Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Land By Maggie O’Farrell Alfred A. Knopf, 2026. 383 pages. Fiction  On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his...

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

Brawler: Stories By Lauren Groff  Riverhead Books, 2026. 275 pages. Fiction.  Ranging from the 1950s to the present day and moving across ag...

Maggie; or, a Man and a Woman Walk into a Bar by Katie Yee  Summit Books, 2025. 200 pages. Fiction.  A man and a woman walk into a restauran...

Tilt   By Emma Pattee  Marysue Rucci Books, 2025. 227 pages. Fiction. Annie is nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib at IKEA when a m...

The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett  Ballentine Books, 2025. 369 pages. Fiction. At sixty-three years old, million-dollar lottery wi...

Hello, Cruel World! : Science-Based Strategies for Raising Terrific Kids in Terrifying Times  by Melinda Wenner Moyer  G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2...

The Usual Desire to Kill by Camilla Barnes  Scribner, 2025. 249 pages. Fiction.  Miranda's parents live in a dilapidated house in rural ...

First-Time Caller   By B.K. Borison  Berkley Romance, 2025. 437 pages. Romance.  Aiden Valentine has a secret: he's fallen out of love w...

The Mighty Red   by Louise Erdrich  Harper Collins, 2024. 372 pages. Fiction. Crystal hauls sugar beets from field to processing plant deep ...

Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Random House, 2024. 444 Pages. Fiction. In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher i...

Graveyard Shift  by M.L. Rio  Flatiron Books, 2024. 126 pages. Fiction. This is a story about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet...

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World By Robin Wall Kimmerer 581.6309 KIM 2024 Scribner, 2024. 112 pages. Nonfict...