Alternate Presidents

7 best books like Alternate Presidents (Mike Resnick): Curious George, Cryptonomicon, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, Fatherland, The Scandal of Redemption: When God Liberates the Poor, Saves Sinners, and Heals Nations, The Little Engine That Could, The Ghost From The Grand Banks

Curious George

Author

H.A. Rey

The first adventure in this highly popular series tells how the little monkey Curious George, caught in the jungle and brought back to the city by a man in a yellow hat, can't help being interested in all the new things around him. Though well meaning, George's curiosity always gets him into trouble. Young...

Cryptonomicon

Author	Neal Stephenson
ISBN	0060512806

Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods--World War II and the present. Our 1940s heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, crypt analyst extraordinaire, and gung-ho, morphine-addicted marine Bobby Shaftoe....

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Author	Casey Cep
ISBN	1101947861

The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird.

Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help...

Fatherland

Author	Robert Harris
ISBN	0061006629

It is twenty years after Nazi Germany's triumphant victory in World War II and the entire country is preparing for the grand celebration of the Führer's seventy-fifth birthday, as well as the imminent peacemaking visit from President Kennedy.

Meanwhile, Berlin Detective Xavier March...

The Scandal of Redemption: When God Liberates the Poor, Saves Sinners, and Heals Nations

Author	Oscar Romero
ISBN	0874861411

To find out why Pope Francis is making Oscar Romero a saint, read the words that cost him his life.

"A church that does not provoke crisis, a gospel that does not disturb, a word of God that does not touch the concrete sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed - what kind of gospel is that?"

Three...

The Little Engine That Could

Author	Watty Piper
ISBN	0448405202

When I was seven, my Mom used to read to us from this little book.

It was one of many books scattered atop our bright red plastic-‘n-steel tabletop, and she was cataloguing them for her new Public Library!

It was a bright red-letter year for us kids, too, that year - a real Book Bonanza.

And...

The Ghost From The Grand Banks

Author	Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN	0575076240

It is 2010. In two years' time it will be the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic. Two of the world's most powerful corporations race to raise the vessel but there are other powers at work, and chaos theory comes into play as plans progress - and six preserved bodies are found. This novel incorporates...