Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2096)
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A New World Order : Essays by Caryl Phillips EN
Country: North America / 
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Description:
The Africa of his ancestry, the Caribbean of his birth, the Britain of his upbringing, and the United States where he now lives are the focal points of award-winning writer Caryl Phillips’ profound inquiry into evolving notions of home, identity, and belonging in an increasingly international society. At once deeply reflective and coolly prescient, A New World Order charts the psychological frontiers of our ever-changing world. Through personal and literary encounters, Phillips probes the meaning of cultural dislocation, measuring the distinguishing features of our identities–geographic, racia... continue
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The Nature of Blood by Caryl Phillips EN
Country: North America / Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Description:
The Nature of Blood is an unforgettable novel about loss and persecution, about courage and betrayal, and about the terrible pain yet absoulte necessity of human memory. A young Jewish woman growing up in Germany in the middle of the twentieth century and an African general hired by the Doge to command his armies in sixteenth century Venice are bound by personal crisis and momentous social conflict. What emerges is Europe's age-old obsession with race, with sameness and difference, with blood.
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La naturaleza de la sangre by Caryl Phillips ES
Country: North America / Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Description:
Vidas aparentemente dispares que se ven relacionadas a través de las fronteras de los siglos por las circunstancias, el espíritu y la propia sangre: la joven judía que sale de los campos de concentración nazis, su tío que socava las certezas de su propia vida para luchar por el Estado israelí, los feroces prejuicios que afectan a los judíos del gueto veneciano del siglo XVI, el shakesperiano general africano que dirige los ejércitos de aquella misma Venecia, la judía etíope reasentada en Israel... a pesar de sus diferencias, todos comparten el peso de la memoria como lastre y sostén. Una histo... continue
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A View of the Empire at Sunset by Caryl Phillips EN
Country: North America / Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Description:
Award-winning author Caryl Phillips presents a biographical novel of the life of Jean Rhys, the author of Wide Sargasso Sea, which she wrote as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Caryl Phillips’s A View of the Empire at Sunset is the sweeping story of the life of the woman who became known to the world as Jean Rhys. Born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams in Dominica at the height of the British Empire, Rhys lived in the Caribbean for only sixteen years before going to England. A View of the Empire at Sunset is a look into her tempestuous and unsatisfactory life in Edwardian England, 1920s P... continue
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Another Man in the Street by Caryl Phillips EN
Country: North America / Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Description:
"Caryl Phillips, "seen by many as the father of Afro-British fiction" (The New York Times), gives us a hypnotic, heartbreaking novel lit by the bright and changing lights of 1960s London"--
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Adventure at Brimstone Hill by Carol Ottley-Mitchell EN
Country: North America / Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Description:
Mark, Kyle and Ingrid embark on their very first adventure as they follow a mischievous monkey through a secret passage at the Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park in St. Kitts. They find themselves transported to the 18th century, captured as spies and thrown into a fierce battle between the British and the French for this famous fort. About Brimstone HillBrimstone Hill is a UNESCO world heritage site located in St. Kitts. It was built by the English in the early 18th century to defend the island. It stands today as one of the best preserved historical fortifications in the Americas. www.bri... continue
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Where the Guava Tree Stands by Leah T. Williams EN
Country: North America / Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Description:
A lyrical journey through the heart of the Caribbean, Where the Guava Tree Stands captures the rhythms of island life, the weight of heritage, and the echoes of childhood memories. Told in verse, this evocative poetry collection reflects on love, loss, resilience, and the cultural roots that shape identity. With vivid imagery and storytelling, Leah T. Williams weaves a narrative that feels both deeply personal and universally resonant.
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Country: North America / 
St. Lucia
St. Lucia
Description:
A poem of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events -- the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement -- and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile.
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I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon by Baptiste & Miranda Paul EN
Country: North America / St. Lucia
St. Lucia
Description:
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Discover the true story of how environmentalist Farmer Tantoh is transforming the landscape in his home country of Cameroon. When Tantoh Nforba was a child, his fellow students mocked him for his interest in gardening. Today he's an environmental hero, bringing clean water and bountiful gardens to the central African nation of Cameroon. Authors Miranda Paul and Baptiste Paul share Farmer Tantoh's inspiring story.
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Sounding Ground by Vladimir Lucien EN
Country: North America / St. Lucia
St. Lucia
Description:
Winner of: 2015 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Vladimir Lucien is a young poet with so many gifts; his poetry is intelligent, musical, gritty in observation, graceful in method. His poems contain stories of ancestors, immediate family, the history embedded in his language choices as a St Lucian writer, and heroes such as Walter Rodney, C. L. R. James, Kamau Brathwaite, and a local steelbandsman. Although never overtly political, there's an oblique and often witty politics embedded in the poems, as where observing the rise of a grandfather out of rural poverty into the style of coloni... continue