Provo City Library Staff Reviews

The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery  By Barbara K. Lipska Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. 188 pgs. Bio...

The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran by Masih Alinejad Little, Brown and Company. 2018. 394 pgs. Biography Masih A...

Nemesis by Isaac Asimov Bantam, 1989. 385 pgs. Sci-Fi Nemesis tells of colonies orbiting earth that provide self-sustaining lifestyles...

Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust By Planaria Price and Helen Reichmann West Farrar Strauss Giroux 2018. 2...

Butterfly: from Refugee to Olympian, My Story of Rescue, Hope and Triumph By Yusra Mardini St. Martin’s Press. 2018. 284 pgs. Biography ...

The Fox Hunt: a Refugee’s Memoir of Coming to America by Mohammed Al Samawi William Morrow. 2018. 323 pgs. Biography Mohammed Al Samaw...

The Lightless Sky: a Twelve-Year-Old Refugee’s Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World By G...

The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad Tim Duggan Books. 2017. 306 pgs. Biography ...

Glow of Death By Jane K. Cleland Minotaur, 2016. 291 pgs. Mystery Antiques expert, Josie Prescott, is also an amateur sleuth. Appraisi...

A World Ablaze: the Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation By Craig Harline Oxford University Press, 2017. 300 pgs. Biog...

Orphan Train: a Novel by Christina Baker Kline William Morrow, 2013. 278 pgs. Fiction A memorable novel of two women: Molly, a teenage...

Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan By Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard Henry Holt, 2016. 323 pgs. Nonfic...

George Washington's Secret Six: the Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution By Brian Kilmeade and Don Yeager Sentinel, 2013. 235...

Sourdough: a Novel By Robin Sloan MCD, 2017. 272 pgs. Fiction Robin Sloan's new novel, Sourdough, is a delightful blend of magical...

Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad By M.T. Anderson Candlewick Press, 2017. 456 pgs. Youn...

A Surgeon in the Village: an American Doctor Teaches Brain Surgery in Africa Tony Bartelme Beacon Press, 2017. 274 pgs. Biography Brill...

The Orphan’s Tale By Pam Jenoff Mira, 2017. 363 pgs. Historical Fiction Former circus aerialist Astrid returns home to look for her fa...

The Pearl Thief By Elizabeth Wein Hyperion, 2017.325  pgs. Young Adult Fiction In this prequel to Code Name Verity , Elizabeth We...

A Disappearance in Damascus: Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War       By Deborah Campbell Picdor, 2017. 341 pgs. Nonfiction...

The Polygamist’s Daughter By Anna LeBaron Tyndale, 2017. 307 pgs. Nonfiction As a child Anna LeBaron rarely lived with her mother...