One of the latest projects of Virginia's poet laureate, Luisa Igloria, is a Sunday evening reading and open mic hosted at The Muse: "Poems for Our Living and Breathing."
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World, was selected as one of
The New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of 2020.
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Mars, after all, is only our first step into the vast, dark night. New technologies are paving the way for life-detection missions to the far reaches of our solar system, to the moons of the outer planets, far from what we once considered the “habitable zone.” To worlds that hold stacks of oceans amidst shells of ice, floating like a layer cake. That spew out jets of briny water through cryovolcanoes. That have pale hills and dark rivers and hydrocarbon rain. And then there are also the planets around other stars. There could be as many as forty billion planets that could support life in the Milky Way alone, belted with moons and moonlets potentially an entire solar system for every person on Earth. The idea of knowing these places intimately, of one day touching their surfaces, may seem ludicrous. The universe has a speed limit i
Someone is stalking Beryl Madison, watching her while she shops and phoning her at all hours. Then, and for reasons unknown, Beryl lets him into her home. The next day she is found dead and Chief Medical examiner, Dr Kay Scarpetta, investigates. By the author of Postmortem . synopsis may belong to another edition of this title.
Review: The Washington Post Book World Takes the reader into the fascinating world of the forensic crime lab.a complex, multi-layered novel with enough twists and turns for two books. The Washington Post Book World
Takes the reader into the fascinating world of the forensic crime lab.a complex, multi-layered novel with enough twists and turns for two books.
No one has satirised New York society quite like Dawn Powell, and in this classic novel she turns her sharp eye and stinging wit on the literary world. Frederick Olliver, an obscure historian and writer, is having an affair with the restively married, beautiful, and hugely successful playwright, Lyle Gaynor. Powell sets a see-saw in motion when Olliver is swept up by the tasteless publishing tycoon, Tyson Bricker, and his new book makes its way onto to the bestseller lists just as Lyle s Broadway career is coming apart. synopsis may belong to another edition of this title.
Review: The 1948 tale of a scholar s roller-coaster affair with a married society type is an anguished love story, a reversal-of-fortune parable, and a blistering satire that rings true today cynical columnists, silly socialites, sinister nighthawks, all in one gorgeous Deco package.