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Winter Study (Anna Pigeon) (Anna Pigeon) | 
 enlarge | Author: Nevada Barr
Creator: Joyce Bean
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Lib Ed
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 2686088
Format: Abridged, Audiobook, Cd
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Library
Number Of Items: 5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 6.5 x 1
ISBN: 142332563X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781423325635
ASIN: 142332563X
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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Product Description
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 its own pack of the magnificent, much- maligned animals. She’s lodging in the island’s 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 in the winters - an act that would effectively bring an end to the fifty-year project - so that the area can be manned to secure the scrap of border with Canada.
Soon after Anna’s arrival, the wolf packs under observation begin to behave 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 group 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 her own survival as well.
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 Average Book August 25, 2008
This book should have been edited better. It was too slow. It's about 100 pages too long. As all of Nevada Barr's books, there's entirely too much internal dialogue. If some of that was cut back, it would pick up the pace. I found myself skipping a lot of the pages.
 BIG DISAPOINTMENT August 21, 2008
I am a big Nevada Barr fan and have read all her books. Winter Study is just too unbelievable. I found it raw and gritty. No one could live through all that. The plot was hard to follow and characters were hard to keep straight. Don't spend you hard earned money on this one!
 Following Anna August 20, 2008
I started following Anna Pigeon in Track of the Cat, a book I checked out of the library because it had the word "track" in it back when I was just learning to track. Since then I have read every book I could find by Nevada Barr, even those without the famous Anna Pigeon in them because when it is all said and done, this writer will be a classic. The Anna Pigeon in this latest book has lived through so many harrowing mysteries that she has gained skills and savvy that make her almost a different character. Who says a female protagonist needs to be a ditz? Not that Anna doesn't get hurt in this one, but she gives as good as she got. This is a read where you don't find yourself frustrated with the main character being stupid. Instead you are right with her unraveling the mystery as she does, only being spared the physical pains.
Swiss Cheese plot August 17, 2008
Where to start with this book? My first gripe - not a new one - is an irritating grammar issue. I almost quite reading after five words, because there it was: "Ann'd." For heavens sake, Nevada, cut that out. It's distracting, poor grammar and diction, found in speech but not in writing.
And that plot. Good grief. Was there an editor anywhere in the contiguous 48 states who could have helped? Characters wandered in an out and it was honestly hard to keep track of them, because some were fleshed out so little. And what a pack of weirdos. I think the wolves showed great restraint in not eating them all. Immediately.
Why oh why is Homeland Security always the bad guy? And could it have been more obvious? And if Bob What's his name is supposed to be Katherine's grad prof mentor, and he has so little knowledge of wolves, when she seems to be the expert, how does that work in real-life academia? Hint, it doesn't.
Why on earth does Anna Pigeon seem to hate men so much? It's almost embarrassing. Poor Paul.
And that climax. It went on so long I got bored. End a book, lady. Leave us wanting more, not less.
I could go on. This is enough. Never again.
Not Barr's Best August 14, 2008
I am an avid Nevada Barr fan and have read all her published books to date. After waiting patiently for its release, "Winter Study" is a real disappointment, especially when compared to "Flashback", "Deep South", or her particularly well written "Bittersweet".
I had the sense of being "trapped" by limitations of the subject matter and setting: a study of wolves on an isolated and ice-bound island with a small handful of suspicious characters sharing a bunkhouse. Anna's formula for getting into serious trouble twice during the story -- once in the middle and once at the end -- has become predictable. Missing are the insightful and amusing telephone conversations with her sister Mollie, which usually help to give the characters and story depth and allow us to relate better to them. The wolves themselves could have offered more interest. The premise is just too far-fetched and many of the predicaments, including the ending, are just too drawn out. I found it very difficult to connect to the story or the characters.
If the release of this book was delayed because of the effects of Katrina, then I suggest that New Orleans and the hurricane might have provided far better material for a more interesting and engaging story.
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