Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Books read and reviewed by librarians at the Provo City Library

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Three Black Swans

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Three Black Swans By Caroline B. Cooney Delacorte Press, 2010. 276 pgs. Young Adult Disturbed by something she hears on talk radio, Mi...

Behemoth

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Behemoth By Scott Westerfeld Simon Pulse, 2010. 485 pgs. Young Adult Behemoth continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an al...

The Girl Who Chased the Moon

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The Girl Who Chased the Moon By Sarah Addison Allen Bantam Books, 2010. 269 pgs. Fiction. Changing wallpaper and mysterious lights in th...

The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

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The Girl Who Fell From the Sky By Heidi W. Durrow Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010. 264 pgs. Fiction. Rachel identifies herself as ‘...

The Distant Hours

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The Distant Hours By Kate Morton Atria Books, 2010. 564 pgs. Fiction. A letter delivered 50 years late begins a chain of events that lead Ed...
Monday, November 22, 2010

A Man's Heart

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A Man's Heart By Lori Copeland Zondervan, 2010. 317 pgs. Romance Jules Matias has broken her engagement to Cruz Delgado not once but twi...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

Do It! Let's Get Off Our Buts

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Do It! Let's Get Off Our Buts By John-Roger & Peter McWilliams Prelude Press, 1991. 494 pgs. Nonfiction. This is a terrific moti...
Friday, November 19, 2010

Oh No She Didn't

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Oh No She Didn’t: The Top 100 Style Mistakes Women Make and How to Avoid Them By Clinton Kelly Gallery Books, 2010. 201 pgs. Nonfiction ...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

The Land

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The Land By Mildred Taylor Phyllis Fogelman Books, 2001. 375 pgs. Young Adult Paul-Edward Logan is the son of a black former slave and h...

Standing against the Wind

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Standing against the Wind By Traci L. Jones Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2006. 184 pgs. Young Adult Patrice Williams is smart, shy, and pro...

Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters

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Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters By Natalie Standiford Scholastic Press, 2010. 313 pgs. Young Adult Arden Louisa Norris Sullivan We...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Even Silence Has an End

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Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle By Ingrid Betancourt Penguin. Nonfiction. 528 pgs. Imagine...

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

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Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand By Helen Simonson Random House, 2010. 358 pgs. Fiction Can a village seeped in out-moded convention give an...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Why Don’t I Do the Things I Know Are Good For Me?

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Why Don’t I Do the Things I Know Are Good For Me? By BJ Gallagher Berkley Books, 2009. 253 pgs. Nonfiction We all know what we need to d...
Monday, November 15, 2010

Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment

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Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment By Tal Ben-Shahar McGraw-Hill, 2007. 192 pages. Nonfiction Tal Ben-Shaha...

Raising an American Girl: Parenting Advice for the Real World

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Raising an American Girl by Therese Maring Pleasant Company Publications. 2010. 173 pgs. Nonfiction If you are looking for practical adv...

Start Late, Finish Rich

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Start Late, Finish Rich By David Bach Broadway Books, 2005. 348 pgs. Nonfiction This book is very optimistic that no matter what age you...

Star Crossed

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Star Crossed By Elizabeth C. Bunce Arthur A. Levine Books, 2010. 359 pgs. Young Adult Foiled at their latest attempt at thievery, a wo...

Lafayette and the American Revolution

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Lafayette and the American Revolution By Russell Freedman Holiday House, 2010. 88 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction Freedman gives readers a b...

Bronx Masquerade

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Bronx Masquerade By Nikki Grimes Dial Books, 2001. 167 pgs. Young Adult A class of students in the Bronx has been studying the Harlem Re...

Travels in Siberia

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Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 529 pgs. Non-fiction. Finding himself suddenly infatuated with Russia...
Saturday, November 13, 2010

The House of Dead Maids

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The House of Dead Maids By Clare B. Dunkle Henry Holt, 2010. 146 pgs. Young Adult Eleven-year-old Tabby Aykroyd, who would later serve a...
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Friday, November 12, 2010

Grammar Smart

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Grammar Smart: An Audio Guide to Perfect Usage By Julian Fleisher Living Language, 2001. Nonfiction Sound Recording. This short tutorial...

Routes of Man

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Routes of Man: How Roads are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today By Ted Conover Alfred A. Knopf. 2010. 333 pgs. Routes of Man i...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Daughter of the Forest

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Daughter of the Forest By Juliet Marillier Tor Fantasy, 2000. 400 pgs. Fantasy Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Col...

Before My Heart Stops

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Before My Heart Stops: A Memoir By Paul Cardall Shadow Mountain, 2010. 275 pgs. Biography Paul Cardall has been one of my favorite musi...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Colorado Kid

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Colorado Kid By Stephen King Dorchester Pub., 2005. 184 pgs. Mystery Two old newspaper men running a small weekly newspaper on a tiny is...

The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay

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The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay By Beverly Jensen Viking, 2010. 307 pgs. Fiction Idella and Avis are sisters growing up on the harsh C...

The Lock Artist

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The Lock Artist By Steve Hamilton Minotaur Books, 2010. 304 pgs. Mystery Twenty years ago, at the age of eight, Michael experienced some...

Slam

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Slam By Walter Dean Myers Scholastic, Inc., 1996. 266 pgs. Young Adult Greg Harris, aka Slam, is an African American teen attending a p...
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