Provo City Library Staff Reviews

FIRE IN THE BLOOD: Irene Nemirovksy: Knopf: 2007: General Fiction: 160 Although a likable narrator, cousin Silvio is entirely emotionally r...

CONTEMPORARY MORMONISM: LATTER-DAY SAINTS IN MODERN AMERICA : Claudia L. Bushman: Praeger Publishers: Nonfiction: 241 pgs. American voters c...

HIDDEN KITCHENS: STORIES, RECIPES, AND MORE FROM NPR’S THE KITCHEN SISTERS : Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva: Rodale: Nonfiction: 278 pages ...

SO YESTERDAY : Scott Westerfeld: Razorbill: Young Adult: 225 pages Scott Westerfeld's intriguing novel is a thriller that involves teen...

THE ALMOST MOON : Alice Sebold: Little, Brown and Company: Fiction: 291 pgs. There is a line people do not cross. Helen Knightly, middle-ag...

THE USED WORLD : Haven Kimmel: Free Press: Fiction: 308 pages Hazel Hunnicut, an older woman running the Used World Emporium, an antiqu...

LIVE AND LET SHOP : Michael P. Spradlin: Avon Books: Young Adult: 271 pgs. Beverly Hills teenager Rachel Buchanan gets in trouble with the l...

THE SPELL BOOK OF LISTEN TAYLOR : Jaclyn Moriarty: A.A. Levine: Young Adult: 479 pages When seventh-grader Listen Taylor and her father move...

NICKEL AND DIMED: ON (NOT) GETTING BY IN AMERICA : Barbara Ehrenreich: Metropolitan Books: Nonfiction: 221 pgs. With some 12 million women b...

THE MEDITERRANEAN CAPER : Clive Cussler: Simon & Schuster: Fiction: 220 pgs. On an isolated Greek island, a World War I fighter plane a...

FAST FOOD NATION : Eric Schlosser: Houghton Mifflin: Nonfiction: 356 pgs. After watching the documentary Supersize Me and wanting to learn...

A STAR IS FOUND: OUR ADVENTURES CASTING SOME OF HOLLYWOOD’S BIGGEST MOVIES : Janet Hirshenson and Jane Jenkins: Harcourt: Nonfiction: 307 pg...

ISOLATION WARD : Joshua Spanogle: Dell: Fiction: 516 pages Dr. Nathaniel McCormick had never seen anything like it before: three female pati...

LOVE, STARGIRL : Jerry Spinelli: Alfred A. Knopf: Young Adult: 274 pages After moving to Pennsylvania , Stargirl still pines for Leo,...

EXTRAS : Scott Westerfeld: Simon Pulse: Young Adult: 417 pages Several years after Tally and the Cutters bring down their dystopian soc...

The Throat By Peter Straub Signet, 1993. 697 pgs. Fiction This engrossing crime-horror-thriller is set in the town of Millhaven , Illinois...

The Kitchen God's Wife By Amy Tan Ivy Books, 1991. 532 pgs. Fiction Although this begins and ends among the Chinese Americans in Cal...

THE MYSTERIOUS EDGE OF THE HEROIC WORLD ; E. L. Konigsburg; Young Adult fiction; 256 pages. Ms. Konigsburg is grinding so many axes in this ...

GIRLS OF RIYADH : Rajaa Alsanea: Penguin (2007): Fiction: 286 pages. Pick up this novel and join the email list of a young woman living in R...

ALONE IN THE KITCHEN WITH AN EGGPLANT: CONFESSIONS OF COOKING FOR ONE AND DINING ALONE : Jenni Ferrari-Adler: Riverhead Books: Nonfiction: 2...

THE REMARKABLE MILLARD FILLMORE: THE UNBELIEVABLE LIFE OF A FORGOTTEN PRESIDENT : George Pendle: Three Rivers Press: Biography: 252 pgs. I l...

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 ...