Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Leviathan Wakes By James S.A. Corey New York: Orbit, 2011. 582 pp. Science Fiction Far into the future, humanity has spread throughout...

Red Handed: The Fine Art of Strange Crimes By Matt Kindt New York: First Second, 2013. 224 pp. Graphic Novel In the ten years that Det...

Seconds By Bryan Lee O'Malley New York: Ballantine Books, 2014. 321 pp. Graphic Novel Katie's life is in a state of flux. Afte...

No Country For Old Men By Cormac McCarthy New York: Knoff, 2005. 309 pp. Fiction While out hunting along the Texas-Mexican border, Lle...

Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nut New York: Random House, 2015. 279 pp. Non-fiction In 1997, ...

Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South by Christopher Dickey New York: Crown Publishers, 2015. 388 pp....

Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince by Lisa Hilton Boston: Houton, Mifflin, Harcourt, 2015. 384 pp. Biography Given the staggering number of...

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 2015. 599 pp. Young Adult Set in the 26th century, a remote planet's colony, ...

A Darker Shade of Magic By V.E. Schwab New York, New York: Tor, 2015. 400 pp. Science Fiction Kell is a magician, able to travel acros...

S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome By Mary Beard New York: Liveright Publishing, 215. 606 pp. Non-fiction Mary Beard, a Cambridge don...

Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl: A Memoir By Carrie Brownstein New York: Riverhead Books, 2015. 244 pp. Biography Prior to her appearan...

America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve by Roger Lowenstein New York: Penguin Press, 2015. 355 pp. Non-fiction...

Born With Teeth By Kate Mulgrew New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2015. 306 pp. Biography Starting with her upbringing as part of a lar...

Mind MGMT, Vol 1: The Manager by Matt Kindt Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2013. 196 pp. Graphic novel Two years after the mystery of ...

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie New York: Orbit, 2013. 409 pp. Science Fiction While I don't read a great deal of science fiction,...

The End of All Things by John Scalzi New York, NY: Tom Doherty & Assoc., LLC. 380 pp. Science Fiction This is the latest in Scalzi...

The Affinities by Robert Charles Wilson Tor, New York, 2015. 300 pp. Fiction In dire financial straits and facing the prospect of havi...

Weapons of Mass Diplomacy By Abel Lanzac London:SelfMadeHero, 2014. Graphic Novel Arthur Vlaminck is coaxed away from academia to join...

The Stranger Vine By M.J. Carter G.P. Putnam's Sons. 2015. Fiction After a famous and controversial poet disappears in the heart o...

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Warner Books, 1988. 296 pp. Fiction This is one of those classic novels I somehow missed all throu...