Popular North American Historical Fiction Books
Find historical fiction books written by authors from North America for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (225)
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Kindred by Octavia E. Butler EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. “I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.” Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’s plantation. She soon realiz... continue
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Cuba
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La răsărit de Eden by John Steinbeck RO
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
"La rasarit de Eden" este un roman inegalabil despre dragoste şi ură, inocenţă şi depravare, lupta omului pentru supravieţuire şi impulsul lui de autodistrugere şi, mai cu seamă, despre liberul-arbitru. Inspirându-se din "Geneză", Steinbeck reia în cheie modernă mitul lui Cain şi Abel şi îl transpune în Valea Salinas din California.
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Laberintos de orgullo by Rosa Maria Britton ES
Country: North America / 
Panama
Panama
Description:
Le livre commence en force avec l'enfance et la jeunesse du protagoniste, mais malheureusement, son histoire d'amour impossible alors qu'il est marié et père de deux enfants s'éternise péniblement dans la deuxième partie du livre. J'ai tout de même bien aimé et j'ai constaté ma profonde ignorance de l'histoire du Panama. Bref, une bonne lecture, mais qui aurait pu avoir 100 pages de moins!
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Costa Rica79.
Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
For readers of Joanna Goodman and Genevieve Graham comes a masterful debut novel about three women whose lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, and a secret network of women fighting for the right to choose—inspired by true stories. Tell them you’re looking for Jane. 2017 When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession in a stack of forgotten mail, she is determined to find the intended recipient. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion network in Toronto k... continue
Honduras