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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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Retirement has never sat well with former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn. Now the ghosts of a still-unsolved case are returning to haunt him, reawakened by a photograph in a magazine spread of a one-of-a-kind Navajo rug, a priceless work of woven art that was supposedly destroyed in a suspicious fire many years earlier. The rug, commemorating one of the darkest and most terrible chapters in American history, was always said to be cursed,...
2) Skeleton man
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
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Hailed as "a wonderful storyteller" by the New York Times, and a "national and literary cultural sensation" by the Los Angeles Times, bestselling author Tony Hillerman is back with another blockbuster novel featuring the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee.
Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to help investigate what seems to be a trading post robbery. A simple-minded kid nailed for the...
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Lee Nez novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 15
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336p. 22 cm.
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An unidentified man is found at the edge of the vast Jicarilla Apache natural gas field just inside the jurisdiction of the Navajo Tribal Police, so Sergeant Jim Chee should have been in charge of the investigation. But the FBI took custody of the case and they called it a hunting accident. What was the man looking for in the maze of pipelines and pumping stations? Does his death have anything to do with the embezzlement of billions of dollars of...
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Sunshine Vicram volume 1
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"This suspenseful and witty first novel in a new series is a perfect match for narrator Lorelei King." — Booklist
"Narrator Lorelei King works well with the subtly snarky style of author Darynda Jones...Listeners will look forward to the next installment of this new series, as some mysteries are solved, and others remain." — AudioFile Magazine
New York Times bestselling author Darynda Jones
8) Saige
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Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
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124 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
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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.
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Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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124 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
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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.
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Daughters of Caleb Bender volume 3
Pub. Date
c2013
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342 p. ; 22 cm.
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"This epic trilogy concludes with the Amish community's pacifism sorely tested by attacking bandits and the equally cruel Mexican troops sent to defend the Amish"--Provided by publisher.
11) The deliverance
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Skye's West volume 13
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Barnaby Skye, the earthy deserter from the Royal Navy who has carved a career in the Rocky Mountains as a trapper, guide, and magnet for adventure, drifts south to Mexican territory with his Crow Indian wife, Many Quills Woman (or "Victoria," as he calls her), in this thirteenth and newest of the Skye chronicles.
At Bent's Fort on the Mexican frontier, the Skyes agree to help a mysterious Cheyenne woman, Standing Alone, locate her two children who...
12) Stranglehold
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"Here in America, life is full of surprises. Duff never expected to hear from his old friend Charles McGregor, his batallion commander from the Black Watch Regiment of Her Majesty's army. Turns out McGregor lives in New Mexico now. And he needs Duff's help. He's started a new life as the mayor of Antelope Wells--a mining town that's being targeted by a power-hungry madman Ebenezer Schofield, who wants to declare the whole area an independent principality--and...
13) Shalako
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Pub. Date
1981, c1962
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163 p. ; 24 cm.
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Traveling north from Mexico in 1882, Shalako meets up with a group of touring Europeans in Apache country. He warns them of the Apaches, and they refuse to believe him until they are attacked. The tourists allow Shalako to take them to cover as the Apaches continue to battle them and the U.S. Army, which has been alerted. The final battle is between Shalako and Tats-ah-das-ay-go. Shalako wins, the remaining Europeans return to safety with the U.S....
16) Burn
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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She escaped the fire--but not the effects of the burn.
Janeal has long felt trapped in her father's Gypsy culture. Then one night a powerful man named Salazar Sanso promises her the life she longs for--if she will help recover a vast sum of money tied to her father.
When the plan implodes, Sanso and his men attack the gypsy settlement and burn it to the ground. During the blaze, Janeal is faced with a staggering choice.
The impact of that moment...
17) Die by the gun
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After completing a successful cattle drive as a the chuckwagon cook, Mac signs up for another one to escape those seeking revenge for a crime he did not commit -- Amazon.
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Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 2
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A sequel to "Old Bones" finds FBI agent Corrie Swanson and Santa Fe archaeologist Nora Kelly investigating the mummified corpse of a long-dead victim who died in agony while holding a mysterious sixteenth-century gold cross.
19) Thief in retreat
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Sister Agatha mysteries volume 2
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Sister Agatha is one of two extern nuns in the cloistered order at the Our Lady of Hope Monastery near the small desert town of Bernalillo, New Mexico. An investigative journalist before entering the monastery, now, as an extern it is Sister Agatha's role to be the link between her cloistered sisters and the outside world. It is the skills from both her past and current lives that she must bring to the task assigned to her by the Archbishop of her...
20) MacKinnon
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"In southern New Mexico, Sam MacKinnon is double-crossed by his partners after robbing a saloon and left with busted ribs, a banged-up head, no gun, and no horse. Overlooked by a posse, he finds his horse and starts out on the vengeance trail. Stopping to help Katie Callahan and her siblings alters his plans"--
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