A powerful family whose tragedies and triumphs define a nation and an era: this is the hallmark of the novels that have established John Jakes as master of the historical saga. In Homeland, Jakes has created an enthralling new dynasty - the Crowns of Chicago - contending with the awesome forces of h[...]

When their two sons meet as West Point cadets, the southern, plantation-owning Main family and the industrialist Hazards of Pennsylvania find their lives interlocked, as the nation moves toward Civil War. Reprint.[...]

The bestselling saga that has sold more than 5 million copies. The books that inspired the smash-hit television miniseries. Beautifully repackaged for the Dutton hardcover release of On Secret Service--John Jakes's long-awaited return to the Civil War years...[...]

Former minister-turned-reporter Jephtha Kent, the son of a mountain man and a Shoshoni Indian who lost his congregation, fortune, and family, finds himself and his sons on opposite sides of the Civil War when they take up the Confederate cause. Reprint.[...]

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 ha[...]

Presented in one comprehensive volume, this is the Civil War as it really was-the forces and events that caused it, the soldiers and civilians who fought it, and the ideas and values that are its legacy today.
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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 fight[...]

Designed to meet the complex needs of patients with psychosis, Narrative CBT for Psychosis combines narrative and solution-focused therapy with established techniques from CBT (cognitive behaviour therapy) into one integrated flexible approach. In this book John Rhodes and Simon Jakes bring the prac[...]