Best Selling Books by John Jakes

This play of A Christmas carol is faithful to the original story but includes the character of Charles Dickens.

The Kent Family Chronicles continue as Confederate Corporal Jeremiah Kent carries out his commander''s dying request-while the Union Army ravages Georgia.

Relates the experiences of the Texas woman who, along with her baby, survived the 1836 massacre at the Alamo.

"Hilarious, hard-hitting private eye - Johnny Havoc returns for his fourth and final adventure"...Forecast.

DIVBraving the ice marshes, Brak seeks his fortune in fabled Khurdisan/divDIV Of all the northern barbarians, none is more fearsome than Brak. Cast out by his tribe for daring to question their war-gods, he leaves the frozen north with plunder on his mind. Somewhere in the south, the legends say, lies Khurdisan—a golden land of sunshine, riches, and dark-skinned women. It will be a battle to get there, but battle is all Brak knows./divDIV /divDIVIn Brak the Barbarian, Brak seeks refuge in Kambda Kai, a once-great city brought to ruin by its worship of the demon god Yob-Haggoth. So wretched is the town that even its children know dark magic, and Brak will have to be quick with his broadsword to survive./divDIV /divDIVIn Mark of the Demons, Brak staggers across the desert of Logol, his pony dead, his food exhausted. There he meets a strange pair of highborn twins, whose throne has been stolen by a usurper. Can he trust them? He has no choice, if he wants to escape the wasteland alive./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook bundle contains additional stories featuring Brak the Barbarian, as well as an illustrated biography of John Jakes including rare images from the author’s personal collection. /div

In the 1960s John Jakes, the best-selling author of The Kent Family Chronicles and The North and South Trilogy and who has been bestowed the title the godfather of the historical novel, wrote "Arena" under the penname Jay Scotland. Now Olmstead Press/An [e-reads]Book is proud to re-release "Arena," a story of the rise and fall of the great warrior Cassius. The son of a bear-trainer and accustomed to life inside the ring, Cassius willingly bound himself to learn the dangerous game of surviving inside the Circus Maximus, a deadly arena where bloodshed is the highest form of entertainment. But Cassius is swept up in an adventure of love, blood and death that will not set him free until he conquers his final enemy.

A stunning anthology that brings the American West vividly to life, "The Fatal Frontier" showcases the exceptional talents of today''s most popular mystery and crime storytellers--including Elmore Leonard, John Jakes, Marcia Muller, Brian Garfield, Loren D. Estleman, and Robert J. Randisi--in tales of deadly choices, flaring passions, and the hard battles of men and women living on the edge of survival.

A collaborative novel written by nine of today''s greatest Western authors, including John Jakes, Elmer Kelton and Robert J. Randisi.

More just than the law, more dangerous than the Underworld...hated, feared, and wanted by both. One cloaked, fanged, border-line crazy denizen of the dark force, feeding hard justice with a pair of 45''s! Moonstone is proud to present 20 new short stories of searing white hot prose starring pulpdom''s most violent and ruthless crime fighter ever The Spider! Here you will find relentless, hard-fisted action that remains true in tone to his mythic-proportioned adventures, with stories by John Jakes (North and South, Kent Family Chronicles), Mort Castle, Bill Crider, Shannon Denton, Chuck Dixon, Steve Englehart, Ron Fortier, Joe Gentile, Rich Harvey, John Helfers, CJ Henderson, Howard Hopkins, Anthony Kuhoric, Elizabeth Massie, Christopher Mills, Will Murray, Ann Nocenti, Martin Powell, and Robert Weinberg.

The start of a cycle featuring an immigrant Chicago dynasty. Spanning the last decade of the 19th century, the action moves from Berlin to America and across a nation exploding with technological change, rapacious greed, social protest and political corruption. By the author of California Gold.

The adventure of a poor Pennsylvanian who sets out a long journey to California for his dreams of gold and riches in the late 19th century.

Georgia, 1864: Sherman''s army marches from Atlanta to the sea. In its path, the charming old city of Savannah where the Lester ladies - attractive widowed 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.

The Hazards, a wealthy Pennsylvania industrialist family, and the Mains, prosperous plantation owners from South Carolina, fight and intermarry with fiery abandon.

The "civilized" government of the planet Missouri was overthrown by revolutionaries who have embraced the lifestyle and culture of the United States'' Old West frontier. Suspicious of technology, the denizens of Missouri nevertheless ride robot horses and drink synthetic liquor to pass the time on a planet whose main source of income comes from exporting western souvenirs (i.e. miniature outhouses, wagons, revolvers, etc.), staging gunfights for tourists, and providing "living antiques" in the form of gunfighters being placed on other planets as zoo specimens.