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Unmentionable murders
\"The body they found floating face-down in the river was wearing only underpants. If it's a fishing accident then is it a photography accident when a second corpse is discovered at a remote lake and is wearing nothing but her underwear? Ranger McIntyre's usual duties as a park ranger do not include murder--or women in underwear, for that matter--but he keeps on putting pieces of the puzzle together until they lead him to a backcountry hut and a murderer who orders him to disrobe. At gunpoint. Ranger McIntyre is also drawn into an FBI investigation. The suspect is selling salacious photographs of nudes who appear to be very, very dead. McIntyre's interaction with the FBI agent is made even more embarrassing by the fact that the agent's secretary is the \"dead\" gorgeous Violet Coteau, who looks like a flapper, shoots like Annie Oakley and drives like Barney Oldfield.
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Don't feed the bear
A park ranger and a bear face off in a battle of signs as they each try to get treats from visiting campers.
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Death at Gills Rock
After tracking a clever killer in
Death Stalks Door County , park ranger and former Chicago homicide detective Dave Cubiak is elected Door County sheriff. His newest challenge arrives as spring brings not new life but tragic death to the isolated fishing village of Gills Rock. Three prominent World War II veterans who are about to be honored for their military heroics die from carbon monoxide poisoning during a weekly card game. Blame falls to a faulty heater but Cubiak puzzles over details. When one of the widows receives a message claiming the men “got what they deserved,” he realizes that there may be more to the deaths than a simple accident. Investigating, Cubiak discovers that the men’s veneer of success and respectability hides a trail of lies and betrayal that stems from a single, desperate act of treachery and eventually spreads a web of deceit across the peninsula. In a dark, moody tale that spans more than half a century, Cubiak encounters a host of suspects with motives for murder. Amid broken dreams, corruption, and loss, he sorts out the truth.
Death at Gills Rock is the second book in Patricia Skalka’s Dave Cubiak Door County Mystery series.
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Cry wolf
Sebastiano Cangio is loving his dream job as a ranger in the stunning Sybillines national park in mystical Umbria. Then the first body is found. Recognizing the hallmarks of a mafia killing and determined to stop Umbria from being destroyed by organized crime, Cangio is pitted against a trail of bodies, greed and corruption that leads right to the top.
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Self-Consuming Second-Person Fiction: José Emilio Pacheco's \Tarde de agosto\ (\August Afternoon\)
Narrated in the Spanish second-person familiar tú, José Emilio Pacheco's short story of initiation \"Tarde de agosto' (\"August Afternoon\") is at once homo-, hetero- and autodiegetic. While protagonist, narratee, and eventually narrator coincide in one fictional individual, the conventions of initiation provide for the redivision of the self into a pre-initiation protagonist, a liminal narratee, and a continuous self who can rerepresent the events of the afternoon. The young protagonist's version of the events of the afternoon consists of a folkloric self-narration of an attempted (but failed) initiation based on traditional models, a failure that has made the memory of the afternoon both unforgettable and painful. In retelling the story, the narrator exposes and reverses the rhetorical mechanisms by which the protagonist has shaped his self-narration and offers the episode back to the narratee as a prosaic and comprehensible misadventure.
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Boar Island
\"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 she calls in the cavalry---her aunt Gwen and her friend Anna Pigeon. While they try to deal with the fragile state of affairs---and find the person behind the harassment---the three adults decide the best thing to do is to remove Elizabeth from the situation. Since Anna is about to start her new post as Acting Chief Ranger at Acadia National Park in Maine, the three will join her and stay at a house on the cliff of a small island near the park, Boar Island. But the move east doesn't solve the problem. The stalker has followed them east. And Heath (a paraplegic) and Elizabeth aren't alone on the otherwise deserted island. At the same time, Anna has barely arrived at Acadia before a brutal murder is committed by a killer uncomfortably close to her. BOAR ISLAND is a brilliant intertwining of past and present, of victims and killers, in a compelling novel that only Nevada Barr could write\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Making and Breaking the Scene
On a cold and damp November afternoon, I can see clouds hovering in the canyon below the rim. The thunderstorm has passed and the sun is breaking through, illuminating distant buttes and plateaus, and leaving shadows on inner canyons. The clouds below the rim rise like smoke drifting up from hell. “Thatisstunning. It’s so huge, much bigger than I imagined it. This is the first time I’ve seen this,” I tell my friend Nancy, who stands next to me. “It’s beautiful,” she says. “Look at the colors … the light.” We speak quietly, not so much in reverence
Book Chapter
Murder, she writes; law enforcement ranger Nevada Barr uses the national parks as a backdrop for her mystery novels.(author of the award-winning 'Track of the Cat')
Barr's first book was written in the Guadalupe National Park in Texas and the award-winning writer/ranger has written two more mysteries set in park locations. Barr's books show an appreciation for the beauty of the parks, and a realism about working for the National Park Service.
Magazine Article
50th NBA Offers Surprises.(Brief Article)
At the 50th National Book Awards, held in New York on Nov 7, 1999, the winners in fiction and nonfiction confounded most expert predictions. John W. Dower won the nonfiction award for \"Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II.\"
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