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English
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A motley crew of saboteurs wreaks havoc on the corporations destroying America’s Western wilderness in this “wildly funny, infinitely wise” classic (The Houston Chronicle).
When George Washington Hayduke III returns home from war in the jungles of Southeast Asia, he finds the unspoiled West he once knew has been transformed. The pristine lands and waterways are being strip mined, dammed up, and paved...
When George Washington Hayduke III returns home from war in the jungles of Southeast Asia, he finds the unspoiled West he once knew has been transformed. The pristine lands and waterways are being strip mined, dammed up, and paved...
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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
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1988
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
209 p. 1 map 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
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English
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Indian tribal policeman Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee investigate a casino robbery which killed a guard and wounded another. A manhunt takes them into the canyons of the Four Corners, a region bordering Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
278 p. 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Navajo tribal policeman Jim Chee searches for the killer of a fellow policeman while a biologist hunts for the key to the most virulent form of bubonic plague since the Middle Ages.
Author
Series
Welcome to Night Vale novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge. Nineteen-year-old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper marked "KING CITY" by a mysterious man in a tan jacket holding a deer skin suitcase. Everything about...
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
380 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Human bones lie on a ledge under the peak of Ship Rock mountain, the remains of a murder victim undisturbed for more than a decade. Three hundred miles across the Navajo reservation, a harmless old canyon guide is felled by a sniper's bullet.
Joe Leaphorn, recently retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, believes the shooter and the bones are somehow connected and recalls a chilling puzzle he was previously unable to solve. But Acting Lieutenant...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Traces the life of the early twentieth-century adventurer, writer, and watercolor artist, describing his early years as a child prodigy, his solitary journeys through the American Southwest, and his mysterious 1934 disappearance in Navajo country.
11) Coyote waits
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1990
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Another superior mystery involving American Indian policemen Chee and Leaphorn and the murder of another policeman. Annotation. The master's newest Chee-Leaphorn mystery with the usual informative Navajo anthropology.
Author
Series
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
Language
English
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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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Text and photographic essays present the geography, history, culture, industry, cities, agriculture, food, and places to visit in the seven states of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado.
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Publisher
SAR Press, School of American Research
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 496 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Text and accompanying photographs present a picture regarding the contemporary communities of Native Americans, their hopes, dreams, and fears, and the historic contexts which shaped them.
16) The ghostway
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1985, c1984
Edition
1st Harper & Row ed.
Physical Desc
213 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tribal policeman Jim Chee goes 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 LA to a healing ceremony whose cure could be death. "A first-rate story of suspense and mystery"-The New Yorker. Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off into the dry lands of the big reservation, but not before he...
17) The blessing way
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English
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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...
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English
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Sides chronicles the history of the nineteenth-century Southwest, focusing on the destruction of the Navajo nation from the 1820s to the 1860s, and looking at the role of trapper, soldier, and scout Kit Carson in the removal and deaths of the Native Americans.
Publisher
AMC Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (261 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1971 on a remote outpost of the Navajo Nation near Monument Valley. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Tribal Police is besieged by a series of seemingly unrelated crimes. The closer he digs to the truth, the more he exposes the wounds of his past. He is joined on this journey by his new deputy, Jim Chee. Chee, too, has old scores to settle from his youth on the reservation. Together, the two men battle the forces of evil, each other, and...
20) It devours!
Author
Series
Welcome to Night Vale novels volume 2
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
From the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a mystery exploring the intersections of faith and science, the growing relationship between two young people who want desperately to trust each other, and the terrifying, toothy power of the Smiling God. Nilanjana Sikdar is an outsider to the town of Night Vale. Working for Carlos, the town's top...
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