Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Around the World in 80 Dinners: The Ultimate Culinary Adventure By Cheryl & Bill Jamison William Morrow, 2008. 258 pgs. Nonfiction Cul...

Hero By Mike Lupica Philomel Books, 2010. 289 pgs. Young Adult Zach Harriman's father was the President's globe-trotting troubleshoo...

Thanksgiving: The True Story By Penny Colman Henry Holt, 2008. 149 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction Although most Americans have probably learned...

The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding by Sarah Burns Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 240 pgs. Nonfiction On April 20, 1989, an injured...

Hourglass By Myra McEntire Egmont, 2011. 390 pgs. Young Adult For several years, Emerson Cole has seen ghosts from the past, and she can...

Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived By Ralph Helfer HarperCollins, 1997. 325 pgs. Nonfiction Modoc is the joint b...

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain HarperCollins, 2000, pgs. 312. Non-fiction This is a fun boo...

Crossed By Ally Condie Dutton Books, 2011. 384 pgs. Young Adult Fiction At the end of Matched , Cassia’s world completely crumbled. Her fami...

Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and ...

Seriously…I’m Kidding By Ellen Degeneres Grand Central Pub., 2011. 241 pgs. Biography Ellen’s got a new book, and it’s pretty funny. In ...

Heat Rises By Richard Castle Hyperion, 2011. 320 pgs. Mystery Police investigator Nikki Heat’s career is on the rise. She is up for a big...

52 Loaves:One Man’s Relentless Pursuit of Truth, Meaning, and a Perfect Crust By William Alexander Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 2010. 3...

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach Little, Brown, 2011. 512 pgs. Fiction. Chad Harbach's novel is so accomplished and so well-knit,...

The Girl Is Murder By Kathryn Miller Haines Roaring Book Press, 2011. 342 pgs. Young Adult It's the fall of 1942 in New York City, a...

The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared By Alice Ozma Grand Central Publishing, 2011. 279 pgs. Nonfiction Alice Ozma’s fa...

Girls Don't Fly By Kristen Chandler Viking, 2011. 300 pgs. Young Adult High school senior Myra--after getting dumped by her perfect ...

The Death Cure By James Dashner Delacorte Press, 2011. 325 pgs. Young Adult Thomas knows that WICKED can't be trusted, but they say ...

Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings Scribner, 2011. 276 pgs. Nonfiction This is a book all about ...

Dreams of Joy by Lisa See Random House, 2011. 354 pgs . Fiction Dreams of Joy picks up the story of sisters Pearl and May where Shanghai...

America’s Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation By Kenneth C. Davi...

Variant By Robison Wells Harper Teen, 2011. 376 pgs. Young Adult After years in foster homes, seventeen-year-old Benson Fisher applies t...

The Leftovers By Tom Perrotta St. Martin’s Press, 2011. 355 pgs. Fiction The premise of The Leftovers is absolutely brilliant. What w...

The Twelfth Enchantment By David Liss Random House, 2011. 398 pgs. Fiction Lucy Derrick is the charming heroine of David Liss’s new boo...

The Lady of Bolton Hill By Elizabeth Camden Bethany House, 2011. 334 pgs. Fiction As teenagers, Daniel Tremain and Clara Endicott's ...

When the Elephants Dance By Tess Uriza Holthe Crown, 2002. 368 pgs. Fiction Set in the Philippines during WWII, this is the story of one...

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis Norton, 2011. 213 pgs. Nonfiction. It is hard to find the International Debt...

Happy like Jesus By D. Kelly Ogden Deseret Book, 2011. 134 pgs. Nonfiction In eighteen brief chapters, Ogden provides simple lessons abo...

Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life By Jenna Woginrich Storey Publishing, 2009. 184 pgs. Nonfiction Woginric...

Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante Atlantic Monthly Press, 2011. 307 pgs. Mystery Is the perfect murder the one you can't forget or the ...

Snobs By Julian Fellowes BBC Audiobooks America, 2005. 9 CDs. Fiction Edith Lavery is the daughter of a moderately successful English ac...