Provo City Library Staff Reviews

11/22/63 By Stephen King Scribner, 2011. 880 pgs. Fiction The title of Stephen King’s most recent novel, 11/22/63, promises historical...

Among Others by Jo Walton Tor, 2010. 302 pgs. Fiction Among Others   has already won the Nebula Award and is nominated for the Hugo, o...

Throne of Glass By Sarah J. Maas Bloomsbury, 2012. 406 pgs. Young Adult Celeana was once Adarlan's Assassin, the best assassin in ...

The Absent One by Jussi Adler-Olsen, translated by K. E. Semmel Dutton, 2012. 406 pgs. Mystery. Among the pots and pots of high-qualit...

Gone Girl By Gillian Flynn Crown, 2012.   419 pgs.   Mystery On the morning of their five-year wedding anniversary, Nick’s bea...

The Chaperone By Laura Moriarty Riverhead Books, 2012.   371 pgs. Fiction In the summer of 1922, Cora Carlisle has just sent h...

Shadow of Night By Deborah Harkness Viking, 2012. 577 pgs. Fiction In book two of the ‘All Souls Trilogy’, Dina, a witch with more po...

Definitely Not Mr. Darcy By Karen Doornebos Berkley Books, 2011. 374 pgs. Romance Chloe, the divorced mother of an inquisitive eight-...

The Boston Strangler By Paul Hoblin ABDO Publishing Company, 2012. 112 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction Between 1962 and 1964, eleven woman...

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2005. 182 pgs. Fiction Into the backlist for ...

An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace  By Tamar Adler Scribner, 2011. 250 pgs. Nonfiction Part cookbook, part philos...

Invincible Microbe By Jim Murphy and Alison Blank Clarion Books, 2012.149 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction Award-winning author Murphy team...

Palace of Stone By Shannon Hale Bloomsbury Childrens, 2012. 336 pgs. Young Adult In this sequel to Princess Academy , Miri and some fr...

Second Chance Summer By Morgan Matson Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, 2012. 468 pgs. Young Adult When her father is diag...

The Gardener by Kristen Randle Ponymoon Press, 2012. 312 pgs. Young Adult "The gardener came with the house." And the house ...

Secret Letters By Leah Scheier Disney/Hyperion, 2012. 327 pgs. Young Adult Four years ago, as her mother was dying, Dora Joyce found o...

After Hello By Lisa Mangum Shadow Mountain, 2012. 266 pgs. Young Adult Seventeen-year-old Sara is always trying to capture the pe...

Physics of the Future: How Science will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 By Michio Kaku Doubleday, 2011. 389 pg...

The Watchers By John Steele Blue Rider Press, 2012. 574 pgs. Mystery ‘The Watchers’ begins feeling a bit like ‘The Hunchback of Notre ...

The Trust by Norb Vonnegut (Kurt's distant relative) St. Martin's, 2012.  306 pgs. Mystery Grove O'Rourke is a stockbroker...

American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History  By Chris Kyle, with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice ...

The Darlings By Christina Alger Pamela Dorman Books – Viking, 2012. Fiction Over the course of a single weekend, the Darling family w...

Plugged Eoin Colfer Overlook Press, 2011. 254 pgs.  Fiction Daniel McEvoy is an Irish expat working as a bouncer in a sleazy casino in...

Escape From Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West By Blaine Harden Viking, 2012.  205 pgs.  Biog...

Year of the Gadfly By Jennifer Miller Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012 374 pgs. Fiction The story begins with Iris Dupont entering Mar...

Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives By Robert Draper Free Press, 2012. 327 pgs. Nonfiction In this bo...

Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternative Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford and Reagan By Jeff Greenfield G.P. ...

Song of Achilles By Madeline Miller Ecco, 2012, 378 pgs. Historical Fiction I found this to be a very good book. It is a wonderful and...

Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson Grove Press, 2012. 431 pgs. Fantasy      What a scream. Laugh out loud stories about oppressive Mi...