John Jakes

Brak braves magic and malice on his way to the paradise of Khurdisan. Brak the Barbarian has no time for gods. A simple warrior, he cares only for plunder and women, and sees religion as nothing but foolish superstition. But the disciples of the Dark One, Yob-Haggoth, take their god seriously, and they believe Yob-Haggoth wants Brak dead.   In Witch of the Four Winds, Brak tries to pass through rocky country, but ominous things begin to happen. A...

The android slaves, insipid pieces of metal, plastic and skin, were constructed to work and work and help men like Caffrey relax. But someone, somewhere, made this batch too perfect. Caffrey, big tough Caffrey laughed out loud at the tremendous irony of the joke as he pondered sending his ravaged ship into the burning maw of the sun.- from introduction

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

Sherman's army marches from Atlanta to the sea, with Savannah in its path. The Lester ladies--attractive widowed Sara and her feisty twelve-year-old daughter Hattie--struggle to save the family rice plantation. Hattie and the general find themselves on a collision course that will astonish both of them when Sherman offers the city to Lincoln as "a Christmas gift."

Twenty-three short stories, many written by women and featuring women. In Mariane Willman's The Death(s) of Billy the Kid the event is treated from several points of view. In Loren D. Estleman's Iron Heart' Story a woman uses ruse to invigorate a senile husband.

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...

"Two West Point graduates, one from a northern industrial family and the other from a southern plantation family, whose loyalty helps them survive the Mexican-American War now must face the country's division between north and south. Their 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...

"Two families, the Hazards of Pennsylvania and the Mains of South Carolina, 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."--