John Jakes
1) Homeland
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The Crowns of Chicago are fictional immigrants from Berlin whose lives are woven here with the lives of such as Eugene Debs, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, Clara Barton, Jane Addams, Black Jack Pershing, and Buffalo Bill.
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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 epic conclusion, Jakes expertly blends personal conflict with historical events, crafting a haunting page-turner about...
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Spanning 1906-1917, the second generation of the immigrant Crown family sends three dreamers to new leading industries. Starlet Fritzi 26 aims for glamorous Hollywood. Her brother Carl soars in the skies of wartorn Europe. His cousin Paul screens footage of German army atrocities. The trio experience ambition, passion, adventure, glory, and sacrifice.
7) Love and war
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The Hazards and the Mains -- the first fatal shot fired at Fort Sumter divided them irrevocably with loyalties more powerful than family ties. The young would clash on the bloody battlefields of Bull Run and Fredericksburg, while in intrigue-ridden Washington and Richmond strong-willed men and beautiful women would defend their principles with their lives...or satisfy illicit cravings with schemes that could destroy friends and enemies alike.
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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.
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Best-selling author of "The Kent Family Chronicles" and the three-volume Civil War epic "North And South," John Jakes is one of America's favorite historical novelists. But Jakes is also a master of Frontier fiction. Here, for the first time in one volume, are eleven of his finest stories of the American West and the brave men and women who tamed it. You'll meet a sheriff who faces a hardened killer in the strangest gunfight in frontier history; a...
11) The furies
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Kent family chronicles volume 4
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Jove
Pub. Date
c1976.
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English
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Newly widowed, Amanda Kent, a brave young woman raised by the Teton Sioux, after witnessing the horrors of war at the Alamo, is indentured to a Mexican officer and longs to return home to Boston and restore her family's legacy.
12) The lawless
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Kent family chronicles volume 7
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Jove
Pub. Date
1978.
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English
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The Kent family struggles to rebuild a shattered empire in the era of prosperity, the Western cattle boom, and lawlessness and corruption that followed the Civil War.
13) The Americans
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Kent family chronicles volume 8
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NAL
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2005.
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English
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At the turn of the century, failing health makes Gideon Kent fear for the future of his family dynasty, for his daughter Eleanor, an actress, and his sons, Carter, a con man, and Will, who was scarred by his mother's breakdown.
14) The bastard
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Kent family chronicles volume 1
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Signet
Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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This is the story of Philip Kent. The illegitimate son of a British nobleman who was denied his heritage, he embraces the ideals of the fledgling nation of America-and takes up arms against his father's homeland.
15) The rebels
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Kent family chronicles volume 2
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
1975.
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English
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The struggle for independence in colonial America as seen through the lives of Philip Kent and his wife Anne.
16) Johnny Havoc
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Armchair Detective
Pub. Date
1990.
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English
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She came in from the backstage shower room - all six foot six of her. 'You're John Havoc,' she purred, toying with a scarlet towel in a most revealing manner. 'I'm Rosalind del Rio. I take a shower every night on stage,' she reminded me (unnecessarily). 'And I'm a friend of Lorenzo. Poor Lorenzo. He was no nice.' 'Lady,' I cracked, 'any dool named Rosalind del Rio is trictly phony. If you're trying to suck something out of me, just talk plain or beat...
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Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
c1991
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English
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Best-selling author of "The Kent Family Chronicles" and the three-volume Civil War epic "North And South," John Jakes is one of America's favorite historical novelists. But Jakes is also a master of Frontier fiction. Here, for the first time in one volume, are eleven of his finest stories of the American West and the brave men and women who tamed it. You'll meet a sheriff who faces a hardened killer in the strangest gunfight in frontier history; a...
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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This saga follows two families, the Hazards, from the North, and the Mains, from the South through their changing fortunes at home and the harsh realities of the battlefields. When the South surrenders at the end of the Civil War, the families are reunited once again in friendship. In the final installment, the two families continue through Post-Civil War Reconstruction into pioneer Indian territories.