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Prophecy rock

1998
Will Lansa visits his father, who is the tribal police chief on the Hopi reservation in northern Arizona, and learns about some sacred Hopi traditions while he helps investigate several murders.

Miranda v. Arizona

the rights of the accused
2007
Examines the 1966 Supreme Court case involving Ernesto Miranda and the State of Arizona; discussing the trial, appeals, and decision that led to the Miranda Warnings.

Diana Lively is falling down

2005
Diana Lively and her husband Ted's lives are turned upside down after they move to Arizona for Diana's latest job and discover that it is possible to find lost love and that justice always comes to those who deserve it.

The secret at Shadow Ranch

1994
While staying at a ranch in Arizona, Nancy Drew becomes involved in a mystery surrounding a mistreated child.

Arizona facts and symbols

2003
Presents information about the state of Arizona and its nickname, motto, and emblems.

No place to go

effects of compulsory relocation on Navajos
1982

Black Tuesday

2007
An over-achieving Phoenix high school student's life changes dramatically when she is responsible for a car crash that kills a child, and she goes from honors classes and tennis team captain to doing community service and rebelling against her controlling mother.

Miranda

the story of America's right to remain silent
2004
Traces the history of Miranda rights in the United States, recounting the events surrounding the Supreme Court case of Ernesto Miranda, an uneducated Hispanic man arrested in 1963 who was convicted based on his own incriminating testimony.

The wrath of Cochise

[the Bascom affair and the origins of the Apache wars]
2013
In February 1861, the twelve-year-old son of Arizona rancher John Ward was kidnapped by Apaches. Ward followed their trail and reported the incident to patrols at Fort Buchanan, blaming a band of Chiricahuas led by the infamous warrior Cochise. What followed that precipitous encounter would ignite a Southwestern frontier war between the Chiricahuas and the US Army that would last twenty-five years. In the days following the initial melee, innocent passersby -- Apache, white, and Mexican -- would be taken as hostages on both sides, and almost all of them would be brutally slaughtered.

Evil intentions

the story of how an act of kindness led to senseless murder
1992
Story of the life and death of Suzanne Rossetti and how her murderers were traced, found, brought to trial, and convicted.

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