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2) Skinwalkers
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Three shotgun blasts explode into the trailer of Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police. But Chee survives to join partner Lt. Joe Leaphorn in a frightening investigation that takes them into a dark world of ritual, witchcraft, and blood -- all tied to the elusive and evil "skinwalker." Brimming with Navajo lore and sizzling suspense, Skinwalkers brings Chee and Leaphorn, Hillerman's bestselling detective team, together for the first time.
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Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke returns from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial development. Joining with Bronx exile and feminist saboteur Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormon Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., Hayduke is ready to fight the power. They (the Monkey Wrench Gang) take on the strip miners, clear-cutters, and the highway, dam, and bridge builders who are...
5) The ghostway
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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 shows the old Navajo a photo of the man he seeks.
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[1992]
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This true story took place at the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Ostracized as "dumb Okies," the children of Dust Bowl migrant laborers went without school -- until Superintendent Leo Hart and 50 Okie kids built their own school in a nearby field.
11) Talking God
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Washington politics and protest lead Chee and Leaphorn to cases of grave robbing and to a body that was found stripped of all identification. The 2 Navaho police officers, Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn, featured together in the author's earlier A Thief of Time (1988) and Skinwalkers (1988) once more solve a puzzling, complex murder mystery set in New Mexico.
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2019.
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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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2023.
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English
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"This practical travel guide to Texas & the Southwest features detailed factual travel tips and points-of-interest structured lists of all iconic must-see sights as well as some off-the-beaten-track treasures. Our itinerary suggestions and expert author picks of things to see and do will make it a perfect companion both, ahead of your trip and on the ground. This Texas & the Southwest guide book is packed full of details on how to get there and around,...
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[2021]
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In this new 2021 high-definition program, learn all about the Indigenous Peoples of the American Southwest. Who were the Hopi, the Navajo, and the Mojave people? How did they usually get food? What was Bosque Redondo? What is Old Oribi? What was the Pueblo Revolt of 1680? Who were the Code Talkers? These questions and more are covered in-depth with detailed graphics, engaging examples, and exciting video. On-screen, multiple-choice reviews at...
15) Hunting badger
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Indian tribal policemen 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.
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[2023]
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"The best things in life are really not that fancy--time with family, hard work, and a good bowl of beans and cornbread. Come on in, kick off your boots (or leave them on, I don't care), and let's have some fun"--
In Not That Fancy, GRAMMY-award winning singer and actress Reba McEntire shares life lessons, behind-the-scenes stories and photos, and her favorite comfort food recipes to inspire you to enjoy the simple things in life.
18) Skinwalkers
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[2004]
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The Navajo Tribal Police investigate the murder of a medicine man. At the crime scene is a partially completed pictograph. One clue sends a chill through a young officer: the arrow used in the killing has a tip of human bone, a sign that a Navajo spirit - a "skinwalker" - is at work.
19) Coyote waits
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�2004
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In this adaptation of Tony Hillerman's novel, Navajo police detective Joe Leaphorn and officer Jim Chee solve a modern murder and a bank robbery supposedly committed by Butch Cassidy.
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