Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Wasatch:  Mormon Stories and a Novella by Douglas Thayer Zarahemla Books, 2012. 235 pgs. Fiction      Despite the implications of the ...

The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters Quirk Books, 2012. 316 pgs. Mystery      Suppose you were a beat cop who wanted to be a detective...

Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and a Son By Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez Free Press, 2012.  417 pgs.  Biography The father-...

The Solitary House By Lynn Shepherd Delacorte Press, 2012.  340 pgs.  Mystery "The Solitary House" is a historical novel tha...

The Hypnotist By Lars Kepler Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. 503 pgs. Mystery A bloody double murder leaves its ...

Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV By Warren Littlefield Doubleday, 2012. 326 pgs.  Nonfiction NBC was the undis...

Afterwards By Rosamund Lupton Crown, 2011. 386 pgs.  Fiction An average field day at her son's private school becomes much more wh...

Niceville By Carsten Stroud Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.  385 pgs.  Horror In a town overshadowed by a limestone cliff which conceals a myst...

Keeping the Castle: A Tale of Romance, Riches, and Real Estate By Patrice Kindl Viking, 2012. 261 pgs. Young Adult With her family...

For Darkness Shows the Stars By Diana Peterfreund Balzer + Bray, 2012. 407 pgs. Young Adult When the Lost took genetic experimentation...

A Farewell to Charms By Lindsey Leavitt Disney/Hyperion, 2012. 279 pgs. Young Adult Since finding out that Facade weeds out those su...

The Age of Miracles By Karen Thompson Walker Random House, 2012. 272 pgs. Fiction On a Saturday just like any other, Julia and h...

Of Poseidon By Anna Banks Feweil & Friends, 2012. 326 pgs. Young Adult Galen, one of the Syrena princes, gets word that there'...

The Ruins By Scott Smith Alfred A. Knopf, 2006, 319 pgs. Horror From the author of A Simple Plan (both books have been made into movie...

Force of Nature by C. J. Box G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2012. 385 pgs. Mystery Nate Romanowski takes the lead in the latest Joe Pickett ...

The Earth Shall Teach Thee By Boyd K. Packer Religious Studies Center, 2012. 181 pgs. Biography Boyd K. Packer, President of the Quoru...

Now By Morris Gleitzman Henry Holt, 2012. 184 pgs. Young Adult Zelda has recently been sent to live with her grandfather, Felix, while...

What the Night Knows By Dean Koontz Bantam Books, 2010. 442 pages. Horror John Calvino is a police detective and very good at wha...

Jack the Ripper By Jennifer Joline Anderson Abdo Publishing Company, 2012. 112 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction In the fall of 1888, a seri...

Never Fall Down By Patricial McCormick Balzar + Bray, 2012. 216 pgs. Young Adult Arn is a an eleven-year-old boy who just likes to hav...

Summer of Fear by Lois Duncan Little, Brown and Company, 2011. 217 pgs. Young Adult Friends, boyfriend, family, summer, life is good. ...

The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible By Matti Friedman Algonquin Books, 2012. 298 pa...

Timepiece By Myra McEntire Egmont, 2012. 325 pgs. Young Adult Since his mother's memory was stolen, living her in a comatose state...

Railsea by China Mieville Ballantine, 2012. 424 pgs. Science Fiction/Young Adult China Mieville's prose is beyond virtuoso, inhabi...

The Shoemaker’s Wife By Adriana Trigiani Harper Collins, 2012. 475 pgs. Historical Fiction Inspired by the author’s own grandparents T...

Glamour in Glass By Mary Robinette Kowal Tor, 2012. 334 pgs. Fantasy Want a little fantasy with your Pride and Prejudice ? Mary Robine...

Rebel Fire By Andy Lane Farrar Straus Giroux, 2012. 343 pgs. Young Adult A supposedly dead notorious American assassin is alive in Eng...

The Shining By Stephen King Pocket Books, 1977. 683 pgs. Fiction Jack Torrance is reeling from a recent firing, and his last hope is w...

Enchanted  By Alethea Kontis Harcourt, 2012. 308 pgs. Young Adult Seven Woodcutter named her seven daughters after the days of the wee...

Rot and Ruin By Jonathan Maberry Simon & Schuster, 2010. 458 pgs. Young Adult In Benny Imura’s post-apocalypic America, zomb...