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(0)John Jakes
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Two strangers, young men from Pennsylvania and South Carolina, meet on the way to West Point. Thus begins this brilliant novel of antebellum America, spanning three generations and chronicling the lives and loves of two great family dynasties. The Hazards and the Mains are brought together in bonds of friendship and affection that neither jealousy nor violence can shatter-until a storm of events sunders the nation and brings the cataclysm of war!
26) Miranda
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Miranda: Miranda Saxby, a Civil War widow, isn't sure if she wants to help a Yankee soldier. The war, after all, is the reason she is alone. Captain Joshua Coburn, injured and separated from the 10th New York Horse Company, is not sure what he sees before him. As he begins to regain his senses, he realizes that each person he has encountered since his head injury may not be as real as he had presumed.
The man who collected Poe: Launcelot Channing...
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One is from a Northern industrial family, one from a Southern plantation family. They're West Point graduates whose tried-and-true loyalty helps them survive the Mexican-American War. But their bond faces sterner tests. The issues dividing North and South can also set friend against friend.
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This explosive tale of the next generations of Mains and Hazards boasts an all-star cast and lavish production values depicting a time when westward expansion offered opportunity and triggered dangers to rival those of the conflict just ended. Undercurrents of racism and romantic passion persist on the homefront as well as the frontier.
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Two clans caught on opposite sides when the Civil War erupts in May 1861: the Hazards of Pennsylvania and the Mains of South Carolina. As war is waged on one battlefield after another, lives on the homefront as well as the frontlines drastically change. The hatred, prejudice and greed that tear the fabric of a nation also threaten the very foundation of love and friendship between these two families.
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Filled with adventure and romance, these three miniseries chronicle the saga of the Kent family in early America. This Revolution-era romp follows the fortunes of a young Frenchman (Andrew Stevens) as he immigrates to America and crosses paths with historical heavyweights, including Paul Revere, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and Samuel Adams.
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Two families, the Hazards and the Mains, are geographically and ideologically separated by the U.S. Civil War. The hatred, prejudice, and greed that tear at the fabric of a nation also threaten to destroy the threads that have woven the lives of these two families together.
Book one: One is from a Northern industrial family, one from a Southern plantation family. They're West Point graduates whose tried-and-true loyalty helps them survive the Mexican-American...
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This saga follows two families - the Hazards, from the North, and the Mains, from the South - through their changing fortunes at home and the harsh realities of the battlefields. When the South surrenders at the end of the Civil War, the families are reunited once again in friendship. In the final installment, the two families continue through Post-Civil War Reconstruction into pioneer Indian territories.