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Summary: Stay in the dark...
Review: Anna Pigeon is a Park Ranger, as is her creator Nevada Barr. Throughout her stories it is evident that she knows the political structure of her business as well as the "landscape" as a ranger. Anna also finds murderers and solves many types of crimes--this is no exception. Endangered Species is set in the Cumberland Island National Seashore park off the Georgia Coast. Lights are not allowed on the coast when the loggerhead turtles are hatching because the hatchlings will go toward the light which must take them to the ocean. Protecting the species is the responsibility of the rangers, and Ms. Barr provides great detail in the settings as well as scientific reasoning. This is filled with a variety of adventures and intriguing characters--and they are believable. It is easy to become wrapped up in the story.
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Summary: A mysterious gender change!
Review: As always, Nevada Barr, a former park ranger, delivers wonderfully vivid descriptions of the great outdoors; an abundance of colorful, well-drawn characters; a thoughtful and courageous female sleuth; an inside look at the National Park Service; and an intricate and suspenseful mystery. However, the most mysterious thing about "Endangered Species," set on an island off the coast of Georgia and involving the investigation of a plane crash caused by sabotage, is that the paperback has been extensively revised from the hardcover. Namely, a major character, an exceedingly unpleasant, repulsive person, has undergone a sex change! In the hardcover, Marty is a woman in her 50s; in the paperback, Marty is a man in his 30s. It's not just a matter of changing pronouns; dialogue and descriptions are altered too. For example, in the original version, Marty's long hair is "worn in pigtails like an aging Pippi Longstocking's"; in the revision, it's "worn in pigtails like Willie Nelson in his heyday." There must have been a compelling reason for such changes, since ordinarily paperback publishers don't even bother to fix obvious errors, such as referring to someone by the wrong name. I think the character works somewhat better as a woman, but whichever version you read, you'll likely find it a good, absorbing, entertaining whodunit.
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Summary: Up to par
Review: As usual Ms. Barr has done it again. this was a good book. It is a little different as Anna is on a island not in the mountains or the desert and there is only one small fire from a plane crash but as usual Anna get's her self in trouble & almost killed again. Story line keeps you guessing. A fun read.
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Summary: Great addition to her series of adventures for Anna Pidgeon
Review: Well - Nevada Barr has done it again. Written a smashing good book that makes you want to stay up bleary-eyed to the final page. I have not been disappointed yet in her books. She can spin a yarn in the most interesting and enchanting places. Her summers with the rangers have served her and consequently, us very well. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good mystery novel that keeps you in suspense up to the final line on the final page
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