Provo City Library Staff Reviews

WINTERGIRLS : Laurie Halse Anderson: Viking: Young Adult: 278 pgs. Lia’s childhood friend Cassie died alone in a motel after calling Lia thi...

THE LOST CITY OF Z: A TALE OF DEADLY OBSESSION IN THE AMAZON : David Grann: Doubleday: Nonfiction: 339 pages. In this true and bestselling a...

WAITING :Ha Jin: Pantheon: Fiction: 308 pgs. Ha Jin was born in Northern China in 1956. At age 14 he joined the People’s Liberation Army, a ...

HOME OF THE BRAVE : Katherine Applegate: Feiwel & Friends: Young Adult: 249 pgs. Fifth-grader Kek, a Sudanese refugee, has just joined h...

HANDLE WITH CARE : Jodi Picoult: Atria: Fiction: 477 pgs. Sean and Charlotte O’Keefe’s daughter, Willow, suffers from a brittle bone disease...

Mr. White's Confession By Robert Clark Picador, 1998. 341 pgs. Mystery Murder mysteries can be disturbing due to the murder in the s...

AMONG THE MAD : Jacqueline Winspear: Henry Holt & Co.: Mystery: 306 pgs. Maisie Dobbs, psychological private investigator, finds herself...

THE LOST DUKE OF WYNDHAM : Julia Quinn: Avon Books: Romance: 371 pgs. Grace Eversleigh has a comfortable life serving as the companion to th...

PLUM SPOOKY : Janet Evanovich: St. Martin’s Press: Mystery: 309 pgs. This is a “Between the Numbers” Stephanie Plum mystery for those of us ...

MR. DARCY’S DREAM : Elizabeth Aston: Simon & Schuster: Fiction: 284 pgs. Two nieces of Mr.& Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy are sent to Pembe...

THE GODS OF NEWPORT : John Jakes: Dutton: Fiction: 383 pgs. Sam Driver is a railroad mogul who has earned his enormous wealth through years ...

WARRIOR PRINCESS ; Frewin Jones; NY: Eos, 2009; Young Adult: 346 p. A tale of battles, adventure, and coming of age, Warrior Princess introd...

THE APOTHECARY'S DAUGHTER : Julie Klassen: Bethany House Publications: Romance: 416 pgs. I cringe at the thought of having to read a...

PLAYING JAMES : Sarah Mason: Ballantine Books: Romance: 319 pgs. Holly Colshannon is an accident prone journalist looking for her big break....

THE MENTAL FLOSS HISTORY OF THE WORLD: AN IRREVERENT ROMP THROUGH CIVILIZATION’S BEST BITS : Erik Sass and Steve Wiegand: Collins: Nonfictio...

A KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR : Jude Deveraux: Pocket Books: Romance: 388 pgs. Douglass Montgomery feels that she can never do anything right co...

ANGELS AND AGES: A SHORT BOOK ABOUT DARWIN, LINCOLN, AND MODERN LIFE ; Adam Gopnik; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009; 204 pgs. Nonfiction. Ad...

DEFIANCE : Nachema Tec: Oxford University Press: Nonfiction: 374 pgs. This is the inspiring story of the largest rescue operation for Jews ...

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 ...