Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life By Alison Gopnik Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2...

The Portable Dad: Fix-It Advice for when Dad’s Not Around Steve Elliot Running Press, c2009. 240 p. Nonfiction Ever wanted to carry Dad ...

Devil's Trill Gerald Elias Minotaur Books, 2009. 306 p. Mystery The Devil’s Trill opens with a slightly lurid tale relaying the ori...

Over a Thousand Hills I Walk with You By Hanna Jansen Carolrhoda Books, 2006. 342 pgs. Young Adult In this story of the Rwandan genocid...

Half Broke Horses: a True Life Novel by Jeannette Walls Scribner, 2009. 272 pgs. Fiction/Nonfiction Not quite busted broncs do indeed fi...

Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld Simon & Schuster, 2009. 440 pgs. Young Adult Westerfeld's latest is a steampunk, alternate history...

Double Take: A Memoir By Kevin Michael Connolly HarperStudio, 2009. 227 pgs. Biography Kevin Connolly was born without legs. His paren...

Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance By Steven D. Levitt & Stephe...

Her Fearful Symmetry By Audrey Niffenegger Scribner, 2009. 406 pgs. Fiction When their all but unknown Aunt Elspeth dies of cancer, 20 ...

Bed in a Tree and Other Amazing Hotels from Around the World By Bettina Kowalewski DK. 2009. 239 pgs. Nonfiction A handpicked selection ...

One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding By Rebecca Mead Penguin Press. 2007. 234 pgs. Nonfiction In its nascence in the Ame...

The Forest of Hands and Teeth By Carrie Ryan Delacorte Press, 2009. 310 pgs. Young adult fiction. Raised in a small, isolated village am...

Confessions of a First Daughter By Cassidy Calloway HarperTeen, 2009. 214 pgs. Young Adult Morgan Abbott has some problems—her boyfrie...

A Curse as Dark as Gold By Elizabeth C. Bunce Arthur A. Levine Books, 2008. 395 pgs. Young Adult In this retelling of Rumpelstiltskin, C...

Feed By M.T. Anderson Candlewick Press, 2002. 237 pgs. Science Fiction In a future time, where most people have computer implants called...

The Miles Between By Mary E. Pearson Henry Holt, 2009. 266 pgs. Young Adult. Destiny believes in numbers and coincidences. She also b...

The Siege by Stephen White Dutton, 2009. 394 pgs. Fiction When several students from prominent families go missing towards the end of Ya...

The House of the Scorpion By Nancy Farmer Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2002. 380 pgs. Young Adult To most people, Matteo Alacran is...

Warbreaker By Brandon Sanderson Tor, 2009. 592 pgs. Fantasy Princess Vivenna’s entire life has been spent preparing to comply with her f...

The Burning Bridge By John Flanagan Philomel Books, 2006. 262 pgs. Young Adult Will and Horace are traveling through neighboring village...

In-N-Out Burger: a behind-the-counter look at the fast-food chain that breaks all the rules Stacy Perman Collins Business, c2009. 345 p. N...

A Touch of Dead By Charlaine Harris Ace Books, 2009. 192 pgs. Mystery This is a collection of the 5 previously published short stories s...

Falling off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization. By Alex Perry Bloomsbury Press, 2008. 352 pgs. Nonfiction Journal...

Fire by Kristin Cashore Dial Books. 2009. 461 pages. Young Adult In the Dells there are normal animals and then there are monster creatu...

Jane Brody’s Guide to the Great Beyond: a Practical Primer to Help You and Your Loved Ones Prepare Medically, Legally, and Emotionally for t...

The Path Between the Seas David McCullough Simon and Schuster,1977. 704 pgs.or 8 discs. non-fiction I truly admire David McCullough, his...

Monster By Walter Dean Myers HarperCollins , 1999. 281 pgs . Young Adult Sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon is on trial for a murder. Accused...

Confessions of a She-Fan: The Course of True Love with the New York Yankees By Jane Heller Rodale, 2009. 262 pgs. Nonfiction. When the N...

Courting Trouble By Deanne Gist Bethany House Publishers, 2007. 330 pages. Romance Esther Spreckelmeyer hates her last name and the ann...

Revenge of the Witch By Joseph Delaney Greenwillow Books, 2005. 344 pgs. Young Adult Tom is a seventh son of a seventh son, giving him t...