Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Pigeons!: A fable for our times by Marc Chalvin Street Noise Books, 2025. 191 pages. Graphic Novels A contemporary political allegory of pow...

Lost Lambs  By Madeline Cash  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026. 323 pages. Fiction Lost Lambs follows a suburban family of five unspooling at...

Gate to Kagoshima  by Poppy Kuroki  Harper Perennial, 2025. 304 pages. Fantasy.    While in Japan researching her family's history, a vi...

A Good Person by Kirsten King G.P Putnam's Sons, 2026. 291 pages. Fiction. Lillian and Henry have been enjoying each other’s company, es...

The Land and Its People By David Sedaris  Little Brown & Company, 2026  272 pages. Nonfiction.  David Sedaris reflects on what it means ...

Outsider Animals by Marlene Zuk Princeton University Press, 2026. 305 pages. Nonfiction Outsider Animals challenges everything you thought y...

Theo of Golden by Allen Levi Atria, 2025. 387 pages. Fiction One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden...

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax By Dorothy Gilman  Doubleday, 1966. 216 pages  Mystery  The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax a lighthearted spy adventu...

Mindworks: An Uncanny Compendium of Short Fiction by Neal Shusterman Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2025. Short Stories. Ex...

Legends and Lattes By Travis Baldree  Tor, 2022. 294 pages. Fantasy  Come take a load off at Viv's cafe, the first & only coffee sho...

Well Lived By Sally Clarkson Harvest House Publishers, 2024. 213 pages. Nonfiction In this inspiring blend of personal reflections and stunn...

Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves   by Alison Wood Brooks  Crown, 2025. 305 pages. Nonfiction  Though we do i...

Beauty Reborn   by Elizabeth Lowham  Shadow Mountain, 2023. 208 pages. Young Adult Fantasy Beauty’s life is the stuff of fairy tales. The yo...