Illinois Authors

Avenel Books : New York : 1986.

A collection of suspense stories, puzzle stories, whodunits and tricky whydunits involving police detectives, private eyes, talented and sometimes lucky amateurs, armchair detectives, and ethnic detectives.

Signet : New York : 1999.

Follows the historical saga of the Crown family, German immigrants who settle in Chicago, as they participate in the events of the early twentieth century.

Magyar Könyvklub, [Budapest] : 2002.

Signet, New York : 2003, ©2002.

Follows the lives, loves, and shifting fortunes of the unforgettable Bell family, from the American Revolution through the turbulent antebellum years to the savage defeat of the Confederacy. Jakes paints a powerful portrait of the Charleston aristocracy who zealously guard their wealth and privilege--while harboring dark family secrets that threaten to destroy them all. Peopled by a sprawling cast of memorable characters-- patriots and cowards, aristocrats and abolitionists, slaves and freedmen, heroic men and courageous women.

Five Star, Waterville, Me. : 2001.

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, CA : ©1987.

Continues the saga of two American families, the Mains of South Carolina and the Hazards of Pennsylvania, in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Doubleday, New York : 1993.

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.

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego : ©1984.

Recounts the adventures of two unforgettable families--the Hazards of Pennsylvania and the Mains of South Carolina--in a land ripped apart by the Civil War.

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York : ©1982.

A novel of two families during twenty turbulent, troubled years that culminate in the shattering Civil War.

Warner Home Video, Burbank, Calif. : ©1995.

The continuing saga of North and South about a friendship tested by the turbulent events of the Civil War.

W.W. Norton, New York : ©2010.

One hundred sermons that display the victorious, although sometimes painful, historical and spiritual pilgrimage of black people in America. --from publisher description.

Dutton, New York : ©2004.

As Sherman's army marches from Atlanta to the sea in 1864, the city of Savannah lies directly in its path, threatening the livelihood of widow Sara Lester and her twelve-year-old daughter Hattie, who struggle to save the family plantation.

Ohio University Press, Athens : ©1991.

Signet, New York : ©2001.

Collection of western stories by John Jakes." These tales capture the glory and suffering of the men and women of the era--from a strange saloon shootout and a trapper seeking vengeance against a fur company to double-crossing outlaws and a duel between medicine men. John Jakes's thrilling stories span the legacy--and fuel the imagination--of the American frontier.

Dutton, New York : ©2006.

Determined to secure entry into the elite social circles of late nineteenth-century Rhode Island, Sam Driver enlists the help of a pair of social gadflies but finds his efforts complicated by his daughter's romance with an impoverished young Irishman.

Magyar Könyvklub, Budapest : 2003.