Provo City Library Staff Reviews

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Penguin Books, 2010. 120 pgs. Fiction A young woman is hired to be the governess of two orphaned ...

Yesterday's Dead By Pat Bourke Second Story Press, c2012. 256 pgs. Young Adult Meredith has dreamed of becoming a teacher, but her...

Rachel's Secret By Shelly Sanders Second Story Press, 2012. 248 pgs. Young Adult Rachel is a Jewish girl living in Russia in 190...

Istanbul Passage by Joseph Kanon Simon & Schuster, 2012. 404 pgs. Mystery Shortly after World War II, Leon Bauer, an on and off od...

Keep Holding On By Susane Colasanti Viking, 2012. 202 pgs. Young Adult Noelle's entire life is pretty much miserable. With her mot...

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel Henry Holt & Co., 2012, 410 pgs. Fiction I liked this book, the sequel to Wolf Hall, though ...

Just Send Me Word:  A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag by Orlando Figes Henry Holt, 2012.  329 pgs. Nonfiction. Lev Mishch...

Pilgrims Don't Wear Pink By Stephanie Kate Strohm Graphia/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. 204 pgs. Young Adult Libby Kelting is a...

The House I Loved By Tatiana de Rosnay St. Martin’s Press, 2012. 222 pgs. Fiction Tatiana de Rosnay’s new novel reveals another less f...

The Cove By Ron Rash Ecco, 2012.  255 pgs.  Fiction Laurel Shelton has spent her entire life in a secluded cove deep in the Appa...

The Selection By Kiera Cass HarperTeen, 2012. 327 pgs. Young Adult "The Selection" is a competition between 35 randomly chos...

The Garner Files By James Garner Simon & Schuster, 2011. 273 pgs. Biography James Garner--known for his iconic roles in television...

The Snow Child By Eowyn Ivey Little, Brown and Co., 2012. 389 pgs. Fiction Jack and Mabel are a childless couple who move to Alaska in...

Ripper By Amy Carol Reeves Flux, 2012. 343 pgs. Young Adult After her mother's death in 1888, Abbie Sharp is sent to live with her...

The Invaders By John Flanagan Philomel, 2012. 429 pgs. Young Adult In the second book of the Brotherband series, Hal and his crew, the...

Civilization: The West and the Rest By Niall Ferguson Penguin Press, 2011. 402 pgs. Nonfiction In ‘Civilization’, Niall Ferguson attem...

Daughter of Smoke and Bone By Laini Taylor Little, Brown, 2011. 418 pgs. Young Adult Karou is not exactly your average teenager. She g...

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...