Nevada Barr
1) Borderline
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Hoping the adventure of a raft trip in Big Bend National Park will lift her spirits, Paul takes Anna to southwest Texas. Instead of the soul-soothing experience they'd longed for, the couple finds a pregnant woman--more dead than alive--and soon they are sucked into a labyrinth of intrigue that leads from the Mexican desert to the steps of the Governor's Mansion in Austin.
2) Boar Island
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"Anna Pigeon, in her career as a National Park Service Ranger, has had to deal with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors, but cyber-bullying and stalking is a new one. The target is Elizabeth, the adopted teenage daughter of her friend Heath Jarrod. Elizabeth is driven to despair by the disgusting rumors spreading online and bullying texts. Until, one day, Heath finds her daughter Elizabeth in the midst of an unsuccessful suicide attempt. And then...
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A grandmother in her sixties emerges from a mental fog to find she's trapped in her worst nightmare. Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog, only to discover that she's been committed to an Alzheimer's Unit in a nursing home. With no memory of how she ended up in this position, Rose is sure that something is very wrong. When she overhears one of the administrators saying about her that she's "not making it through the week," Rose...
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In 1971, the state of Minnesota was rocked by the "Butcher Boy" incident, as coverage of a family brutally murdered by one of their own swept across newspapers and television screens nationwide. Now, in present-day New Orleans, Polly Deschamps finds herself at yet another lonely crossroads in her life. No stranger to tragedy, Polly was a runaway at the age of fifteen, escaping a nightmarish Mississippi childhood. Lonely, that is, until she encounters...
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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Anna Pigeon takes a job as a park ranger looking for peace in the wilderness-but finds murder instead. When a fellow ranger is killed and his death is ruled a mountain lion attack, Anna's suspicions are raised. It's up to her to save the protected cats from the prejudiced locals--and prove the kill was the work of a species far less rare.
7) The Rope
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 17
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"In The Rope, the latest in Nevada Barr's bestselling novels featuring Anna Pigeon, Nevada Barr gathers together the many strings of Anna's past and finally reveals the story that her many fans have been long asking for. In 1995 and 35 years old, fresh off the bus from New York City and nursing a broken heart, Anna Pigeon takes a decidedly unglamorous job as a seasonal employee of the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area. On her day off, Anna goes...
8) High country
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 12
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
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When four young employees of Yosemite National Park disappear, ranger Anna Pigeon goes undercover as a waitress at the Ahwahnee Lodge to investigate. Living in the staff dorm, she soon discovers there's a connection between at least one of the missing girls, a crashed plane containing a fortune in drugs, and the outsiders who've moved into the tent cabin last occupied by a skilled climber who's also among the disappeared. The first attempt on her...
9) Burn
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Anna Pigeon, a National Park Service ranger on administrative leave after a traumatic ordeal, stays with a friend, Geneva, in New Orleans, and when she encounters a strange man named Jordan and finds herself the target of a curse, she is forced to use her outdoors skills to help save herself and others in the urban setting.
10) Destroyer angel
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 18
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Anna Pigeon, a ranger for the U.S. Park Services, sets off on vacation--an autumn canoe trip in the Iron Range in upstate Minnesota. With Anna is her friend Heath, a paraplegic; Heath's fifteen-year-old daughter, Elizabeth; Leah, a wealthy designer of outdoor equipment; and her daughter, Katie, who is thirteen. For Heath and Leah, this is a shakedown cruise to test a new cutting-edge line of camping equipment. The equipment, designed by Leah, will...
11) A Superior Death
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
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Park ranger Anna Pigeon is sent to Isle Royal National Park, a remote island off the coast of Michigan. She finds herself in the lake searching for a connection between a drowned man and a sunken cargo ship.
12) Hard Truth
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 13
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"Just three days after her wedding to Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon moves from Mississippi to Colorado to assume her new post as district ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park, where three girls have disappeared during a religious retreat. Two of the children reappear a month later, clad only in filthy underwear and claiming to remember nothing of the intervening weeks. The girls are frightened and traumatized, but they forge a bond with the...
13) Flashback
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 11
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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[2003]
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Taking a temporary post as ranger in Dry Tortugas National Park to escape dealing with a marriage proposal, Anna Pigeon investigates a mysterious boating accident that leads her to uncover sinister local crimes from the past
14) Firestorm
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
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After being caught in a firestorm in Lassen Volcanic National Park, Anna Pigeon, her patient, and the fire fighters survive, except for one who is found in his fire shelter with a knife in his back, and Anna must attend to the physical and emotional needs of the survivors and identify the murderer, while snow delays their rescue.
15) Blood lure
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 9
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While studying grizzly bears in Waterton/Glacier National Peace Park on the border of Montana and Canada, ranger Anna Pigeon finds herself in the midst of a series of deadly bear attacks that leave her struggling to re-evaluate her own view of nature.
16) Ill Wind
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 3
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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1995
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It is whispered that the Old Ones still haunt Mesa Verde-the restless spirits of the Anasazi, who carved their homes in the mountain's face eight centuries ago ... and then disappeared from the Earth. Newly assigned national parks ranger Anna Pigeon seeks solace from her own personal demons in the ancient cave dwellings of a vanished Native American civilization. But an inexplicable illness affecting visitors to the popular Colorado landmark has dragged...
17) Bittersweet
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Two women, Sarah and Imogene, defy convention, social strictures, and male-dominated society to carve out their own lives and pursue forbidden love in the late-nineteenth-century American West.
18) Liberty falling
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 7
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
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Anna Pigeon leaves the rugged countryside of Colorado to face the concrete wilds of New York City. Anna is in Manhattan to look after her sister Molly, seriously ill with pneumonia and a kidney infection. Pigeon moves in with a ranger friend who has a place on Ellis Island.
19) Winter study
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 14
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Soon after Anna Pigeon joins the famed wolf study team of Isle Royale National Park in the middle of Lake Superior, the packs begin to behave in peculiar ways. Giant wolf prints are found, and Anna spies the form of a freat wolf from a surveillance plane. When a female member of the team is savaged, Anna is convinced they are being stalked, and what was once a beautiful, idyllic refuge becomes a place of unnatural occurrences and danger beyond the...
20) Deep South
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 8
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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
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When park ranger Anna Pigeon stumbles on the corpse of a girl with a noose around her neck, she is plunged into a murder investigation with serious racial overtones in the heart of the Deep South.