Provo City Library Staff Reviews

When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin Thomas Nelson Publishing, 2006, 336 pgs. Fiction Set in a small southern town, this is the story of ...

THE SECRET JOURNAL OF BRETT COLTON Kay Lynn Mangum Deseret Book, 2005. 334 p. Young Adult Kathy’s brother is dead. But, he’s all anyone ...

THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG Muriel Barbery / trnsltd by Alison Anderson Europa Editions, 2008. 325 p. Fiction With a title of such exqu...

Shane By Jack Schaefer Houghton Mifflin, 1954. 214 pgs. Western When a mysterious man rides onto his father’s farm, young Bob Starrett ...

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft By Stephen King Scribner, 2000. 288 pgs. NonFiction This book consists of three sections. The first is...

Angel’s Game By Carlos Ruiz Zafon Doubleday, 2009. 531 pgs. Fiction Taking place at an earlier time but in the same dark Barcelona that ...

Sold By Patricia McCormick Hyperion Books, 2006. 263 pgs. Fiction Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves in the mountains of Nepal with her mo...

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES Cecelia Ahern Harper, 2009. 371 p. Fiction After a life-saving blood transfusion, Joyce isn’t feeling quite hers...

Hunger: a Gone novel By Michael Grant HarperTeen, 2009. 590 pgs. Young adult fiction. In this gripping sequel to Gone , food shortage in...

Gone By Michael Grant HarperTeen, 2008. 558 pgs. Young adult fiction. Imagine a world that has snapped in a second from the world we kno...

Book of a Thousand Days By Shannon Hale Bloomsbury, 2007. 305 pgs. Young Adult On Dashti's first day as a lady's maid to Lady Sa...

River Secrets By Shannon Hale Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2006. 290 pgs. Young Adult Although the war between Bayern and Tira has e...

Makeover By Shannon Guymon Bonneville Books, 2007. 253 pgs. Romance When hairstylist Sophie Reid goes to meet her missionary at the airp...

BREATHE: A NOVEL OF COLORADO Lisa T. Bergren David C. Cook, 2009. 400 p. Fiction Consumption has taken the lives of nearly all the St. C...

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Random House, 2009. 349 pgs. Fiction Colum McCann begins this novel with a prescient quote from...

Blood and Chocolate By Annette Curtis Klause Delacorte Press, 1997. 264 pgs. Young Adult Vivian is a teenage werewolf whose pack is out ...

Hard Love By Ellen Wittlinger Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1999. 224 pgs. Young Adult John Galardi, Jr. has locked his ...

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Modern Library, 2001. 320 pgs. Fiction. Classic adventure with philosophical & theological musings. ...

Sackett's Land by Louis L'Amour Saturday Review Press, 1974. 198 pgs. Fiction. Barnabas Sackett is a farmer of the fens (agricul...

True Believer By Virginia Euwer Wolff Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2001. 264 pgs. Young Adult LaVaughn's life has been pretty s...

The First Part Last By Angela Johnson Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2003. 131 pgs. Young Adult When sixteen-year-old Bob...

Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping By Paco Underhill Simon & Schuster, 2000. 255 pgs. Nonfiction Why do people pick up this shampo...

The Devil’s Company By David Liss Random House, 2009. 369 pgs. Fiction Benjamin Weaver is back in this third installment of his advent...

EAT THIS, NOT THAT!: The Best (& Worst!) Foods in America! David Zinczenko w/ Matt Goulding Rodale, c2009. 420 p. Non-Fiction The la...

Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike Knopf, 2009. 97 pgs. Poetry Updike's final volume of verse begins with his nearing death. In...

Lonesome Dove By Larry McMurtry Simon & Schuster, 1985. 945 pgs. Fiction. Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call are former Texas Rangers who...

The Chocolate War By Robert Cormier Pantheon Books, 1974. 253 pgs. Young Adult Trinity, an all-boys school, is ruled by a secret society...

The Help By Kathryn Stockett G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2009. 451 pgs. Fiction. This wonderful debut novel by Kathryn Stockett takes place in J...

Against All Odds By Barbara Riefe Forge, 1997. 286 pgs. Fiction Lucy Scott Mitchum wasn’t sure how she felt about California. But that’s...

Parade of Shadows By Gloria Whelan HarperCollins Publishers, 2007. 295 pgs. fiction Adventurous, but naïve, Julia Hamilton embarks on a ...