Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Obernewtyn By Isobelle Carmody Tor, 2000. 246 pgs. Young adult fiction. In a post-holocaust world where people who are deemed abnormal ...

Forgotten Fire By Adam Bagdasarian Laurel-Leaf Books, 2002. 272 pgs. Young Adult Forgotten Fire tells the story of one boy's experi...

THE LOST SYMBOL Dan Brown Doubleday, c2009. 509 p. Fiction All hail Da Vinci Code enthusiasts, Robert Langdon’s back. The famous symbol...

Princess Ben By Catherine Gilbert Murdock Houghton Mifflin, 2008. 344 p. Young Adult In this fresh fairy tale, Princess Benevolence, kno...

Inexcusable By Chris Lynch Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005. 165 pgs. Fiction Keir Sarafian is a good guy, so he can't be capa...

The Stolen One By Suzanne Carlisle Crowley Greenwillow Books, 2009. 405 p. Young Adult Katherine Bab is a wild, irrepressible girl with ...

Dairy Queen By Catherine Gilbert Murdock Houghton Mifflin, 2006. 275 pgs. Young Adult D. J. Schwenk is 15 years old. She is pretty much...

Crocodile on the Sandbank By Elizabeth Peters Dodd Mead, 1975. 273 pgs. Mystery After receiving a large inheritance, and having no desir...

The Hot Rock By Donald E. Westlake Mysterious Press, 1970. 304 pgs. Mystery John Dortmunder, recently released from prison, receives an ...

Great Kisses . . . and Famous Lines Right Out of the Movies By Timothy Knight Harper Entertainment, 2008. 108 pgs. Nonfiction The lights...

The Widow’s Kiss By Jane Feather Bantam Books, 364 pgs. 2001 Romance Lord Hugh, by the order of the Privy Seal, investigates the latest ...

A Stranger Is Watching By Mary Higgins Clark Simon and Shuster, 1977. 314 pgs. Mystery In just a few days the convicted murderer of Stev...

Spells and Sleeping Bags By Sarah Mylnowski Delacorte Press, 2007. 293 pgs. Young Adult Rachel, who has finally received her witch power...

The Name of the Wind By Patrick Rothfuss Daw Books. 2007. 660 pages. Fantasy He has been known as Kvothe the Bloodless, Kvothe the Arcan...

A Duty to the Dead By Charles Todd William Morrow, 2009. 329 pgs. Mystery. Bess Crawford has a sacred duty to the dead—she has been c...

West of Cheyenne By Lee Hoffman Doubleday, 1969. 190 pgs. Fiction When Eben Hawkins headed west, he thought he could leave the past behi...

Blue Bloods By Melissa De La Cruz Hyperion. 2006. 302 pages. Young Adult Schuyler Van Alan is the last line of her prominent family whic...

Pop By Gordon Korman Balzer & Bray, 2009. 260 pgs. Young Adult. Marcus Jordan is having a rough time. He has just moved to a new to...

Forest Born By Shannon Hale Bloomsbury USA Children's Books, 2009. 389 pgs. Young Adult In the fourth enstallment of the Books of Ba...

A Version of the Truth By Donna Kaufman and Karen Mack Delacorte Press. 2008. 322 pages. Fiction Cassie Shaw’s husband has just died, bu...

The Sky-Liners By Louis L’Amour Bantam Books, 1967. 188 pgs. Fiction Flagan and Galloway Sackett enter the town of Tazewell, Tennessee t...

THE LAST LECTURE Randy Pausch w/ Jeffrey Zaslow Hyperion, 2008. 206 p. Biography If you knew death was waiting a mere six months for you...

Danger Trail: Knife Thrower’s Journey West By Boyd Richardson Covenant Communications, 1995. 199 pgs. Western As a young boy Samuel Haro...

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll William Morrow & Co. 1992. 196 pgs. Young Adult Alice falls down a rabbit hole and...

LIVE YOUR LIFE FOR HALF THE PRICE Lyle and Tracy Shamo Deseret Book, 2009. 207 p. Nonfiction Could you wear the same dress for an entire...

The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen Penguin, 2009. 374 pgs. Fiction Twelve year old T. S. Spivet is a cartographer, illust...

Mr. Darcy, Vampyre By Amanda Grange Sourcebooks Landmark, 2009. 308 pgs. Fiction This book picks up where Pride and Prejudice left off. ...

Twenties Girl By Sophie Kinsella Dial Press, 2009. 435 pgs. Fiction. Lara’s life is a bit of a mess. Her career is quickly unraveling, h...

The Barcode Tattoo By Suzanne Weyn Scholastic. 2004. 252 pgs. Young Adult It's 2025, and the thing to do on your 17th birthday is to...

NIGHTS OF RAIN AND STARS Maeve Binchy Dutton. 2004. 294 p. Fiction Set on a quaint Greek island, this novel begins with a boat tragedy...