Good Books Are in the Forecast

Our December display theme, Good Books Are in the Forecast, brings together fiction and nonfiction featuring all sorts of weather events.

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Updated November 13, 2024
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Thunder & lightning : weather past, present, future
Redniss, Lauren
Paper Book
From the National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, author of Radioactive, comes a dazzling fusion of storytelling, visual art, and reportage that grapples with weather in all its dimensions: its danger and its beauty, why it happens and what it means. WINNER OF THE...
Miss Julia weathers the storm
Ross, Ann B.
Paper Book
Miss Julia's sweet and generous husband, Sam, has decided to take a big group trip to the beach, inviting family and friends. While Miss Julia prepares for the big trip, her longtime friend LuAnne comes to her with a horrifying discovery - her husband may be cheating on her. Julia invites LuAnne...
Fire weather : a true story from a hotter world
Vaillant, John
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Winner of the 2024 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing * Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction * Winner of the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize * Winner of the 2024 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize * Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust...
Rain : a natural and cultural history
Barnett, Cynthia 1966-
Paper Book
Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive.   It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain <...
The man who caught the storm : the life of legendary tornado chaser Tim Samaras
Hargrove, Brantley
Paper Book
The life and death saga of one of history's greatest storm chasers: a tour-de-force tale of obsession, ingenuity, and the race to understand nature's fiercest phenomenon--the tornado. "An instant classic of Americana." --Hampton Sides "Many a novel is not written...
The Children's Blizzard
Benjamin, Melanie 1962-
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife comes a story of courage on the prairie, inspired by the devastating storm that struck the Great Plains in 1888, threatening the lives of hundreds of immigrant homesteaders, especially schoolchildren. ...
The storm we made : a novel
Chan, Vanessa (Novelist)
Paper Book
" A sweeping epic about an unlikely spy, a secret love affair, and the uncontrollable forces that will test even the most unbreakable ties. Set in Malay (now Malaysia) during World War II, this spellbinding "most anticipated" (Oprah Daily) novel chronicles a mother and her children as...
The weather experiment : the pioneers who sought to see the future
Moore, Peter 1983-
Paper Book
In 1865 Admiral Robert FitzRoy locked himself in his dressing room and cut his throat. His grand meteorological project had failed. Yet only a decade later, FitzRoy's storm warning system and "forecasts" would return, the model for what we use today. In an age when a storm at sea was...
The raging storm
Cleeves, Ann
Paper Book
Longlisted for the 2024 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Prize Ann Cleeves, New York Times bestselling author of the Vera and Shetland series, returns with the third Two Rivers novel, following The Long Call, now a Britbox adaptation,...
The perfect storm : a true story of men against the sea
Junger, Sebastian.
Paper Book
In October 1991, three weather systems collided off the coast of Nova Scotia to create a storm of singular fury, boasting waves over one hundred feet high. Among its victims was the Gloucester, Massachusetts-based swordfishing boat the Andrea Gail, which vanished with all six crew members aboard.
The bad weather friend
Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray) 1945-
Paper Book
Benny is so nice they feel compelled to destroy him, but he has a friend who should scare the hell out of them in this breathtaking new kind of thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz. Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested...

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