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Chee, Jim (Fictitious character) Fiction Indian reservation police Fiction Leaphorn, Joe, Lt. (Fictitious character) Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Navajo Indians Fiction New Mexico New Mexico Fiction New Mexico History 20th century Fiction Police New Mexico Fiction Sheriffs New Mexico FictionMcGarrity, Michael.
Summary: Catapulted into early adulthood after the death of an older brother he idolized, eight-year-old Matthew Kerney assumes difficult responsibilities to save the family ranch against a backdrop of the Great Depression and a drought-stricken Tularosa Basin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: Western McGarrity 2015McGarrity, Michael.
Summary: Catapulted into early adulthood after the death of an older brother he idolized, eight-year-old Matthew Kerney assumes difficult responsibilities to save the family ranch against a backdrop of the Great Depression and a drought-stricken Tularosa Basin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCGJones, Darynda
Summary: Some people greet the day with open arms. Sheriff Sunshine Vicram would rather give it a hearty shove and get back into bed, because there's just too much going on right now. There's a series of women going missing, and Sunny feels powerless to stop it. There's her persistent and awesomely-rebellious daughter Auri, who's out to singlehandedly become Del Sol's youngest and fiercest investigator....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JONLasky, Kathryn
Summary: "Yossel, along with his family, flees anti-Jewish Russian pogroms in the late nineteenth century and settles in the American Southwest where he forges a friendship with Thomas, a Native American Navajo boy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LASGrimes, Martha.
Summary: Escaping into the nearby mountains from the mysterious man who had abducted her, a young amnesiac joins forces with fourteen-year-old Mary Dark Hope to find and confront the evil man she calls "Daddy"--before he can find her first.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIHavill, Steven
Summary: When New Mexico rancher Miles Waddell inherits $330 million and builds an astronomy-based theme park, he draws the unwelcome attention of eco-terrorists, whose attempts to sabotage the development lead to several shooting deaths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAVHavill, Steven.
Summary: The Posadas High School girls' volleyball team is on a hot winning streak, exciting everyone. But then the coach, Clint Scott, is found gunned down in the girls' shower room, the victim of four bullets, one fired nearly point blank into his heart. Dead for hours, he was killed soon after the end of last night's game. And, last night, a homegrown Banksy tagged several sites in town before he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAVIsaacs, Susan
Summary: A septuagenarian business owner evaluates her grandchildren as possible successors to her multi-million-dollar beauty empire, including New York movie studio editor Daisy, womanizing sports PR representative Matt, and religious Legal Aid lawyer Raquel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Isaacs 2012Anaya, Rudolfo A.
Summary: Six-year-old Antonio embarks upon a spiritual journey under the watchful guidance of Ultima, a healing woman, that leads him to question his faith and beliefs in family, religion, and other aspects of his Chicano culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1999
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ANAIsaacs, Susan
Summary: Tycoon Gloria Garrison, née Goldberg, has a kingdom to bequeath to one of the grandchildren she barely knows. They're all twenty-somethings who foolishly believe money isn't everything. Just shy of eighty, Gloria doesn't wish to watch the minutes tick by while the three dither over the issues of their generation, love, meaning, identity. She has summoned them all from New York for a weekend at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ISAMcGarrity, Michael
Summary: When Matthew Kerney returns to his ranch in the beautiful San Andres Mountains after serving in Sicily during World War II, he must not only fight to recover physically and emotionally from a devastating war injury, but he must also battle attempts by the U.S. Army to seize control of his land for expanded weapons testing. Forced off public grazing lands, banned from gathering his cattle on...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCGJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "Mac is back. Framed for a murder he didnt commit, Dewey Mac McKenzie is a wanted man on a cattle drive heading west, as a chuckwagon cook. Though he's never even boiled an egg, McKenzie has a natural gift for cobbling together good trail drive grub. Now, with two trail drives under his belt, McKenzie has proven to be more than a good chuckwagon cook. He's good at serving up justice, too, with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHJones, Darynda
Summary: "Sheriff Sunshine Vicram finds her cup o' joe more than half full when the small village of Del Sol, New Mexico, becomes the center of national attention for a kidnapper on the loose. Del Sol, New Mexico is known for three things: its fry-an-egg-on-the-cement summers, its strong cups of coffee--and a nationwide manhunt? Del Sol native Sunshine Vicram has returned to town as the elected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONHillerman, Tony.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HILHillerman, Tony.
Summary: In this evocative tale that unfolds in the Southwest, a puzzling death revives interest in a murder case gone cold, a long-time missing person, and a legendary gold mine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HILLMcLaren, Kaya
Summary: "As a young girl, Willow's mother left their home in Washington State in a literal blaze of glory: she set the mattress of her cheating husband on fire in her driveway, roasting marshmallow peeps and hot dogs before the fire department arrived. And with that, she and her daughter set off to New Mexico, to a new life, to a world of arroyos and canyons bordering an Apache reservation. Willow was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P MCLHillerman, Tony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HILMcGinty, Alice B.
Summary: Cody is worried when his family on a New Mexico Navajo reservation runs out of water, but Darlene Arviso, called "The Water Lady," is on the way with her tanker truck. Includes glossary of Navajo terms and notes about Arviso and life on a reservation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCGThurlo, Aimée.
Summary: Discovering a link between the murder of a Navajo police officer and the plans for a new power plant, Navajo Police special investigator Ella Clah tries to figure out who has been killing the people who oppose the plant's construction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THUPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: "In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their final campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Large Print 2023
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Summary: A group of activists is determined to do whatever is necessary to stop the building of a nuclear power plant--assault, sabotage, domestic terrorism. When a fellow Navajo Police officer is injured in an attack aimed at Ella Clah's boyfriend, Ella vows to do whatever it takes to find the terrorists and bring them to justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THUHillerman, Tony.
Summary: In this evocative tale that unfolds in the Southwest, a puzzling death revives interest in a murder case gone cold, a long-time missing person, and a legendary gold mine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HILMcLaren, Kaya
Summary: "Set in New Mexico, this novel explores the complexities of mothers and daughters, the uncertainty of second chances, and the courage to stand on your own two feet"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction McLaren 2017Paulsen, Gary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker and Co. 1995