About this title: It's January and Park Range Anna Pigeon is sent to Isle Royale in Lake Superior to learn wolf management. She's lodging in the island's bunkhouse with the famed wolf study team, and two scientists from Homeland Security, who are considering opening the park in the winters, so that the area can be manned to secure border with Canada -- bringing an end to the 50-year study. Soon following Anna's arrival, the wolf packs under observation begin to behave oddly. The discovery of wolf scat containing alien DNA leads the group to believe that perhaps a wolf-dog hybrid has been introduced to the ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Berkley
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780425226957ISBN:0425226956
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Glued binding. 469 p. Contains: Illustrations. Anna Pigeon Mysteries (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780399154584ISBN:0399154582
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
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Description: Fair. Purchasing this book supports the King County Library System Foundation. Thriftbooks and KCLSF have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
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Description: Good. 0399154582 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Description: Good. 0399154582 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Description: Good. 0399154582 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Binding: Book Club HC
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780399154584ISBN:0399154582
Description: Grade: C. Catalog: Mystery General Synopsis: Stamping on title page. 370 pages. It is January, and Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is sent to Isle Royale in Lake Superior to learn about managing and unde... read more
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"Every time I think Barr's gone as gritty as she can, that Anna Pigeon has reached the end of human endurance and survived, I read the next book in the series and discover that I'm wrong.
After more than a decade I still love Anna Pigeon. I love reading about different national parks (or the same park at different times of year); I love watching as Anna develops; I love Barr's writing -- that alone is worth the price of the book. I love watching Anna wrestle with moral and ethical decisions that most of us could never even dream of. Winter Study contains all of this, no question about it.
I've found, though, over her last three books, that I'm getting tired of what seems to be a "can you top this" mentality in her novels. I know that Barr's books have never been cozies -- not even close -- but sometimes, especially in Winter Study, I feel like Barr is going to extremes solely for the sake of it. Did things need to be as dramatic as they were to advance the plot? I don't think so. While it's possible that some of what happened in WS was necessary for the next book ... it's hard to imagine.
I'd still recommend Barr highly to someone who likes hard-boiled mysteries that don't have the standard PI or cop as a protagonist, and I plan to buy the next book in the series as soon as I can. I just wonder if Barr will reach a point where "hard-boiled" is less descriptive than "horror.""
"Disappointing - great setting, fascinating details on wolves, (more would have been better) but hardly a redeeming character to be found in the human crew. I think it is past time for Anna Pigeon to retire, before one of these horrible, extended struggles with nature and deranged criminals actually kills her. You have to wonder how much pain and trauma one person can withstand. Especially being newly married with a new life to begin! Please, Ms Barr, let Anna leave the Park Service or at least stay in one spot now, and find happiness with Paul. Find another park ranger to torture if you must continue the series; the exploration of America's parks is a great theme, but the formulaic stories have lost their appeal for me. I found myself fast forwarding through so many of the tracks that I realized I just didn't care enough to hear all the details - you know Anna will survive, you just don't know how many broken bones she'll have and where the bruises will be. When you don't care about the characters it's time to stop - and that applies to the writer as much as the reader."
"I used to really like Nevada Barr's books, but the series is getting old after 14 books. On the plus side, each of the books takes place in a different national park (although this book returns to a park, but in a different time of the year)all across the United States. Also on the plus side, it's refreshing to have a book about a very complex, conflicted woman in her 40s. But given that, I'm a little tired of the gritty, in your face violence of this series. Maybe it's because the books seem to be following a formula. I know that some horrific is going to happen to Anna Pigeon, especially in the last 100 pages so I'm not surprised when the unspeakable happens. It's not only speakable, it's expected. Surprise me with a book that's less violence and more thoughtful. Otherwise I'm going to think that my brother and sister-in-law who both work for the Park Service are just wusses and both need to get out there and mix it up with the bad guys."
"I don't know whether I've changed, or whether the Anna Pigeon series has changed. Maybe I'm just too squeamish, but I didn't enjoy this book. Too graphic. I'm cursed with a weak stomach and a strong imagination and I avoid reading stuff that sticks with me for days, giving me nightmares, or weird daytime thoughts. There's a reason I write children's books and not for adults! In any case, I've read the first twelve Nevada Barr (love that name!) books and enjoyed them. I started number 13 (Hard Country) but abandoned it when Barr introduced traumatized children. I read this book, Winter Study, because I thought it was about wolves. It was. Sort of. I won't spoil the ending, but it was too much for me. I won't be looking for her new ones. If I want to read about Ranger Anna, I will just reread her earlier books."
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