Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (1210)
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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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Madwoman of Gandoca by Anacristina Rossi EN
Country: North America / 
Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Description:
La Loca de Gandoca caused a national outcry in Costa Rica when it was published in 1992. It blew the whistle on a secret plot by government officials and private investors to develop the Gandoca-Manzanilla Wildlife Refuge, which is one of the most biologically diverse sites in the world and supposedly protected by the Costa Rican constitution. The novel is the largely autobiographical account of Anacristina Rossi's attempt to save the refuge from destruction.
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God was Looking the Other Way by José León Sánchez EN
Country: North America / Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Description:
"Thirty years on the Devil's Island of Latin America"--Jacket subtitle.
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Saints of the Household by Ari Tison EN
Country: North America / Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Description:
Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--beautifully told by a debut Indigenous Costa Rican-American writer--that will take your breath away. Max and Jay have always depended on one another for their survival. Growing up with a physically abusive father, the two Bribri American brothers have learned that the only way to protect themselves and their mother is to stick to a schedule and keep their heads down. But when they hear a classmate in trouble in the woods, instinct takes over and they intervene, breaking up a fight and beating their ... continue
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El nudo : una fábula de fin de siglo by Rodrigo Soto ES
Country: North America / Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Description:
Publicado anteriormente: San Josae, Costa Rica: Ediciones Perro Azul, 2004.
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Gina : novela by Rodrigo Soto ES
Country: North America / Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Description:
This controversial but accurate portrait of a woman who is many women at once has love and sex, marriage and friendship, and motherhood and self-reliance as its main themes. Este retrato controvertido pero fiel de una mujer que es muchas mujeres tiene como temas principales el amor y el sexo, el matrimonio y la amistad, y la maternidad y la autosuficiencia. "
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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
