Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence

7 best books like Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence (Aliza Marcus): Desperation, The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors, Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America, Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia, The Promise of Elsewhere, How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship, My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story

Desperation

Author

Stephen King

**4.5-stars rounded up**

A bizarrely assembled cast of characters come together to fight an evil, older and more powerful than they ever could have imagined.



That would be my single-sentence synopsis if someone were to ask me what Desperation is about.

If you have...

The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors

Author	Drew Daywalt
ISBN	0062438891

You’ve played the game. Now read the legend of how it all began . . .

Long ago, in an ancient and distant realm called the Kingdom of Backyard, there lived a warrior named ROCK.

Meanwhile in the Empire of Mom’s Home Office, a second great warrior sought the glory of battle. And his name...

Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America

Author	Ayaz Virji
ISBN	0525577203

A powerful true story about a Muslim doctor's service to small-town America and the hope of overcoming our country's climate of hostility and fear.

In 2013, Ayaz Virji left a comfortable job at an East Coast hospital and moved to a town of 1,400 in Minnesota, feeling called to address the shortage...

Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia

Author	Ahmed Rashid
ISBN	0142002607

Ahmed Rashid, whose masterful account of Afghanistan's Taliban regime became required reading after September 11, turns his legendary skills as an investigative journalist to five adjacent Central Asian Republics-Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan--where...

The Promise of Elsewhere

Author	Brad Leithauser
ISBN	0525655034

A comic novel about a Midwestern professor who tries to prop up his failing prospects for happiness by setting out on the Journey of a Lifetime.

Louie Hake is forty-three and teaches architectural history at a third-rate college in Michigan. His second marriage is collapsing, and he's facing...

How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship

Author

Ece Temelkuran

An urgent call to action from one of Europe’s most well-regarded political thinkers. How to Lose a Country: The Seven Warning Signs of Rising Populism is a field guide to spotting the insidious patterns and mechanisms of the populist wave sweeping the globe – before it’s too late. ‘It couldn’t...

My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story

Author	Latifa
ISBN	1401359256

I loved this book. I find it disgusting that people want more from this girl. I’m sorry but did you miss the people being raped and killed? Have people become so selfish that they can only see but their own suffering. Anyone that says this book is a bore is a pathetic excuse for a human being. Latifa didn’t...