Provo City Library Staff Reviews

SONGS WITHOUT WORDS : Ann Packer: Knopf: 2007: Fiction: 321 pages Ann Packer’s newest novel takes a deep look into the souls of women and th...

THE LUXE : Anna Godbersen: HarperCollins: Young Adult: 433 pages Two young women are in love with Henry Schoonmaker and neither of them...

A LONG WAY GONE: MEMOIRS OF A BOY SOLDIER :Ishmael Beah: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2007: 226 pages: Nonfiction Ishmael Beah currently works...

PEOPLE OF THE BOOK ; Geraldine Brooks; New York: Viking, 2008; 372pp. Fiction The people of Ms. Brooks' book are Muslims, Christians,...

BEGINNER’S GREEK : James Collins: Little, Brown, and Co.: Fiction: 441 pages Peter Russell is a romantic, and when Holly sits next to hi...

THE WEDNESDAY WARS : Gary D. Schmidt: Clarion Books: Young Adult: 264 pages Holling Hoodhood lives in the Perfect House with his ambitio...

THIRTEEN REASONS WHY : Jay Asher: Razorbill: Young Adult: 288 pages When Clay Jenson plays the casette tapes he received in a mysterious pac...

IAN POLLOCK’S ILLUSTRATED KING LEAR : William Shakespeare & Ian Pollock: Workman: Nonfiction: 139 pages Ian Pollock’s illustrated r...

THE SENATOR'S WIFE : Sue Miller: Alfred A. Knopf: Fiction: 305 pgs. Miller's latest examination of relationships introduces readers ...

STALIN'S GHOST ; Martin Cruz Smith; New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. 332pgs. Arkady Renko is back in another bleak but darkly humor...

PERSEPOLIS II: The Story of a Return: Marjane Satrapi: Graphic Novel, 2004, Pantheon Books: 187 pages In this follow up to "Persepolis ...

MISTER PIP ; Lloyd Jones; New York: Dial, 2007; 271 pgs. Fiction Mr. Watts becomes Mr. Pip in this story of a territorial war over a co...

THE REST OF HER LIFE : Laura Moriarty: Hyperion: Fiction: 303 pages Now a junior high school English teacher married to a college professor,...

MOM’S CANCER : Brian Fies: Abrams Image: Nonfiction: 117 pages In a suave comic-strip style, Fies traces the events of his mother's illn...

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...