John Jakes
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Language
English
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John Jakes, the acclaimed author of the #1 New York Times bestselling North and South Trilogy, returns to the Civil War era with the story of two couples divided by war and allegiance, who discover that love doesn’t take sides...
A Rebel sympathizer’s affection for a former Pinkerton detective turned Union agent cannot save him from the horrors of a Richmond prison. A Confederate officer sacrifices his rank to save an...
A Rebel sympathizer’s affection for a former Pinkerton detective turned Union agent cannot save him from the horrors of a Richmond prison. A Confederate officer sacrifices his rank to save an...
Author
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English
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From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of North and South, “the best historical novelist of our time” (Patricia Cornwell).
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...
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...
4) The titans
Author
Series
Kent family chronicles (John Jakes) volume 5
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
5) The rebels
Author
Series
Publisher
N. Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1977?], c1975
Edition
[Book club ed.].
Language
English
Description
Beginning with a rag-tag group of Continental soldiers and sweeping across the nation's earliest war-torn years, the rebels continue the chronicle of Philip Kent, patriot soldier, and the colorful men and women who were in the struggle for American independence.
6) The furies
Author
Series
Kent family chronicles (John Jakes) volume 4
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1976
Language
English
Description
This fourth volume of The Kent Family Chronicles follow the fortunes of family members during the middle of the nineteenth century.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010], c1985,1986,1994
Language
English
Description
Two families, the Hazards and the Mains, are geographically and ideologically separated by the U.S. Civil War. The hatred, prejudice, and greed that tear at the fabric of a nation also threaten to destroy the threads that have woven the lives of these two families together.
Book one: One is from a Northern industrial family, one from a Southern plantation family. They're West Point graduates whose tried-and-true loyalty helps them survive the Mexican-American...