Provo City Library Staff Reviews

All that was Promised by Vickie Hall Cedar Fort, 2011. 240 pgs. Fiction Methodist minister Richard Kenyon has a comfortable life with hi...

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Crown, 2011. 372 pgs. Science Fiction What a gas! Ready Player One is so much fun to read you'll w...

Back When You Were Easier to Love By Emily Wing Smith Dutton Books, 2011. 296 pgs. Young Adult When Joy moved to Haven, Utah, she quickl...

Across the Universe By Beth Revis Penguin, 2011. 398 pages. Science Fiction Along with her parents, seventeen-year-old Amy is cryogenica...

Science Fair Season: Twelve Kids, a Robot Named Scorch . . And What it Takes to Win by Judy Dutton Hyperion, 2011. 271 pgs. Non-fiction. ...

Inés of My Soul By Isabel Allende HarperCollins, 2006, 321 pages, Historical Fiction This is the story of Doña Inés Suárez, the foundin...

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman Anchor, 2007, 352 pages, Fiction This story gives a realistic view of the immens...

Anya’s Ghost By Vera Brosgol First Second, 2011. 221 pgs. Young Adult Anya is a Russian immigrant who has worked hard to fit in in Ameri...

Roadside Assistance By Amy Clipston Zondervan, 2011. 278 pgs. Young Adult Emily’s mother died from cancer and the medical bills ended u...

Requiem: Poems of the Terezin Ghetto By Paul B. Janeczko Candlewick Press, 2011. 102 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction This is a collection ...

A Weekend with Mr. Darcy By Victoria Connelly Sourcebooks Landmark, 2011. 345 pgs. Romance At a weekend conference on Jane Austen, roman...

Still Missing by Chevy Stevens St. Martin's Press, 2010. 342 pgs. Mystery Interwoven with the story of the year Annie spent as the c...

Shanghai Girls by Lisa See Random House, 2009. 314 pgs. Fiction May and Pearl, two sisters living in Shanghai in the mid-1930s, are beau...

Page by Paige By Laura Lee Gulledge Amulet Books, 2011. 1 volume (unpaged). Young Adult The unfortunately named Paige Turner has just mo...

Daughter of Helaman By Misty Moncur Bonneville Books, 2011. 201 pgs. Young Adult Although Keturah is of marrying age, she has no intenti...

Out of Shadows By Jason Wallace Holiday House, 2011. 282 pgs. Young Adult In 1983, Robert Jacklin and his parents have just moved to Zim...

Possession By Elana Johnson Simon Pulse, 2011. 405 pgs. Young Adult In a world where Thinkers control the population and Rules are not m...

Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World by Robin Wright Simon and Schuster, 2011. 307 pgs. Non-Fiction. Robin Wrigh...

The Summer I Learned to Fly By Dana Reinhardt Wendy Lamb Books, 2011. 216 pgs. Young Adult Thirteen-year-old Drew is a bit different tha...

Sister By Rosamund Lupton Random House, 2011. 336 pgs. Mystery. Beatrice lives in New York, an ocean from her only sister Tess, a poor a...

Rules of Civility By Amor Towles Viking, 2011. 334 pgs. Historical Fiction. The year is 1938 and the city is New York. America is jus...

City of Veils By Zoe Ferraris Houghton Mifflin, 2011. 393 pgs. Mystery In City of Veils, Nayir, a desert guide, and Katya, a medical exa...

33 Men: Inside the Miraculous Survival and Dramatic Rescue of the Chilean Miners By Jonathan Franklin G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2011. 307 p...

Then Came You By Jennifer Weiner Atria Books, 2011. 352 pgs. Fiction This is a story of four women. Each one is at a turning point in...

Escape--Teens on the Run By Linda Jacobs Altman Enslow Publishers, 2010. 128 pgs . Young Adult Nonfiction Based on primary research, th...

Your Happily Ever After By Dieter F. Uchtdorf Deseret Book, 2011. 57 pgs. Nonfiction Sometimes we need a reminder that life was never al...

The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette’s Journey to Cuba By Margarita Engle Henry Holt and Compay, 2010. 151 pgs. Young Adult The Firefly Le...

Clara and Mr. Tiffany By Susan Vreeland Random House, 2011. 405 pgs. Historical Fiction Clara Driscoll lived during an exciting and tu...

The Art of Racing in the Rain By Garth Stein Harper, 2008. 321 pgs. Fiction Enzo, a lab terrier mix, is adopted as a puppy by a race ca...

Next to Love By Ellen Feldman Spiegel & Grau, 2011. 292 pgs. Fiction Babe, Grace, and Millie are all young, deeply in love, and rece...