Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants: Even Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson Louise Rennison HarperTempest, 2003, 214pgs. Young Adult The fou...

Suspense and Sensibility: A Mr. & Mrs. Darcy Mystery Carrie Bebris Tom Doherty Assoc., 2005. 301 pgs. Mystery Never fear Austen fans...

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built Alexander McCall Smith Pantheon Books, c2009. 212 pgs. Mystery Another treasure emerges in the No. ...

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet By Jamie Ford Ballantine Books, 2009, 290 pgs. Fiction. The story of Henry, a Chinese-American, ...

Dracula By Bram Stoker Signet Classic, 1992. 382 pgs. Fiction. This story is more academic than I would have imagined from the various m...

Ella Enchanted By Gail Carson Levine Harper Collins Publishers, 1997. 232 pgs. Young Adult At birth, Ella is inadvertently cursed by an ...

Fairest Gail Carson Levine HarperCollins, c2006. 326 pgs. Young Adult In the magical land of Aortha, status is measured by your musical ...

A Kiss in Time By Alex Flinn HarperTeen, 2009. 371 pgs. Young Adult Fifteen-year-old Princess Talia has been warned against spindles her...

Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Fight Terror and Build Nations—One School at a Time Greg Mortenson Viking, 2006. 338 pgs. Non-Fict...

The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V. S. Redick Ballantine, 2009. 445 pgs. The worlds and peoples in this complex new fantasy are so vivi...

An Accomplished Woman By Jude Morgan St. Martin’s Press, 2009. 407 pgs. Romance Thirty-year-old Lydia Templeton has reluctantly agreed t...

Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed & Forgery in the Holy Land By Nina Burleigh Smithsonian Books, 2008. 271 pgs. Nonfiction. T...

Something, Maybe By Elizabeth Scott Simon Pulse, 2009. 217 pgs. Young Adult Hannah’s parents are unusual. Her (estranged) father is fam...

From a Distance By Tamera Alexander Bethany House, 2008. 381 pgs. Romance Elizabeth Westbook’s father is a Senator for the U.S. governm...

The Princess and the Bear By Mette Ivie Harrison HarperTeen, 2009. 327 pgs. Young adult fiction. A hound who has lived as a human prince...

The Dead and the Gone By Susan Beth Pfeffer Harcourt, Inc., 2008. 308 pgs. Young Adult After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a serie...

Beat the Reaper By Josh Bazell Little, Brown and Company, 2009. 310 pages. Fiction. This dark novel begins with a quote by Camus, “If ...

The Exchange By Graham Joyce Viking, 2oo8. 241 pgs. Young adult fiction. Sneaking into an elderly lady's house one night, Caz is sad...

If the Witness Lied By Caroline B. Cooney Delacorte Press, 2009. 213 pgs. Young Adult The Fountain children have been hit hard by trag...

Body in the Transept By Jeanne M. Dams Walker and Company, 1995. 205 pgs. Mystery Dorothy Martin has moved from America to Britain, fulf...

Hondo By Louis L’Amour Bantam Books, 1997. 179 pgs. Fiction Hondo Lane, a scout for the army, is on an errand when he comes under attack...

Everyone Worth Knowing By Lauren Weisberger Simon & Schuster, 2005. 367 pgs. Fiction. Bettina has just quit her hideously boring job...

Garden Spells By Sarah Addison Allen Bantam Books, 2007. Fiction. 290 pgs. With a garden that blooms all year round and a set of mysteri...

Essential Pleasures : A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud Edited by Robert Pinsky W.W. Norton, 2009. Nonfiction. 508 pgs. Essential P...

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party M. T. Anderson Candlewick Press, 2006. 351 pgs. Y...

The Ladies of Missalonghi By Colleen McCullough Harper & Row, 1987. 189 pgs. Fiction. Missy is a thirty-two year old spinster living...

Sarah’s Key By Tatiana de Rosnay St. Martin’s Press, 2007. 294 pgs. Fiction. Ten year old Sarah lives in Paris as the German occupation ...

Work Hard. Be Nice. By Jay Mathews Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2009. 328 pgs. Nonfiction Mathews, the education reporter at the Wash...

The undomestic goddess By Sophie Kinsella Dial Press, 2005, 374 pgs Fiction High powered lawyer Samatha Sweeting has no time in her life...

Paper towns By John Green Dutton Books, 2008, 305 pgs. Young Adult This is the story of Quentin, a 17yr old coasting towards graduation....