Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand By Helen Simonson Random House, 2010. 358 pgs. Fiction Can a village seeped in out-moded convention give an...

Zumba: Ditch the Workout, Join the Party! By Beto Perez Wellness Central, 2009. 289 p. Nonfiction Zumba, anyone? (pronounced Zoom-bah) If yo...

At Home: A Short History of Private Life By Bill Bryson Doubleday, 2010. 497 p. Nonfiction “Home is where the heart is” said John McLeod and...

The Charming Quirks of Others By Alexander McCall Smith Pantheon Books, 2010. 256 p. Mystery “One should never mislead a friend, or an e...

Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English By Natasha Solomons Little, Brown & Co., 2010. 357 p. Fiction There are a strict set of rules to fol...

The Sonderberg Case By Elie Wiesel Alfred A Knopf, 2010. 178 p. Fiction “Guilty and Not Guilty” -- that is the plea Werner Sonderberg e...

I’m with Fatty: Losing 50 pounds in 50 miserable weeks By Edward Ugel Weinstein Books, 2010. 244 p. Biography Some people have a bit of ...

The Mapping of Love and Death By Jacqueline Winspear Harper, 2010. 338 p. Mystery Maps are fascinating objects and the making of them re...

Devil’s Food Cake By Josi S. Kilpack Deseret Book, 2010. 361 p. Mystery If eating a hunk of rich devil’s food cake topped with moist, ch...

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game By Michael Lewis W.W. Norton, 2006. 299 p. Biography More than just a blockbuster movie with an Osca...

I Capture the Castle By Dodie Smith Boston, Little, Brown, 1948. 343 p. Historical Fiction Managing your family is difficult under the b...

The Overton Window By Glenn Beck, et al Threshold Edition/Mercury Radio Arts, 2010. 321 p. Fiction Public Relations is all about who can...

Committed: a Skeptic makes Peace with Marriage By Elizabeth Gilbert Viking, 2010. 285 pgs. Biography First comes love, then comes marria...

Dear John By Nicholas Sparks Warner Books, 2006. 276 p. Fiction War has a sorry history of affecting everyone, not just the soldiers bei...

Promises to Keep By Jane Green Viking, 2010. 343 p. Fiction The Tollemache family has much to learn this year. Steffi’s cooking up a veg...

I’ll Mature When I’m Dead: Dave Barry’s Amazing Tales of Adulthood by Dave Barry G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2010. 254 p. Nonfiction When retire...

The Three Weissmanns of Westport By Cathleen Schine Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 292 pgs. Fiction. Sense and Sensibility lives again...

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness and Obsession By David Grann Books on Tape, 2010. 11 discs, Nonfiction Truth is ...

The Double Comfort Safari Club By Alexander McCall Smith Pantheon Books, 2010. 211 p. Mystery Detection knows no finer ally than Preciou...

The Lonely Polygamist By Brady Udall W. W. Norton, 2010. 602 p. Fiction It might be life's great irony, but with four wives and a cou...