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If you liked The Ada Poems, try these:
Anthropology of an American Girl
by Hilary Thayer Hamann
Published Jun 2011
Read ReviewsA moving depiction of the transformative power of first love, Hamann's first novel follows Eveline Auerbach from her high school years in East Hampton, New York, in the 1970s through her early adulthood in the moneyed, high-pressured Manhattan of the 1980s.
by Amy Clampitt
Published Oct 2010
Read ReviewsHere is a treasure of Amy Clampitt's verse, for those who are reading her for the first time, as well as for those who have long admired her.
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
by Maile Meloy
Published Jul 2010
Read ReviewsAward-winning writer Maile Meloys return to short stories explores complex lives in an austere landscape with the clear-sightedness that first endeared her to readers.
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Published Jan 2009
Read Reviews"Read these love stories in the safety of your single bed. Let everybody else suffer." Jeffrey Eugenides, from the introduction to My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead.
by Tomas Transtromer
Published Oct 2001
Read ReviewsA cherished and invaluable collection of the finest of Tranströmer's poems, carefully chosen and translated.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people... but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the...
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