Provo City Library Staff Reviews

NANCY DREW, GIRL DETECTIVE #1, THE DEMON OF RIVER HEIGHTS: Stefan Petrucha, writer and Sho Murase, artist: Young Adult Comics: 96 pgs. Thi...

SUPERMAN RETURNS: THE PREQUELS : Bryan Singer, Michael Dougherty, and Dan Harris: DC Comics: Young Adult Comics: 128 pages The movie Superma...

CONFESSIONS OF A TEEN SLEUTH : Chelsea Cain: Bloomsbury: Non-Fiction: 160 pages America’s favorite girl detective, Nancy Drew, is back to se...

SLAM : Nick Hornby: G.P. Putnam’s Sons: Young Adult: 309 pages Fifteen-year-old Sam Jones is a British teenager who loves Tony Hawk, ta...

THE YEAR OF LIVING BIBLICALLY : A.J. Jacobs: Simon & Schuster: Nonfiction: 388 pages What would happen if you attempted to literall...

UNDERCOVER : Beth Kephart: HarperTeen: Young Adult: 278 pages Very loosely drawing on the classic Cyrano story, Elisa uses her way with...

TRAVELS WITH HERODOTUS ; Ryszard Kapuscinski; New York: Knopf, 2007; Nonfiction; 275 pgs. Having graduated from the university in 1955, and ...

MEMOIRS OF A TEENAGE AMNESIAC : Gabrielle Zevin: Young Adult: 271 pages After falling down the school steps, Naomi awakes without any m...

REBEL ANGELS : Libba Bray: Delacorte Press: 2005: 548 pages In this sequel to A Great and Terrible Beauty , Gemma and her friends, Ann and F...

A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY : Libba Bray: Delacorte Press: 2004: 403 pages Growing up in British ruled India in the late 1800s, Gemma Doyle ...

SOLDIER'S HEART: READING LITERATURE THROUGH PEACE AND WAR AT WEST POINT ; Elizabeth D. Samet; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007;...

PERSEPOLIS : Marjane Satrapi: Pantheon: 2004: Young Adult Comics:160 For sassy young Marjane Satrapi, growing up in Iran during the Is...

WALLACE AND GROMIT: THE BOOTIFUL GAME: Ian Rimmer: Titan Books: Young Adult Comics: 48 pages When Wallace takes over the running of a local...

BEOWULF : Gareth Hinds: Candlewick Press: Young Adult Nonfiction: 128 pgs. Hinds sketches a new take on the oft told epic poem, Beowulf , in...

A WAR OF GIFTS ; Orson Scott Card; New York: Tor, 2007; 126pgs. Fiction/Young Adult Ender Wiggins' Battle School is an odd setting for ...

EPIC ; Conor Kostick; New York: Viking, 2007; 364pgs. Young Adult "Epic" is the name of a computer game that takes the place of re...

REMIND ME AGAIN WHY I NEED A MAN : Claudia Carroll: Harper Collins: Fiction: 374 pages On paper, Amelia Lockwood, 37, seems to have it all—a...

THE BLADE OF KRINGLE : Nathaniel Marunas: Razorbill: Young Adult Comics: 80 pages With an eye-catching cover–Santa (aka Manga Claus) stands ...

TALKING WITH MY MOUTH FULL: CRAB CAKES, BUNDT CAKES, AND OTHER KITCHEN STORIES : Bonny Wolf: Nonfiction: 2007 Wolf, NPR’s food commenta...

LISTENING IS AN ACT OF LOVE: A CELEBRATION OF AMERICAN LIFE FROM THE STORYCORPS PROJECT : Penguin: Nonfiction: 2007 StoryCorps is a non...

HOT LUNCH : Alex Bradley: Dutton: Young Adult: 2007 When Molly and Cassie cause the head of the school kitchen staff to quit, they are ...

SHAKESPEARE: THE WORLD AS STAGE : Bill Bryson: HarperCollins: Nonfiction: 2007 A new addition to the Eminent Lives series, Bryson’s boo...

GOOD DOG. STAY. : Anna Quindlen: Random House: 2007: Nonfiction: 84 pages Are you an animal lover or even just an animal liker? In a reflec...

SHAGGY MUSES : Maureen Adams: Ballantine Books: 2007: Nonfiction: 320 pages Through letters, journal entries and contemporary writings, aut...

FINDING MIRACLES : Julia Alvarez: Alfred A. Knopf: 2004: Young Adult Fiction: 264 pages This is a delightful young adult coming of age story...

GALILEO'S DAUGHTER : Dava Sobel: Walker & Co.: 1999: Nonfiction: 420 pages Contrary to the title, this book is mainly about Galileo....

LAST HEROES : W.E.B. Griffin: G.P. Putnam: 1997: Fiction: 342 pages This is the first in the five part “Men at War” series. ...

POMPEII : Robert Harris: Random House: 2003: Fiction 278 pages I love it when I can learn and be entertained by a book at th...

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY PROPOSAL : Sarah Strohmeyer: Dutton: 2007: 312 pages Genie Michaels has been dating a smart, good looking British profes...

THE MEASURE OF A MAN: [A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Sidney Poitier: New York Harper Audio, 2000: Non-Fiction: AudioCD--7 CDs/8 hrs If you kn...