Provo City Library Staff Reviews

ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE: A YEAR OF FOOD LIFE : Barbara Kingsolver: HarperCollins: Nonfiction: 370 pages Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed...

THE FOUR DOROTHYS : Paul Ruditis: Simon Pulse: Young Adult: 236 pages At the elite Orion Academy in Malibu, the spring musical is out of con...

FRENCH WOMEN DON'T GET FAT : Mireille Guiliano: Random House Audio Voices: Nonfiction: 2005: AudioCD--3 CDs/3 hrs . Good news. Contrary ...

'SALEM'S LOT : Stephen King: Simon and Schuster Audio: 2004: Audio Book 15 Disks: Fiction This was my first Stephen King novel, and ...

COOKED: FROM THE STREETS TO THE STOVE, FROM COCAINE TO FOIE GRAS: Jeff Henderson: William Morrow Publishing: c2007: Biography: 275 pgs. Thi...

AUSTENLAND : Shannon Hale: Bloomsbury: 197 pages Jane Hayes LOVES the BBC film version of Pride and Prejudice starring Colin Firth (who doe...

WATCHING THE WORLD CHANGE: THE STORIES BEHIND THE IMAGES OF 9/11 : David Friend: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux: 2006: Nonfiction: 435 pgs. This...

WATER FOR ELEPHANTS : Algonquin Books: April 2007: Fiction: 355 I was completely charmed by this delightful, though sometimes gritty, story ...

INFIDEL : Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Free Press: Biography: 353 pages. Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born to a Muslim family in Somalia but as a child she lived...

BOOK OF AIR AND SHADOWS : Michael Gruber: William Morrow: Fiction: 466 pages Richard Bracegirdle was born in 1590 and led a rather adventuro...

NOW THEY CALL MY INFIDEL : Nonie Darwish: Sentinel (Penguin): Biography: 258 pages. As head of Arabs for Israel, Nonie Darwish has certainly...

EDENVILLE OWLS ; Robert B. Parker; Philomel; Young Adult; 2007; 224 pp. Bobby and his friends are coming of age just after World War II,...

CONFESSIONS OF AN UNBALANCED WOMAN : Emily Watts: Deseret Book: Nonfiction: 58 pages Watts is a wife, mother, homemaker, and editor. She pul...

NOTES FROM THE MIDNIGHT DRIVER ; Jordan Sonnenblick; Scholastic; 2006; Young Adult; 272pp. Good kid Alex Gregory is so upset over his parent...

I HEARD THAT SONG BEFORE : Mary Higgins Clark: Simon & Schuster: Mystery: 318 pages At the center of her novel is Kay Lansing, who has g...

A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS ; Khaled Hosseini; Penguin; 2007; Fiction Khaled Hosseini's "A Thousand Splendid Suns," like "Th...

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...