Provo City Library Staff Reviews

AMONG THE HIDDEN : Margaret Peterson Haddix: 1996: YA: 160 The first installment in Haddix's 7 part series introduces us to Luke, a hidd...

DON'T THINK TWICE : Ruth Pennebaker: H. Holt: Young Adult: 262 pages In the summer of 1967, seventeen-year-old Anne Harper enters a home...

A MORMON IN THE WHITE HOUSE? 10 THINGS EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MITT ROMNEY : Hugh Hewitt: 2007: NonFiction: 311pgs. Many of you wil...

DETOX YOUR FINANCES: EARN MORE, SPEND LESS, AND MAKE YOUR MONEY WORK AS HARD AS YOU DO :John Middleton: 2004: NonFiction: 245 ...

LOVE IS A MIX TAPE: LIFE AND LOSS, ONE SONG AT A TIME: Rob Sheffield: 2007: Biography: 219 This delightful book is as much a biography of 90...

The Book of Names By Jill Gregory and Karen Tintori St. Martin’s Press, 2007. 304 pgs. Mystery This is a fast-paced thriller involving a...

CANDYFREAK : Steve Almond: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: Nonfiction: 266 pages The appropriately named Almond goes beyond candy obsession ...

LONDON CALLING : Edward Bloor: Alfred A. Knopf: 2006: Young Adult: 289 pages. Edward Bloor's London Calling is a young adult time travel...

THE COLLABORATOR OF BETHLEHEM : Matt Rees: Soho Crime: 2007: Mystery: 264 pages. Matt Rees, former Time bureau chief in Jerusalem, has writ...

LITTLE LADY, BIG APPLE : by Hester Browne: Pocket Books: 2007: Fiction: 360 pages. In this sequel to The Little Lady Agency by Hester Brown...

SAMMY’S HILL : Kristin Gore: Miramax Books: Romance: 387 pages Chick lit goes to Washington in this fun read from Al Gore’s daughter. ...

DOES ANYTHING EAT WASPS? AND 101 OTHER UNSETTLING, WITTY ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS YOU NEVER THOUGHT YOU WANTED TO ASK : New Scientist: Free Pres...

ARTEMIS FOWL : Eoin Colfer: Hyperion: Fantasy: 277pgs. Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. Wi...

NINETEEN MINUTES : Jodi Picoult: Atria Books: Fiction: 455 pages Seventeen-year-old Peter Houghton walks into Sterling High one March mo...

BORN TO BUY: THE COMMERCIALIZED CHILD AND THE NEW CONSUMER CULTURE : Juliet B. Schor: Scribner: 2005: Non-Fiction: 304 Juliet Schor explores...

THIS YEAR I WILL…HOW TO FINALLY CHANGE A HABIT, KEEP A RESOLUTION, OR MAKE A DREAM COME TRUE : M.J. Ryan: Broadway Books: Nonfiction: 226 p...

The One True Platonic Heaven: A Scientific Fiction on the Limits of Knowledge By John L. Casti Joseph Henry Press, 2003. 160 pgs. Nonfictio...

TIME’S MAGPIE: A WALK IN PRAGUE : Myla Goldberg: Crown: 2004: Nonfiction: 144 pages. Myla Goldberg, author of Bee Season , is an excellent t...

BAKER TOWERS : Jennifer Haigh: William Morrow: Fiction: 334 pages In 1944 in the mining town of Bakerton, PA, a Polish miner dies suddenly, ...

LAST SHOT: A FINAL FOUR MYSTERY : John Feinstein: Knopf: Young Adult: 251 pages Stevie and Susan Carol won a chance of a lifetime to be teen...

THE CLUB DUMAS : Arturo Perez-Reverte: Harvest Books: 2006: Fiction: 368 For book lovers interested in both stories and the actual making of...

RAISIN RODRIGUEZ AND THE BIG TIME SMOOCH : Judy Goldschmidt: Razorbill: Young Adult: 208 pages In this sequel to The Secret Blog of Raisin ...

The Last Week: A Day-by-Day Account of Jesus's Final Week in Jerusalem By Marcus J. Borg & John Dominic Crossan HarperSanFrancisco,...

THE JESUS DYNASTY : James D. Tabor: Simon & Schuster: nonfiction: 363 pages This highly interesting account of the beginning of Chri...

SAYONARAVILLE : Curt Colbert: UglyTown: fiction: 287 pages Curt Colbert is back with his second “Jake Rossiter & Miss Jenkins my...

UNDER THE PERSIMMON TREE : Suzanne Fisher Staples: Farrer Straus and Giroux (2005): Young Adult: 275 pages Suzanne Fisher Staples tells two ...

THE EYE OF THE WORLD : Robert Jordan: TOR: 1993: Fantasy: 670 pages Rand, Mat, and Perrin have never seen anything of the world outside the ...

THE SECRET BLOG OF RAISIN RODRIGUEZ : Judy Goldschmidt: Razorbill: Young Adult: 224 pages In a blog she sends to her best friends back in B...

I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK AND OTHER THOUGHTS ON BEING A WOMAN : Nora Ephron: Alfred A. Knopf: 2006: nonfiction: 137 pages This is the pe...

THE THIRTEENTH TALE : Diane Setterfield : Atria Publishing: Fiction: 416 pages. This book had a lovely gothic air about it reminiscent of J...