Provo City Library Staff Reviews

The Mountain of the Lord By Chad S. Hawkins Deseret Book, 2010. 130 pgs. Nonfiction Chad Hawkins shares brief stories about miracles and oth...

The Devil's Rooming House By M. William Phelps Lyons Press, 2010. 303 pgs. Biography Amy Archer-Gilligan is the deadliest female serial ...

Sapphique By Catherine Fisher Dial Books, 2010. 462 pgs. Young Adult Finn has escaped from Incarceron, but his assent to the throne in t...

Payback Time By Carl Deuker Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. 298 pgs. Young Adult Disappointed when he is not elected editor of his hi...

Locked Up: A History of the U.S. Prison System By Laura B. Edge Twenty-First Century Books, 2009. 112 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction I wasn...

Annexed By Sharon Dogar Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. 341 pgs. Young Adult Peter Van Pels and his family are stuck hiding in an annex...

As Easy As Falling Off the Face of the Earth By Lynne Rae Perkins Green Willow Books. 2010. 353 pgs. Young Adult A teenaged boy encounte...

Bro-Jitsu: The Martial Art of Sibling Smackdown By Daniel H. Wilson Bloomsbury. 2010. 151 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction Practiced by count...

The Best Girl By Emma Harrison HarperTeen, 2008. 275 pgs. Young Adult Farrah Jane Morris has reinvented herself during her first semester of...

Traitor By Sanda Grey Covenant Communications, 2008. 372 pgs. Historical fiction American Marie Jacobson parachutes into France to join ...

Bittersweet By Cathy Marie Hake Bethany House, 2007. 399 pgs. Historical fiction Laney McCain has had her heart set on Galen O'Sulli...

Letter Perfect By Cathy Marie Hake Bethany House, 2006. 379 pgs. Historical fiction Ruth Caldwell has been kicked out of the latest in a...

The Christmas Letters: A Timeless Story for Every Generation By Bret Nicholaus Center Street, 2006. 80 pages. Fiction. If you are lookin...

Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone By Martha Ackmann Lawrence Hill Books, 2010. 274 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction Toni Stone wa...

And the Pursuit of Happiness by Maira Kalman Penguin, 2010. 471 pgs. Non-Fiction. When NPRs Michelle Block was trying to interview Maira ...

The Lilies of the Field By William E. Barrett Grand Central Pub, 1995. 127 pgs. Fiction Homer Smith, a rambling ex-GI working at odd job...

Remarkable Creatures By Tracy Chevalier Dutton, 2010. 312 pages. Fiction Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with a Pearl Earring , bases he...

A Girl Named Mister By Nikki Grimes Zondervan, 2010. 223 pages. Young Adult. Fourteen-year-old Mister (short for M.R., which is in turn ...

Pegasus By Robin McKinley G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2010. 404 pgs. Young Adult In a land where pegasi and humans co-exist and some pega...

Secret Santa By Sabrina James Point, 2007. 357 pgs. Young Adult When North Ridge High School decides to hold a Secret Santa exchange, it...

The Secret Society of the Pink Crystal Ball By Risa Green Sourcebooks Fire, 2010. 315 pgs. Young Adult Erin Channing's favorite aunt...

A Tailor-Made Bride By Karen Witemeyer Bethany House, 2010. 348 pgs. Romance Hannah Richards moves to Coventry, Texas to follow her drea...

Murder by Design By Betsy Brannon Green Covenant Communications, 2010.239 pgs. Mystery Kennedy Killingsworth becomes involved in her sec...

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe By Charles Yu Pantheon Books, 2010. 239 pgs. Science Fiction. Charles is a time mac...

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating By Elisabeth Tova Bailey Algonquin Book of Chapel Hill, 2010. 190 pgs. Nonfiction While in her early ...

Entice By Carrie Jones Bloomsbury, 2010. 266 pgs. Young Adult Zara White is desperate to get her boyfriend Nick back from Valhalla, a my...

Smile By Raina Telgemeier Scholastic, 2010. 214 pgs. Young Adult Comics An autobiography in graphic novel format describes how the autho...

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares By Rachel Cohn and David Levithan Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. 260 pgs. Young Adult Lily loves Christmas...

Donut Days By Lara Zielin G.P. Putnam's Son, 2009. 246 pgs. Young Adult Emma's life is spinning out of control. Her parents are ...

November Blues By Sharon Draper Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2007. 316 pgs. Young Adult High schooler November's boyfriend Josh...