John Jakes: 28 books

Book cover of The Bold Frontier
by John Jakes
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012

The brilliant collection of short stories about the American West by author John Jakes, hailed by Patricia Cornwell as “the best historical novelist of our time” The Bold Frontier collects bestselling author John Jakes’s timeless stories about the untamed American West. Jakes thrillingly...
Book cover of The North and South Trilogy

The North and South Trilogy

North and South, Love and War, and Heaven and Hell

by John Jakes
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013

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...
Book cover of North and South
by John Jakes
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012

The first volume of John Jakes’s acclaimed and sweeping saga about a friendship 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 Pennsylvania...
Book cover of Homeland

Homeland

A Novel

by John Jakes
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012

A monumental American novel about one man’s rise from life as a penniless immigrant to the head of a family empire In the tradition of great writers like Charles Dickens and John Steinbeck, John Jakes crafts a sweeping family drama. In late-nineteenth-century Chicago, the tragedies and triumphs...
Book cover of The Seekers
by John Jakes
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012

Against the backdrop of the harsh and unforgiving American frontier, Abraham Kent seeks to build a life and identity of his own 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...
Book cover of The Americans
by John Jakes
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012

The definitive volume in Jakes’s bestselling series finds the Kent family reaching to finally embrace its legacy—and its future 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...
Book cover of The Furies
by John Jakes
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012

The Kents’ saga expands as its first heroine takes center stage in the relentless struggle to build the family dynasty 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...
Book cover of The Lawless
by John Jakes
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012

In a flourishing post–Civil War America, the Kent family seizes good fortune again—until all is suddenly threatened by one woman’s return The penultimate volume in John Jakes’s stirring Kent Family Chronicles finds America booming in its postwar prosperity. With this newly secured peace...
Book cover of Love and War
by John Jakes
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012

The Main and Hazard families clash on and off the Civil War’s battlefields as they grapple with the violent realities of a divided nation 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...
Book cover of The Warriors
by John Jakes
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012

This addictive John Jakes adventure blends the Kents’ ruthless push for an empire with murderous betrayal and the Civil War’s life-altering culmination With the Civil War reaching its gory climax, the divided Kent family is pushed to the edge of complete destruction. With the advent of...
Book cover of The Titans
by John Jakes
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012

The Kent family faces internal clashes as the Civil War ignites—from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of North and South.   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...
Book cover of The Bastard
by John Jakes
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012

The first volume in the addictive saga of the American Revolution by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the North and South trilogy.   ** **Meet Phillipe Charboneau: the illegitimate son and unrecognized heir of the Duke of Kentland. Upon the Duke’s death, Phillipe is denied...
Book cover of California Gold

California Gold

A Novel

by John Jakes
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012

One man’s ambitious journey into the heart of California’s gold country becomes a pursuit for limitless wealth in the face of devastating ruin 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,...
Book cover of Two Science Fiction Adventures

Two Science Fiction Adventures

On Wheels * Six-Gun Planet

by John Jakes
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012

Two visions of the world gone mad, from master storyteller John Jakes In On Wheels, the United States has become so overpopulated that a tenth of its people have no home. Instead, they spend their lives on the highway. With all of the dangers of the road, dropping below forty miles per hour...
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