Provo City Library Staff Reviews

MY LOBOTOMY : Howard Dully: Crown: 2007: Biography: 288 pages This is a harrowing tale of a young man who at the age of 12 was given a lobot...

SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT : Derek Landy : HarperCollins : 2007: YA: 400 pages The cover of this book says it all, it shows Skulduggery-a gun toti...

HOW THE HANGMAN LOST HIS HEART : K.M. Grant: Walker : Young Adult: 244 pages After her Uncle Frank is executed for treason and has his ...

MARTHA STEWART'S HOMEKEEPING HANDBOOK : Martha Stewart: Clarkson Potter Publishers(2006): Nonfiction: 744 pgs Well, the subtitle giv...

DON OF THE DEAD : Casey Daniels: Avon Books: Mystery: 325 pgs. Ever since Pepper hit her head on former mob boss Gus's mausoleum, she...

I LIKE YOU: HOSPITALITY UNDER THE INFLUENCE : Amy Sedaris: Nonfiction: Warner Books(2006): 303 pgs When Amy Sedaris says ‘under the infl...

THE ALCHEMYST: THE SECRETS OF THE IMMORTAL NICHOLAS FLAMEL ; Michael Scott; New York: Delacorte, 2007; 269pp. Young Adult/Children's Fic...

THE GHOST ; Robert Harris; New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007; 335 pp. Fiction The unnamed narrator of Robert Harris' new thriller is ...

INTERRED WITH THEIR BONES : Jennifer Lee Carrell: Dutton: 2007: 416 pages Kate Stanley is a Shakespeare scholar that has just started her ca...

THE BOOK OF FATE : Brad Meltzer: Warner Books (2006): Fiction: 510 pages During an assassination attempt, Wes, a young Presidential aide, is...

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER : Mark Twain: Tor Book: Young Adult: 235 pages From playing pirates on a deserted island to attending his own ...

CREEPERS : David Morrell: CDS Books(2005), Fiction : 354 pgs Frank Balenger--young 30’s journalist--joins a group of “creepers”, a.k.a. ...

CRAZY SEXY CANCER TIPS : Kris Carr: skirt!: Non-Fiction: 203 pages Actress and photographer Kris Carr thought she had a hangover, but a Jiva...

RUN : Ann Patchett: HarperCollins: Fiction: 295 pages While arguing in the street with his father outside a political meeting, 21-year-...

CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO SPY : Ally Carter: Hyperion: Young Adult: 236 pages In the sequel to I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d H...

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...