets along the way. There is Piya, a fellow Bengali-American who sets his journey in motion; Tipu, an entrepreneurial young man who opens Deen's eyes...
94) The blessing way
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place, a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer. There is palpable evil in the air, and Leaphorn's pursuit of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Enter a world of shrunken heads, mystic holy men, shriveled aliens, and bizarre relics in the delightfully odd tale of Robert Ripley. Born in California, Ripley began his career as a sports cartoonist. He went on to chronicle global records and oddities in his weekly column, Believe It Or Not! After publishing mogul William Randolph Hearst took an interest in the column, it became a syndicated global success. Ripley spent his life traveling to more...
96) No longer human
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 357
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
1973.
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Tells the poignant and fascinating semi-autobiographical story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas.. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a 'clown' to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
434 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: A stunning portrait of an African princess raised in Queen Victoria’s court and adapting to life in Victorian England—based on the real-life story of a recently rediscovered historical figure, Sarah Forbes Bonetta. (Original), 448pp.
98) Walden
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
An unabridged republication of nineteenth-century essayist Henry David Thoreau's reflections on the natural world, written during a two year period when he lived alone in a cabin on the shores of Walden Pond.
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