Provo City Library Staff Reviews

CRISIS, PURSUED BY DISASTER, FOLLOWED CLOSELY BY CATASTROPHE: A MEMOIR OF LIFE ON THE RUN : Mike O'Connor: Random House: Biography: 304 ...

NOW AND FOREVER ; Ray Bradbury; New York: William Morrow, 2007; Fiction; 209 pp. "Somewhere a Band is Playing," and "Leviatha...

ANT FARM: AND OTHER DESPERATE SITUATIONS : Simon Rich: Random House: Nonfiction: 139 pages Rich has written a collection of short, humorous ...

THE MAYTREES : Annie Dillard: Harper Collins: 2007: Adult: 224 The narrative of this book follows sturdy and simple Lou who lives at the edg...

HERE IF YOU NEED ME: A TRUE STORY ; Kate Braestrup; New York: Little, Brown, 2007; Non-Fiction; 2007. When Kate's husband Drew, a Maine ...

THE WORLD WITHOUT US : Alan Weisman: St. Martin’s Press (2007): nonfiction: 324 pages. If all humans disappeared overnight, what environment...

STARDUST : Neil Gaiman: Harper Perennial: 2000: 250 pages The village of Wall which is aptly named for the long wall dividing the town from ...

FIRST AMONG SEQUELS : Jasper Fforde: Viking: 2007: 363 pages. Delighting readers since publishing his first novel, The Eyre Affair , Jasper ...

BOYS ADRIFT: THE FIVE FACTORS DRIVING THE GROWING EPIDEMIC OF UNMOTIVATED BOYS AND UNDERACHIEVING YOUNG MEN ; Leonard Sax; Non-Fiction; New ...

LOOKING FOR ALASKA : John Green: Puffin: 2006: Fiction: 256 pages This is a compelling young adult novel that follows the lives of a group o...

KABUL BEAUTY SCHOOL: AN AMERICAN WOMAN GOES BEHIND THE VEIL : Deborah Rodriguez: Random House: Nonfiction: 275 pages Deborah Rodriguez, a ha...

SAMMY’S HOUSE : Kristin Gore: Hyperion: Fiction: 384 pages In this sequel to Sammy’s Hill , Samantha Joyce is working as a health care advis...

DIVISADERO : Michael Ondaatje: Alfred A. Knopf: 2007: 273 pages. Michael Ondaatje’s first novel in six years is unusually structured yet bea...

PRACTICALLY PERFECT IN EVERY WAY: MY MISADVENTURES THROUGH THE WORLD OF SELF-HELP—AND BACK : Jennifer Niesslein: G.P. Putnam’s Sons: Nonfict...

FAME, GLORY, AND OTHER THINGS ON MY TO DO LIST : Janette Rallison: Walker Publishing: Young Adult: 186 pages Jessica, a junior in a small N...

CRASHING THROUGH: A TRUE STORY OF ADVENTURE AND THE MAN WHO DARED TO SEE : Robert Kurson: Random House (2007): nonfiction: 306 pages. Crashi...

IF A TREE FALLS AT LUNCH PERIOD ; Gennifer Choldenko; NY: Harcourt, 2007; Young Adult; 217pp. Kirsten McKenna's life is on the skids...

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 ...