Title: Rock & Roll Jihad: A Muslim Rock Star’s Revolution Author: Salman Ahmad Publication Year: 2010 Pages: 240 Genre: Non-Fiction Source: Review copy from the publisher From the cover: With 30 million record sales under his belt, and with fans including Bono and Al Gore, Pakistan-born Salman Ahmad is renowned for being the first rock [...]

Title: The Muslim Next Door: The Qur’an, the Media, and That Veil Thing Author: Sumbul Ali-Karamali Publication Year: 2008 Pages: 260 Genre: Non-Fiction Source: Review copy from the publisher From the cover: Since 9/11, stories about Muslims and the Islamic world have flooded headlines, politics, and water-cooler conversations all across the country. And, although Americans [...]

Title: Children of Dust: A Portrait of a Muslim as a Young Man Author: Ali Eteraz Publication Year: 2011 Pages: 352 Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir Source: Review copy from the publisher From the cover: In this spellbinding portrayal of a life that few Americans can imagine, Ali Eteraz tells the story of his schooling in a [...]

Title: Stranger to History: A Son’s Journey Through Islamic Lands Author: Aatish Taseer Publication Year: 2009 Pages: 336 Genre: Non-Fiction Source: Review copy from the publisher From the cover: As a child, all Aatish Taseer ever had of his father was his photograph in a browning silver frame. Raised by his Sikh mother in Delhi, [...]

Title: Gladdy’s Wake Author: B. K. Anderson Publication Year: 2010 Pages: 384 Genre: Fiction Source: Review copy from the publisher From the cover: Gladys Sage escaped the backwoods of Northern Ontario, leaving behind the body of her stepfather, to arrive in New York and the world of political revolutionaries. Hired to find her is Pinkerton [...]