Provo City Library Staff Reviews

STORY OF A GIRL : Sara Zarr: 2007: Little Brown: YA: 192 Deanna Lambert was only 13 when her Dad caught her having sex with her 17 year old ...

THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY : Alexander McCall Smith: Anchor Books: Mystery: 235 pages The African-born author of more than 50 books,...

MICHAEL TOLLIVER LIVES : Armistead Maupin: HarperCollins 2007: Fiction: 277 pp. Maupin's seventh novel won't be for everyone. But i...

THE PRINCESS AND THE HOUND : Mette Ivie Harrison: Eos: Young Adult: 410 pages Prince George has the ability to speak to animals, or Animal M...

A STEP FROM HEAVEN : An Na: Front Street Publishing: Young Adult: 156 pgs. Young Ju is a little girl when she and her parents emigrate from ...

THE DEATH COLLECTOR : Justin Richards: Bloomsbury, 2006: Young Adult: 320pp. What a great opening line: "Four days after his funeral, ...

H.I.V.E.: HIGHER INSTITUTE OF VILLAINOUS EDUCATION : Mark Walden: Simon & Schuster: Young Adult: 309 pages H.I.V.E. is a secret training...

THEY POURED FIRE ON US FROM THE SKY: THEY TRUE STORY OF THREE LOST BOYS FROM SUDAN : Deng, Deng, Ajak, Berstein: Public Affairs : June 2006:...

THE NEW POLICEMAN : Kate Thompson: Greenwillow Books: Young Adult: 442 pages Time is leaking from J.J. Liddy’s Irish town into the land of t...

INCANTATION : Alice Hoffman: Little, Brown, 2006: Young Adult: 208pp. Alice Hoffman's latest is the story of Estrella deMadrigal, a 16-y...

WITHOUT A MAP: A MEMOIR : Meredith Hall: Beacon Press: 2007: Biography: 248 pgs . This is an engrossing story of a woman who grew up in the ...

THE GAME : Diana Wynne Jones: Penguin: 2007: Young Adult: 179pgs. Because of her disobedience, Hayley is sent abruptly from her grandmother...

THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION : Michael Chabon: HarperCollins: Fiction: 411pp. Meyer Landsman is a detective in the Federal State of Sit...

GIRL AT SEA : Maureen Johnson: HarperTeen: Young Adult: 323 pages Seventeen-year-old Clio is thrilled when she lands a job at the art store ...

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...