John Jakes
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
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....
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....
Author
Series
Crown family saga volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"John Jakes. . . make history come alive. "
Chronicling America during the turbulent period from 1906 to 1917, John Jakes captures the lives of the men and women who colored a nation's future. American Dreams follows the children of the German-immigrant Crown family first introduced in Homeland: actress Fritzi Crown, a woman of formidable ambition and fierce independence, as she travels from the tawdry haunts of Broadway to California and its
...3) North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell: North and South, Love and War, and Heaven and Hell
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two families are united—and torn apart—by the Civil War in these three dramatic novels by the #1 New York Times–bestselling master of the historical epic.
In North and South, the first volume of John Jakes’s acclaimed and sweeping saga, a friendship is threatened by the divisions of the Civil War. In the years leading up to the Civil War, one enduring friendship embodies the tensions of a nation....
In North and South, the first volume of John Jakes’s acclaimed and sweeping saga, a friendship is threatened by the divisions of the Civil War. In the years leading up to the Civil War, one enduring friendship embodies the tensions of a nation....
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first three novels in a sweeping American epic from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author who “makes history come alive” (Nelson DeMille).
This multigenerational saga follows the Kent family and their pursuit of a foothold and future in the expanding United States. From the family’s initial journey traveling to America’s shore to their voyage to the Western frontier, their fate is intertwined...
This multigenerational saga follows the Kent family and their pursuit of a foothold and future in the expanding United States. From the family’s initial journey traveling to America’s shore to their voyage to the Western frontier, their fate is intertwined...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The author of sixteen consecutive New York Times bestsellers sets his sights on the jewel of the South-Savannah-and brings it to life in his inimitable style.
Georgia, 1864: Sherman's army marches from Atlanta to the sea. In its path, the charming old city of Savannah where the Lester ladies — attractive widowed Sara and her feisty twelve-year-old daughter Hattie — struggle to save the family rice plantation. When Sherman offers...
Georgia, 1864: Sherman's army marches from Atlanta to the sea. In its path, the charming old city of Savannah where the Lester ladies — attractive widowed Sara and her feisty twelve-year-old daughter Hattie — struggle to save the family rice plantation. When Sherman offers...
7) The seekers
Author
Series
Kent family chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2004], c1975
Language
English
Description
Returning to Boston, Abraham Kent, who had helped pacify the Indian threat on the frontier, finds himself unable to follow the path chosen for him by his controlling father and sets out on a perilous journey to the West, along with his new bride, to make his fortune.
9) Love and war
Author
Series
North and South trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
10) Homeland
Author
Series
Crown family saga volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English