In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote Of all tasks describing the contents of a book is the most difficult & in the case of a marvellous invention like Invisible Cities perfectly irrelevant. ...

Joshs father is missing in Mexico presumed dead. Then Josh discovers that his dad was murdered. Suddenly he is caught in a race to find the legendary Ix Codex
- a lost Mayan prophecy that predicts the end of the world & holds the key to unmasking his fathers killers. gripping
- Telegraph". Fast-paced & exciting
- " Bookseller"."


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Gabriella Midwinter used to have a home. She wasn't invisible back then... For fans of Cathy Cassidy & Jacqueline Wilson a stunning ...

Hedge fund managers who survived & profited through the 2008 financial crisis share their secrets In light of the colossal losses & amidst the resulting confusion that still lingers it is time to rethink money management in the broadest of terms. Drastic changes need to be made & managers who actually made money during 2008 make for a logical starting place. The Invisible Hands provides investors & traders with the latest thinking from some of the best & the most successful players in money management highlighting the specific risk & return objectives of each & discussing the evolution of certain styles & beliefs in money management. Contains revealing interviews with top hedge fund managers who survived & prospered through the 2008 financial crisis Outlines investments & strategies for the rocky road ahead Reveals how hedge fund managers are seeking a new paradigm of risk management & profit making opportunities in the post-crisis world Gives guidance on how traditional investors such as pensions endowments foundations & family offices should rethink how they approach asset allocation & portfolio construction Page by page the top macro thinkers found in this book reveal their own approaches to markets risk & the broader world in which we live as well as their advice on how investors should be approaching money management in todays uncertain world. ...

The lives of countless millions are evoked in Ralph Ellisons superb portrait of a generation of black Americans Invisible Man". ...

She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend a career a loyal best friend. But a sudden motor 'accident' leaves her an 'invisible monster' so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander Queen Supreme who will teach her that reinventing yourself sometimes means erasing your past & making up something better... Injected with new material & special design elements Invisible Monsters Remix is a radically refashioned 'director's cut' of a favourite Chuck Palahniuk novel turning a daring satire on beauty & the fashion industry into an even more wildly unique reading experience. ...

Rose Janko is missing. It has been seven years since she disappeared & nobody said a word. Now following the death of his wife her father Leon feels compelled to find her. Rumour had it she ran off when her baby boy was born with the familys genetic disorder. Leon is not so sure. He wants to know the truth & he hires a private investigator to discover it
- Ray Lovell. Ray starts to delve deeper but his investigation is hampered by the very people who ought to be helping him
- the Jankos. He cannot understand their reluctance to help. Why dont they want to find Rose Janko?

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In the richest neighbourhood of Minneapolis two elderly women lie murdered in their home beaten to death with a metal pipe the rooms ransacked only small items stolen. Its clearly a random break-in by someone looking for money to buy drugs. But as he looks more closely Lucas Davenport begins to wonder if the items are actually so small or the victims so random if there might not be some invisible agenda at work here. Gradually a pattern begins to emerge
- & it will lead Davenport to somewhere he next expected. Which is too bad because the killers
- & there is more than one of them
- the killers are expecting him.


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Rome's invisible inhabitants
- prostitutes innkeepers housewives priests freedmen slaves soldiers & gladiators
- brought back

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Harry Bernsteins' childhood in the industrial north of England in the shadow of the First World War is one of hardship & hostility. His brutish father spends what little he earns at the tailoring shop on drink while his devoted mother survives on her dreams: that new shoes might secure Harry's admission to a fancy school; that her daughter might marry the local rabbi; that one day they might all escape this grinding poverty for the paradise of America. The Invisible Wall" is a wonderfully vivid portrait of a lost world
- a story of working class life & the daily struggle to make ends meet of young Harry's growing awareness of social divides & divided loyalties & his fears for his adored elder sister Lily who is risking all by pursuing a forbidden love..."
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