A Weekend in September

5 best books like A Weekend in September (John Edward Weems): Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History, Goodbye to a River: A Narrative, Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds, The Unkindest Tide, How Dogs Think: What the World Looks Like to Them and Why They Act the Way They Do

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

Author	Erik Larson
ISBN	0375708278

National Bestseller

September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere...

Goodbye to a River: A Narrative

Author	John Graves
ISBN	0375727787

In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged...

Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds

Author	Olivia Gentile
ISBN	1596911697

A frustrated housewife sets out to see more bird species than anyone in history—and ends up risking her life again and again in the wildest places on earth.

Phoebe Snetsinger had planned to be a scientist, but, like most women who got married in the 1950s, she ended up keeping house, with four...

The Unkindest Tide

Author	Seanan McGuire
ISBN	0756415071

Hundreds of years ago, the Selkies made a deal with the sea witch: they would have the sea for as long as she allowed it, and when the time came, she would call in all their debts at once. Many people assumed that day would never come. Those people were wrong.

When the Luidaeg—October "Toby" Daye's...

How Dogs Think: What the World Looks Like to Them and Why They Act the Way They Do

Author	Stanley Coren
ISBN	0743222334

How Dogs Think is “a sharp-eyed analysis and wry wit” (The Seattle Times) analysis of dog behavior from bestselling author, psychologist, and world-renowned expert, Dr. Stanley Coren. With smart humor, Cohen presents informative, in-depth, and fascinating details that shatter many common...