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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Tell No-one about this : Collected Short Stories 1975-2017 by Jacob James Ross EN
Country: North America / 
Grenada and Carriacuou
Grenada and Carriacuou
Description:
This substantial collection brings together stories written over a span of forty years, including from Song for Simone (1986) and A Way to Catch the Dust (1999) and more than a dozen new stories. The previously published pieces have been extensively revised. They range from stories set in Grenada at different periods from the 1970s onwards, to stories set in the UK. --
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Under the Silk Cotton Tree : A Novel by Jean Buffong EN
Country: North America / Grenada and Carriacuou
Grenada and Carriacuou
Description:
This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but are not recognized beyond the borders of their native lands. With special emphasis on women writers, Interlink's Emerging Voices series publishes the best of the world's contemporary literature in translation or original English.
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The Bone Readers by Jacob Ross EN
Country: North America / Grenada and Carriacuou
Grenada and Carriacuou
Description:
After standing witness to a murder on the streets of the Caribbean island of Camaho, young Michael 'Digger' Digson is recruited into a unique plain clothes homicide squad, an eclectic group of semi-official police officers, led by the enigmatic DS Chilman. Digger becomes enmeshed in Chilman's obsession with a cold case, the disappearance of a young man. But Digger has a murder to pursue too: that of his mother, killed by a renegade police squad when he was a boy. He has two weapons at his disposal his skill in forensics, and Chilman's latest recruit, the mysterious, observant Miss Stanislaus. ... continue
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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
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Crystal Rain by Tobias S. Buckell EN
Country: North America / Grenada and Carriacuou
Grenada and Carriacuou
Description:
Science fiction roman.
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The Bone Readers by Jacob Ross EN
Country: North America / Grenada and Carriacuou
Grenada and Carriacuou
Description:
After standing witness to a murder on the streets of the Caribbean island of Camaho, young Michael 'Digger' Digson is recruited into a unique plain clothes homicide squad, an eclectic group of semi-official police officers, led by the enigmatic DS Chilman. Digger becomes enmeshed in Chilman's obsession with a cold case, the disappearance of a young man. But Digger has a murder to pursue too: that of his mother, killed by a renegade police squad when he was a boy. He has two weapons at his disposal his skill in forensics, and Chilman's latest recruit, the mysterious, observant Miss Stanislaus. ... continue
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Die Knochenleser by Jacob Ross DE
Country: North America / Grenada and Carriacuou
Grenada and Carriacuou
Description:
Camoha, eine Insel der Kleinen Antillen: Dort wird der junge Michael "Digger" Digson, zunächst gegen seinen Willen, von dem mysteriösen Detective Superintendent Chilman für eine Polizeitruppe rekrutiert, die gegen alle Korruption und alle politischen Widerstände effektive Polizeiarbeit leisten soll, und sei's mit eigenwilligen Mitteln. Digger lässt sich zum Forensiker ausbilden und wird ein Virtuose des "Knochenlesens". Zudem ist er auf der Suche nach seiner Mutter, die spurlos verschwunden und vermutlich ermordet worden ist.
Auch Chilman hat ... continue
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The President by Miguel Asturias EN
Country: North America / 
Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
The President tells the story of a ruthless dictator and his schemes to dispose of a political adversary in an unnamed country usually identified as Guatemala. Drawing on his experience as a journalist writing under repressive conditions, Miguel Angel Asturias provides a blazing indictment of totalitarian government and its damaging psychological effects on society - from the harvest of terror to cowardice, to sycophancy, to treachery and intrigue, and the total sacrifice of human values to lust for power. Written in a language of freedom and originality, full of extraordinary symbolism, bitin... continue