Provo City Library Staff Reviews

A Thousand Acres By Jane Smiley Knopf, 1991. 371 pgs. Fiction I had forgotten how depressing and tragic King Lear is until I read this re...

The Good Thief’s Guide to Paris By Chris Ewan St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2008. 280 pgs. Mystery Charlie’s a thief. He’s also a writer. And since...

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Random House, 2008. 270 pgs. Fiction What austere, understated, heartbreakingly beautiful...

Slumdog Millionaire (originally published as Q&A ) By Vikas Swarup Scribner, 2008. 313 pgs. Fiction In this famous, debut novel that sp...

Wabi: A Hero's Tale By Joseph Bruchac Dial Books, 2006. 198 pgs. Young Adult Wabi was born as a great horned owl and from the very begin...

The Diplomat’s Wife By Pam Jenoff Mira, 2008. 360 pgs. Historical Fiction Rescued from a Nazi concentration camp after months of torture and...

The Unforgiving Minute: a Soldier’s Education By Craig M. Mullaney Penguin, 2009. 386 pgs. Biography This is a powerful literary memoir from...

Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon By Nancy Atherton Viking, 2009. 232 pgs. Mystery Lori Shepherd and her fellow English villagers of Finch find t...

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle Penguin, 1993, 288 pgs, General Fiction What begins as a rough and tumble look at a group of boy's ...

The Lovely Bones By Alice Sebold Little, Brown, 2002. 328 pgs. Fiction Looking down from heaven, 14-year-old Susie Salmon recounts her rape ...

3 Willows: the Sisterhood Grows By Ann Brashares Delacorte Press, 2009. 318 pgs. Young Adult Set in the same town as the original Sisterhood...

The Bell at Sealey Head By Patricia McKillip Ace Books, 2008. 277 pgs. Fantasy. For hundreds of years the inhabitants of Sealey Head, a smal...

Brideshead Revisited By Evelyn Waugh Little Brown, 1945. 351 pgs. Fiction. The story of Charles Ryder and his experiences with the Marchmain...

The Winner Stands Alone By Paulo Coelho HarperCollins, 2008. 343 pgs. Fiction Once again Coelho affirms his place as master storyteller. In ...

East By Edith Pattou Harcourt, Inc., 2003. 498 pgs. Young Adult Fiction A gentle mapmaker from Njord falls in love with a superstitious wom...

Pursuit By Karen Robards G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2009. 369 pgs. New Books - Fiction Young rookie lawyer Jessica Ford will do anything for ...

Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of the Mona Lisa By R. A. Scotti Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 241 pages. Nonfiction. On August 21, 1911, the ...

Lamplighter By D.M. Cornish Putman’s Sons, 2008. 715 pgs. Young Adult Rossamund is having a hard time adjusting to Lamplighter life being sm...

Death of a Dustman By M. C. Beaton Mysterious Press, 2001. 215 pgs. Mystery Freda Fleming, a Strathbane council member, decides the best way...

Home By Marilynne Robinson Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. 325 pgs. Fiction Thirty-eight-year-old Glory is home in the small town of Gilead...

The Magic of Ordinary Days By Ann Howard Creel Viking, 2001. 274 pgs. Fiction Toward the end of WWII, Olivia Dunne leaves her graduate studi...

If I Stay By Gayle Forman Dutton Books, 2009. 199 pgs. Young Adult While driving with her family, Mia’s car is struck by another vehicle and...

Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Authors Famous and Obscure Edited by Rachel Fershleiser and Larry Smith Harper Perennial,...

Jellicoe Road By Melina Marchetta HarperTeen, 2008. 419 pgs. Young Adult Taylor Markham was abandoned by her mother on the Jellicoe Road whe...

THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY : Michael Crichton: Knopf: Fiction: 266 pgs While at a dinner party Edward Pierce over hears a banker describe how t...

OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA: A NATURAL HISTORY OF FOUR MEALS : Penguin Press, 2006: Nonfiction: 450 pgs. As omnivores, we humans can eat a wide range...

DEAD UNTIL DARK : Charlaine Harris: Ace Books, 2001: Mystery: 260 pgs. This is the first of the Sookie Stackhouse vampire mysteries which in...

TEST OF WILLS : Charles Todd: St. Martin’s Press, 1996: Mystery: 282 pgs. Inspector Ian Rutludge returned from the Great War a shell of the ...

THE LONG FALL : Walter Mosley: New York: Riverhead, 2009: 305 pages. Fiction. Walter Mosley leaves Easy Rawlins and Fearless Jones behind, b...

I LOVED, I LOST, I MADE SPAGHETTI : Giulia Melucci: Grand Central Publ.: Nonfiction: 288 pgs. Giulia Melucci cooks for the men she dates—the...