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" A passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKREVIEW Edward Abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at Moab, Utah, and what he discovered about the land before him, the world around him, and the heart that beat within, is a fascinating, sometimes raucous, always personal...

"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...

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.

"A group of kids imagine all the duties and responsibilities of U.S. National Park Rangers"--

Percy organizes a treasure hunt for the animals, but they find something better than the chocolate coins Percy had intended them to find.

When a badly burned and mutilated body is discovered near Stansted airport, a single piece of evidence leads the police to Perugia, Italy. As he knows the region better than anyone, park ranger Sebastiano Cangio is assigned to assist British detective Desmond Harris in his efforts to uncover the dead man's identity, and to find out what he was doing in Perugia. Meanwhile, it would appear that something monstrous is on the loose in the forests of Umbria....

Testing outdoor sporting equipment designed for a disabled companion, U.S. Park Services ranger Anna Pigeon returns from a solo outing to discover that her fellow campers have been abducted.

Describes the work of scientists in America's national parks, as they study geysers, grizzly bears, salamanders, cacti, and fireflies.

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.

The latest entry in the bestselling series featuring Anna Pigeon. Straddling the border between Montana and Canada lies the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park-Annarsquo;s home away from home when she is sent on a cross-training assignment to study grizzly bears. Along with bear researcher Joan Rand and a volatile, unpredictable teenage boy, Anna hikes the back country, seeking signs of bear. But the tables are turned on their second night out,...