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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
To Officer Bernadette Manuelito, the man curled up on the truck seat was just another drunk-which got Bernie in trouble for mishandling a crime scene-which got Sergeant Jim Chee in trouble with the FBI-which drew Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn out of retirement and back into the old "Golden Calf" homicide, a case he had hoped to forget.
Nothing had seemed complicated about that earlier one. A con game had gone sour. A swindler had tried to sell wealthy...
2) Standoff
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Formats
Description
Television reporter Tiel McCoy, headed out Interstate 20 on vacation, changes her plans when she hears that the teenage daughter of a Fort Worth multimillionaire has been kidnapped, deciding instead to cover the story that brings her face-to-face with a pair of desperate young lovers.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Presents the first season of the television series "In Plain Sight," in which a marshal with the Witness Protection Program in New Mexico risks her life to relocate and protect career criminals, compulsive liars, thieves, murderers, and innocent bystanders.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young Greenwich Village pastry chef Greenie Duquette's strained marriage to a depressed psychiatrist is pushed to the breaking point when the governor of New Mexico offers her a job at his restaurant across the country and she accepts, taking her four-year-old son with her.
5) Taken
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Ten episodes from the television miniseries "Taken" presented by Steven Spielberg. An epic event spanning three families, four generations and 50 years of unearthly secrets. "Taken" launches into a realm of alien abductions and deadly conspiracies reaching from World War II to the present.
6) Skeleton man
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
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 crime...
7) Thor
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
The powerful but arrogant warrior Thor is cast out of the fantastic realm of Asgard and sent to live amongst humans on Earth, where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young, innocent Joy Anderson, having succumbed to passion with aspiring journalist Gabe Venture, is left with a broken heart, and a baby on the way after he goes off to pursue fame and fortune, and when he returns seven years later to find her independent and worldly, it is she who must decide whether to grant him another chance at love.
10) The dirty cowboy
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Telling his faithful dog to make sure nobody touches his clothes but him, a cowboy jumps into a New Mexico river for a bath, not realizing just how much the scrubbing will change his scent.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
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,...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Former U.S. Senator Quintrell is dead.
His son, New Mexico's governor, is preparing his
run for the highest political office in the land. And dark family secrets are about to explode with the
devastating force of a Southwestern earthquake. An eccentric Quintrell aunt has invited genealogist Carolina "Carly" May to their Taos compound to compile a record of the illustrious family. But digging into the past is raising troubling questions about a would-be...
14) Biting the moon
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
"Andi," a teenage girl who has been living in the mountains of New Mexico for four months ever since waking up at a bed-and-breakfast with amnesia, meets fourteen-year-old Mark Dark Hope and together they set out to discover who "Andi" really is and why she was abducted.
16) The sinister pig
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The victim, well dressed but stripped of identification, is found at the edge of the vast Jicarilla Apache natural gas field just inside the jurisdiction of the Navajo Tribal Police, facing Sergeant Jim Chee with a complex puzzle.
Why did the Washington office of the FBI snatch custody of this case from its local agents, cover it with secrecy, and call it a hunting accident? What was the victim seeking among the maze of pipelines and pumping stations...
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Josefina and her sisters distrust learning to read and write, as well as other changes their Tía Dolores is bringing to the household, because they fear they will lose their memories of their mother.
19) Red mesa
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah is on the run. Justine, Ella's cousin and fellow officer, disappeared after the two women argued publicly over Justine's new boyfriend. Human bones are discovered at the spot where the younger woman had told her family she and Ella were to meet late one night. Suddenly Ella Clah, cop, is Ella Clah, murder suspect.
Stunned by Justine's death, Ella has no time to mourn. Her former allies in the Navajo...
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