Provo City Library Staff Reviews

NOTHING WITH STRINGS ; Bailey White; New York: Scribner's, 2008; 193pgs. Fiction I have laughed myself sick over some of Bailey Whit...

THE GRAVEYARD BOOK : Neil Gaiman: HarperCollins: Young Adult:312 pages After his family is killed by a man named Jack, Nobody Owens wanders ...

SHAKESPEARE WROTE FOR MONEY : Nick Hornby: Believer Books: Nonfiction: 131 pages In this compilation of novelist Nick Hornby’s “Stuff I’ve B...

FINDING NOUF : Zoe Ferraris: Houghton Mifflin: Mystery: 305 pages Finding Nouf tells of the mysterious disappearance of the daughter of a ...

INTO THE DARK : Peter Abrahams: Young Adult: Laura Geringer Books: 300 pages Ingrid is on the case again, but this time she has to prove tha...

THE LOSER’S GUIDE TO LIFE AND LOVE : A.E. Cannon: HarperTeen: YA Fiction: 256 pages Ed works at a video store in Salt Lake and wears the nam...

OUTLANDER : Diana Gabaldon: Delacorte Press: Romance: 627 pgs. WWII nurse Claire Randall is suddenly hurled back 200 years when she visits a...

ANYBODY OUT THERE? : Marian Keyes: William Morrow: 2006: Fiction: 456 pages I went into this story expecting a chic-lit romance. It surpris...

EAT, MEMORY: GREAT WRITERS AT THE TABLE ; ed. Amanda Hesser; New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2008; 204pp. Nonfiction. “Eat, Memory: Grea...

KEEPER OF THE GRAIL : Michael P. Spradlin: Young Adult: Putman’s Sons: 248 pages When a troop of Templar Knights board at a monastery on the...

TRUTH AND BEAUTY: A FRIENDSHIP : Ann Patchett: HarperCollins: Nonfiction: 257 pages Ann Patchett, author of the award-winning novel Bel Cant...

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 ...