Nicholas Christopher

• Feb-1986
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1986
• / General Fiction
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Although technically proficient, concert pianist Max Randall's playing no longer transcends the notes, and his personal life is in shambles, so during one summer of touring, he determines to transform his life and career...

• May-1989
• / Literary
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• Jan-1996
• / General Fiction
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On a snowy night in February, at the improbable point in Lower Manhattan where Waverly Place intersects Waverly Place, a photographer named Leo meets Veronica for the first time. Starkly beautiful, mysterious, aloof, she leads him into a world where ...

• Feb-2000
• / Suspense
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“A large, lavishly inventive novel . . . an American descendant of The Arabian Nights . . . erudite and artful entertainment.” -- The New York Times Book Review   At a Manhattan planetarium in 1965, ten-year-old Enzo is whisked away from his...

• Mar-2002
• / General Fiction
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In this shimmering work of fiction, Nicholas Christopher follows the remarkable life of Franklin Flyer�"a restless young inventor named after the train on which he was born�"through the tumultuous years of the Great Depression, into the Second Worl...

• Jul-2007
• / General Fiction
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Xeno Atlas grows up in the Bronx, his Sicilian grandmother's strange stories of animal spirits his only escape from the legacy of his mother's early death and his stern father's long absences as a common seaman. Shunted off to an isolated boarding sc...

• Jan-2013
• / Literary
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The acclaimed author of Veronica and A Trip to the Stars returns with a dazzling new novel based on one of the great legends of musical history. New Orleans, 1900. The virtuoso cornet player Charles “Buddy” Bolden invents jazz, but after a li...

• Jan-2014
• / Historical
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This richly-detailed historical novel from master storyteller Nicholas Christopher features an unforgettable hero: Nicolo Zen is all alone in 1700s Venice, save for his clarinet, which a mysterious magician had enchanted, allowing its first player to...