September Books:

 Poisoned Blood: A True Story of Murder, Passion, and an Astonishing Hoax by: Philip E. Ginsburg

Non-fiction: Mystery, True Crime, E-book

This book goes over the murder(s) and attempted murders by Audrey Marie Hilley, a women who poisoned her husband to death, almost killed her daughter, and while on the run made various fake identities, including one where she faked her death and came back as her "twin."  

Happy Hour Murder (Daley Buzz Mysteries #27) by: Meredith Potts

Fiction: Mystery, Short Story, E-book

Police work is a family tradition in this story, so when a man get murdered during happy hour the married couple that are the town's detectives need to solve it. 

A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression by: Jane Ziegelman, Andrew Coe

Non-fiction: History, Cooking, 305 pages

This book is an overview of the programs and methods used in the USA to help people eat during the Great Depression.

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by: Rebecca Hall, Illustrated by: Hugo Martinez 

Non-Fiction, History, Graphic Novel, Biography, Memoir, 208 pages

This book is an interesting combination of the story of the author trying to learn more about the role of women in slave revolts, as well as what she did find out, and things that we may never know for sure, but might have reasonably been what happened.  It deals a lot with the way that history is written effects people today as well as ones connection to the past.

The Other Side of the Night: The Carpathia, the Californian and the Night the Titanic Was Lost by: Daniel Allen Butler 

Non-fiction: History, E-book

This is the story of the Titanic told largely in the actions of the captains of the 2 ships closest to it on the night it sank.  One captain risked his own crew (but took all reasonable precautions possible) to help save the passengers and crew of the sinking ship. One lied, destroyed evidence and  threatened his crew to first avoid helping and then to avoid the truth of his actions coming out.  

Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life by: Caleb Wilde

Non-Fiction: Memoir, Religion 213 pages

Stories from the funeral industry, the life of a small town family business,  and life and death; some are happy, some sad, some funny, some many things at once.