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For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne had won at Saratoga

10 best books like For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne had won at Saratoga (Robert Sobel): I Am the Cheese, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal, A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories, Mulligan Stew, Salt Creek, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln, Manassas, The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins, The Neandertal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Human Origins, The Counter-Creationism Handbook

I Am the Cheese
AuthorRobert Cormier
ISBN0141300515
But I keep pedaling, I keep pedaling...

A photograph of Robert Cormier will show you an old man with a kind face, who was born and grew up in a small town of Leominster in Massachusetts which he never left, who graduated from a private catholic school and wrote articles for the local newspaper....
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
AuthorJared Diamond
ISBN0060845503
Another great book from Jared Diamond. I found this to be just as engaging as Guns, Germs, and Steel, and also an easier read. I find that his books have so much information that it is helpful for me to outline them as I go. Here are my favorite bullet points from The Third Chimpanzee. Not at all a comprehensive...
A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories
AuthorWill Eisner
ISBN0878160183
‘A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories’ written and illustrated by Will Eisner, one of the giants in the sequential arts arena, is a perfectly executed graphic novel, which provides the reader a peek at the American experience during the early 1930s. Through four interconnected graphic...
Mulligan Stew
AuthorGilbert Sorrentino
ISBN1564780872
Mulligan Stew takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. As avant-garde novelist Antony Lamont struggles to write a "new wave murder mystery," his frustrating emotional and sexual life wreaks havoc on his work-in-progress. As a result, his narrative (the very...
Salt Creek
AuthorLucy Treloar
ISBN1743533195
1855. Failed entrepreneur Stanton Finch moves his family from Adelaide to the remote Coorong area of Southern Australia, in pursuit of his dream to become a farmer.

Housed in a driftwood cabin, they try to make the best of their situation. The children roam the beautiful landscape of Salt Creek;...
The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
AuthorStephen L. Carter
From the best-selling author of The Emperor of Ocean Park and New England White, a daring reimagining of one of the most tumultuous moments in our nation’s past
 
Stephen L. Carter’s thrilling new novel takes as its starting point an alternate history: President Abraham Lincoln survives...
Manassas
AuthorJames Reasoner
ISBN1581820089
Manassas is the first book in a series of historical novels spanning the Civil War. The Brannon family of Culpeper County, Virginia - Abigail, a widow, and her four sons (Will, Mac, Titus, and Henry) and daughter (Cordelia) - work a good-sized, self-sufficient farm. The Brannons do not own slaves, but...
The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins
AuthorAlan C. Walker
ISBN0679747834
"Fascinating. . . .  As engaging an explanation of how scientists study fossil bones as any I have ever read." --John R. Alden, Philadelphia Inquirer

In 1984 a team of paleoanthropologists on a dig in northern Kenya found something extraordinary: a nearly complete skeleton of Homo erectus,...
The Neandertal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Human Origins
AuthorJames Shreeve
ISBN0380728818
This prehistoric journey through Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, addressing the controversy surrounding the fate of the Neandertals, is "an extraordinarily clear presentation of the issues and the scientists behind them." -- New York Times Book Review. "Reading The Neanderthal Enigma is...
The Counter-Creationism Handbook
AuthorMark Isaak
ISBN0520249267
Those opposed to the teaching of evolution often make well-rehearsed claims about the science that sound powerful and convincing. And many people who support the teaching of evolution—students, teachers, parents, administrators—do not have the background to respond. They know that scientists...
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
AuthorDonald R. Prothero
ISBN0231139624
Over the past twenty years, paleontologists have made tremendous fossil discoveries, including fossils that mark the growth of whales, manatees, and seals from land mammals and the origins of elephants, horses, and rhinos. Today there exists an amazing diversity of fossil humans, suggesting we...
The Way It Wasn't: Great Science Fiction Stories of Alternate History
AuthorMartin H. Greenberg
ISBN0806517697
The Way It Wasn't takes an amusing, intellectually stimulating excursion into speculative history. Here are thirteen memorable stories by renowned science fiction writers, telling what things might be like if... Elvis Presley weren't the "King" but the President of the United States ("Ike at the...
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