The Journalist: A Novel by Harry Mathews, ISBN 1567920071

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A blend of postmodern metafiction and old-style bedroom farce, The Journalist explores the elusive, sometimes illusive, boundaries between facts and the fictions we weave around them. The novel's protagonist, living at a time that might be the present in a city that might be anywhere, has decided for reasons of mental hygiene to keep a detailed record of his thoughts, words, and deeds. Very quickly, however, the project begins to absorb his entire life, as the increasingly meticulous recording of experience threatens to supplant experience itself. To make matters worse, what he records offers its own grist for worry: his devoted wife suddenly grows secretive, his equally devoted mistress turns evasive, his frustratingly independent son might or might not be visiting that same mistress behind his back, and his closest friend begins acting in mysterious ways (and is it just his imagination, or is this friend having clandestine meetings with his wife?). His ever more convoluted perceptions breed a dark muddle of suspicion, leading to a climax that is at once intensely funny and excruciatingly poignant.


Chasing the Mountain of Light: Across India on the Trail of the Koh-I-Noor Diamond by Kevin Rushby, ISBN 0312239335

The Koh-i-Noor diamond known as the Mountain of Light, the world's largest diamond, was found in India, traveled from Golconda to the Mughal palaces in the north. Fought over, cursed at and occasionally lost, it finally reached the Sikhs in the Punjab, only to be seized by British agents eager to please young Queen Victoria. It now lies in the Tower of London where some say its curse controls the fate of the Windsor family. In "Chasing the Mountain of Light," Kevin Rushby pursues the dramatic career of the Koh-i-Noor on a journey to the heart of Indian culture meeting dealers, smugglers, and petty crooks along the way. It's another adventure from Rushby whom the "Washington Post" recently compared to William S. Burroughs and Arthur Rimbaud. Chasing the Mountain of Light: Across India on the Trail of the Koh-I-Noor Diamond by Kevin Rushby, ISBN 0312239335
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Empire Divided: The Post Roman World, 400 - 700 by John Moorhead, ISBN 0582251117

"If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West: and if Rome still survived, she survived the loss of freedom, of virtue, and of honour." Edward Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Looks beyond Western Europe and Britain to North Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East. Draws on a very wide range of material - literary, archaeological, linguistic, numismatic, legal an artistic. Written in an engaging and easy to read style and is generously illustrated throughout. The decline and fall of the Roman Empire has transfixed readers of history for centuries. This important new account looks at what happened after the power of the once mighty empire was swept away. Smaller states founded by Slavs, Arabs, Germanic peoples and others moved in to fill the void and laid the foundations for the later histories of western Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East and north Africa. John Moorhead looks... Empire Divided: The Post Roman World, 400 - 700 by John Moorhead, ISBN 0582251117
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Aalto

Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (18981976) was not only influenced by the landscape of his native country, but by the political struggle over Finland's place within European culture. Aalto turned to ideas based on Functionalism, subsequently moving toward more organic structures, with brick and wood replacing plaster and steel. He also designed buildings, furniture, lamps, and glass objects. North carolina bedroom furniture solid wood bedroom furniture North carolina bedroom furniture solid wood bedroom furniture
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Luxurious Brown Leather Sofa and Loveseat

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Storkcraft Bowback Glider Rocker and Ottoman Cognac Finish, Blue Denim

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