Bøker av John Jakes

Paul encourages believers struggling with death saying, "For we walk by faith and not by sight." 2 Corinthians 5:7) Yet, all around us we hear that we should use our common sense or listen to our feelings. So, which should we do? In today's Christian experience, far too often we see people harmed when they walk by sight instead of faith. How, when struggling with the weight of regret, doubt, suffering, loss, and discouragement, can we walk by faith? What does it even mean to walk by faith then? Fortunately, God's people have faced all of those challenges. They show us what it means to walk by faith instead of sight. With over 20 years as a Pastor to regular people, Pastor John Jakes has seen people wrestle with these issues. The good news is, those people aren't just us! God's people down through the ages have wrestled with walking by faith. Join Pastor John as he journeys back in the lives of people like David, Moses, Samson, Elijah, Martha, and Peter to discover the secret to walking by faith in every season of life.

John Jakes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of such acclaimed historical novels as North and South and The Kent Family Chronicles compiled in one volume a century's worth of his favorite American Western fiction. To illustrate the evolution of the genre, Jakes has included such legendary authors as Owen Wister, Louis L'Amour, and Zane Grey along side their more contemporary peers such as Loren Estleman and Elmer Kelton. While the stories have changed over the years, certain timeless themes of Western fiction remain constant. At the heart of the stories are ideas that have become synonymous with the American dream--the frontier spirit, individual freedoms, and man's relationship with the land. A Century of Great Western Stories is essentially a retrospective of western writing over the past century, but Jakes also sets out to give readers a glimpse of what the future might hold for western fiction. While trends in publishing might not always be promising, the current crop of contemporary Western authors show that the old west will always have a place in the world of fiction. Like the American dream which it celebrates, Western fiction will persevere.

Stories of the American West by the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of North and South, ';the best historical novelist of our time' (Patricia Cornwell). In these timeless stories of the untamed American West, John Jakes thrillingly portrays the harsh realities of life on the frontier with tales of lawmen in the Sierra Nevada, railroad workers in Kansas, and gamblers on the steamboat River Queen. From a saloon showdown unlike any other and outlaws double-crossing each other to a fur trapper hell-bent on vengeance and a power struggle between medicine men, Jakes's frontier stories capture the same sweeping historical drama and unforgettable characterizations as his epic novels in the Crown Family Saga, the Kent Family Chronicles, and the North and South Trilogy. ';At the very heart of every Jakes saga is a story that throbs to the beat of history.' The Cleveland Plain Dealer This ebook features an illustrated biography of John Jakes including rare images from the author's personal collection.

From the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of North and South: The first in a saga about a German immigrant and his family's rise in 20th-century America. The tide of the twentieth century is rising upon the world, and on its crest rides the Crown family. Young Pauli Kroner, freshly arrived in America from the streets of Berlin, makes his way to the mansion of his millionaire uncle in Chicago, looking to fulfill his dreams. His uncle, Joe Crown, is a self-made brewery tycoon who rules his domain with an iron handespecially when it comes to his own family of defiantly rebellious children and a wife yearning for her own liberation. In this new world, Pauli will rise as his own man and find his destiny in the early days of motion pictures. Surrounded by relations close and distant, proud and vengeful, each struggling to find themselves at the dawn of a new era, he will witness and experience the violence of the Pullman Strike, and find love in the arms of a woman who can never be his as he follows the march of history, intertwined with such figures as the audacious Theodore Roosevelt, the ruthless Thomas Edison, the fading western icon Buffalo Bill, and many more. Named a New York Times Notable Book, Homeland is a ';first-rate historical ...chock-full of fascinating period detail, [Jakes's] captivating story brings to life the sounds, smells and tastes of turn-of-the-century America in a manner comparable to Michener's Hawaii and Doctorow's Ragtime' (Publishers Weekly). This ebook features an illustrated biography of John Jakes including rare images from the author's personal collection.

A ';riveting ... sweeping epic' of one man driven by gold fever, by the #1New York Timesbestselling author ofNorth and South (Richmond Times-Dispatch). 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, gold fever still entices adventurous Easterners like James Macklin Chance, a poor Pennsylvanian who is drawn to California by the dream of lasting wealtha dream so powerful he'll stop at nothing to see it through. Along the way he'll encounter grand passion, ruthless enemies, and larger-than-life titans like Leland Stanford, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Randolph Hearst, who helped shape a country's destiny. ';The best historical novelist of our time' (Patricia Cornwell) once again spins a sweeping tale of power and passion, as he did so masterfully in the Crown Family Saga, the Kent Family Chronicles, and the North and South trilogy.This ebook features an illustrated biography of John Jakes including rare images from the author's personal collection.

When men discovered that the Planet of the Apes was their own Earth, it was only the beginning of the most incredible adventure of all time. The second omnibus features stunning novelizations of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, and the 2001 reboot, Planet of the Apes.