Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Possession By A.S. Byatt Vintage Books, 1991. 528 p. Fiction Roland Michell, an uninspiring academic is obsessed with all things concer...

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies By Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith Quirk Books, 2009. 319 pgs. Fiction. The dead are no longer restin...

Bel Canto By Ann Patchett HarperCollins, 2001. 318 pgs. Fiction In an unnamed South American country, a famous soprano sings at a birthd...

Lady of Quality By Georgette Heyer Sourcebooks Casablanca, 2008. 299 pgs. Romance At 29-years-old and unattached, Miss Annis Wychwood is...

Remains of the Day By Kazuo Ishiguro Knopf, 1989. 245 pgs. Fiction Stevens, the narrator of this book, is the perfect English butler. H...

The Lab By Jack Heath Scholastic Press, 2008. 311 pgs. Young adult fiction. In this thrill ride of a novel, Six of Hearts is a brilliant...

About Face by Donna Leon Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009. 278 pgs. Mystery. Most of us have heard of the Mafia; not so many of an even olde...

She Shoots to Conquer By Dorothy Cannell Minotuar Books, 2009. 294 pgs. Mystery In a new British reality show, aspiring brides/contestan...

Very Valentine By Adriana Trigiani Harper Collins, 2009. 371 pgs. Fiction Valentine Roncalli, one of four children in a loud Italian-Ame...

Execution Dock By Anne Perry Ballatine Books, 2009. 306 pgs. Mystery Perry’s mysteries continue to dissect the moral dregs found at the ...

The Private Patient By P. D. James Alfred A Knopf, 2008. 352 pgs. Mystery Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investi...

The Blind Assassin By Margaret Atwood Anchor Books, 2000. 524 pgs. Fiction If you enjoy stories within stories, MAYBE this book is for y...

The Language of Bees By Laurie R. King Bantam Books, 2009. 432 pgs. Mystery Mary Russell is back in her newest tale and back in England af...

Frogs & French Kisses By Sarah Mlynowski Delacorte Press, 2006. 277 pgs. Young Adult The story picks up right where Bras and Broomsticks...

The Lace Reader By Brunonia Barry William Morrow, 2006. 390 pgs. Fiction When Towner Whitney’s great aunt disappears from her mansion in Sa...

Gossip Hound By Wendy Holden Penguin Group, 2003. 304 pgs. General Fiction Grace Armiger is a hard working publicist stuck in a sinking...

Man's Search for Meaning By Viktor E. Frankl Beacon Press, 1992. 196 pgs. Nonfiction Viktor Frankl survived the horrors of the concentra...

Hands of My Father: a Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love By Myron Uhlberg Bantam Dell, 2009. 232 pgs. Biography Myr...

Bad Kitty By Michele Jaffe Harper Collins, 2006. 268 pgs. Young Adult Seventeen year old Jasmine “Calamity” Callihan’s annual end of summer ...

The Black Tower by Louis Bayard William Morrow, 2008. 352 pgs. Historical mystery. During the French Revolution Louis-Charles, se...

Marcelo in the Real World By Francisco X. Stork Arthur A. Levine Books, 2009. 312 pgs. Fiction Seventeen-year-old Marcelo loves working with...

The Bar Code Tattoo By Suzanne Weyn Scholastic, 2004. 252 pgs. Young adult fiction. Imagine the convenience and security of having all your ...

The Pajama Girls of Lambert Square By Rosina Lippi G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2008. 351 pgs. Fiction John Dodge buys a failing store in Lamb’s Corn...

Skinned Robin Wasserman Simon Pulse, 2008. 361 pgs. Young adult fiction. Lia Kahn has a perfect life. Anything she wants is hers, with wealt...

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley Delacorte, 2009. 373 pgs. Mystery. Flavia de Luce is the sort of little girl who coul...

Gilead By Marilynne Robinson Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004. 247 pgs. Fiction The aging Reverend John Ames has found out that his health i...

Long Lost By Harlen Coben Dutton, 2009. 371pgs. Mystery Myron Bolitar gets in way over his head in Harlen Coben's latest thriller about ...

Telegraph Days: A Novel By Larry McMurtry Simon & Schuster, 2006. 289 pgs. Western This is the story of Nellie Cartright whose father le...

Outliers: The Story of Success By Malcolm Gladwell Little, Brown & Co., 2008. 309 pgs. Nonfiction Malcolm Gladwell has a true talent for...

The God of Animals By Aryn Kyle Scribner, 2007. 305 pgs. Fiction When her older sister elopes with a rodeo cowboy, 12-year-old Alice Win...