Provo City Library Staff Reviews

THE BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DEAD : Kevin Brockmeier : Vintage Publishing: Fiction: 272 pgs . In the near future a virulent virus has spread aro...

THE CAMEL BOOKMOBILE : Masha Hamilton: Harper Collins: Fiction: 308 pages Fiona Sweeney leaves her job as a librarian in New York City to pa...

ANAHITA’S WOVEN RIDDLE : Megan Nuttall Sayres: Amulet Books: Young Adult: 352 pages Fifteen-year-old Anahita is a weaver in a nomadic tribe ...

CORBENIC ; Catherine Fisher; Greenwillow; 2006; YA; 281pp. As grail novels go, The Da Vinci Code stinks by comparison to Corbenic. Cal is l...

NEVER TOO MUCH : Lori Foster: Kennsington: 2003: Romance 384 Ben Badwin is continually chased by...

LEADING LADIES : The 50 Most Unforgettable Actresses of the Studio Era: Andrea Cornell Sarvady: Turner Classic Movies: Nonfiction: 231 pages...

A GIRL NAMED ZIPPY : Haven Kimmel: Broadway: 2002: Biography: 282 A Girl Named Zippy is a delightful collection of vignettes that detail Hav...

THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING : Joan Didion: Vintage Publishing: Biography: 240 pgs. This memoir was written by Joan Didion in the year after...

WOMEN OF NAUVOO : Richard Neitzel Holzapfel: Bookcraft Inc.: Nonfiction: 225 pages Utilizing the invaluable Relief Society minutes from the...

EATS, SHOOTS & LEAVES : Lynne Truss: Gotham Books: Nonfiction: 209 pages We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most...

Dressed for the Photographer: Ordinary Americans and Fashion, 1840-1900 By Joan Severa Kent State University Press, 1995. 592 pgs. Nonficti...

The Temple of Jerusalem By Simon Goldhill Harvard University Press, 2005. 194 pgs. Nonfiction This tiny book traces the development of the...

MADAME BOVARY, C’EST MOI!: THE GREAT CHARACTERS OF LITERATURE AND WHERE THEY CAME FROM : Andre Bernard: W.W. Norton: Nonfiction: 135 pages T...

WHAT'S SO FUNNY : Donald Westlake: Warner: 2007: Mystery/Humor: 359pp. “What’s So Funny?” is the perfect name for Donald Westlake’s late...

THE MESSENGER: Daniel Silva: G. P. Putnam’s Sons: Fiction: 338 pages Gabriel Allon, an art restorer is called back into action as an Israel...

SURVIVAL OF THE SICKEST: A MEDICAL MAVERICK DISCOVERS WHY WE NEED DISEASE : Dr. Sharon Moalem: William Morrow Publishing: Nonfiction: 264 pg...

I’M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF : Bill Bryson: Broadway Books: Nonfiction After living in England for 20 years, Bill Bryson returned home to Amer...

AMONG WILD HORSES: A PORTRAIT OF THE PRYOR MOUNTAIN MUSTANGS : Rhonda Massingham: Storey Publishing: 2006: Nonfiction: 134 pages "Th...

PIANO: THE MAKING OF A STEINWAY CONCERT GRAND : James Barron: Times Books (2006): nonfiction: 265 pages This book is the biography of one pi...

THE $64 TOMATO: HOW ONE MAN NEARLY LOST HIS SANITY, SPENT A FORTUNE, AND ENDURED AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS IN THE QUEST FOR THE PERFECT GARDEN :...

THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL ; Elif Shafak; Viking; 2007; Fiction; 368pp. Elif Shafak's The Bastard of Istanbul is as rich a piece of fictio...

PEEPS : Scott Westerfeld: Penguin Group: Young Adult: 312 pages Nineteen-year-old Cal, a Texas transplant, lost his virginity–and a lot mor...

SOLD: Patricia McCormick: Hyperion: 2006: Young Adult: 272 pages Not for the faint of heart, Patricia McCormic's "Sold" takes...

A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING : Bill Bryson : Broadway: 2004: Nonfiction: 560 pages As the title suggests this book by noted humorist...

THE MARCH : E.L. Doctorow: Random House: Fiction: 363 pgs. The March is a novelization of General Sherman’s march across the South at the en...

BABYLON'S ARK: THE INCREDIBLE WARTIME RESCUE OF THE BAGHDAD ZOO : Lawrence Anthony: St. Martin's: 2007: Nonfiction: 248 pages Lawren...

Enthusiasm : Polly Schulman: Putnum: 2006: Young Adult: 198 pages Julie and Ashleigh live next door to each other and have been best friends...

CRUNCH TIME : Mariah Fredericks: Atheneum: Young Adult: 317 pages Four students from very different backgrounds form an SAT study group and ...

BAD : Jean Ferris: Farrar, Straus, Giroux: Young Adult: 181 After being caught in the middle of an armed robbery, 16-year-old Dallas is livi...

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