English books from North America
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If you speak English here are some English books from North America for the next part of the "Read Around The World Challenge".
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Recounts the legend of Robin Hood, who plundered the king's purse and poached his deer and whose generosity endeared him to the poor.
1412.
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don’t—shape our realities. “Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a purpose. . . . These pilgrimages, for him, help ground his powerful writing about race.”—Associated Press “Coates exhorts readers, including students, parents, educators, and journalists, to challenge conventional narratives that can be used to justify ethnic cleansing or camouflage racist policing. Brilliant and timely.”—Booklist (sta... continue
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The Messenger by Daniel Silva EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Recovering from a showdown with a master terrorist in Jerusalem, art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon is enlisted by a ruthless papal secretary to assist in the investigation of a murdered Swiss guard whose killer may be targeting the pope. By the author of Prince of Fire. 250,000 first printing.
1414.
The Messenger : A Novel by Mayra Montero EN
Country: North America / 
Cuba
Cuba
Description:
Set in Cuba, "The Messenger" tells the story of a pair of doomed lovers-world-famous tenor Enrico Caruso and his Chinese-Cuban mullatta mistress. In June 1920 a bomb exploded at the Teatro Nacional in Havana at the very moment that Enrico Caruso was singing RadamEs in the opera "AIda." In a panic, he fled the theater and disappeared into the streets of Havana. What happened to him is the story imagined by Mayra Montero. As Caruso tries to escape the murderous agents of the Black Hand, he is drawn into a passionate love affair with Aida Cheng, a woman whose godfather is the powerful Afro-Cuban ... continue
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The Middle of Everywhere : Helping Refugees Enter the American Community by Mary Pipher EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The New York Times's best-selling author of Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher connects us with our greater family--the human family. Over the past decade, Mary Pipher has been a great source of wisdom, helping us to better understand our family members. Now she connects us with the newest members of the American family--refugees. In cities all over the country, refugees arrive daily. Lost Boys from Sudan, survivors from Kosovo, families fleeing Afghanistan and Vietnam: they come with nothing but the hope and desire to experience the American dream. Their endurance in the face of tragedy and their ... continue
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The Middle Passage : The Caribbean Revisited by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul EN
Country: North America / 
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
Originally published: London: A. Deutsch, 1962.
1417.
The Midwest Survival Guide : How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch by Charlie Berens EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
From comedian and journalist Charlie Berens, creator of the viral comedic series "The Manitowoc Minute"--a hilarious full-color guide to Midwestern culture. Someone once said, "Love means never having to say you're sorry," but that guy was from Brooklyn. Midwesterners say sorry at least fifty different ways. They'll even interchange it with hello...and goodbye. Speaking of goodbyes, those can last for hours in the Midwest...sometimes days if you're not prepared. That's where The Midwest Survival Guide comes in. It will keep some poor soul from missing their flight to Burbank because an epic Mi... continue
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The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary people's lives. History is a flood. The mighty red . . . In Argus, North Dakota, a collection of people revolve around a fraught wedding. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe, an impulsive, lapsed Goth who can't read her future but seems to resolve his. Hugo, a gentle red-haired, home-schooled giant, is also in love with Ki... continue
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The Mimic Men by V. S. Naipaul EN
Country: North America / Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
Ralph Singh is writing his memoirs in an attempt to impose order on a chaotic existence in this novel that evokes a colonial man's experience in the postcolonial world. V.S. Naipaul is the author of 13 works of fiction and ten of non-fiction and won the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Accidents, evil plots, and general misfortune abound when, in their continuing search for a home, the Baudelaire orphans are sent to live and work in a sinister lumber mill.