Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War By Karen Abbott Harper, 2014. 528 pgs. Nonfiction. This book tak...

The Hollow Ground By Natalie S. Harnett Thomas Dunne Books, 2014. 336 pgs. Fiction. Bridig Howley is growing up in actual hell on eart...

Shutter By Courtney Alameda Fiewel and Friends, 2015. 384 pgs. Young adult. Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat, which is a person who...

The Lost Sisterhood By Anne Fortier Ballantine Books, 2014. 608 pgs. Fiction. Diana Morgan is a lecturer at Oxford University and is a...

Leaving Time By Jodi Picoult Ballantine Books, 2014. 416 pgs. Fiction. The newest book of this bestselling author is completely unique...

Not My Father's Son By Alan Cumming Dey Street Books, 2014. 304 pgs. Biography. Alan Cumming started working with producers on a p...

Winterspell By Claire Legrand Simon & Shcuster Books for Young Readers, 2014. 464 pgs. Young adult. Claire Legrand has rewritten a...

The Aftermath By Rhidian Brook Vintage, 2014. 352 pgs. Historical fiction. This novel takes place in Hamburg after Work War II. The pl...

Texts From Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters By Mallory Ortberg Henry Holt and Co., 240 pgs. 201...

Compulsion By Martina Boone Simon Pulse, 448 pgs.  2014. Young adult. This young adult novel drew me in based on the description of th...

The Silkworm By Robert Gilbraith Mulholland Books, 464 pgs. 2014. Mystery. Owen Quine is a novelist who goes missing and his wife asks...

They All Fall Down By Roxanne St. Claire Delacorte Press, 352 pgs. 2014. Young adult. First off, let's talk about the cover. The c...

Dorothy Must Die By Danielle Paige HarperCollins, 2014. 464 pgs. Young adult. Dorothy has become an evil tyrant after she returns to O...

Atlantia By Ally Condie Dutton Juvenile, 320 pgs. 2014. Young adult. Atlantia is a city deep below the ocean. The glass domes protect ...

Zac and Mia By A.J. Betts HMH Books for Young Readers, 2014. 304 pgs. Young adult. Zac is a 17 year old cancer patient recovering from...

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeanette By Hampton Sides Doubleday, 2014. 480 pgs. Nonfiction. ...

Yes, Please By Amy Poehler Dey Street Books, 325 pgs. 2014. Biography. Amy Poehler is hilarious. At least I think so. The audio book i...

The Good Girl  By Mary Kubica Harlequin MIRA, 352 pgs. 2014. This is yet another supposedly Gone Girl  fan must read. I will say this...

Dear Daughter By Elizabeth Little Viking, 2014. 384 pgs. Fiction. This was another Gone Girl like, unreliable narrator that I had to t...

California  By Edan Lepucki Little, Brown, and Company, 400 pgs. 2014. Young adult. Cal and Frida live in a small world of just them. ...