Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2032)
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The Tilting House by Ivonne Lamazares EN
Country: North America / 
Cuba
Cuba
Description:
Two estranged sisters with a complicated past and an acrimonious present reunite in 1990s Cuba to confront the riddle of family amid the scars of political upheaval In the summer of 1993, Yuri, a teenage orphan, is living with her strict, religious aunt Ruth in a Havana suburb when Mariela, a thirty-four-year-old artist, arrives from the United States with a shocking revelation. She claims to be Yuri's sister, insisting that she and Yuri share a mother, and that Ruth essentially kidnapped her when she sent her into exile against her will through Operation Pedro Pan. Forced to grow up in orphan... continue
412.
The Story of Christianity by Justo L. González EN
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
"The Story of Christianity will serve as a fascinating introduction to the panoramic history of Christianity for students and teachers of church history, for pastors, and for general readers." -- Back cover
413.
The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino EN
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
Through the eyes of ageless guide, Qfwfq, cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Complex mathematical and scientific concepts are related to our everyday world.--
414.
Havana Blue (Mario Conde #1) by Leonardo Padura EN
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
A scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The third in the Havana Quartet series.
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Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
From beloved Cuban science fiction author Yoss comes a bitingly funny space-opera homage to Raymond Chandler, about a positronic robot detective on the hunt for some extra-dangerous extraterrestrial criminals. On the intergalactic trading station William S. Burroughs, profit is king and aliens are the kingmakers. Earthlings have bowed to their superior power and weaponry, though the aliens--praying-mantis-like Grodos with pheromonal speech and gargantuan Collosaurs with a limited sense of humor--kindly allow them to do business through properly controlled channels. That's where our hero comes ... continue
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El vizconde demediado by Italo Calvino ES
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
El vizconde demediado es la primera incursion de Italo Calvino en lo fabuloso y lo fantastico. Cuenta Calvino la historia del vizconde de Terralba, quien fue partido en dos por un canonazo de los turcos y cuyas dos mitades continuaron viviendo por separado. Simbolo de la condicion humana dividida, Medardo de Terralba sale a caminar por sus tierras.A su paso, las peras que colgaban de los arboles aparecen todas partidas por la mitad. B+Cada encuentro de dos seres en el mundo es un desgarrarseB; , le dice la mitad mala del vizconde a la mujer de quien se ha enamorado. Pero es seguro que se trate... continue
418.
The Aguero Sisters by Cristina Garcia EN
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
When Cristina García's first novel, Dreaming in Cuban, was published in 1992, The New York Times called the author "a magical new writer...completely original." The book was nominated for a National Book Award, and reviewers everywhere praised it for the richness of its prose, the vivid drama of the narrative, and the dazzling illumination it brought to bear on the intricacies of family life in general and the Cuban American family in particular. Now, with The Agüero Sisters, García gives us her widely anticipated new novel. Large, vibrant, resonant with image and emotion, it tells a mesmerizi... continue
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The Sugar Island by Ivonne Lamazares EN
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
Tanya is constantly at odds with her unreliable mother, so she is reluctant to follow her when she decides to move the family from Cuba to America.
420.
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.