Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (751)
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The Young Man That Challenged Death by Santos Chavez EN
Country: North America / 
Honduras
Honduras
Description:
The reason that made me write this book is the following. I been walking for over 20 years over a dark path in my life. I want to send a messege to all the children that had been abuse around the world. For them to belive on their self because on the end of the path their is a special light for each of them. I also want to explain a bit about all the despites of all our Central American brothers that risk everything to get to the United States. Many adventures many pathways we went through. Mamy mothers cried for what had been there treasures. Dreams that have been impossible. To the friends w... continue
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Complete Works and Other Stories by Augusto Monterroso EN
Country: North America / Honduras
Honduras
Description:
These translations of short stories reveal Monterroso as a foundational author of the new Latin American narrative.
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La sirvienta y el luchador by Horacio Castellanos Moya ES
Country: North America / Honduras
Honduras
Description:
El Vikingo, un viejo ex luchador profesional que quiere demostrar a sus superiores en la policía que sigue siendo un tipo duro capaz de cumplir todos los encargos, sale con otros compañeros con la misión de llevar a los calabozos del Palacio Negro a unos jóvenes sospechosos. Al día siguiente, una criada, María Elena, acude a servir por primera vez a casa del nieto recién casado de su antiguo patrón, y se encuentra con que no hay nadie para recibirla. Tras preguntar a los vecinos y recibir llamadas cada vez más alarmadas de la familia, María Elena intuye que la desaparición de Albertico y Brita... continue
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Obras completas : (y otros cuentos) by Augusto Monterroso ES
Country: North America / Honduras
Honduras
Description:
Obras completas (y otros cuentos): con este título de impasible ironía se dio a conocer un escritor de excepción, el guatemalteco Augusto Monterroso. Desde este primer libro incisivo, provocador, centelleante, inesperado, Monterroso se instaló, como quien no quiere la cosa, como a hurtadillas, en primera línea de la literatura en lengua española, e inició, sin prisas, su particular cruzada contra la Solemnidad.
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Don't Be Afraid, Gringo: A Honduran Woman Speaks From The Heart by Elvia Alvarado EN
Country: North America / Honduras
Honduras
Description:
"Elvia Alvarado tells the story of her life and the life of the people of Honduras. Read it and understand the struggle against tyranny of the poor. Read it and act."--Alice Walker
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The Dream of My Return by Horacio Castellanos Moya EN
Country: North America / Honduras
Honduras
Description:
Drinking way too much and breaking up with his wife, an exiled journalist in Mexico City dreams of returning home to El Salvador. When he decides to treat his liver pain with hypnosis, his few impulse-control mechanisms rapidly dissolve. Hair-brained schemes, half-mad arguments, unraveling murder plots, hysterical rants: everything escalates. But is his plan a dream or a nightmare?
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Tyrant Memory by Horacio Castellanos Moya EN
Country: North America / Honduras
Honduras
Description:
Castellanos Moya’s most thrilling book to date, about the senselessness of tyranny. The tyrant of Horacio Castellanos Moya’s ambitious new novel is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Herna´ndez Marti´nez — known as the Warlock — who came to power in El Salvador in 1932. An attempted coup in April, 1944, failed, but a general strike in May finally forced him out of office. Tyrant Memory takes place during the month between the coup and the strike. Its protagonist, Hayde´e Aragon, is a well-off woman, whose husband is a political prisoner and whose son, Clemente, after prematurely announcing... continue
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Womens Poems of Protest and Resistance. Honduras : 2009-2014: Spanish-English Bilingual Edition by Varias Autoras EN
Country: North America / Honduras
Honduras
Description:
The first edition of this anthology, was researched, compiled, prologued, and edited by poet Lety Elvir in September 2013 in the midst of death threats against several of its authors, unprecedented acts of violence against journalists and other defenders of the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of expression, and rampant attacks on community organizers and farmers claiming land rights, in a seemingly lawless environment of impunity for the perpetrators of certain crimes. Honduras is touted for touristic purposes by an informational site as "a vibrant country, brimming with clear turquoise wa... continue