Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2098)
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Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora EN
Country: North America / 
El Salvador
El Salvador
Description:
New York Times Bestselling Author of Solito "Every line resonates with a wind that crosses oceans."—Jamaal May "Zamora's work is real life turned into myth and myth made real life." —Glappitnova Javier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4,000 miles, across multiple borders, from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with his parents. This dramatic and hope-filled poetry debut humanizes the highly charged and polarizing rhetoric of border-crossing; assesses borderland politics, race, and immigration on a profoundly personal level; and simultaneously remembers and... continue
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Miss World 1970 : How I Entered a Pageant and Wound Up Making History by Jennifer Hosten EN
Country: North America / 
Grenada and Carriacuou
Grenada and Carriacuou
Description:
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE. Jennifer Hosten went to the 1970 Miss World pageant on a lark, representing the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada, and came home with the crown and a place in history. What was supposed to be a light-hearted affair, with a parade of the world's most beautiful women vying for the attention of the judges and comedian/host Bob Hope, turned out to be the most controversial, politically-charged, and consequential pageant ever. Women's liberation activists blew up a BBC broadcast truck and stormed London's Royal Albert Hall in an attempt to sabotage the show, which ... continue
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The Grenada Revolution : What Really Happened? by Bernard Coard EN
Country: North America / Grenada and Carriacuou
Grenada and Carriacuou
Description:
"A PAGE-TURNING WHO-DONE-IT. A MUST READ!" (Horace Levy, Sociologist, University Lecturer, Civil Society activist and Journalist, Jamaica) Finally, the inside story: honest, self-critical, and based on a wealth of credible and independent documentation. Bernard Coard reveals in dramatic detail the factors, forces and personalities which cumulatively led to deepening crisis within the Grenada Revolution and ultimately to wholesale tragedy. Bernard Coard, United States and British trained economist and university lecturer, played a leading role in the NJM and in the People's Revolutionary Govern... continue
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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