Provo City Library Staff Reviews

THE BEST GAME EVER: GIANTS VS. COLTS, 1958, AND THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN NFL ; Mark Bowden; New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008; 239pgs. ...

MULTIPLE BLESSINGS : Jon & Kate Gosselin: Zondervan: Non-Fiction: 201 pages Infertility treatments, twins, more infertility treatments, ...

FINAL WARNING : James Patterson: Young Adult: Little Brown: 256 pages The newest installment of the Maximum Ride series has Max and her floc...

BOGUS TO BUBBLY: AN INSIDERS GUIDE TO THE WORLD OF UGLIES : Scott Westerfeld: Simon Pulse: Young Adult Nonfiction: 196 pages A behind-the-sc...

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD : Harper Lee: Warner Books: Fiction: 296 pages Between the ages of 6 and 9, Scout Finch has doubts about whether she w...

NATION ; Terry Pratchett; New York: HarperCollins, 2008. Young Adult. One of the saddest bits of news I have heard in a long time is that th...

THE WHISKEY REBELS : David Liss: Random House: Fiction: 525 pgs. Ethan Saunders was a spy for General Washington’s army until incriminating ...

AL CAPONE DOES MY SHIRTS : Gennifer Choldenko: Puffin: 2006: YA: 240 pgs As a 12 year old boy, Moose Flanagan is not happy when he is told b...

NIGHT : Eli Wiesel: Hill and Wang: Biography: 120 pgs. This memoir recounts Eli Wiesels experiences as a young teenage boy during the Holoca...

WELL OF ASCENSION : Brandon Sanderson: Tor: Fantasy: 590 pgs. This is the second book of the "Mistborn" trilogy. It continues the ...

THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS: HOW CHARLES DICKENS’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL RESCUED HIS CAREER AND REVIVED OUR HOLIDAY SPIRITS : Les Standiford...

THE RUINS OF GORLAN : John Flanagan: Young Adult: Philomel Books: 249 pages All his life, Will wanted to be a knight despite his size, but w...

THE BLACK TULIP : Alexandre Dumas: Fiction: Oxford University Press: 236 pages A tulip fancier in 17th Century Holland, seeking to grow the ...

FOUNDLING : D. M. Cornish: Young Adult: Putman’s Sons: 434 pgs Having grown up in a home for foundlings and possessing a girl's name, Ro...

THE ADORATION OF JENNA FOX : Mary E. Pearson: Henry Holt & Company: Young Adult: 265 pages. When she wakes up from a yearlong coma, 17-y...

THE HERO OF AGES : Brandon Sanderson: Tom Doherty Associates: Fantasy: 572 pgs. ‘The Hero of Ages’ is the third and final installment of Bra...

CHALICE : Robin McKinley: G. P. Putnam's Sons: Fantasy: 263 pgs. Mirasol has a woodlot in her demesne, Willowlands, where she also raise...

OUT STEALING HORSES ; Per Petterson, translated from the Norwegian by Anne Born; New York: Picador, 2007(?): Fiction: 238pp. “Out Stealing H...

The Three Musketeers By Alexander Dumas Viking, 2006. 704 pgs. Fiction This is an admirable adventure story with which most everyone is ...

FABERGE'S EGGS: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE MASTERPIECES THAT OUTLIVED AN EMPIRE: Toby Faber: Random House, 2008: Non-Fiction: 302 p...

THIS I BELIEVE: MORE PERSONAL PHILOSOPHIES OF REMARKABLE MEN AND WOMEN: Jay Allison: Henry Holt, 2008: Non-Fiction: 268 p. The 2nd installm...

JUST BREATHE : Susan Wiggs: Mira: Romance: 470 pages With Chicago --- and her marriage --- in the rearview mirror, cartoonist Sarah Moon fle...

GRACELING ; Kristin Cashore; NY: Harcourt, 2008; Young Adult: 471 p. The citizens of the Seven Kingdoms are either regular folk or Graced--e...

SARAH: HOW A HOCKEY MOM TURNED ALASKA'S POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT UPSIDE DOWN: Kaylene Johnson: Epicenter Press, 2008: BIO: 159 p. A b...

TOMORROW, WHEN THE WAR BEGAN: John Marsden: Young Adult: Houghton Mifflin: 286 pages Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip ...

SWEETHEARTS : Sara Zarr: Little, Brown: Young Adult: 217 pages Jennifer and Cameron are elementary school outcasts and best friends. At age...

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING MARRIED : Gemma Townley: Ballantine: Romance: 337 pages Jessica Wild befriended Grace, an elderly woman who desperat...

MY MOTHER THE CHEERLEADER : Robert Sharenow: Laura Geringer Books: Young Adult: 288 pages Thirteen-year-old Louise Collins’s mother, Pauline...

THE FOREVER WAR ; Dexter Filkins; New York: Knopf, 2008; 368p. Nonfiction. The Forever War is agonizingly beautiful, so deftly and compassio...

WASHINGTON’S CROSSING : David Hackett Fischer: Oxford University Press: 2004: 564 pages: nonfiction This is an excellent history of the haza...