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Coyote
Carlotta Carlyle trys to find who is killing illegal immigrants.
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"The radios Gloria's got in her old Fords can barely catch the AM top-forty stations, the ones that broadcast as twenty million kilohertz." EDITORIAL COMMENT: Huh?? That's a whole lotta hertz!!Read:
8/1999
Deep pockets
A student burned to death at Harvard is not what she seems.
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9/2004
Flashpoint
Carlotta Carlyle meets and old lady, who dies, and Carlotta's house is set on fire!
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6/2000
Hardware
Carlotta Carlyle gets a computer and searchs for whoever is beating up taxi drivers..
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"I have an air splint," he said, "left over from a skiing sprain..." "Why didn't my doctor give me one?" I asked... "You in an HMO?" he asked. "Yeah." "Crutches are good enough for the like of you." "Thanks a heap."Read:
8/1999
Snapshot
Carlotta Carlyle keeps getting pictures of a little girl in the mail. These are pretty good stories.
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8/1999
Steel Guitar
Carlotta Carlyle helps out a friend who is a music star. Stayed up to 1:30 a.m. to finish it.
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8/1999
The Snake Tattoo
Carlotta Carlyle looks for a working girl with a snake tattoo, also looks for a missing schoolgirl.
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7/1999
The Mostly True Story Of Jack
Jack is sent off to stay with his aunt and uncle who live in a small town in Iowa by his divorcing parents. Parent who seem rather distant, even forgetting his name. Something oddly magic is going on in Iowa, and Jack seems to be in the middle of it! Read the advance reading copy.
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2/2011
A Superior Death
Ranger Anna Pigeon investigates a murder in Lake Superior. Duh. A really good book. I figured out what the plunder was about thirty pages before Anna. Of course, I didn't have all her distractions! Again, I really like her books. You learn a lot about the park system and nature. I wanted to be a forest ranger when I was a kid.
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"With the fading of the light the guardians of the island began to reclaim her shores. A persistent whining burned in Anna's ear. A stinging itch cut through the thin fabric of her shirt. Again she missed the desert. There if something bit, one usually died of it. She hated this nickel and diming to death, one bloody sip at a time."Read:
1/1999
Blind Descent
Ranger Anna Pigeon investigates violence in a cave near Carlsbad Caverns, which I can't spell and can't hold the book close enough to see because I need both hands to type!
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8/1998
Blood Lure
Anna Pigeon goes to Glacier National Park to learn about grizzly bear DNA research. A little different resolution than her other books. 320 p.
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9/2001Read Again:
3/2002
Boar Island
Ms. Barr often writes some clever dialogue, but plots just seem odd; or patchy in places. E get cyber-bullied, Anna nearly dies, there's a cool island in Maine.
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11/2017
Borderline
Anna goes on a rifer-rafting trip in Big Bend Nation Park, and ends up doing a C-section on a dead pregnant woman to save the baby. Wait, WHAT???
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As she watched the white bobbing against the dark water she realized she had finally done it, she had hit bottom. She was littering. -- (pg. 381)
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5/2009
Burn
Anna goes to New Orleans to recover from her latest ordeals, find child-prostitution to foil. Some pretty disturbing scenes, and very little park stuff. And no map!
Words I Had To Look Up:
avidity (pg. 114) -- Ardent desire or craving; eagerness.
Quote:
Scars on the outside simply kept score; it was the scars on the inside one had to watch out for. (pg. 63)
Under certain circumstances crime could be considered a career choice. Littering was just a character flaw. (pg. 227)
Library Quote:
Not for the first time, she was glad she never went anywhere without her library card...She made a mental note to suggest to the Estes Park librarian that the cards be made with at least one good slashing edge. (pgs. 170-171)
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11/2011
Deep South
Anna's got a boyfriend, Anna's got a boyfriend! She's the new district ranger at the Nachez Trace Parkway.
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3/2001
Destroyer Angel
Anna goes on a canoe trip with friends, but someone had decided to kidnap one of the friends, so things get bad real quick.
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6/2014
Endangered Species
Ranger Anna is in Cumberland Island National Seashore off the coast of Georgia. A plethora of bizarre clues lead to an unexpected (to me, anyway) conclusion. Pretty good!
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"I'm shot! It's bad, " he mimicked in a falsetto. "It looks like it's going to leave a real nasty bruise," Mona said in Anna's defense. "Oh, no! Not a bruise!" Rick squealed.Read:
1/1999
Firestorm
Ranger Anna Pigeon investigates a death at a firefighting camp.
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9/1998
Flashback
Anna spends some time in Dry Tortugas National Park trippin' out.
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7/2004
Hard Truth
Anna takes a position at Rocky Mountain National Park where she has issues with God, a polygamous religious commune, and a serial killer. Not necessarily in that order.
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8/2007
20 books displayed
[Babbit - Baker] [Baldacci - Barnard] [Barnard - Barnes] [Barnes - Barr] [Barr - Beanton] [Beanton - Beaton] [Beaton - Beaton] [Beaton - Bedard] [Belushi - Blackwood] [Block - Block] [Block - Bodeen] [Bodeen - Bova] [Bova - Brin] [Brink - Bryson] [Bryson - Bujold] [Bujold - Butler] [Buzzell - Bythell]