Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Something Red By Douglas Nicholas Simon & Schuster, 2012.  315 pgs. Mystery Just in time for the Halloween season, along comes thi...

No More Dead Dogs By Gordon Korman Recorded Books, 2001. 4.5 hours. Young Adult Eighth grader Wallace Wallace never tells a lie--ever....

Masquerade By Nancy Moser Bethany House, 2010. 400 pgs. Fiction Financial problems and personal scandal have left Charlotte Gleason...

Seraphina By Rachel Hartman Random House, 2012. 465 pgs. Young Adult The kingdom of Goredd has had four decades of uneasy peace betwee...

Beyond the White River By Kristen McKendry Covenant Communications, 2012. 197 pgs. Romance When Joe Condie settles into his homestead ...

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry By Rachel Joyce Random House, 2012. 320 pgs. Fiction Harold is in his sixties, retired, and liv...

The Masqueraders   By Georgette Heyer Harlequin, 2004. 409 pgs. Romance. In The Masqueraders, Heyer takes the classically unbelievable...

Miracle By Elizabeth Scott Simon Pulse, 2012. 217 pgs. Young Adult When the small plane she's flying in crashes, Megan is the only...

Deadly By Julie Chibbaro Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2011. 293 pgs. Young Adult Prudence Galewski has long been interested in ...

The Sweetest Spell By Suzanne Selfors Walker & Co., 2012. 404 pgs. Young Adult Born with a deformed foot, Emmeline was left at the...

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...