Provo City Library Staff Reviews

The Good Father by Noah Hawley Doubleday, 2012. 305 pgs. Fiction Dr. Paul Allen, a successful doctor in New York, is home with his fam...

Perla by Carolina De Robertis Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. 235 pgs. Fiction While Perla was growing up in Buenos Aires during the years afte...

Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.  499 pgs.  Nonfiction Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman has sp...

Her Majesty: Queen Elizabeth II and Her Court By Robert Hardman Pegasus Books, 2012. 356 pgs. Biography. This is the year of the Queen...

Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun By Paul M. Barrett Crown Pub., 2012.  291 pgs.  Nonfiction American’s gun was created by an Austrian ...

A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty By Joshilyn Jackson Grand Central Pub., 2012.  322 pgs.  Fiction Ginny was only 15 years old when she had he...

Bill Bryson's African Diary By Bill Bryson Broadway Books, 2002. 47 pgs. Nonfiction Invited by CARE International to see first han...

Hedy’s Folly:The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World By Richard Rhodes Doubleday, 201...

The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen Penguin, 2012. 290 pgs. Non-fiction      Who doesn't k...

Dreaming of Mr. Darcy By Victoria Connelly Sourcebooks Landmark, 2012. 360 pgs. Romance An unexpected inheritance gives Kay Ashton the...

Life's Lessons Learned By Dallin H. Oaks Deseret Book, 2011. 165 pgs. Biography In a series of short anecdotes, Dallin H. Oaks sha...

World War I: The Great War and the World it Made by John Ramsden Recorded Books, 2004. 7 discs. Nonfiction This excellent series of 14...

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity By David AllenViking, 2001. 267 pgs. Nonfiction You know you need to read a book...

Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That? A Guide to Modern Manners by Henry Alford Twelve, 2012. 242 pgs. Nonfiction. Henry Alford notes ...

Always the Designer, Never the Bride By Sandra D. Bricker Abingdon Press, 2012. 318 pgs. Fiction The characters from the Tanglewo...

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddows Crown, 2012. 288 pgs. Nonfiction In this concise and well-written bo...

No Horizon Is So Far By Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft Da Capo Press, 2003. 253 pgs. Nonfiction Liv and Ann grew up across the worl...

How to Save a Life By Sarah Zarr Little, Brown, 2011. 341 pgs. Young Adult Jill is a senior in high school when her mother decides she...

The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from MyFrontier By Ree Drummond William Morrow, 2012. 293 pgs. Nonfiction Are you looking for some...

Grave Mercy By Robin LaFevers Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2012. 549 pgs. Young Adult. Ismae, the daughter of Death himself, i...

Embrace By Jessica Shirvington Sourcebooks Fire, 2012. 374 pgs. Young Adult Violet Eden has long loved her friend Lincoln, but he sees h...

Article 5 By Kristen Simmons Tor Teen, 2012. 364 pgs. Young Adult After the War, the Federal Bureau of Reformation started cracking down...

Defending Jacob by William Landay Delacourte, 2012. 421 pgs. Mystery Andy Barber has been a successful district attorney in his small Ma...

Heaven Is Here By Stephanie Nielson Hyperion, 2012. 310 pgs. Biography. Heaven is Here follows the story of Stephanie Nielson and her fa...

Where Things Come Back By John Corey Whaley Atheneum, 2011. 228 pgs. Young Adult Winner of the American Library Association's Willia...

Rock On By Denise Vega Little, Brown and Company, 2012. 296 pgs. Young Adult Orion Taylor, lead singer, guitarist and songwriter for a b...

Boy21 By Matthew Quick Little, Brown, and Company. 2012. 250 pgs. Young Adult Living in Bellmont, PA, where the Irish mob rules, Finley ...

Edge of Dark Water by Joe R. Lansdale Little, Brown, 2012. 292 pgs. Mystery When Sue Ellen, Terry, and Jinx's friend May Lynn is pu...

To Hope and Back: The Journey of the St. Louis By Kathy Kacer Second Story Press, 2011. 204 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction In 1939, over 90...

Getting Over Garrett Delaney By Abby McDonald Candlewick Press, 2012. 319 pgs. Young Adult From the moment she met him, Sadie knew that ...