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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 26
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 26
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 8
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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...
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Creative Voices of the Indigenous Community
Mythology, Monsters and Me
Native American Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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Mythology, Monsters and Me
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"Nathan, a young Navajo boy from Phoenix, Arizona, goes on an epic hero's journey."--Kirkusreviews.com
When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, he knows he's in for a pretty uneventful summer, with no electricity or cell service. Still, he loves spending time with Nali and with his uncle Jet, though it's clear when Jet arrives that he brings his problems with him. One night, while lost in the...
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Native American Heritage for Kids
OBD Native American Heritage Month (November) - YOUTH
OBD Newbery Medal Winners (1922-2022) - YOUTH
OBD Native American Heritage Month (November) - YOUTH
OBD Newbery Medal Winners (1922-2022) - YOUTH
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Younger Brother, a Navaho Indian boy, undergoes eight years of training in the ancient religion of his people and the practical knowledge of material existence.
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 7
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 25
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 7
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 25
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 7
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Sergeant Jim Chee's vacation to beautiful Antelope Canyon and Lake Powell has a deeper purpose. He's on a quest to unravel a sacred mystery his mentor, the Legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, stumbled across decades earlier. Chee's journey takes a deadly turn when, after a prayerful visit to the sacred Rainbow Bridge, he spots a body floating in the lake. The dead man, a Navajo with a passion for the canyon's ancient rock art, lived a life filled with...
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"Welcome to Milagro, a small Southwestern town nestled between mountains, mesas and desert badlands ; home to the good, the bad and the conflicted. Meet Franz Kafka, aka K, unlikely officer of the law, the most conflicted of them all. In this dystopian world, Big Energy is feted for fracking the life out of San Matteo County, a teenager's mysterious vanishing is callously ignored, all the sheriff's men are out training schoolteachers in arms proficiency,...
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 1
Leaphorn and Chee
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 19
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 1
Leaphorn and Chee
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 19
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 1
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"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...
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Native American Fiction
OBD Native American Heritage Month - Adult
LSS - Criminally Good
Native American Fiction
OBD Native American Heritage Month - Adult
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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 hired to find a missing biil, a traditional dress that had been donated to the Navajo Nation. His investigation takes a sinister turn when the leading suspect dies under mysterious circumstances and Leaphorn himself receives anonymous warnings to beware--witchcraft...
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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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"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...
10) Scourged
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Iron druid chronicles volume 9
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"Kevin Hearne creates the ultimate Atticus O'Sullivan adventure in the grand finale of the New York Times bestselling Iron Druid Chronicles: an epic battle royale against the Norse gods of Asgard. Unchained from fate, the Norse gods Loki and Hel are ready to unleash Ragnarok, a.k.a. the Apocalypse, upon the earth. They've made allies on the darker side of many pantheons, and there's a globe-spanning battle brewing that ancient Druid Atticus O'Sullivan...
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"Swim Home to the Vanished is a lush and fantastic journey through strange lands and minds from an incandescent new voice full of my kind of melancholic brilliance and unromantic magic."--Tommy Orange, author of There, There After the death of his brother, a grief-stricken young man seeks refuge and oblivion in a secluded fishing village dominated by a family of brujas in this haunting debut novel, inspired, in part, by the ramifications of Diné...
13) Dissolve
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Drawing upon Navajo history and enduring tradition, Sherwin Bitsui leads us on a treacherous, otherworldly passage through the American Southwest. Fluidly shape-shifting and captured by language that functions like a moving camera, Dissolve is urban and rural, past and present in the haze of the reservation. Bitsui proves himself to be one of this century's most haunting, raw, and uncompromising voices.
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14) Race to the sun
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Fantasy Reads
OBD Native American Heritage Month (November) - YOUTH
OBD Rick Riordan Presents - YOUTH
Sibling Stories
OBD Native American Heritage Month (November) - YOUTH
OBD Rick Riordan Presents - YOUTH
Sibling Stories
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"Lately Nizhoni has been able to detect monsters, like Mr. Charles, her dad's new boss at the oil and gas company. He's also alarmingly interested in Nizhoni and her brother, Mac, their Navajo heritage, and the legend of the Hero Twins. Nizhoni knows he's a threat, but her father won't believe her. When Dad disappears the next day, leaving behind a message that says 'Run!', the siblings and Nizhoni's best friend, Davery, are thrust into a rescue mission...
15) Navajo
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Within this carefully researched and detailed account of the Navajo people, readers will learn the origins and history of what is today the largest reservation-based Native American group in North America. The experiences of generations of Navajo have culminated in a people that today are fiercely proud of their heritage and of protecting their traditions and way of life in the modern world. This fascinating story invites readers to understand the...
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Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers is a debut collection of poems by a dazzling geologist of queer eros.
Drunktown, New Mexico, is a place where men "only touch when they fuck in a backseat." Its landscape is scarred by violence: done to it, done on it, done for it. Under the cover of deepest night, sleeping men are run over by trucks. Navajo bodies are deserted in fields. Resources are extracted. Lines are crossed. Men communicate through...
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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
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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 Maya's struggles with addiction drove them apart. Now Maya's brother asks Bernie to find out what happened to his sister. Tracing Maya's whereabouts,...
19) Navajo
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Easy-to read text and oversized photographs introduce readers to the Navajo and their traditions including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more.
20) Song of the lion
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A deadly bombing takes Navajo Tribal cops Bernadette Manuelito, Jim Chee, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, back into the past to find a vengeful killer in this riveting Southwestern mystery from the bestselling author of Spider Woman's Daughter and Rock with Wings. 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...
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