Provo City Library Staff Reviews

THE KNIFE OF NEVER LETTING GO ; Patrick Ness; Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2008; Young Adult Fiction. First you should know that this first bo...

EVERNIGHT : Claudia Gray: HarperTeen: 2008: Young Adult Fiction: 327 pages Bianca has grudgingly moved with her teacher parents to the Gothi...

THRONE OF JADE : Naomi Novik: Del Rey: 2006: Fantasy: 398 pages In book one of the Temeraire series, His Majesty’s Dragon , Will Laurence, a...

NEVERWHERE : Neil Gaiman: Avon Books: 1997: Fantasy: 337 pages Richard Mayhew is just a regular guy with a corporate job and a bossy fiancé ...

THIS FULL HOUSE : Virginia Euwer Wolff: Bowen Press: Young Adult: 476 pgs. In this highly anticipated (for me, anyway) conclusion to the Mak...

THE BRACELET : Jennie Hansen: Covenant Communications: 2005: Romance: 296 p. The Bracelet is the first volume of The Bracelet series. Set in...

A GIRL TO LOVE : Betty Neels: Harlequin Publishing: Romance: 217 pages. British author Neels wrote this romance twenty-seven years ago. Per...

GIRL, HERO : Carrie Jones: Flux: Young Adult: 305 pages Liliana looking for a real hero in her life to help her deal with starting high scho...

HOUSEKEEPING VS. THE DIRT : Nick Hornby: McSweeney’s: Nonfiction: 153 pages In this second collection of “Stuff I’ve Been Reading” columns f...

OLIVE KITTERIDGE : Elizabeth Strout: Random House: Fiction: 270 pages Loosely connected stories of the inhabitants of a small Maine town col...

LITTLE BEE ; Chris Cleave; New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009; 266 pgs. Fiction One of amazon.com's Best New Books/February, Chris...

YOUR SCANDALOUS WAYS : Loretta Chase: Avon: 2008: Romance: 384 pages James Cordier, a younger son of a British gentleman has spent a decade ...

CHAINS : Laurie Halse Anderson: Simon and Schuster: Young Adult: 320 pgs. Set during the American Revolution, this is the story of two siste...

THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM OF LOVE : Josephine Carr: New American Library: Romance: 272 pgs. An uptight, celibate, cat lover librarian goes th...

LARK AND TERMITE : Jayne Anne Phillips: Knopf: Fiction: 272 pgs. This lyrical novel is the story of two siblings growing up in a small town...

WITHOUT REPROACH : Janet Woods: Severn House Publishers, 2008: Romance, 219 p Lauren closes the door on what had been her life—marriage to a...

THE LAZARUS PROJECT ; Aleksandar Hemon; New York: Penguin, 2008. 292pgs. Fiction Like Joseph Conrad, Aleksandar Hemon came late to the Engli...

PIGS DON'T FLY : Mary Brown: Baen Pub. Enterprises: Fantasy: 370 pgs. When her mother suddenly dies, Summer is put out of her home witho...

SECRETS OF A SUMMER NIGHT : Lisa Kleypas: Avon Books: Romance: 375 pgs. Four young ladies enter London society and decide to band together a...

WARRIOR RISING : P.C. Cast: Berkley Sensation: Romance: 340 pgs. The Goddesses Hera, Venus, and Athena have had it with the Trojan War, so t...

ARTICHOKE’S HEART : Suzanne Supplee: Dutton Books: Young Adult: 276 pages When she is almost sixteen years old, Rosemary decides she is sick...

SEPARATE BEDS : LaVyrle Spencer: Jove Books: Romance: 392 pages A blind date with Clay Forrester two months earlier has resulted in pregnanc...

The Big Book of Irony By Jon Winokur St. Martin's Press, 2007. 174 pgs. Nonfiction With this fun, quick, and witty book, Jon Winokur...

MOONLIGHT BECOMES YOU : Mary Higgins Clark: Mystery: Simon & Schuster: 332 pages Maggie awakens in a dark and unfamiliar place. She trie...

WHAT I SAW AND HOW I LIED : Judy Blundell: Scholastic: Young Adult Fiction: 284 pages Following WWII and her stepfather’s return from the wa...

THE SECRET OF THE GREAT PYRAMID : HOW ONE MAN’S OBSESSION LED TO THE SOLUTION OF ANCIENT EGYPT’S GREATEST MYSTERY: Bob Brier & Jean-Pier...

UTAH CURIOSITIES: QUIRKY CHARACTERS, ROADSIDE ODDITIES AND OTHER OFFBEAT STUFF : Brandon Griggs: Insider’s Guide: 2008: Nonfiction: 307 page...

THE TEMPTATION OF THE NIGHT JASMINE : Lauren Willig: Dutton: 2009: Historical Fiction: 400 pages. As with all of Willig’s historical spy nov...

CITY OF THIEVES ; David Benioff; New York: Viking, 2008; 258pp. Fiction. One suspects David Benioff's story of Lev Beniov in the Sieg...

IN PURSUIT OF THE GENE: FROM DARWIN TO DNA ; James Schwartz; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008; 370 pp. Nonfiction. Schwartz...