Product Description: Best known as a novelist, Nicholas Christopher began publishing poems in The New Yorker in his twenties, and has published eight collections, praised over the years by poets and critics as being among America’s most important poets...read more

Product Description: 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 magicked, allowing its first player to perform expertly...read more

Product Description: A richly detailed historical novel from master storyteller Nicholas Christopher that School Library Journal calls “[A] lush tale of music, magic, and intrigue”!   Nicolò Zen is all alone in 1700s Venice, save for his clarinet, which a mysterious magician had enchanted, allowing its first player to perform expertly...read more

Product Description: 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 life consumed by tragedy, the groundbreaking sound of his horn vanishes with him...read more

A young boy and his adopted aunt become separated when the youngster is kidnapped during a visit to the planetarium in New York City by his wealthy, eccentric great-uncle, a separation that encompasses some fifteen years and mysterious ties that continueto link them unknowingly over the years

A tale that is at once a fantastical historical mystery, a haunting love story, and a glimpse into the uncanny. Xeno Atlas grows up in the Bronx, his Sicilian grandmother's stories of animal spirits his only escape from the legacy of his mother's early death and his stern father's long absences. Shunted off to an isolated boarding school, Xeno turns his fascination with animals into a personal obsession: his search for the medieval Caravan Bestiary, lost for eight hundred years, which supposedly details the animals not granted passage on the Ark--griffins, hippogriffs, manticores, and basilisks--the vanished remnants of a lost world. Xeno's quest takes him from the tenements of New York to the jungles of Vietnam to the ancient libraries of Europe--but itis only by riddling out his own family secrets that he can hope to find what he is looking for.--From publisher description.Fascinated by animals of all kinds, young Xeno Atlas's obsession sends him on a quest to find the long-lost 'Caravan Bestiary,' a medieval manuscript describing the animals that were not given passage on Noah's Ark that has been missing for eight centuries.

Veronica, the stunning daughter of a vanished illusionist, asks Leo, a photographer, to help her rescue her dad, who has been lost in time. Reprint.

The renowned poet--praised by John Ashbery, Charles Simic, James Merrill, and Anthony Hecht, among others--offers another collection of poems that explore urban life, travel, and the depths of the human experience. Reprint.

Product Description: At thirty-four, piano soloist Max Randal has hit a wall. It's been four years since his last live performance, and his manager is intent on revitalizing his career with a big concert at Carnegie Hall. As if that wouldn't be enough for Max to worry about, as he struggles to prepare, the ghosts of his failed relationships have come to haunt him — his first ex-wife is dying, his second ex-wife wants to get back together, the mother of his child has taken off for Europe and unexpectedly left him to care for their nine-year-old, and his present girlfriend now wants to get serious...read more

During the 1930s and 1940s, Franklin Flyer, a peripatetic young inventor, travesl the country and the globe, encountering such colorful historical figures as Josephine Baker, Rita Hayworth, and OSS founder 'Wild Bill' Donovan and transforming a world on the brink with his revolutionary inventions, suffering heartbreak, and encountering a host of adventures along the way. Reprint.

An awardwinning poet offers a stunning epic in verse tracing the comingofage of a young man, presenting two long poems set in 1962 and 1972, with each year containing fortyfive shorter poems that unforgettably capture the essence of American life. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Nicholas Christopher's newest collection displays both his trademark mastery of language and astonishing range. In elegaic verses of surpassing beauty we are taken from the lush islands of Hawaii to the streets of Greenwich Village after midnight to a sparsely attended Las Vegas funeral...read more

Identified by The New York Times as one of the most important living poets working in the tradition of magical realism, the award-winning author presents a collection of verses including a long narrative poem, 'Night Journal.' 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

An expanded edition of the author's tour of top film noir explains the use of labyrinth-style city settings to establish the genre's psychological and aesthetic framework, in a volume that analyzes more than three hundred films made between 1940 and the present. Original.

Encountering Veronica, the beautiful and enigmatic daughter of a famous illusionist trapped in time, photographer Leo is drawn into Veronica's search through a magical city where time itself is strangely altered. Reprint. NYT.

Poems deal with the combining themes of magic, spiritual transcendence and exploration

Gathers poetry by Diane Ackerman, Judith Baumel, Amy Clampitt, Tom Disch, Mark Doty, Alice Fulton, Debora Greger, Richard Howard, Karl Kirchwey, Susan Mitchell, Carol Muske, Ron Padgett, Jason Shinder, James Tate, David Trinidad, and Carolyne Wright

Poems deal with the cyles of nature, the ocean, the stars, the mind, memories, travel, and mortality

Collects a novella and a selection of dramatic monologues, character sketches, and poems

Gathers poems by thirty-seven of the most promising new American poets

Poems consider the night, mortality, the past, writers, sunlight, winter, travel, love, politics, memory, and blizzards

Describes city life, night scenes, moments in history, and travels around the world