Robert Cherny: 12 books

Set against the backdrop of the arcane world behind the scenes in live entertainment, "Stagehands Walk" is an action story about two men and the people they care for as they deal with threats to their lives and livelihoods. Unlike the typical young action hero acting in relative isolation, these men...

Debbie has a problem. She hates the modifications the director has made to the script of the musical she is performing in at the local art center's summer program. She enlists her parents, both entertainment industry professionals, her brother and her sister to help straighten the director out....

is the story of the geeky young owner of a small Boston electronics store who has his life turned upside down when he visits a woman's apartment down the hall from his own in search of food for a stray kitten he has just picked up...

This work is a young adult coming of age topical romance that is richly illustrated with photographs.

Returning home from battle on the other side of the parallel universe, a young doctor seeks to return to a normal life, or at least as normal as it can be given his new found magical friends..

For a pair of young doctors who also have magical healing powers "happily ever after" seems within reach as they celebrate the birth of their daughter. Their school for teens with power is successfully helping youngsters who would otherwise be shunned learn to understand their abilities. However,...

A medieval era warlord sends his third and youngest son accompanied by one of his best young soldiers, the eldest daughter of his closest ally and her hand maiden on a mission. Aided by the son's sentient pet crow, they are to collect the final signatures on a peace treaty and mutual defence agreement...

follows the life of a high school junior whose police officer father has been shot in the line of duty and whose mother is dying of cancer...

The reign of Fiona, Queen of the Fairies, is threatened by an unknown affliction. With most of her court and soldiers sick, she sends her only daughter to bring back the one man, a human, that she knows can save them...

A young woman is rescued from an attempt by her poacher father to drown her in a Florida swamp by a mysterious woman alleged to have magical powers...

Victor Arnautoff reigned as San Francisco's leading mural painter during the New Deal era. Yet that was only part of an astonishing life journey from Tsarist officer to leftist painter. Robert W. Cherny's masterful biography of Arnautoff braids the artist's work with his increasingly leftist politics...

Three times the Democratic Party’s nominee for president (1896, 1900, and 1908) and secretary of state under Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan voiced the concerns of many Americans left out of the post–Civil War economic growth. In A Righteous Cause: The Life of Williams Jennings Bryan,...