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	1.	Barr, Nevada  Blind Descent New York, NY, U.S.A. G.P.Putnam 1998 1st Edition. 1st Impression. Hard Cover As New As New Signed by Author An Anna Pigeon novel. As new. Tight, clean unread copy. No bumps, other marks or blems. DJ covered with Brodart. Autographed by author on front end paper. 1999 Dilys, Anthony and Macavity Award Nominee. Price: 32.00 USD
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	2.	Barr, Nevada  Blind Descent New York, NY, U.S.A. G.P.Putnam 1998 1st Edition. 1st Impression. Hard Cover As New As New Signed by Author An Anna Pigeon novel. As new. Tight, clean unread copy. No bumps, other marks or blems. DJ covered with Brodart. Autographed by author on front end paper. 1999 Dilys, Anthony and Macavity Award Nominee. Price: 32.00 USD
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	6.	Barr, Nevada  Blood Lure New York, NY, U.S.A. Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated 2001 1st Edition. 1st Impression. Hard Cover As New As New Signed by Author As new in as new DJ protected by mylar DJ cover. Book is in very fine condition in very fine DJ. Tight no marks, bumps or blems. Signed by author on full title page. Signatures guaranteed, Purchased from a book dealer noted for signed books that I have I have been dealing for years. For pictures or additional info write me at info at abnormalbooks dot com or visit my site. From The Critics Daneet Steffens ...Barr's red herrings and sly twists culminate in one huge payoff. Grade A- Laurie Davie - Romantic Times Like her heroine, Barr is a ranger who’s worked in national parks all over the country. Her gorgeous descriptions of the natural world enhance this taut, suspenseful tale, and the unexpected ending will surprise and enchant you. All is not well in grizzly country...Barr's red herrings and sly twists culminate in one huge payoff. Entertainment Weekly All is not well in grizzly country...Barr's red herrings and sly twists culminate in one huge payoff. Publisher's Weekly The latest entry in this excellent series featuring National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon is one of Barr's best. Anna has been assigned to work temporarily in Montana's Glacier National Park, where she seems more at home than in her recent forays to East Coast parks, and learns how to do DNA studies on wildlife by working with a biologist, Joan, on a study of grizzly bears. Anna, Joan and a young, inexperienced volunteer, Rory, are sent out into the park's wilderness areas to set lures for the grizzlies. They use a powerful and nasty-smelling concoction, mixed with cow's blood, that the grizzlies find irresistible. Once the bears rub up against the trees or barbed wire that have been coated with the lure, samples of their DNA can be collected from the hair and skin left behind. In their remote campsite one night, Anna and Joan amazingly survive a grizzly bear attack on their tents unscathed, only to find that Rory has gone missing. As park rangers and rescue teams hike the mountainous park looking for the missing teenager, they find instead the dead body of a woman whose face has been horribly mutilated. Rory is an obvious suspect, as is the bear who attacked the camp. Barr focuses on the wilderness park and its endangered population of grizzlies rather than on Anna's personal life and problems, and this makes for a tightly plotted, satisfying read. The author's masterful descriptions of the natural world immeasurably enhance an exciting, suspenseful story that is sure to flirt with bestseller lists. Mystery Guild main selection and Literary Guild alternate selection. (Feb. 5) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information. KLIATT Blood Lure is mainly for those already familiar with this series of mysteries, each one taking place in a different national park, featuring Anna Pigeon, a park law enforcement officer. This one features Glacier National Park and a DNA study of grizzly bears Anna participates in—hence the title. While camping in the wilderness, studying bears, Anna gets involved in strange events, each with some connection to bears. A young man from Earthwatch is helping in the study, with his father and stepmother camping at another location in the park. The stepmother is found murdered and Anna is brought into the criminal investigation. From then on, Barr can do what she does best: have Anna (and readers vicariously) experience the wilderness in all of its splendor and with all of its dangers. There are some truly frightening sequences—enough to scare even Outward Bound types. Frankly, it's fun to thrill to the chase scenes in the wilds of a national park—something different from car chases on city streets and other staples of the genre. Category: Paperback Fiction. KLIATT Codes: JSA—Recommended for junior and senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2001, Berkley, 333p. map., $6.99. Ages 13 to adult. Reviewer: Claire Rosser; KLIATT SOURCE: KLIATT, March 2002 (Vol. 36, No. 2) Library Journal Having guided readers on behind-the-scenes tours of New York City's Ellis and Liberty Islands (Liberty Falling) and Mississippi's Natchez Trace Parkway (Deep South), Barr returns to the West in her ninth mystery. On a training assignment to study grizzly bears in the Waterton-Glacier National Peace Park, near the Montana-Canada border, park ranger Anna Pigeon hikes into the mountains with researcher Joan Rand and an Earthwatch volunteer, Rory Van Slyke. But Anna's joy at returning to the wilderness quickly turns to terror when their camp is ravaged in the middle of the night by a grizzly. Rory disappears, and in the morning the faceless corpse of a female camper is discovered. Was the woman the victim of the same bear, or was there a more sinister human element involved? While Barr's love of nature and the outdoors shines through, her plot is rather formulaic and dull, lacking the intensity and excitement of her better novels (Blind Descent, A Superior Death). Still, her fans will want to read. [Mystery Guild main selection and Literary Guild alternate selection; previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 10/1/00.]--Wilda Williams, "Library Journal" Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information. AudioFile What's more dangerous—human or grizzly bear? Park ranger Anna Pidgeon thinks she knows until she joins a team researching bears in Glacier National Park. Reader Joyce Bean's matter-of-fact narrative style is well suited to Pidgeon, who faces falling boulders, attacking grizzlies, and edgy suspects with cool-headed logic and dry wit. Unfortunately, long passages of exposition make for a monotonous start. More abridging might have helped. The drama does hold up, the pace quickens, and a satisfying resolution compensates for initial sluggishness. Side endings and introductions provide continuity and orientation. E.S. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine Kirkus Reviews Dispatched from her Mississippi home park (Deep South, 2000) to Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park to participate in a bear census, rolling-stone ranger Anna Pigeon happily strains pots of stinky lure with her bare hands and clambers over rough territory to place the lure in the hope of attracting bears to help the Park Service establish population trends and travel patterns. It's an idyllic time, in fact, until the little camp she's sharing with Joan Rand, her trainer, and Earthwatch volunteer Rory Van Slyke is attacked in the middle of the night by a monstrous grizzly, and Anna, emerging shaken from the assault, finds Rory missing. By the time Rory turns up again, there's even worse news: His stepmother, predatory Seattle divorce lawyer Carolyn Van Slyke, has been killed—at first by a bear, it seems, until Chief Ranger Harry Ruick notices the horrific facial wounds that have been made by an edged weapon. Was Carolyn killed by the stepson who conveniently vanished just around the time of her death, or by Rory's inoffensive father Lester Van Slyke? Why was the killer trying to frame one of the park's bears for the killing, and what dangers remain for Anna when she ventures again onto Glacier's now darkly spectacular mountain trails? Despite a fitful alternation between the exciting outdoor set pieces Barr ought to patent and the anticlimactic returns to Anna's indoor base—together with a solution that's logical enough but a little hard to swallow—fans of this distinguished series won't be disappointed. Literary Guild alternate selection; Mystery Guild main selection Price: 40.00 USD
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	7.	Barr, Nevada  Blood Lure New York, NY, U.S.A. Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated 2001 1st Edition. 1st Impression. Hard Cover As New As New Signed by Author As new in as new DJ protected by mylar DJ cover. Book is in very fine condition in very fine DJ. Tight no marks, bumps or blems. Signed by author on full title page. Signatures guaranteed, Purchased from a book dealer noted for signed books that I have I have been dealing for years. For pictures or additional info write me at info at abnormalbooks dot com or visit my site. From The Critics Daneet Steffens ...Barr's red herrings and sly twists culminate in one huge payoff. Grade A- Laurie Davie - Romantic Times Like her heroine, Barr is a ranger who’s worked in national parks all over the country. Her gorgeous descriptions of the natural world enhance this taut, suspenseful tale, and the unexpected ending will surprise and enchant you. All is not well in grizzly country...Barr's red herrings and sly twists culminate in one huge payoff. Entertainment Weekly All is not well in grizzly country...Barr's red herrings and sly twists culminate in one huge payoff. Publisher's Weekly The latest entry in this excellent series featuring National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon is one of Barr's best. Anna has been assigned to work temporarily in Montana's Glacier National Park, where she seems more at home than in her recent forays to East Coast parks, and learns how to do DNA studies on wildlife by working with a biologist, Joan, on a study of grizzly bears. Anna, Joan and a young, inexperienced volunteer, Rory, are sent out into the park's wilderness areas to set lures for the grizzlies. They use a powerful and nasty-smelling concoction, mixed with cow's blood, that the grizzlies find irresistible. Once the bears rub up against the trees or barbed wire that have been coated with the lure, samples of their DNA can be collected from the hair and skin left behind. In their remote campsite one night, Anna and Joan amazingly survive a grizzly bear attack on their tents unscathed, only to find that Rory has gone missing. As park rangers and rescue teams hike the mountainous park looking for the missing teenager, they find instead the dead body of a woman whose face has been horribly mutilated. Rory is an obvious suspect, as is the bear who attacked the camp. Barr focuses on the wilderness park and its endangered population of grizzlies rather than on Anna's personal life and problems, and this makes for a tightly plotted, satisfying read. The author's masterful descriptions of the natural world immeasurably enhance an exciting, suspenseful story that is sure to flirt with bestseller lists. Mystery Guild main selection and Literary Guild alternate selection. (Feb. 5) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information. KLIATT Blood Lure is mainly for those already familiar with this series of mysteries, each one taking place in a different national park, featuring Anna Pigeon, a park law enforcement officer. This one features Glacier National Park and a DNA study of grizzly bears Anna participates in—hence the title. While camping in the wilderness, studying bears, Anna gets involved in strange events, each with some connection to bears. A young man from Earthwatch is helping in the study, with his father and stepmother camping at another location in the park. The stepmother is found murdered and Anna is brought into the criminal investigation. From then on, Barr can do what she does best: have Anna (and readers vicariously) experience the wilderness in all of its splendor and with all of its dangers. There are some truly frightening sequences—enough to scare even Outward Bound types. Frankly, it's fun to thrill to the chase scenes in the wilds of a national park—something different from car chases on city streets and other staples of the genre. Category: Paperback Fiction. KLIATT Codes: JSA—Recommended for junior and senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2001, Berkley, 333p. map., $6.99. Ages 13 to adult. Reviewer: Claire Rosser; KLIATT SOURCE: KLIATT, March 2002 (Vol. 36, No. 2) Library Journal Having guided readers on behind-the-scenes tours of New York City's Ellis and Liberty Islands (Liberty Falling) and Mississippi's Natchez Trace Parkway (Deep South), Barr returns to the West in her ninth mystery. On a training assignment to study grizzly bears in the Waterton-Glacier National Peace Park, near the Montana-Canada border, park ranger Anna Pigeon hikes into the mountains with researcher Joan Rand and an Earthwatch volunteer, Rory Van Slyke. But Anna's joy at returning to the wilderness quickly turns to terror when their camp is ravaged in the middle of the night by a grizzly. Rory disappears, and in the morning the faceless corpse of a female camper is discovered. Was the woman the victim of the same bear, or was there a more sinister human element involved? While Barr's love of nature and the outdoors shines through, her plot is rather formulaic and dull, lacking the intensity and excitement of her better novels (Blind Descent, A Superior Death). Still, her fans will want to read. [Mystery Guild main selection and Literary Guild alternate selection; previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 10/1/00.]--Wilda Williams, "Library Journal" Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information. AudioFile What's more dangerous—human or grizzly bear? Park ranger Anna Pidgeon thinks she knows until she joins a team researching bears in Glacier National Park. Reader Joyce Bean's matter-of-fact narrative style is well suited to Pidgeon, who faces falling boulders, attacking grizzlies, and edgy suspects with cool-headed logic and dry wit. Unfortunately, long passages of exposition make for a monotonous start. More abridging might have helped. The drama does hold up, the pace quickens, and a satisfying resolution compensates for initial sluggishness. Side endings and introductions provide continuity and orientation. E.S. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine Kirkus Reviews Dispatched from her Mississippi home park (Deep South, 2000) to Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park to participate in a bear census, rolling-stone ranger Anna Pigeon happily strains pots of stinky lure with her bare hands and clambers over rough territory to place the lure in the hope of attracting bears to help the Park Service establish population trends and travel patterns. It's an idyllic time, in fact, until the little camp she's sharing with Joan Rand, her trainer, and Earthwatch volunteer Rory Van Slyke is attacked in the middle of the night by a monstrous grizzly, and Anna, emerging shaken from the assault, finds Rory missing. By the time Rory turns up again, there's even worse news: His stepmother, predatory Seattle divorce lawyer Carolyn Van Slyke, has been killed—at first by a bear, it seems, until Chief Ranger Harry Ruick notices the horrific facial wounds that have been made by an edged weapon. Was Carolyn killed by the stepson who conveniently vanished just around the time of her death, or by Rory's inoffensive father Lester Van Slyke? Why was the killer trying to frame one of the park's bears for the killing, and what dangers remain for Anna when she ventures again onto Glacier's now darkly spectacular mountain trails? Despite a fitful alternation between the exciting outdoor set pieces Barr ought to patent and the anticlimactic returns to Anna's indoor base—together with a solution that's logical enough but a little hard to swallow—fans of this distinguished series won't be disappointed. Literary Guild alternate selection; Mystery Guild main selection Price: 40.00 USD
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	8.	Barr, Nevada  Blood Lure New York, NY, U.S.A. Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated 2001 1st Edition. 1st Impression. Hard Cover As New As New Signed by Author As new in as new DJ protected by mylar DJ cover. Book is in very fine condition in very fine DJ. Tight no marks, bumps or blems. Signed by author on full title page. Signatures guaranteed, Purchased from a book dealer noted for signed books that I have I have been dealing for years. For pictures or additional info write me at info at abnormalbooks dot com or visit my site. From The Critics Daneet Steffens ...Barr's red herrings and sly twists culminate in one huge payoff. Grade A- Laurie Davie - Romantic Times Like her heroine, Barr is a ranger who’s worked in national parks all over the country. Her gorgeous descriptions of the natural world enhance this taut, suspenseful tale, and the unexpected ending will surprise and enchant you. All is not well in grizzly country...Barr's red herrings and sly twists culminate in one huge payoff. Entertainment Weekly All is not well in grizzly country...Barr's red herrings and sly twists culminate in one huge payoff. Publisher's Weekly The latest entry in this excellent series featuring National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon is one of Barr's best. Anna has been assigned to work temporarily in Montana's Glacier National Park, where she seems more at home than in her recent forays to East Coast parks, and learns how to do DNA studies on wildlife by working with a biologist, Joan, on a study of grizzly bears. Anna, Joan and a young, inexperienced volunteer, Rory, are sent out into the park's wilderness areas to set lures for the grizzlies. They use a powerful and nasty-smelling concoction, mixed with cow's blood, that the grizzlies find irresistible. Once the bears rub up against the trees or barbed wire that have been coated with the lure, samples of their DNA can be collected from the hair and skin left behind. In their remote campsite one night, Anna and Joan amazingly survive a grizzly bear attack on their tents unscathed, only to find that Rory has gone missing. As park rangers and rescue teams hike the mountainous park looking for the missing teenager, they find instead the dead body of a woman whose face has been horribly mutilated. Rory is an obvious suspect, as is the bear who attacked the camp. Barr focuses on the wilderness park and its endangered population of grizzlies rather than on Anna's personal life and problems, and this makes for a tightly plotted, satisfying read. The author's masterful descriptions of the natural world immeasurably enhance an exciting, suspenseful story that is sure to flirt with bestseller lists. Mystery Guild main selection and Literary Guild alternate selection. (Feb. 5) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information. KLIATT Blood Lure is mainly for those already familiar with this series of mysteries, each one taking place in a different national park, featuring Anna Pigeon, a park law enforcement officer. This one features Glacier National Park and a DNA study of grizzly bears Anna participates in—hence the title. While camping in the wilderness, studying bears, Anna gets involved in strange events, each with some connection to bears. A young man from Earthwatch is helping in the study, with his father and stepmother camping at another location in the park. The stepmother is found murdered and Anna is brought into the criminal investigation. From then on, Barr can do what she does best: have Anna (and readers vicariously) experience the wilderness in all of its splendor and with all of its dangers. There are some truly frightening sequences—enough to scare even Outward Bound types. Frankly, it's fun to thrill to the chase scenes in the wilds of a national park—something different from car chases on city streets and other staples of the genre. Category: Paperback Fiction. KLIATT Codes: JSA—Recommended for junior and senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2001, Berkley, 333p. map., $6.99. Ages 13 to adult. Reviewer: Claire Rosser; KLIATT SOURCE: KLIATT, March 2002 (Vol. 36, No. 2) Library Journal Having guided readers on behind-the-scenes tours of New York City's Ellis and Liberty Islands (Liberty Falling) and Mississippi's Natchez Trace Parkway (Deep South), Barr returns to the West in her ninth mystery. On a training assignment to study grizzly bears in the Waterton-Glacier National Peace Park, near the Montana-Canada border, park ranger Anna Pigeon hikes into the mountains with researcher Joan Rand and an Earthwatch volunteer, Rory Van Slyke. But Anna's joy at returning to the wilderness quickly turns to terror when their camp is ravaged in the middle of the night by a grizzly. Rory disappears, and in the morning the faceless corpse of a female camper is discovered. Was the woman the victim of the same bear, or was there a more sinister human element involved? While Barr's love of nature and the outdoors shines through, her plot is rather formulaic and dull, lacking the intensity and excitement of her better novels (Blind Descent, A Superior Death). Still, her fans will want to read. [Mystery Guild main selection and Literary Guild alternate selection; previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 10/1/00.]--Wilda Williams, "Library Journal" Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information. AudioFile What's more dangerous—human or grizzly bear? Park ranger Anna Pidgeon thinks she knows until she joins a team researching bears in Glacier National Park. Reader Joyce Bean's matter-of-fact narrative style is well suited to Pidgeon, who faces falling boulders, attacking grizzlies, and edgy suspects with cool-headed logic and dry wit. Unfortunately, long passages of exposition make for a monotonous start. More abridging might have helped. The drama does hold up, the pace quickens, and a satisfying resolution compensates for initial sluggishness. Side endings and introductions provide continuity and orientation. E.S. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine Kirkus Reviews Dispatched from her Mississippi home park (Deep South, 2000) to Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park to participate in a bear census, rolling-stone ranger Anna Pigeon happily strains pots of stinky lure with her bare hands and clambers over rough territory to place the lure in the hope of attracting bears to help the Park Service establish population trends and travel patterns. It's an idyllic time, in fact, until the little camp she's sharing with Joan Rand, her trainer, and Earthwatch volunteer Rory Van Slyke is attacked in the middle of the night by a monstrous grizzly, and Anna, emerging shaken from the assault, finds Rory missing. By the time Rory turns up again, there's even worse news: His stepmother, predatory Seattle divorce lawyer Carolyn Van Slyke, has been killed—at first by a bear, it seems, until Chief Ranger Harry Ruick notices the horrific facial wounds that have been made by an edged weapon. Was Carolyn killed by the stepson who conveniently vanished just around the time of her death, or by Rory's inoffensive father Lester Van Slyke? Why was the killer trying to frame one of the park's bears for the killing, and what dangers remain for Anna when she ventures again onto Glacier's now darkly spectacular mountain trails? Despite a fitful alternation between the exciting outdoor set pieces Barr ought to patent and the anticlimactic returns to Anna's indoor base—together with a solution that's logical enough but a little hard to swallow—fans of this distinguished series won't be disappointed. Literary Guild alternate selection; Mystery Guild main selection Price: 40.00 USD
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	9.	Barr, Nevada  Blood Lure New York, NY, U.S.A. Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated 2001 1st Edition. 1st Impression. Hard Cover As New As New Signed by Author As new in as new DJ protected by mylar DJ cover. Book is in very fine condition in very fine DJ. Tight no marks, bumps or blems. Signed by author on first front end paper page. Signatures guaranteed, Purchased from a book dealer noted for signed books that I have I have been dealing for years. For pictures or additional info write me at info at abnormalbooks dot com or visit my site. From The Critics Daneet Steffens ...Barr's red herrings and sly twists culminate in one huge payoff. Grade A- Laurie Davie - Romantic Times Like her heroine, Barr is a ranger who’s worked in national parks all over the country. Her gorgeous descriptions of the natural world enhance this taut, suspenseful tale, and the unexpected ending will surprise and enchant you. All is not well in grizzly country...Barr's red herrings and sly twists culminate in one huge payoff. Entertainment Weekly All is not well in grizzly country...Barr's red herrings and sly twists culminate in one huge payoff. Publisher's Weekly The latest entry in this excellent series featuring National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon is one of Barr's best. Anna has been assigned to work temporarily in Montana's Glacier National Park, where she seems more at home than in her recent forays to East Coast parks, and learns how to do DNA studies on wildlife by working with a biologist, Joan, on a study of grizzly bears. Anna, Joan and a young, inexperienced volunteer, Rory, are sent out into the park's wilderness areas to set lures for the grizzlies. They use a powerful and nasty-smelling concoction, mixed with cow's blood, that the grizzlies find irresistible. Once the bears rub up against the trees or barbed wire that have been coated with the lure, samples of their DNA can be collected from the hair and skin left behind. In their remote campsite one night, Anna and Joan amazingly survive a grizzly bear attack on their tents unscathed, only to find that Rory has gone missing. As park rangers and rescue teams hike the mountainous park looking for the missing teenager, they find instead the dead body of a woman whose face has been horribly mutilated. Rory is an obvious suspect, as is the bear who attacked the camp. Barr focuses on the wilderness park and its endangered population of grizzlies rather than on Anna's personal life and problems, and this makes for a tightly plotted, satisfying read. The author's masterful descriptions of the natural world immeasurably enhance an exciting, suspenseful story that is sure to flirt with bestseller lists. Mystery Guild main selection and Literary Guild alternate selection. (Feb. 5) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information. KLIATT Blood Lure is mainly for those already familiar with this series of mysteries, each one taking place in a different national park, featuring Anna Pigeon, a park law enforcement officer. This one features Glacier National Park and a DNA study of grizzly bears Anna participates in—hence the title. While camping in the wilderness, studying bears, Anna gets involved in strange events, each with some connection to bears. A young man from Earthwatch is helping in the study, with his father and stepmother camping at another location in the park. The stepmother is found murdered and Anna is brought into the criminal investigation. From then on, Barr can do what she does best: have Anna (and readers vicariously) experience the wilderness in all of its splendor and with all of its dangers. There are some truly frightening sequences—enough to scare even Outward Bound types. Frankly, it's fun to thrill to the chase scenes in the wilds of a national park—something different from car chases on city streets and other staples of the genre. Category: Paperback Fiction. KLIATT Codes: JSA—Recommended for junior and senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2001, Berkley, 333p. map., $6.99. Ages 13 to adult. Reviewer: Claire Rosser; KLIATT SOURCE: KLIATT, March 2002 (Vol. 36, No. 2) Library Journal Having guided readers on behind-the-scenes tours of New York City's Ellis and Liberty Islands (Liberty Falling) and Mississippi's Natchez Trace Parkway (Deep South), Barr returns to the West in her ninth mystery. On a training assignment to study grizzly bears in the Waterton-Glacier National Peace Park, near the Montana-Canada border, park ranger Anna Pigeon hikes into the mountains with researcher Joan Rand and an Earthwatch volunteer, Rory Van Slyke. But Anna's joy at returning to the wilderness quickly turns to terror when their camp is ravaged in the middle of the night by a grizzly. Rory disappears, and in the morning the faceless corpse of a female camper is discovered. Was the woman the victim of the same bear, or was there a more sinister human element involved? While Barr's love of nature and the outdoors shines through, her plot is rather formulaic and dull, lacking the intensity and excitement of her better novels (Blind Descent, A Superior Death). Still, her fans will want to read. [Mystery Guild main selection and Literary Guild alternate selection; previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 10/1/00.]--Wilda Williams, "Library Journal" Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information. AudioFile What's more dangerous—human or grizzly bear? Park ranger Anna Pidgeon thinks she knows until she joins a team researching bears in Glacier National Park. Reader Joyce Bean's matter-of-fact narrative style is well suited to Pidgeon, who faces falling boulders, attacking grizzlies, and edgy suspects with cool-headed logic and dry wit. Unfortunately, long passages of exposition make for a monotonous start. More abridging might have helped. The drama does hold up, the pace quickens, and a satisfying resolution compensates for initial sluggishness. Side endings and introductions provide continuity and orientation. E.S. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine Kirkus Reviews Dispatched from her Mississippi home park (Deep South, 2000) to Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park to participate in a bear census, rolling-stone ranger Anna Pigeon happily strains pots of stinky lure with her bare hands and clambers over rough territory to place the lure in the hope of attracting bears to help the Park Service establish population trends and travel patterns. It's an idyllic time, in fact, until the little camp she's sharing with Joan Rand, her trainer, and Earthwatch volunteer Rory Van Slyke is attacked in the middle of the night by a monstrous grizzly, and Anna, emerging shaken from the assault, finds Rory missing. By the time Rory turns up again, there's even worse news: His stepmother, predatory Seattle divorce lawyer Carolyn Van Slyke, has been killed—at first by a bear, it seems, until Chief Ranger Harry Ruick notices the horrific facial wounds that have been made by an edged weapon. Was Carolyn killed by the stepson who conveniently vanished just around the time of her death, or by Rory's inoffensive father Lester Van Slyke? Why was the killer trying to frame one of the park's bears for the killing, and what dangers remain for Anna when she ventures again onto Glacier's now darkly spectacular mountain trails? Despite a fitful alternation between the exciting outdoor set pieces Barr ought to patent and the anticlimactic returns to Anna's indoor base—together with a solution that's logical enough but a little hard to swallow—fans of this distinguished series won't be disappointed. Literary Guild alternate selection; Mystery Guild main selection Price: 35.00 USD
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	10.	Barr, Nevada  Blood Lure New York, NY, U.S.A. Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated 2001 1st Edition. 1st Impression. Hard Cover As New As New Signed by Author As new in as new DJ protected by mylar DJ cover. Book is in very fine condition in very fine DJ. Tight no marks, bumps or blems. Signed by author on full title page. Signatures guaranteed, Purchased from a book dealer noted for signed books that I have I have been dealing for years. For pictures or additional info write me at info at abnormalbooks dot com or visit my site. From The Critics Daneet Steffens ...Barr's red herrings and sly twists culminate in one huge payoff. Grade A- Laurie Davie - Romantic Times Like her heroine, Barr is a ranger who’s worked in national parks all over the country. Her gorgeous descriptions of the natural world enhance this taut, suspenseful tale, and the unexpected ending will surprise and enchant you. All is not well in grizzly country...Barr's red herrings and sly twists culminate in one huge payoff. Entertainment Weekly All is not well in grizzly country...Barr's red herrings and sly twists culminate in one huge payoff. Publisher's Weekly The latest entry in this excellent series featuring National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon is one of Barr's best. Anna has been assigned to work temporarily in Montana's Glacier National Park, where she seems more at home than in her recent forays to East Coast parks, and learns how to do DNA studies on wildlife by working with a biologist, Joan, on a study of grizzly bears. Anna, Joan and a young, inexperienced volunteer, Rory, are sent out into the park's wilderness areas to set lures for the grizzlies. They use a powerful and nasty-smelling concoction, mixed with cow's blood, that the grizzlies find irresistible. Once the bears rub up against the trees or barbed wire that have been coated with the lure, samples of their DNA can be collected from the hair and skin left behind. In their remote campsite one night, Anna and Joan amazingly survive a grizzly bear attack on their tents unscathed, only to find that Rory has gone missing. As park rangers and rescue teams hike the mountainous park looking for the missing teenager, they find instead the dead body of a woman whose face has been horribly mutilated. Rory is an obvious suspect, as is the bear who attacked the camp. Barr focuses on the wilderness park and its endangered population of grizzlies rather than on Anna's personal life and problems, and this makes for a tightly plotted, satisfying read. The author's masterful descriptions of the natural world immeasurably enhance an exciting, suspenseful story that is sure to flirt with bestseller lists. Mystery Guild main selection and Literary Guild alternate selection. (Feb. 5) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information. KLIATT Blood Lure is mainly for those already familiar with this series of mysteries, each one taking place in a different national park, featuring Anna Pigeon, a park law enforcement officer. This one features Glacier National Park and a DNA study of grizzly bears Anna participates in—hence the title. While camping in the wilderness, studying bears, Anna gets involved in strange events, each with some connection to bears. A young man from Earthwatch is helping in the study, with his father and stepmother camping at another location in the park. The stepmother is found murdered and Anna is brought into the criminal investigation. From then on, Barr can do what she does best: have Anna (and readers vicariously) experience the wilderness in all of its splendor and with all of its dangers. There are some truly frightening sequences—enough to scare even Outward Bound types. Frankly, it's fun to thrill to the chase scenes in the wilds of a national park—something different from car chases on city streets and other staples of the genre. Category: Paperback Fiction. KLIATT Codes: JSA—Recommended for junior and senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2001, Berkley, 333p. map., $6.99. Ages 13 to adult. Reviewer: Claire Rosser; KLIATT SOURCE: KLIATT, March 2002 (Vol. 36, No. 2) Library Journal Having guided readers on behind-the-scenes tours of New York City's Ellis and Liberty Islands (Liberty Falling) and Mississippi's Natchez Trace Parkway (Deep South), Barr returns to the West in her ninth mystery. On a training assignment to study grizzly bears in the Waterton-Glacier National Peace Park, near the Montana-Canada border, park ranger Anna Pigeon hikes into the mountains with researcher Joan Rand and an Earthwatch volunteer, Rory Van Slyke. But Anna's joy at returning to the wilderness quickly turns to terror when their camp is ravaged in the middle of the night by a grizzly. Rory disappears, and in the morning the faceless corpse of a female camper is discovered. Was the woman the victim of the same bear, or was there a more sinister human element involved? While Barr's love of nature and the outdoors shines through, her plot is rather formulaic and dull, lacking the intensity and excitement of her better novels (Blind Descent, A Superior Death). Still, her fans will want to read. [Mystery Guild main selection and Literary Guild alternate selection; previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 10/1/00.]--Wilda Williams, "Library Journal" Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information. AudioFile What's more dangerous—human or grizzly bear? Park ranger Anna Pidgeon thinks she knows until she joins a team researching bears in Glacier National Park. Reader Joyce Bean's matter-of-fact narrative style is well suited to Pidgeon, who faces falling boulders, attacking grizzlies, and edgy suspects with cool-headed logic and dry wit. Unfortunately, long passages of exposition make for a monotonous start. More abridging might have helped. The drama does hold up, the pace quickens, and a satisfying resolution compensates for initial sluggishness. Side endings and introductions provide continuity and orientation. E.S. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine Kirkus Reviews Dispatched from her Mississippi home park (Deep South, 2000) to Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park to participate in a bear census, rolling-stone ranger Anna Pigeon happily strains pots of stinky lure with her bare hands and clambers over rough territory to place the lure in the hope of attracting bears to help the Park Service establish population trends and travel patterns. It's an idyllic time, in fact, until the little camp she's sharing with Joan Rand, her trainer, and Earthwatch volunteer Rory Van Slyke is attacked in the middle of the night by a monstrous grizzly, and Anna, emerging shaken from the assault, finds Rory missing. By the time Rory turns up again, there's even worse news: His stepmother, predatory Seattle divorce lawyer Carolyn Van Slyke, has been killed—at first by a bear, it seems, until Chief Ranger Harry Ruick notices the horrific facial wounds that have been made by an edged weapon. Was Carolyn killed by the stepson who conveniently vanished just around the time of her death, or by Rory's inoffensive father Lester Van Slyke? Why was the killer trying to frame one of the park's bears for the killing, and what dangers remain for Anna when she ventures again onto Glacier's now darkly spectacular mountain trails? Despite a fitful alternation between the exciting outdoor set pieces Barr ought to patent and the anticlimactic returns to Anna's indoor base—together with a solution that's logical enough but a little hard to swallow—fans of this distinguished series won't be disappointed. Literary Guild alternate selection; Mystery Guild main selection Price: 40.00 USD
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	12.	Barr, Nevada  Deep South E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A. Putnam Pub Group 2000 1st Edition. 1st Impression. Hard Cover Fine Fine Signed by Author As new in as new DJ protected by mylar DJ cover. Book is in very fine condition in very fine DJ. Tight no marks, bumps or blems. Signed by author on full title page.For pictures or additional info write me at info at abnormalbooks dot com or visit my site. FROM THE CRITICS Laurie Davie - Romantic Times In Deep South the landscapes of the various national parks that Anna, and Barr, have worked in ---their sights, sounds, and smells, the very texture of the air...are like vivid characters in the series, as well as Anna's inspiration and sustenance. Read just one of these gripping, witty, and beautifully written mysteries and you'll want to read more. From Library Journal '....In this eighth Anna Pigeon mystery, Barr (Liberty Falling) paints a luminous picture of the geography and the people of the Natchez Trace. Anna is a delight--a tough, independent, funny, and slightly jaded middle-aged woman in a man's profession. Highly recommended for all public libraries. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 11/1/99.]--Karen Anderson, Superior Court Law Lib., Phoenix Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.' Publisher's Weekly Barr produces another suspenseful and highly atmospheric mystery, illuminated even in this now setting by her trademark lyricism in writing about the natural world. Price: 39.00 USD
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	13.	Barr, Nevada  Deep South E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A. Putnam Pub Group 2000 1st Edition. 1st Impression. Hard Cover Fine Fine Signed by Author As new in as new DJ protected by mylar DJ cover. Book is in very fine condition in very fine DJ. Tight no marks, bumps or blems. Signed by author onpublisher tipped in signature page.For pictures or additional info write me at info at abnormalbooks dot com or visit my site. FROM THE CRITICS Laurie Davie - Romantic Times In Deep South the landscapes of the various national parks that Anna, and Barr, have worked in ---their sights, sounds, and smells, the very texture of the air...are like vivid characters in the series, as well as Anna's inspiration and sustenance. Read just one of these gripping, witty, and beautifully written mysteries and you'll want to read more. From Library Journal '....In this eighth Anna Pigeon mystery, Barr (Liberty Falling) paints a luminous picture of the geography and the people of the Natchez Trace. Anna is a delight--a tough, independent, funny, and slightly jaded middle-aged woman in a man's profession. Highly recommended for all public libraries. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 11/1/99.]--Karen Anderson, Superior Court Law Lib., Phoenix Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.' Publisher's Weekly Barr produces another suspenseful and highly atmospheric mystery, illuminated even in this now setting by her trademark lyricism in writing about the natural world. Price: 40.00 USD
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	16.	Barr, Nevada  Firestorm E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A. Putnam Pub Group 1996 1st Edition. 1st Impression. Trade Paperback Fine Advanced Uncorrected Proof Signed by Author Fine Uncorrected Proof. Tight no marks, bumps or blems and only minimal shelf wear.Signed bu author on front end paper in lower corner.For pictures or additional info write me at info at abnormalbooks dot com or visit my site. ANNOTATION A superior mystery filled with "vibrant descriptions of the order and disorder in the natural world" (New York Times Book Review), by the author of Ill Wind. This gripping new mystery finds park ranger Anna Pigeon in the company of a killer, following a wild fire flare-up in the remote wilderness of northern California. FROM THE CRITICS Washington Post Book World Gripping. . .Harrowing. . .Brilliantly Executed. Orlando Sentinel One Scary Book. . .Firestorm is Intense. New York Times Book Review Thrilling. . .Remarkable. Detroit Free Press A Delight. . .A scorching, baffling tale. . .It almost singes you as you turn the pages. Price: 32.00 USD
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	17.	Barr, Nevada  Firestorm E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A. Putnam Pub Group 1996 1st Edition. 1st Impression. Trade Paperback Fine Advanced Uncorrected Proof Signed by Author Fine Uncorrected Proof. Tight no marks, bumps or blems and only minimal shelf wear.Signed bu author on front end paper in lower corner.For pictures or additional info write me at info at abnormalbooks dot com or visit my site. ANNOTATION A superior mystery filled with "vibrant descriptions of the order and disorder in the natural world" (New York Times Book Review), by the author of Ill Wind. This gripping new mystery finds park ranger Anna Pigeon in the company of a killer, following a wild fire flare-up in the remote wilderness of northern California. FROM THE CRITICS Washington Post Book World Gripping. . .Harrowing. . .Brilliantly Executed. Orlando Sentinel One Scary Book. . .Firestorm is Intense. New York Times Book Review Thrilling. . .Remarkable. Detroit Free Press A Delight. . .A scorching, baffling tale. . .It almost singes you as you turn the pages. Price: 30.00 USD
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	19.	Barr, Nevada  Flashback New York, NY, U.S.A. Putnam 2003 1st Edition. 1st Impression. Hard Cover New New Signed by Author New. Autographed by author on front end paper. 'Signed Copy' sticker on front of DJ. Brand new book; no bumps, marks, blems. DJ covered in Brodart. Pictures available-Inquire at abnormalbooks dot com. From Publisher's Weekly 'When it comes to a vibrant sense of place, Barr has few equals, as deliciously demonstrated in her 11th Anna Pigeon novel (after 2002's Hunting Season), set in little-known Dry Tortugas National Park, 70 miles off Key West in the Gulf of Mexico. Anna takes up her new post on Garden Key, home to Fort Jefferson, a notorious Union prison during the Civil War, after fleeing a marriage proposal from just-divorced Sheriff Paul Davidson. As she goes about her duties, Anna quickly becomes ensnared in one life-threatening situation after another. Anna's fans expect no less; all her postings somehow turn dangerous. Indeed, the contrast between the natural beauty of the landscapes and the human evils within them is a recurring theme. But this one has an added twist: a mystery concerning alleged Lincoln assassination conspirator Dr. Samuel Mudd interweaves with current crimes. In a coincidence best left unscrutinized, Anna's great-great-great-aunt was the wife of the fort's commanding officer, and her letters, relating a story of intrigue and murder, have surfaced. The two stories are told in alternating chapters, and only Barr's skill keeps this familiar device fresh......'. Sample picture available at abnormalbooks dot com. Price: 32.00 USD
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	20.	Barr, Nevada  Flashback New York, NY, U.S.A. Putnam 2003 1st Edition. 1st Impression. Hard Cover New New Signed by Author New. Autographed by author on front end paper. 'Signed Copy' sticker on front of DJ. Brand new book; no bumps, marks, blems. DJ covered in Brodart. Pictures available-Inquire at abnormalbooks dot com. From Publisher's Weekly 'When it comes to a vibrant sense of place, Barr has few equals, as deliciously demonstrated in her 11th Anna Pigeon novel (after 2002's Hunting Season), set in little-known Dry Tortugas National Park, 70 miles off Key West in the Gulf of Mexico. Anna takes up her new post on Garden Key, home to Fort Jefferson, a notorious Union prison during the Civil War, after fleeing a marriage proposal from just-divorced Sheriff Paul Davidson. As she goes about her duties, Anna quickly becomes ensnared in one life-threatening situation after another. Anna's fans expect no less; all her postings somehow turn dangerous. Indeed, the contrast between the natural beauty of the landscapes and the human evils within them is a recurring theme. But this one has an added twist: a mystery concerning alleged Lincoln assassination conspirator Dr. Samuel Mudd interweaves with current crimes. In a coincidence best left unscrutinized, Anna's great-great-great-aunt was the wife of the fort's commanding officer, and her letters, relating a story of intrigue and murder, have surfaced. The two stories are told in alternating chapters, and only Barr's skill keeps this familiar device fresh......'. Sample picture available at abnormalbooks dot com. Price: 30.00 USD
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