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Winter Study (Anna Pigeon Mysteries) | 
| Author: Nevada Barr
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 771
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0399154582
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780399154584
ASIN: 0399154582
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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Condition: This Book is in Great condition... A great read
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Product Description
Anna Pigeon returnsin the remarkable new novel from the New York Timesbestselling writer.
It is January, and Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is sent to Isle Royale in Lake Superior to learn about managing and understanding wolves, as her home base of Rocky Mountain National Park might soon have their own pack of the magnificent, much-maligned animals. Shes housed in the islands bunkhouse with the famed wolf study team, along with two scientists from Homeland Security, who are assessing the study with an eye to opening the park each wintereffectively bringing an end to the fifty-year studyso that it can be manned to secure the scrap of border with Canada.
Soon after Annas arrival, the wolf packs under observation begin to act in peculiar ways. Giant wolf prints are found, and Anna spies the form of a great wolf from a surveillance plane. The discovery of wolf scat containing alien DNA leads the team to believe that perhaps a wolf/dog hybrid has been introduced to the island. When a female member of the team is savaged, Anna is convinced she is being stalked, and what was once a beautiful, idyllic refuge becomes a place of unnatural occurrences and danger beyond the ordinary. Alone on an island without electricity or running water, with temperatures hovering around zero both day and night, Anna fights not only for the wolves, but for also her own survival.
Filled with the nail-biting suspense, richly drawn characters and gorgeous nature writing that are her hallmarks, Winter Study is vintage Barr, proving once again that shes a real writer, in every sense of the word (The Denver Post).
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
 Anna Pigeon has Jumped the Shark May 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having loved most of the previous Anna Pigeon mysteries, I found myself bitterly disappointed by this latest offering. Gone were the beautiful descriptions and "insider" looks at a great National Park. Instead we got a violent, claustophobic, unrealistic potboiler. Nevada Barr goes for the easy shock and horror. The characters were completely unsympathetic and badly drawn. Poor Anna Pigeon is so throughly abused in the course of this story that she should have died or been hospitalized several times over--instead she carries on and finally delivers vigilante justice in the most improabable way. It is apparent that Barr hates this character and has run out of ideas. Don't waste your time or money on this book.
 Accurate May 4, 2008
I enjoyed the accuracy of the winter hiking and the effects cold weather has on people. Having camped in minus 15 below temperatures, I found this book to be very detailed. Also the ego factor that comes out when hiking with a group. The good and the bad. I would say that this author had to experience these things herself to write this book. Everybody gets something out of a book, I like this kind of writing! More to a story than the drama.
 Winter Study May 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Nevada Barr's new book, WINTER STUDY, is a real thriller. True to her reputation, her novels continue to be page turners! I could hardly wait until this book came out but it was worth the wait. I'm adding it to my collection as I own every book she has written.
Action Packed Adventure May 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Nevada Barr is back with her signature blend of mystery and nature writing. In this fourteenth book of the Anna Pigeon mystery series, Winter Study takes the park ranger back to Isle Royal in Lake Superior during the coldest part of winter. Here Anna will learn about studying and managing wolves, as they are fast becoming part of her life in her permanent post at Rocky Mountain National Park. What was to be a simple (but cold) few weeks' walk in the park quickly becomes a deadly trap where one starting-to-notice-her-age ranger, two scientists, some agents from Homeland Security, and the National Park's support personnel have no way to get support or to leave the island. In the frozen wilderness, these seven people only have each other to depend on--or be afraid of.
After only a day, the thoughts running through Anna's mind are: "A crazy-making current was running through the island. That a wog had manifested, a windigo died at their feet and a wolf been slaughtered didn't completely account for it. The unreasoning fear of children raised on fairy tales where wolves had an overweaning penchant for evil trickled under saner thoughts....a dozen other wolf researchers had spent decades debunking this myth, but there was no rooting out the ogres of childhood. Fear was the yeast stirred into the mix of human dysfunctions, a catalyst that could spin them out of control. Fear was the difference between neurosis and insanity."
Now, one scientist is dead, and Ranger Pigeon has her closest brush with death so far. She has to investigate before someone else dies. Sometimes only the thought of her new husband waiting back home gives her enough strength to carry on with the investigation.
Barr's descriptive power and love of nature brings the natural world alive with her wide-ranging experience in national parks and her curiosity about the challenges faced by wildlife biologists. All this mixed together with the complexity of her oh-so-human characters makes for a chilling mystery that will keep you absorbed to the end.
by Rhonda Esakov
for Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women
great book April 30, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great book. The only problem is that I finished it too soon. I wish she could write faster.
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