Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Tears of Pearl By Tasha Alexander Minotaur Boos, 2009. 307 pgs. Mystery. Set in the late 19th century, the fourth book in this detective...

Supernaturally By Kiersten White HarperTeen, 2011. 342 pgs. Young Adult In the second book in the Paranormalcy series, Evie, living out...

The Kiss of a Stranger By Sarah M. Eden Covenant Communications, 2011. 252 pgs. Romance Crispin Handle, Lord Carvatt, is not at all impr...

Girls in White Dresses By Jennifer Close Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 293 pgs. Fiction These are the adventures of Isabella, Mary, Lauren and ...

Untold Story by Monica Ali Scribner, 2011. 259 pg. Fiction What if Princess Diana had actually faked her own death and escaped to Americ...

Faith by Jennifer Haigh Harper, 2011. 318 pgs. Fiction It is the spring of 2002 and priests across Boston are being accused of sexual ab...

Queen of Hearts By Martha Brooks Farrar Straus Giroux, 2011. 214 pgs. Young Adult In 1940s Canada, tuberculosis rages across the count...

The Limit By Kristen Landon Aladdin, 2010. 291 pgs. Young Adult When his family exceeds its legal debt limit, thirteen-year-old Matt is ...

A Bitter Truth By Charles Todd William Morrow, 2011. 340 pgs. Mystery Bess Crawford is home for Christmas, on leave from her nursing d...

Wolf Mark By Joseph Bruchac Tu Books, 2011. 377 pgs. Young Adult Luke King has always been different—how could he not be when he’s grown...

Forever (Wolves of Mercy Falls, book 3) By Maggie Stiefvater Scholastic Press, 2011. 390 pgs. Young Adult Fiction Maggie Steifvater writ...

Adrenaline By Jeff Abbott Grand Central Pub., 2011. 400 pgs. Fiction Sam Capra’s life is almost perfect. He has a beautiful wife he love...

Bucking the Sarge By Christopher Paul Curtis Wendy Lamb Books, 2004. 259 pgs. Young Adult Fourteen-year-old Luther wants to become a phi...

So Much Closer By Susane Colasanti Viking, 2011. 241 pgs. Young Adult Scott Abrams is the love of Brooke's life. She knows it. But h...

Thick as Thieves By Peter Spiegelman Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 295 pgs. Mystery. Carr was recruited from the CIA into a ring of thieves by ...

Blood Wounds By Susan Beth Pfeffer Harcourt, 2011. 248 pgs. Young Adult Willa seems to have a perfect life as a member of a loving blend...

The Magicians By Lev Grossman Viking, 2009. 402 pgs. Fantasy. Quentin has spent his entire life waiting for the ‘something more’ he inst...

Paradise By Jill S. Alexander Feiwel and Friends, 2011. 250 pgs. Young Adult fiction Paisley Tillery is dead set on achieving her dreams...

Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story of the Most Audacious Heist in History Ben Mezrich New York : Doubleday, 2011. 308 pgs, Nonfiction Th...

I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade Diane Lee Wilson Orchard Books, 1998. 232 pgs . YA Oyuna , while a toddler, had her foot crushed by a ...

Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis by Lisa Sanders Broadway Books, 2009. 276 pgs. Nonfiction Sander...

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. 116 pgs. Fiction. Robert Grainier was born in the West in the late 1800s...

Seeking Persephone By Sarah M. Eden Covenant Communications, 2011. 280 pgs. Romance Adam Boyce, the Duke of Kielder, has no intention of...

Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet below the Chilean Desert By Marc Aronson Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2011. ...

Declaring Spinsterhood By Jamie Lynn Braziel AmazonEncore, 2010. 227 pgs. Romance Tired of the dating scene and being nagged by her moth...

Wrapped By Jennifer Bradbury Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2011. 309 pgs. Young Adult Agnes Wilkins loves to read and learn languag...

The Girl in the Gatehouse By Julie Klassen Bethany House, 2010. 391 pgs. Historical fiction Miss Mariah Aubrey, banished after a scandal...

The Warrior Heir By Cinda Williams Chima Hyperion Books for Children, 2006. 426 pgs. Young Adult Jack’s ordinary life turns quite extr...

The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen, translated from the Danish by Lisa Hartford Dutton, 2011. 396 pgs. Mystery. When Carl M...

The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor by Mark Seal Viking, 2011. 323 pgs. Nonfic...