Provo City Library Staff Reviews

A Kiss in Time By Alex Flinn HarperTeen, 2009. 371 pgs. Young Adult Fifteen-year-old Princess Talia has been warned against spindles her...

An Accomplished Woman By Jude Morgan St. Martin’s Press, 2009. 407 pgs. Romance Thirty-year-old Lydia Templeton has reluctantly agreed t...

Something, Maybe By Elizabeth Scott Simon Pulse, 2009. 217 pgs. Young Adult Hannah’s parents are unusual. Her (estranged) father is fam...

Garden Spells By Sarah Addison Allen Bantam Books, 2007. Fiction. 290 pgs. With a garden that blooms all year round and a set of mysteri...

Essential Pleasures : A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud Edited by Robert Pinsky W.W. Norton, 2009. Nonfiction. 508 pgs. Essential P...

Lady of Quality By Georgette Heyer Sourcebooks Casablanca, 2008. 299 pgs. Romance At 29-years-old and unattached, Miss Annis Wychwood is...

Marcelo in the Real World By Francisco X. Stork Arthur A. Levine Books, 2009. 312 pgs. Fiction Seventeen-year-old Marcelo loves working with...

The Pajama Girls of Lambert Square By Rosina Lippi G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2008. 351 pgs. Fiction John Dodge buys a failing store in Lamb’s Corn...

The God of Animals By Aryn Kyle Scribner, 2007. 305 pgs. Fiction When her older sister elopes with a rodeo cowboy, 12-year-old Alice Win...

Home By Marilynne Robinson Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. 325 pgs. Fiction Thirty-eight-year-old Glory is home in the small town of Gilead...

The Magic of Ordinary Days By Ann Howard Creel Viking, 2001. 274 pgs. Fiction Toward the end of WWII, Olivia Dunne leaves her graduate studi...

If I Stay By Gayle Forman Dutton Books, 2009. 199 pgs. Young Adult While driving with her family, Mia’s car is struck by another vehicle and...

Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Authors Famous and Obscure Edited by Rachel Fershleiser and Larry Smith Harper Perennial,...

I LOVED, I LOST, I MADE SPAGHETTI : Giulia Melucci: Grand Central Publ.: Nonfiction: 288 pgs. Giulia Melucci cooks for the men she dates—the...

WINTERGIRLS : Laurie Halse Anderson: Viking: Young Adult: 278 pgs. Lia’s childhood friend Cassie died alone in a motel after calling Lia thi...

HOME OF THE BRAVE : Katherine Applegate: Feiwel & Friends: Young Adult: 249 pgs. Fifth-grader Kek, a Sudanese refugee, has just joined h...

HANDLE WITH CARE : Jodi Picoult: Atria: Fiction: 477 pgs. Sean and Charlotte O’Keefe’s daughter, Willow, suffers from a brittle bone disease...

THE MENTAL FLOSS HISTORY OF THE WORLD: AN IRREVERENT ROMP THROUGH CIVILIZATION’S BEST BITS : Erik Sass and Steve Wiegand: Collins: Nonfictio...

HOUSEKEEPING VS. THE DIRT : Nick Hornby: McSweeney’s: Nonfiction: 153 pages In this second collection of “Stuff I’ve Been Reading” columns f...

OLIVE KITTERIDGE : Elizabeth Strout: Random House: Fiction: 270 pages Loosely connected stories of the inhabitants of a small Maine town col...