Provo City Library Staff Reviews

WINGS Aprilynne Pike HarperTeen, 2009. 294 p. Young Adult What if you awoke one morning and noticed an odd blemish on your back? But ins...

Redeeming Love By Francine Rivers Recorded Books, 1997. Book on Tape. Romance Redeeming Love is a Christian historical romance. Franci...

Countess Below Stairs By Eva Ibbotson Speak, 2007. 383 pgs. Young Adult Anna, a young Russian Countess, finds herself and her family pov...

Act of Treason By Vince Flynn Atria Books, 2006. 415 pgs. Fiction An attempt on the life of a presidential candidate concludes with the ...

Finger Lickin’ Fifteen By Janet Evanovich St. Martin’s Press, 2009. 308 pgs. Mystery Stephanie Plum once again finds herself surrounded ...

Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier Knopf, 2008. 407 pages. Young Adult Marillier has taken the fairy tale of the Frog prince and set i...

One for the Money By Janet Evanovich Scribners, 1994. 320 pgs. Mystery In the first title of the Stephanie Plum series, Stephanie has be...

Prom By Laurie Halse Anderson Viking, 2005. 215 pgs. Young Adult Ashley Hannigan, self-proclaimed "normal" girl, doesn't c...

North and South By Elizabeth Gaskell Penguin Books, 2003. 452 pgs. Fiction When Margaret Hale's father decides he can no longer be a...

Heartbeat By Sharon Creech Harper Collins, 2004. 180 pgs. Young Adult Twelve-year-old Annie loves to run, just for the sake of running a...

Where the Long Grass Blows By Louis L’Amour Bantam Books, 1976. 213 pgs. Fiction Bill Canavan drifted down the valley and into a shootin...

Along for the Ride By Sarah Dessen Viking, 2009. 383 pgs. Young Adult After graduating from high school, studious insomniac Auden has th...

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane Katherine Howe Hyperion, 2009. 371 pgs. Fiction Do not be put off by the occasionally overwrought p...

Patriotic Grace: What it is and Why we Need it Now Peggy Noonan Harper, 2008. 192 pgs. Nonfiction. Noonan, a conservative political comm...

How Do I Love Thee? Nancy Moser Bethany House, 2009. 364 pgs. Fiction Who doesn’t appreciate a good love story? One of the most famous r...

A Trusting Heart By Shannon Guymon Bonneville Books, 2002. 185 pgs. Fiction Megan Garrett has gone from being a popular high school chee...

Ruth By Elizabeth Gaskell Oxford University Press, 1985. 458 pgs. Fiction Young, naive and orphaned, Ruth Hilton is easily led astray by...

Life on the refrigerator door By Alice Kuipers HarperCollins, 2007. 220 pgs. Fiction Claire and her mother are running out of time, but ...

The Season By Sarah MacLean Orchard Books, 2009. 343 pgs. Young Adult. Alexandra Stafford, only daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Wo...

Get Real Donald Westlake Grand Central Publishing, 2009. 278 pgs. Mystery/Humor Westlake's latest is a ball of laughs and a veil of ...

In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: a memoir Neil White William Morrow, c2009. 316 pgs. Biography Neil White convinced himself his ‘creative c...

Murder at the Academy Awards: a Red Carpet Murder Mystery Joan Rivers w/ Jerrilyn Farmer Pocket Books, 2009. 311 pgs. Mystery Joan Rivers pr...

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas By John Boyne David Fickling Books, 2006. 216 pgs. Young Adult. When his father gets an important new ass...

The River Between Us By Richard Peck Dial Books, 2003. 164 pgs. Young Adult. The Pruitt family lives in Grand Tower, Illinois, a town ...

Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus By Mary Shelley Penguin Books, 2003. 273 pgs. Fiction. Frankenstein's monster reads Milton...

The Actor and the Housewife By Shannon Hale Bloomsbury, 2009. 339 pgs. Fiction. Becky Jack, Mormon housewife, while in L.A. to sell a sc...

The Goose Girl By Shannon Hale Bloomsbury, 2003. 383 pgs. Young Adult. Princess Anidori of Kildenree is traveling to Bayern to marry the...

Dandelion Wine Ray Bradbury Knopf, 1957. 267 pgs. Science Fiction. It is the beginning of summer, 1928, in Green Town, Illinois, and Dou...

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...