A phone call in 1975 changes Moon Mathias's life forever, as a voice on the line tells him his dead brother's baby daughter--a child Moon never knew existed--is waiting for him in Southeast Asia.A task he believes beyond his meager talents is pulling Moon to Vietnam. In a chilling world of mystery a[...]
Ace reporter John Cotton is a fly on the wall, seeing all, hearing all, and keeping out of sight. But the game changes when he finds his best friend's corpse sprawled on the marble floor of the central rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Suddenly Cotton knows too much about a scandal centered around a sena[...]
Even after his retirement, Joe Leaphorn is asked help. The problem is with one of his own cases - his 'last case', unsolved, and one that continues to haunt him. The original case involved a priceless Navajo rug that went missing. Now, years later, Leaphorn is picking up the threads of a crime he'd [...]
Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to help investigate what seems to be a trading post robbery. The simpleminded boy nailed for the crime is the cousin of an old colleague of Sergeant Jim Chee. The key to proving the boy's innocence lies in a horrific airline[...]
According to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. "The Second World War was documented on a huge scale by thousands of photographers and artists who created millions of pictures." Photographic companies, designated as the Signal Corps, with their squads dispersed to different battl[...]
For more than two decades, the concept of student engagement has grown from simple attention in class to a construct comprised of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components that embody and further develop motivation for learning. Similarly, the goals of student engagement have evolved from drop[...]
Tony Hillerman is beloved for his novels of intrigue in the American Southwest. In "Tony Hillerman s Navajoland," Laurance Linford takes readers on a journey through the Four Corners region to the haunts of Hillerman s characters. Offered in encyclopedic form, each entry gives the common name of a p[...]
Photographer-author LeRoy DeJolie describes and shows his homeland as not only a ruggedly beautiful territory in the Four Corners region of Arizona but also as a part of his heritage and culture. His photos and stories of the Navajo way of life are intertwined as surely as strands of a rope. The boo[...]
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