Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (1240)
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Mordecai's Ashes by Arlana Crane EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
Karl Larsson is an out of work roughneck, home from the oil fields of Alberta and back on the west coast for the first time in years. His wife has left him and his future looks bleak. Becoming a detective is the last thing on his mind, but when Karl learns that he has inherited his estranged grandfather’s agency he decides to take a chance. He doesn’t expect much action in a city as small as Victoria, BC, but Karl soon finds that Victoria is only the base of operations. His grandfather’s business took him across the length and breadth of Vancouver Island, and the Island is a world unto itself,... continue
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Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories and Songs by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling rinks, canoes and community centres, doctors offices and pickup trucks, Simpson's characters confront the often heartbreaking challenge of pairing the desire to live loving and observant lives with a constant struggle to simply survive the historical and ongoing injustices of racism and coloni... continue
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Collaborating with the Enemy : How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or Trust by Adam Kahane EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Collaboration is increasingly difficult and increasingly necessary Often, to get something done that really matters to us, we need to work with people we don’t agree with or like or trust. Adam Kahane has faced this challenge many times, working on big issues like democracy and jobs and climate change and on everyday issues in organizations and families. He has learned that our conventional understanding of collaboration—that it requires a harmonious team that agrees on where it’s going, how it’s going to get there, and who needs to do what—is wrong. Instead, we need a new approach to collabor... continue
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Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
“Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional world, a hidden universe of premonition, pain and power.” --Thomas King Tragedy strikes a Native community when the Hill family’s handsome seventeen-year-old son, Jimmy, mysteriously vanishes at sea. Left behind to cope during the search-and-rescue effort is his sister, Lisamarie, a wayward teenager with a dark secret. She sets off alone in search of Jimmy through the Douglas Channel and heads for Monkey Beach—a shore famed for its sasquatch sightings. Infused by turns with darkness and humour, M... continue
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Transformations in Twentieth Century Korea by Yunshik Chang EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
This edited collection traces the social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of Korea’s dramatic transformation since the late nineteenth century. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the chapters examine the internal and external forces which facilitated the transition towards industrial capitalism in Korea, the consequences and impact of social change, and the ways in which Korean tradition continues to inform and influence contemporary South Korean society. Transformations in Twentieth Century Koreaemploys a thematic structure to discuss the interrelated elements of Korea’s moder... continue
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Barney’s Version by Mordecai Richler EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Charged with comic energy and a steely disregard for any pieties whatsoever, Barney's Version is a major Richler novel, the most personal and feeling book of a long and distinguished career. Told in the first person, it gives us the life (and what a life!) of Barney Panofsky--whose trashy TV company, Totally Useless Productions, has made him a small fortune; whose three wives include a martyred feminist icon, a quintessential JCP (Jewish-Canadian Princess), and the incomparable Miriam, the perfect wife, lover, and mother--alas, now married to another man; who recalls with nostalgia and pain hi... continue
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Children of Paradise by Camilla Grudova EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Following Grudova's critically acclaimed collection The Doll's Alphabet, this surreal, discomforting debut novel charts the fates of a ragtag group of cinema workers who are spat out by corporate takeover.
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Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
A novel of the future explores a world that has been devastated by ecological and scientific disasters.
219.
Collide by Bal Khabra EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! She’s an honors student with ambitious graduate school plans and he’s a jock with only hockey on his mind, but once their worlds collide, their connection is hot enough to melt an ice rink. An ultimatum from Summer Preston’s thesis advisor thrusts her into an unexpected collision with the hockey team’s captain, Aiden Crawford. She’s caught between conflicting desires of fulfilling her lifelong dream of becoming a sport psychologist and staying as far away as possible from the god-awful sport. And once she meets Aiden—well, let’s just say he confirms all her worst assump... continue
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Destrua Este Diário : by Keri Smith PT
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Um diário costuma servir para anotar ideias, memórias ou registros do cotidiano. Keri Smith, ilustradora e artista canadense, inventou um tipo diferente de diário, que exige do usuário uma interação mais lúdica e inusitada. Com a proposta de estimular a criatividade e questionar convenções sobre a forma como lidamos com os objetos, Destrua este diário nos convida a rasgar páginas, rabiscar, pintar fora das linhas, manchar e até mesmo levar o livro para o banho. A ideia surgiu quando Smith começou a refletir sobre o início da sua carreira como artista e percebeu que o perfeccionismo tão exaltad... continue