Open Road Media, 2012. — 762 p. — ISBN: 1453256016; ISBN13: 9781453256015. 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...
Penguin Group, 2003. — 560 p. — ISBN: 110120964X; ISBN13: 9781101209646. In Charleston, a master of historical fiction spins a tale of a 19th-century southern aristocratic dynasty divided by love, murder, betrayal, and family secrets. A memorable and realistic multigenerational epic.
Open Road Media, 2012. — 628 p. — ISBN: 1453263217; ISBN13: 9781453263211. Meet Phillipe Charboneau: the illegitimate son and unrecognized heir of the Duke of Kentland. Upon the Duke’s death, Phillipe is denied his birthright and left to build a life of his own. Seeking all that the New World promises, he leaves London for America, shedding his past and preparing for the future...
Open Road Media, 2012. — 530 p. — ISBN: 1453263195; ISBN13: 9781453263198. The engrossing follow-up to The Bastard finds Philip Kent standing as a Continental solider at the Battle of Bunker Hill. In a bold move, Kent has taken up arms for the future of his new family. Spirited and unwavering in his dedication to his adopted homeland, Kent fights in the most violent battles in...
Open Road Media, 2012. — 538 p. — ISBN: 1453255923; ISBN13: 9781453255926. Continuing the saga of the Kent family, John Jakes turns his masterful eye to the settlement of the untamed American West. Abraham Kent, the son of Philip Kent and Anne Ware, fought valiantly on the frontier, only to return home to Boston and a life he doesn’t want. Determined not to live in his father’s...
Open Road Media, 2012. — 474 p. — ISBN: 1453255931; ISBN13: 9781453255933. Opening twenty-two years after the events of The Seekers, John Jakes’s fourth Kent Family novel spans the blood-soaked era of America’s relentless expansion into the West. Amanda Kent, daughter of Gilbert Kent and Harriet Lebow, is one of the few women to escape the massacre at the Battle of the Alamo....
Open Road Media, 2012. — 632 p. — ISBN: 145325594X; ISBN13: 9781453255940. In the hellish years of the Civil War, the Kent family faces its greatest trials yet. Louis, the devious son of the late Amanda Kent, is in control of the dynasty—and of its seemingly inevitable collapse. His cousin Jephtha Kent, meanwhile, backs the abolitionist cause, while his sons remain devoted...
Open Road Media, 2012. — 584 p. — ISBN: 1453255958; ISBN13: 9781453255957. With the Civil War reaching its gory climax, the divided Kent family is pushed to the edge of complete destruction. With the advent of the transcontinental Union Pacific Railroad, the Kents continue to fight for their foothold among America’s wealthy founding families. While their private, insular war...
Open Road Media, 2012. — 696 p. — ISBN: 1453255966; ISBN13: 9781453255964. The penultimate volume in John Jakes’s stirring Kent Family Chronicles finds America booming in its postwar prosperity. With this newly secured peace comes an opportunity for the Kent family to reconcile and to thrive, both personally and financially. Gideon Kent takes up his father’s vow to reunite the...
Open Road Media, 2012. — 808 p. — ISBN: 1453255974; ISBN13: 9781453255971. In the final installment of the Kent Family Chronicles, the remaining Kents seek to fulfill Philip Kent’s original American dream. As Gideon Kent’s health deteriorates, he fears for the future of his family. Their dynasty, now in ruins, stands as a tarnished symbol of all the Kents have lost in the...
Open Road Media, 2013. — 2751 p. — ISBN: 1480430471; ISBN13: 9781480430471. 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. Orry Main from South Carolina and George Hazard from...
Open Road Media, 2012. — 806 p. — ISBN: 1453255982; ISBN13: 9781453255988. In the years leading up to the Civil War, one enduring friendship embodies the tensions of a nation. Orry Main from South Carolina and George Hazard from Pennsylvania forge a lasting bond while training at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Together they fight in the Mexican-American War,...
Open Road Media, 2012. — 1082 p. — ISBN: 1453255990; ISBN13: 9781453255995. America’s master storyteller continues his reign with Love and War, a story steeped in passion and betrayal. With the Confederate and Union armies furiously fighting, the once-steadfast bond between the Main and Hazard families continues to be tested. From opposite sides of the conflict, they face...
Open Road Media, 2012. — 786 p. — ISBN: 1453263233; ISBN13: 9781453263235. The last days of the Civil War bring no peace for the Main and Hazard families. As the Mains’ South smolders in the ruins of defeat, the Hazards’ North pushes blindly for relentless industrial progress. Both the nation and the families’ long-standing bond hover on the brink of destruction. In the series’...
Penguin Group, 2001. — 480 p. — ISBN: 1101209348; ISBN13: 9781101209349. Following the lives of two couples separated by war and conflicting allegiances, the author of the New York Times bestselling North and South trilogy chronicles the Civil War from its onset to Lincoln's assassination.
Penguin Group, 2005. — 336 p. — ISBN13: 9781101659618. 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...
Open Road Media, 2012. — 392 p. — ISBN: 1453256032; ISBN13: 9781453256039. 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...
Open Road Media, 2012. — 1188 p. — ISBN: 1453256024; ISBN13: 9781453256022. 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...
Penguin Group, 1999. — 560 p. — ISBN: 1101209186; ISBN13: 9781101209189. Just in time for the nation's birthday comes a new book from John Jakes! Praised as America's preeminent writer of historical fiction and "a master of the ancient art of storytelling" (The New York Times Book Review), Jakes continues to deliver one literary home run after another. Who else can make history...
Penguin Group, 2006. — 480 p. — ISBN: 1101211253; ISBN13: 9781101211250. 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...
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