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When four seasonal employees at Yosemite National Park mysteriously disappear, park ranger Anna Pigeon goes undercover as a hotel waitress to solve the crime. Her investigation eventually leads her on a perilous solo journey into the Sierra Nevada mountains, where she must contend with predators both animal and human. This suspenseful mystery is the 12th in a series.

In the 13th Anna Pigeon mystery, she and a wheelchair-bound woman confront a fundamentalist religious sect. Anna Pigeon's promotion to district park ranger takes her many miles away from her new husband into Colorado's Rocky Mountain Park, where she must deal with the reappearance of two girls who vanished from a religious retreat several weeks ago, and will not say where they've been or what happened to the third girl who disappeared along with them. Anna receives unexpected aid in solving the mystery from Heath Jarrod, a former ice climber struggling to recover emotionally from the accident that rendered her a paraplegic, who encountered the girls at her campsite.

Anna is assigned to a remote island in Lake Superior where a routine application for a diving permit uncovers a brutal underwater murder. Anna begins to piece together a puzzle linking the dead man to a sunken cargo ship that rests on the lake floor, 260 feet below the surface.

National Park Ranger Anna Pigeon wonders who would commit a murder at the height of a firestorm. As everyone else was fighting the flames, someone slipped into Leonard Nim's shelter and stabbed him. The firestorm has left the Lassen Volcanic Park an unreachable, barren landscape--except for the nine suspects who are trapped there with Pigeon as she struggles against the dual threat of nature and man.

Park ranger Anna Pigeon conquers her claustrophobia and descends into New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns to help a fellow ranger who has been trapped while caving. Once in the murky underground, Anna realizes that man, not nature, is responsible for the threatening dangers in these caves. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.

National Park Ranger Anna Pigeon wonders who would commit a murder at the height of a firestorm. As everyone else was fighting the flames, someone slipped into Leonard Nim's shelter and stabbed him. The firestorm has left the Lassen Volcanic Park an unreachable, barren landscape--except for the nine suspects who are trapped there with Pigeon as she struggles against the dual threat of nature and man.

Anna is assigned to a remote island in Lake Superior where a routine application for a diving permit uncovers a brutal underwater murder. Anna begins to piece together a puzzle linking the dead man to a sunken cargo ship that rests on the lake floor, 260 feet below the surface.

Baby boomer humorist Dave Barry, famous for his droll observations about aging and the human condition in general, makes his fiction debut with this hilarious novel.

This novel by humorist Dave Barry is about an offshore gambling ship, "The Extravaganza of the Seas," and the gamblers and other characters (including a band called Johnny and the Contusions) who are aboard when a devastating tropical storm strikes the Florida coast.

This gritty coming-of-age novel by cartoonist Lynda Barry is about Roberta Rohbeson, age 16, daughter of a white mother and a black father, who is trying to get through eighth grade without going crazy. Roberta recalls a trip she took across the country with her violent, cruel father five years ago that ended with Roberta lost in the desert and covered with someone else's blood. She is sent back home to her almost equally monstrous mother. Now she tells the horrifying story of that experience, along with the details of her present "cruddy" existence.

At the age of 44, after a catastrophic stroke and several weeks in a coma, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor of "Elle" magazine, became a victim of what is known as ''locked-in syndrome.'' Unable to move or speak, though he continued to feel pain, Bauby found eventually that he could move only his left eyelid. Using a specially constructed alphabet based on letter-frequency, he dictated this extraordinary memoir of his ordeal by blinking his good eye. Bauby died in March 1997.

In this hair-raising suspense thriller by the author of THE BURNING GIRL, Tom Thorne is back--but he's not exactly on top of the world. Devastated by the death of his father, put on enforced leave from his job as a police detective, Tom is grief-stricken and frustrated. Now, three of London's homeless have been murdered. Thorne, desperate for action of any kind, goes undercover on London's rough streets, hoping to find out who is responsible for the killings--and ends up uncovering the truth about a chilling incident that took place fifteen years earlier.