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Philip Kent fights for the future of his adopted country and of his
own wife and son, as British oppression leads America further into
Revolutionary War. Includes a new Introduction by Jakes.
The saga that launched Jakes's bestselling career of is available
once again. Phillip Kent, the illegitimate son of an English
nobleman, embraces the ideals of the fledgling nation of America.
Includes a new Introduction.
Presented in one comprehensive volume, this is the Civil War as it
really was--the forces and events that caused it, the soldiers and
civilians who fought it, and the ideas and values that are its
legacy today. Revised reissue.
From America's master storyteller and writer of historical fiction
comes the dramatic conclusion to the North and South saga. The
Civil War has ended, but the Hazards and Mains have yet to face
their greatest struggles. Even as the embers of old hatreds
continue to burn in the heart of a nation torn apart by war, a new
future in the West awaits a new generation of Americans seeking a
life of their own -- and a place to call their own. Filled with all
of the vivid drama, passion, and action that have made John Jakes
the acclaimed master of historical fiction, Heaven and Hell is the
tumultuous final chapter in one of the greatest epics of our time.
From America's master storyteller and writer of historical fiction
comes the epic story of two families -- the Hazards and the Mains.
Separated by vastly different ways of life, joined by the
unbreakable bonds of true friendship, and torn asunder by a country
at the threshold of a bloody conflict that would change their lives
forever....
The eight-volume epic of the Kent family continues as a new
generation struggles to survive within a nation rife with conflict.
Amanda Kent was a woman of great courage, but nothing prepared her
for the massacre she witnessed at the Alamo. Now she's returned to
Boston to rebuild the Kent legacy.
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The Warriors (Paperback)
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The Kent Family Chronicles continue as Confederate Corporal
Jeremiah Kent carries out his commander's dying request while the
Union Army ravages Georgia. Includes a new Introduction by the
author. Reissue.
Edited By Leslie Charteris. Three Books In One.
Edited By Leslie Charteris. Three Books In One.
In the late nineteenth century, Newport, Rhode Island-with its
giant marble mansions, lavish dinner parties, and vicious social
climbing- is a summer playground of the very rich. Into this
rarefied world comes infamous railroad mogul and robber baron Sam
Driver. He wants his beautiful daughter to have the best Newport
has to offer-even if that means breaking all the rules...
Georgia 1864: Sherman's army marches inexorably from Atlanta to the
sea. In its path: the charming old city of Savannah, where the
Lester ladies-attractive widow Sara and her feisty twelve-year-old
daughter Hattie-struggle to save the family rice plantation. When
Sherman offers the conquered city to President Lincoln as "a
Christmas gift," Hattie and the feared general find themselves on a
collision course that will astonish both of them.
From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of North and South:
The first in a saga about a German immigrant and his family’s
rise in 20th-century America. The tide of the twentieth
century is rising upon the world, and on its crest rides the Crown
family. Young Pauli Kroner, freshly arrived in America from
the streets of Berlin, makes his way to the mansion of his
millionaire uncle in Chicago, looking to fulfill his dreams. His
uncle, Joe Crown, is a self-made brewery tycoon who rules his
domain with an iron hand—especially when it comes to his own
family of defiantly rebellious children and a wife yearning for her
own liberation. In this new world, Pauli will rise as his
own man and find his destiny in the early days of motion pictures.
Surrounded by relations close and distant, proud and vengeful, each
struggling to find themselves at the dawn of a new era, he will
witness and experience the violence of the Pullman Strike, and find
love in the arms of a woman who can never be his as he follows the
march of history, intertwined with such figures as the audacious
Theodore Roosevelt, the ruthless Thomas Edison, the fading western
icon Buffalo Bill, and many more. Named a New York Times
Notable Book, Homeland is a “first-rate historical
. . . chock-full of fascinating period detail,
[Jakes’s] captivating story brings to life the sounds, smells and
tastes of turn-of-the-century America in a manner comparable to
Michener’s Hawaii and Doctorow’s Ragtime” (Publishers
Weekly).
Stories of the American West by the #1 New York Times–bestselling
author of North and South, “the best historical novelist of our
time” (Patricia Cornwell). In these timeless stories of the
untamed American West, John Jakes thrillingly portrays the harsh
realities of life on the frontier with tales of lawmen in the
Sierra Nevada, railroad workers in Kansas, and gamblers on the
steamboat River Queen. From a saloon showdown unlike any other and
outlaws double-crossing each other to a fur trapper hell-bent on
vengeance and a power struggle between medicine men, Jakes’s
frontier stories capture the same sweeping historical drama and
unforgettable characterizations as his epic novels in the Crown
Family Saga, the Kent Family Chronicles, and the North and South
Trilogy. “At the very heart of every Jakes saga is a
story that throbs to the beat of history.” —The Cleveland Plain
Dealer
A "riveting . . . sweeping epic" of one man driven by gold fever,
by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of North and South
(Richmond Times-Dispatch). At the height of California's Gold Rush,
men left everything behind for the chance at striking it rich. Now,
some thirty years after its peak, gold fever still entices
adventurous Easterners like James Macklin Chance, a poor
Pennsylvanian who is drawn to California by the dream of lasting
wealth-a dream so powerful he'll stop at nothing to see it through.
Along the way he'll encounter grand passion, ruthless enemies, and
larger-than-life titans like Leland Stanford, Theodore Roosevelt,
and William Randolph Hearst, who helped shape a country's destiny.
"The best historical novelist of our time" (Patricia Cornwell) once
again spins a sweeping tale of power and passion, as he did so
masterfully in the Crown Family Saga, the Kent Family Chronicles,
and the North and South trilogy.
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