Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (669)
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Sirens & Muses : A Novel by Antonia Angress EN
Country: North America / 
Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Description:
Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets of New York in this “gripping, provocative, and supremely entertaining” (BuzzFeed) debut “Captures the ache-inducing quality of art and desire . . . a deeply relatable and profoundly enjoyable read, one drenched in prismatic color and light.”—Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of With Teeth It’s 2011: America is in a deep recession and Occupy Wall Street is escalating. But at the elite Wrynn College of Art, students paint and sculpt in a rarefied bubble. Louisa Arceneaux is a though... continue
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Cuentos Ticos : Short Stories of Costa Rica by Ricardo Fernandez Guardia EN
Country: North America / Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Description:
Excerpt from Cuentos Ticos: Short Stories of Costa Rica It may, therefore, be of interest to take a look at one of these little republics through the eyes of a friendly observer, and such the writer frankly declares himself to be. This article must confine itself to Costa Rica, as it is the only one about which he feels competent to write with accuracy, and as it lies next to the new Republic of Panama, soon to be the scene of such a great under taking, it may be of especial interest at the present time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic bo... continue
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A Message From Rosa by Quince Duncan EN
Country: North America / Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Description:
Experience the struggle of African warriors defending their village. Travel on the slave boat with African enslaved women. Feel the tension mounting in Yanga’s heart as he leads his Afro Mexican troops in confrontation with the Spanish colonial army. Live a vivid moment of the Afro-Colombian’ struggle for freedom. Sit on the corridor and listen to a conversation between cuban heroes Jose Marti and Mariana Grajales. Visit a Jamaican Maroon battle field. Be part of Palmares’s Brazilian warriors. Witness the resistance of Afro German women during the Nazi rule. Share young Martin Luther King’s di... continue
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Colonel Lágrimas by Carlos Fonseca Suárez EN
Country: North America / Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Description:
“Beware, reader, in these pages you will experience vertigo, anxiety and joy. You will become a ghostly presence in a Borgesian world, a camera obscura, where mathematics is a secret weapon, and memory the object of an archaeological pursuit. Loosely inspired by the eventful life of the French mathematician Alexander Grothendieck, Fonseca has created a gorgeous opera prima.” —Valerie Miles, The New York Times Book Review Holed away in a cabin in the Pyrenees, the world-famous and enigmatic mathematician Alexander Grothendieck is working furiously on a final project. But what exactly is this mo... continue
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Costa Rica : A Traveler's Literary Companion by Barbara Ras EN
Country: North America / Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Description:
A collection of 26 remarkable stories by Costa Rican writers--most of which is available in English for the first time. Whether searching for something relevant and entertaining to read on Costa Rica's idyllic beaches or looking for Latin American enchantment back home, this is a fiction reader's cultural guidebook to the country. 2-page map.
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Where There Was Fire by John Manuel Arias EN
Country: North America / Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Description:
A lush and atmospheric novel about three generations of a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias “An exciting new voice with a prowess for lyricism.” ―Publishers Weekly NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A B&N DISCOVER PICK * A GMA BUZZ PICK * MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023: CrimeReads, Debutiful, Good Morning America, Library Journal, Zibby Mag, The San Francisco Chronicle, and more! Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company’s most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, and her husband d... continue
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The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano by Margarita Engle EN
Country: North America / 
Cuba
Cuba
Description:
A portrait in poems of Juan Francisco Manzano, the poet who was born a slave in Cuba in 1797.
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Abuelita Faith by Kat Armas EN
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
Christianity Today 2022 Book Award Finalist (Christian Living & Discipleship) "[A] powerful debut. . . . This persuasive testament will appeal to Christians interested in the lesser-known women of the Bible."--Publishers Weekly "Armas expertly weaves her own abuelita's history of personal faith and resistance into each chapter and intersects it with biblical text, creating an approachable work."--Library Journal What if some of our greatest theologians wouldn't be considered theologians at all? Kat Armas, a second-generation Cuban American, grew up on the outskirts of Miami's famed Little Hava... continue
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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love : A Novel by Oscar Hijuelos EN
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
From FSG Classics, a special twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Oscar Hijuelos's beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. It's 1949 and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to the grand stage of New York City. It is the era of mambo, and the Castillo brothers, workers by day, become stars of the dance halls by night, where their orchestra plays the lush, sensuous, pulsing music that earns them the title of the Mambo Kings. This is their moment of youth, exuberance, love, and freedom—a golden time that decades later is remembered with nostalgia ... continue