Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Carver: A Life in Poems By Marilyn Nelson Front Street, 2001. 103 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction In a series of poems, Marilyn Nelson provides ...

Like Sisters on the Homefront By Rita Williams-Garcia Lodestar Books, 1995. 165 pgs. Young Adult Fourteen-year-old Gayle's mother has ha...

Great House By Nicole Krauss W.W. Norton & Co., 2010. 289 pgs. Fiction A huge desk with an array of drawers and a powerful presence pla...

Room: A Novel By Emma Donoghue Little, Brown, and Co., 2010. 321 pgs. Fiction Five-year-old Jack narrates a riveting story about his life ...

Naked Heat By Richard Castle Hyperion, 2010. 290 pgs. Mystery NYPD detective Nikki Heat was recently thrust into the limelight when an arti...

Jekel Loves Hyde By Beth Fantaskey Harcourt, 2010. 282 pgs. Young Adult After her father is convicted of stealing money from his company and...

Bloodthirsty By Flynn Meaney Poppy, 2010. 234 pgs. Young Adult Finbar is tired of living in the shadow of his popular, athletic twin brother...

Girl, Stolen By April Henry Henry Holt, 2010. 213 pgs. Young Adult Griffin sees the car keys left in the new Escalade and steals the car wi...

Bright Young Things By Anna Godbersen Harper, 2010. 389 pgs. Young Adult Cordelia and Letty are too big for their small Ohio farm town. S...

Zumba: Ditch the Workout, Join the Party! By Beto Perez Wellness Central, 2009. 289 p. Nonfiction Zumba, anyone? (pronounced Zoom-bah) If yo...

I Am a Strange Loop By Douglas Hofstadter Basic Books, 2008, 412 pgs. Nonfiction In I Am a Strange Loop , Douglas Hofstadter says he is t...

At Home: A Short History of Private Life By Bill Bryson Doubleday, 2010. 497 p. Nonfiction “Home is where the heart is” said John McLeod and...

Hitler's Holy Relics: A True Story of Nazi Plunder and the Race to Recover the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire By Sidney Kirkpatr...

The Charming Quirks of Others By Alexander McCall Smith Pantheon Books, 2010. 256 p. Mystery “One should never mislead a friend, or an e...

I Shall Wear Midnight By Terry Pratchett Harper, 2010. 355 pgs. Young Adult Tiffany first notices the rough music when one of the loca...

Rich Boy By Sharon Pomerantz Twelve 2010. 517 pgs. Fiction Robert Vishniak was born to a working-class, Jewish family in Philadelphia ...

Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything By Geneen Roth Scribner, 2010. 211 pgs. Nonfiction In Women, Food and God,...

The Scorch Trials By James Dashner Delacorte Press, 2010. 361 pgs. Young Adult In the second book of The Maze Runner series, Thomas has ...

Forge By Laurie Halse Anderson Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2010. 297 pgs. Young Adult Curzon, a recently escaped slave, has parted...

Tomb of the Golden Bird By Elizabeth Peters William Morrow, 2006. 381 pgs. Mystery Elizabeth Peters is a pseudonym for Barbara Mertz, wh...

Shades of Milk and Honey By Mary Robinette Kowal Tor, 2010. 304 pgs. Fantasy. Ever wonder why all those women fainted back in Regency En...

Lost in Austen: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure by Emma Campbell Webster Riverhead Books, 2007. 352 pgs. Fiction Your name: Elizab...

Copper Sun By Sharon Draper Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006. 302 pgs. Young Adult Amari's life changes forever when her Afric...

The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, and June By Robin Benway Razorbill, 2010. 281 pgs. Young Adult Following their parents divorce,...

Divinely Designed By Rachael Renee Anderson Bonneville Books, 2009. 182 pgs. Romance En route to Tempe, Arizona where she'll be star...

House of Learning: Getting More from Your Temple Experience By M. Richard and Kathleen H. Walker Deseret Book. 2010. 128 pgs. Nonfiction ...

834 Kitchen Quick Tips: Techniques and Shortcuts For the Curious Cook America’s Test Kitchen. 2006. 585 pgs. Nonfiction The Editor’s of C...

One Day By David Nicholls Vintage Books, 2010. 437 pgs. Fiction Dexter and Emma meet on graduation day in Edinburgh and share the nigh...

Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception By Charles Seife Viking, 2010. 295 pgs. Nonfiction. Each day we encounter statistics...

Mare's War By Tanita S. Davis Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 341 pgs. Young Adult Octavia and Tali, teenage sisters, are not excited about t...