Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Scarlet By A.C. Gaughen Walker & Co., 2012. 292 pgs. Young Adult Will Scarlet is Robin Hood's right-hand man, an expert thief,...

Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi Harper, 2012. 376 pgs. Young Adult Fiction Aria is part of a group of people known as dwellers w...

How We Got the Book of Mormon By Richard E. Turley, Jr. and William W. Slaughter Deseret Book, 2011. 154 pages. Nonfiction. The stated...

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay By Michael Chabon Picador/Random House, 2000. 648 pages. Fiction Joe Kavalier escapes from...

Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen Clio Press, 1991. 234 pgs. Fiction Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is given the opportunity to go...

Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson Grove Press, 2011.  230 pgs. Biography      Suppose you were adopted by a...

Darker than Any Shadow By Tina Whittle Poisoned Pen Press, 2012. 291 pgs. Mystery Tai owns and operates her deceased uncle’s gun store...

Behind the Beautiful Forevers By Katherine Boo Random House,2012. 256 pgs. Nonfiction. “Beautiful Forever!“ proclaims the floo...

The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.  442 pgs. Mystery      Devastated by his exper...

Notes from a Small Island By Bill Bryson Morrow, 1995. 324 pgs. Nonfiction About to return to the States after twenty years of living ...

Expats By Chris Pavone Crown, 2012. 327 pgs. Fiction Quitting her job is only the first major change required of Kate when her husband’...

Technologists By Matthew Pearl Random House, 2012. 480 pgs. Fiction In 1868 the Civil War was finally over and Bostonians, and American...

The Amityville Horror By Jay Anson Pocket Star Books, 1977 (1991). 239 pgs. Nonfiction. When the Lutz family moved into 112 Ocean Aven...

The Mental Floss History of the World By Eric Sass New York: Collins Publishing, 2008, 416 pgs, Nonfiction The authors of this entert...

Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore Dial Books, 2012. 563 pgs. Young Adult Fiction This is considered a sequel to Graceling and a companion...

Black Heart by Holly Black Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2012. 296 pgs. Young Adult Fiction Cassel Sharpe is trying to do the right thi...

What Money Can't Buy:  The Moral Limits of Markets By Michael J. Sandel Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. 244 pgs. Nonfiction Black...

The Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare Margaret K. McElderry Books, 502 pgs. Young Adult Fiction Cassandra Clare’s popular Mortal Ins...

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life and Business by Charles Duhigg Random House, 2012. 371 pgs. Nonfiction Charles Duhigg...

New: Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change by Winifred Gallagher Penguin Press, 2012. 250 pgs. Nonfiction In her newest book, a...

A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 By Simon Winchester HarperCollins, 2005. 462 pgs. ...

The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great By Eva Stachniak Bantam Books, 2012.  444 pgs.  Historical Fiction Left an orphan in...

Raylan By Elmore Leonard William Morrow, 2012. 263 pgs. Mystery Raylan Givens is a U.S. Marshall recently reassigned to his hometown i...

The Serpent's Shadow By Rick Riordan Disney/Hyperion, 2012. 406 pgs. Young Adult Carter and Sadie Kane have only a few days to sav...

Edenbrooke: A Proper Romance By Julianne Donaldson Shadow Mountain, 2012. 264 pgs. Romance After her mother's death, Marianne Dave...

Before the Poison By Peter Robinson William Morrow, 2012.  358 pgs.  Mystery After enjoying a successful career in California, Yorkshi...

The Garden Intrigue By Lauren Willig Dutton, 2012.  388 pgs.  Fiction American expat Emma Delagardie has been living in Paris since th...

Insurgent By Veronica Roth Katherine Tegen Books, 2012. 525 pgs. Young Adult Now that the Erudite faction has wiped out much of the Ab...

The Pregnancy Project By Gaby Rodriguez Simon & Schuster, 2012. 218 pgs. Biography. Gaby has been surrounded by the topic of ...

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...