New Releases by John Jakes

A collection of Old West short stories features the tale of a sheriff facing a hardened killer, a resourceful woman who saves a rebel from a bitter life, and a ruthless gunman who meets his match in a three-year-old girl

A collection of both traditional stories from Jakes' pulp days and nontraditional tales written more recently. Among the latter are a self contained excerpt from his novel Heaven and hell, and two stories written especially for this book. Also included is a unifying essay, Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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

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

The saga of a family living in the tumultuous times that saw the beginnings of the American experience

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

Scientists of 1987 are forced to determine whether their time machine, previously used only for historical research, can also be used to alter history both past and future.

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.