Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Sorcerers and Seers By Chris Heimerdinger Covenant Communications, 2010. 491 pgs. Young Adult The Hawkins and Plimpton families (and fri...

I’d Know You Anywhere By Laura Lippman William Morrow, 2010. 373 pgs. Fiction Lippman’s new piece of fiction was inspired by the sole su...

Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood With Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour By Lynne Olson Random House, 2010. 471 pgs. Nonfict...

A Match Made in High School By Kristin Walker Razorbill, 2009. 278 pgs. Young Adult Senior year isn't starting so well for Fiona She...

Flygirl By Sherri L. Smith G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2008. 275 pgs. Young Adult Ida Mae Jones just wants to fly. And when the need for p...

Lemon Tart : a Culinary Mystery By Josi Kilpack Deseret Book, 2009, 361 pages. Mystery Lemon Tart is the first of Josi Kilpack’s amateur...

Blizzard! By Jim Murphy Scholastic Press, 2000. 136 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction Murphy recounts the blizzard that hit the eastern United...

Does My Head Look Big in This? By Randa Abdel-Fattah Orchard Books, 2007. 360 pgs. Young Adult Amal, an Australian-Palestinian teenager,...

The Floating Girl By Sujata Massey Avon Books, 2000. 374 pages. Mystery. Rei (pronounced Ray) Shimura, is a Japanese-American woman livi...

The Cookbook Collector By Allegra Goodman Dial Press, 2010. 394 pgs. Fiction The Cookbook Collector is set on the East and West coasts...

Winter in June By Kathryn Miller Haines Harper, 2009. 320 pgs. Mystery The third book in the Rosie Winter mysteries travels with Rosie t...

Something Like Fate By Susane Colsanti Viking, 2010. 268 pgs. Young Adult Lani and Erin are best friends, linked by a car accident in th...

Temple Theology: An Introduction By Margaret Barker Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2004. 104 pgs. Nonfiction This is a fasci...

The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, & Bench-Clearing Brawls: the Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime by Jason Turbow wi...

Ghostopolis by Doug TenNapel Scholastic, 2010. 266 pgs. Young Adult Scholastic's Graphix imprint has produced some terrific titles f...

My Invisible Boyfriend By Susie Day Scholastic Press, 2010. 275 pgs. Young Adult With the new school year starting, fifteen-year-old He...

The Deadly Sister By Eliot Schrefer Scholastic, 2010. 310 pgs. Young Adult Abby Goodwin is the responsible older child; Maya is the drug...

Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth By James M. Tabor Random House, 2010. 286 pgs. Nonfiction The supercaves...

Jane By April Lindner Little, Brown, 2010. 375 pgs. Young Adult In the modernized retelling of Jane Eyre , Mr. Rochester is Nico Rathbur...

I’m with Fatty: Losing 50 pounds in 50 miserable weeks By Edward Ugel Weinstein Books, 2010. 244 p. Biography Some people have a bit of ...

The Mapping of Love and Death By Jacqueline Winspear Harper, 2010. 338 p. Mystery Maps are fascinating objects and the making of them re...

Surviving the Angel of Death By Eva Moses and Lisa Rojany Buccieri Tanglewood Pub., 2009. 141 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction Ten-year-old ...

Freak Magnet By Andrew Auseon HarperTeen, 2010. 297 pgs. Young Adult Some people would call Charlie a freak. He loves astronomy and i...

And Then There Were None By Agatha Christie St. Martin’s Press, 1939. 275 pgs. Mystery When ten people arrive on private Indian Island o...

The Way of Kings By Brandon Sanderson Tor Books, 2010. 1007 pgs. Fantasy This is the first in Brandon Sanderson's new epic series, T...

Dark Song By Gail Giles Little, Brown, 2010. 292 pgs. Young Adult Fifteen-year-old Ames is used to a privileged life--she lives in a nic...

Wasatch Wildflowers: A Field Guide By Steve Hegji Cedar Fort, 2010. 207 pgs. Nonfiction I wouldn’t normally review a short book about wi...

Sh*t My Dad Says By Justin Halpern It Books, 2010. 176 pages. Nonfiction Halpern began collecting and posting the crusty quotes from his...

Juliet By Anne Fortier Ballantine Books, 2010. 447 pgs. Fiction Moving back and forth between historical events and modern day, this boo...

The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise By Julia Stuart Doubleday, 2010. 304 pgs. Fiction Balthazar Jones and his wife Hebe live in the Tow...