Invisible citiesEach time he returns from his travels, Marco Polo is invited by Kublai Khan to describe the cities he has visited. But Calvino is describing only one city Venice. Invisible Cities has been described as Calvino's most beautiful work.

Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent

These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice offer comfort

and dedicated much of his life to their cultivation and preservation

But one thing hasn't changed - the lengths a mother will go to save her family

I had survived the toughest experience of my life

an important man in the Igbo tribe in the days when white men were first on the scene

and in her own country remains a touchstone for poets and readers looking for rawness of perception

She ultimately finds herself facing a powerful

began to conquer her self-hate and confronted her fear of leaving the neatness and safety of girlhood for the unpredictable journey of being a woman

In bombed-out Berlin

The story of a personal housing crisis that led to a discovery of the true value of home

Bruno's talents are tested to the limit as he untangles a Gordian Knot of criminality that reaches as far as the Kremlin