Provo City Library Staff Reviews

ME AND MR. DARCY : Alexandra Potter: Ballantine Books: 2007: 356 pages Emily Albright runs a bookstore and after her last few dating experie...

WHEN THE EMPEROR WAS DIVINE : Julie Otsuka: Anchor Books: 2002: 144 pages. The story of a Japanese-American family, known only as Mother, Gi...

THE NAMESAKE : Jhumpa Lahiri: Houghton Mifflin: 2003: 291 pages. In the 1960s Ashoke and Ashimi Ganguli immigrate from India to America for ...

VERDIGRIS DEEP ; Frances Hardinge; London: Macmillan, 2007; Young Adult; 328pp. Three friends miss their bus and need money they don'...

Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism:Daniel Lopez: Basic Books: 2000: Nonfiction: 270 In his book, Daniel Lopez ...

Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts By Clive James W. W. Norton, 2007. 876 pgs. Nonfiction This fascinating and...

Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder By David Weinberger Times Books, 2007. 277 pgs. Nonfiction The intern...

F5: DEVASTATION, SURVIVAL, AND THE MOST VIOLENT TORNADO OUTBREAK OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ; Mark Levine; New York: Hyperion, 2007; Nonfictio...

THE WORLD IS FLAT: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY : Thomas L. Friedman: Farrar, Straw, and Giroux: Non Fiction: 488 pages Thoma...

The Kite Runner : Khaled Hosseini: Riverhead: General Fiction: 352 This aching exercise in redemption and self-knowledge centers around two ...

SANCTUARY : Beverly & David Lewis: Bethany House: Fiction: 320 pages This book was a delightfully quick and easy read. It had a lit...

THE WISDOM OF MENOPAUSE : Christiane Northrup, M.D.: Bantam Books: Nonfiction: 589 pages This was a mercy reading. My sister who lives i...

TELEGRAPH DAYS : Larry McMurtry: Simon & Schuster Audio: Western I was excited to read/listen to a Larry McMurtry book, he has after ...

CHARLES KURALT'S AMERICA : Charles Kuralt: Simon & Schuster Audio: nonfiction I have always loved Charles Kuralt. I love his wit, wi...

BIDDING FOR LOVE : Katie Fforde: St. Martin’s Press: Fiction: 390 pages Having inherited 51% of a family auction house, Flora moves to the c...

THE RIGHT ATTITUDE TO RAIN : Alexander McCall Smith: Pantheon Books, c2006: Mystery Fiction: 276 pgs. For everyone who can’t get enough ...

JANE AUSTEN'S GUIDE TO DATING : Lauren Henderson: Nonfiction: Hyperion, c2005: 287 pgs. Dear Provo , You didn’t know Jane Austen...

THE LIFE OF PI : Yann Martel: Fiction : Harcourt, c2001: 319 pgs. It’s a zoo tale. It’s a search for God. It’s a story of phys...

DAVE AT NIGHT : Gail Carson Levine: HarperCollins: Young Adult: 281 pages "Gideon the Genius" and "Dave the Daredevil,"...

FRESH OFF THE BOAT : Melissa de la Cruz: HarperCollins: Young Adult: 243 pages Vincenza Arambullo, a new immigrant from the Philippines, doe...

THE SECRET SERVANT ; Daniel Silva; New York, Putnam's, 2007; Fiction; 385pgs. Gabriel Allon is back (huzzah!), this time in a case that ...

THE PLOT TO SAVE SOCRATES : Paul Levinson: Tor Books (2007): Sci-Fi: 272 pages. This is a time travel tale with many twists. Sierra Waters,...

C'MON OVER! HASSLE-FREE, HUSTLE-FREE ENTERTAINING : C.A. Pillsbury and Company: Wiley Publishing, Inc. 2007 Nonfiction: 208 pp. If you...

WHEN A CROCODILE EATS THE SUN: A MEMOIR OF AFRICA ; Peter Godwin; New York: Little, Brown, 2007; nonfiction; 344pgs. In Zimbabwe, a solar ...

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, ...