Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Gimme A Call By Sarah Mlynowski Delacorte Press, 2010. 307 pgs. Young Adult A new life is just a phone call away! Devi's life isn...

Love, Football, and Other Contact Sports By Alden R. Carter Holiday House, 2006. 261 pgs. Young Adult This is a series of interconnected...

We Shall Overcome: A Song that Changed the World By Stuart Stotts Clarion Books, 2010. 72 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction Stuart Stotts pres...

A Sweet Disorder By Jacqueline Kolosov Hyperion, 2009. 418 pgs. Young Adult Miranda’s perfect life comes crashing down when her father...

Stones into Schools Greg Mortenson Viking, 2009. 402 p. Nonfiction “ If you educate a boy, you educate an individual. If you educate a g...

The Maze Runner By James Dashner Delacorte Press, 2009. 375 pgs. Young Adult When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can rem...

Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art By Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo Penguin Press, 2009, 327 Pages, N...

Nobody's Princess By Esther Friesner Random House, 2007. 305 pgs. Young Adult Helen of Sparta (who will someday be known as Helen of...

The Accidental Bestseller By Wendy Wax Berkley Books, 2009. 419 pgs. Fiction Years ago four aspiring authors met at their very first wri...

Finnikin of the Rock By Melina Marchetta Candlewick Press, 2010. 399 pgs. Young Adult Eight-year-old Finnikin of the Rock pledges with...

The Big Book of Church Jokes By Len Jones and Dennis Daniel Barbour Pub., 2009. 367 p. Nonfiction If you or your Sunday School could use...

Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes go Hilariously Wrong By Jen Yates Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, 2009. 191 p. Nonfiction You know ...

The House at Riverton By Kate Morton Atria Books, 2008. 473 pgs. Fiction Grace Bradley began working at Riverton House as a maid before ...

I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced By Nujood Ali and Delphine Minoui Three Rivers Press, 2010. 188 pgs. Biography In an honest and heart b...

Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire By J. McIver Weatherford Crown Publishers, 2010....

Peace Like a River By Leif Enger Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001. 313 pgs . Historical Fiction Eleven-year-old Reuben Land has a special fa...

Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near Death Experiences Jeffrey Long, MD w/ Paul Perry HarperOne, 2010. 215 p. Nonfiction There...

The Postmistress By Sarah Blake Amy Einhorn Books/G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2010. 326 pgs. Fiction Iris James is a straightforward, pla...

The River By Mary Jane Beaufrand Little, Brown and Co., 2010. 215 pgs. Young Adult Ronnie can’t wait for the day she is back in Portla...

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis Norton, 2010. 266 pgs. Non-fiction. The love of money certainly turns out t...

This World We Live In By Susan Beth Pfeffer Harcourt, 2010. 239 pgs. Young Adult It's been a year since a meteor collided with the mo...

The Piano Teacher By Janice Y. K. Lee Viking, 2009. 328 pgs. Fiction The Piano Teacher explores two love affairs which take place in Ho...

Airborn By Kenneth Oppel Eos, 2004. 355 pgs. Young Adult Matt Cruse, a cabin boy aboard the airship Aurora, proves to the captain that h...

Cards on the Table By Agatha Christie Berkley Books, 1984. 226 pgs. Mystery Hercule Poirot is invited to attend a dinner party at the ec...

A Lesson before Dying By Ernest J. Gaines A.A. Knopf, 1993. 256 pgs. Fiction When Miss Emma's godson Jefferson is on trial and sente...

Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World By Claire Harman Henry Holt & Co., 2010. Biography Jane Austen. Her name is famil...

Mrs. Mike: The Story of Katherine Mary Flannigan By Benedict and Nancy Freedman Coward-McCann,1947. 312 pgs. Fiction Katherine Mary is s...

The Art of Choosing By Sheena Iyengar Twelve, 2010. 329 pgs. Nonfiction Why would a person choose to eat more chili flavored yogurt if i...

The Swan Thieves Elizabeth Kostova Little, Brown and Co., 2010. 564 p. Fiction The reverence of art is a tranquil occupation in D.C.’s N...

Gateway By Sharon Shinn Viking, 2009. 280 p. Young Adult Transported to another world through the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Daiyu mee...