Provo City Library Staff Reviews

COACH: LESSONS ON THE GAME OF LIFE : Michael Lewis: W.W. Norton & Co.: Biography: 93 pages As a mother with a teenage football player I ...

THE CHRISTMAS HOPE : Donna VanLiere: St. Martins Press: Fiction: 213 pages Patricia and Mark Addison have long given up the hope of having a...

CHOCOLATE: A BITTERSWEET SAGA OF DARK AND LIGHT : Mort Rosenblum: North Point Press: Nonfiction: 290 pp. Almost everyone loves chocolate. Th...

CASTING WITH A FRAGILE THREAD : A STORY OF SISTERS AND AFRICA: Wendy Kann: Henry Holt and Company: Biography: 284 pages Growing up in a tumu...

A THREAD OF GRACE : Mary Doria Russell: Random House: Fiction: 422 pages Mary Doria Russell’s newest book presents a fictionalized account ...

ELANTRIS : Brandon Sanderson : TOR : Fantasy : 492 p. As fantasy novels go this one is remarkable. The setting and situation are imagin...

THE LIGHTNING THIEF : Rick Riordan: Miramax Publishing: Young Adult: 400 pgs . This was a great young adult fantasy. It is a very fast r...

WILD GINGER : Anchee Min: Houghten Miffling Company: 2002: Fiction 217 pgs Set in Maoist China during the Cultural Revolution, Anchee Min...

THE LAST UNICORN : Peter Beagle: Penguin Group: Fantasy: 212 pages Recounts the quest of the last unicorn, who leaves the protection of the...

I'M IN NO MOOD FOR LOVE : Rachel Gibson: Avon Books: Romance: 359 pgs. Blue-blood Clare Wingate is slighty upset when she finds her fian...

DANGEROUS TIDES : Christine Feehan:Jove Books: Romance: 354 pgs. This is the 3rd title in the series about the magical Drake sisters of Sea ...

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close : Jonathan Safran Foer: Mariner Books: Fiction: 368 In his second novel Jonathan Safron Foer has poignan...

ENCHANTED, INC : Shanna Swendson: Ballantine Books: Fiction: 308 pgs. Katie Chandler, a small-town Texas girl, always heard New York was ful...

THE ROAD : Cormac McCarthy, Knopf, 1996, Fiction, 241 pgs. An unnamed father and son traverse the United States in McCarthy's postapocal...

WUTHERING HIGH: A Bard Academy Novel : Cara Lockwood: MTV Books: Young Adult: 257 pgs. After wrecking her father's car and running up a ...

LOVING WILL SHAKESPEARE : Carolyn Meyer: Harcourt: Young Adult: 265 pgs. Based very loosely on fact (there aren't many facts to work wit...

WIZARD’S FIRST RULE : Terry Goodkind : TOR : Fantasy : 836 pages In this epic fantasy a handful of characters struggle to defeat Darken Rah...

MIDNIGHT MASS By F. Paul Wilson TOR, 2005. 403 pgs. Fiction In this interesting vampire tale Father Joe Cahill, an undeservedly disgrace...

THE SECRETS OF PEACHES : Jodi Lynn Anderson: HarperTempest: Young Adult: 297 pgs. In this sequel to Peaches , three unlikely friends--Murphy...

MILLIONS: Frank Cottrel Boyce: Harper Trophy: Young Adult: 272 pgs . This is a fun story about a young English boy whose mother has passed...

THE PRINCESS ACADEMY : Shannon Hale: Bloomsbury Children's Books: Young Adult: 314 pgs. Miri is a fourteen-year old girl who is forced t...

ENCHANTMENT : Orson Scott Card: Ballantine: Fantasy: 390 pages Ivan, a 20th century scholar, travels back in time to save Sleeping Beauty, t...

BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE : Annette Curtis Clause: Delacourte Press: Young Adult: 264 pgs. I picked up "Blood and Chocolate" because the...

THE HISTORY OF LOVE : Nicole Krauss: W.W. Norton: Fiction: 252 pgs. This is one of those books that as you finish it, you tilt your head to ...

NEW MOON : Stephenie Meyer: Little, Brown Young Readers: Young Adult: 576 pages This is the sequel to Twilight. After recovering from her n...

13 Steps Down : Ruth Rendell: Crown Publishers: Mystery: 340 pages Mix Cellini, moves to the Notting Hill district in London just to be near...

TWILIGHT : Stephenie Meyer: Little, Brown and Company: Young Adult: 498 pgs. Seventeen year old Bella Swan has decided to move from Phoenix ...

THE FAIRY GODMOTHER : Mercedes Lackey: Luna: Fantasy: 417 In the Five Hundred Kingdoms, Elena becomes a fairy godmother when her own story (...

KETURAH AND LORD DEATH : Martine Leavitt: Front Street:Young Adult: 2006: 214 All Keturah ever wanted was to marry a kind peasant man, have...

HEARTLESS STONE : Tom Zoellner: St. Martin's Press: Nonfiction: 299 pages Heartless Stone is a journey to fourteen countries to learn th...