{"product_id":"shooting-chant-an-ella-clah-novel-9780312870614","title":"Shooting Chant: An Ella Clah Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eOnce and FBI agent  Ella Clah is now a Special Investigator with the Navajo Police. She walks a tightrope between the Navajo and white worlds  fully accepted by neither but needed by both. Ellas brother  Clifford  a hataali or medicine man  says that her investigative skills are a gift from the spirits who guard and guide the Dineh  but Ella insists its her FBI training that has honed her instincts.  Ellas life is about to change in ways she can barely begin to imagine--she is newly pregnant  and though she knows who the father is  she will not marry him. In Navajo society  her child will be of her clan  and will be accepted by her family  no matter what--but how can she stay a police officer  exposing herself and her unborn child to terrible danger day after day?  Given her current caseload  its hard for Ella to put off making a final decision about her career. Theres a near-riot at LabKote  a factory on the Reservation that produces high-quality vessels for medical labs. The Fierce Ones  an activist group of Navajo  are insisting that more native workers be hired by the firm--including a Navajo replacement for a manager recently found dead in his car  an apparent suicide. A sniper shoots at Ella as she drives to another crime scene--the home of State Senator James Yellowhair  who has been kidnapped.  Feuding between traditionalist and modernist elements in the Navajo nation heats up with sabotage  vandalism  and murder  spurred by a rise in birth defects among the Dinehs livestock and rustling of sheep and cattle. Ellas personal concerns mount when officers investigating a break-in at the health clinic discover that the records of several pregnant women--including Ella--are missing. Then one of the pregnant women is murdered....\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789450960949,"sku":"ByrdShop_0312870612","price":31.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780312870614.jpg?v=1784691992","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/shooting-chant-an-ella-clah-novel-9780312870614","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}