English books from North America
Recommended English books (1773)
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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".
1731.
Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
"Stylish and sharp, with wicked hairpin turns, Who Is Maud Dixon? is part Patricia Highsmith, part All About Eve and pure fun." (Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette?) Florence Darrow is a low-level publishing employee who believes that she's destined to be a famous writer. When she stumbles into a job as writer's assistant to Maud Dixon, a world-famous, enigmatic novelist whose true identity is a secret, Florence believes that the universe is finally providing her big chance. The arrangement seems perfect. Maud Dixon (whose real name, Florence discovers, is Helen Wilcox) can be ... continue
1732.
Why Evolution is True by Jerry A. Coyne EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Presents the many threads of modern work in genetics, paleontology, geology, molecular biology, and anatomy that demonstrate the indelible stamp of the evolutionary processes first proposed by Darwin.
1733.
Why We Kneel How We Rise by Michael Holding EN
Country: North America / 
Jamaica
Jamaica
Description:
A powerful look at the history of racism through the prism of sport, showing how we can change things through education and understanding
1734.
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys EN
Country: North America / 
Dominica
Dominica
Description:
Antoinette Cosway is a Creole heiress - product of an inbred, decadent, expatriate community - a sensitive girl at once beguiled and repelled by the lush Jamaican landscape. Soon after her marriage to Rochester rumours of madness in the Cosway family poison Rochester's mind against her.
1735.
Wild : From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
NATIONAL BEST SELLER • Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection. • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and to do it al... continue
1736.
Winds of Fedon by Dunbar Campbell EN
Country: North America / 
Grenada and Carriacuou
Grenada and Carriacuou
Description:
It was a slave rebellion like no other. It was led by a slave ownerIn a time and place like no other. With people like no other. A British island with a French population - when British and French hated each other.African slaves and white owners - when blacks and whites hated each other. Brown slave-owners - distrusted by blacks,and hated by whites. A perfect storm in an imperfect time and imperfect place. All it needed was a spark.Some say the spark started when a young white British officer fell in love with Rosette, the black daughter of Fédon, the rebel leader. Maybe.Two hundred years afte... continue
1737.
Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
An addictive and groundbreaking debut thriller set on a Native American reservation Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that's hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil's own nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are coming from, and how to make them stop. They follow a lead t... continue
1738.
Winter's Bone by Daniel woodrell EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Amid the harsh landscape of the Ozark Hills, sixteen-year-old Ree is taking care of her mother and two brothers. Her father has put their house up as bail and if he doesn't show up at court it'll be sold from under them. To save her family she needs to track him down but in a community riven with long-running feuds getting answers isn't easy.
1739.
Witches of Brooklyn: Spell of a Time : (A Graphic Novel) by Sophie Escabasse EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
School is back in session and that means new friends, new lessons, and NEW MAGIC! Readers and reviewers are seeing stars for this smash-hit graphic novel series that is just the right mix of sweet and spooky! A trip to Coney Island to pick up trash goes sideways when Effie and Garance learn that there is a missing...mermaid?! Every time Effie thinks she finally has this magic life down, something new pops up! But this time, with the help of Garance, some talkative seagulls, and a rather helpful turtle...Effie is going to save the day and find this mermaid! “Charming beyond belief.” –Entertainm... continue
1740.
With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote by Ann Bausum EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Chronicles the final years of the struggle for women's voting rights, focusing on the activities of Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party and their part in the successful passage of the 19th Amendment.