Provo City Library Staff Reviews

15 Seconds By Andrew Gross HarperCollins Publishers, 2012. 324 pgs. Fiction It only takes moments for our lives to be completely derai...

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Spencer Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.  288 pgs. Fiction. Clay Jannon is not much of a...

Sentinel By Matthew Dunn William Morrow, 2012. 313 pgs. Fiction Tensions are brewing between the United States and Russia and a ...

If I Lie By Corrine Jackson Simon Pulse, 2012. 276 pgs. Young Adult Quinn has grown up in a military community, right near a Marine ba...

Uneasy Fortunes By Mandi Ellsworth Sweetwater Books, 2012. 233 pgs. Historical Fiction After his abusive father's drunken death, P...

Feedback By Robison Wells HarperTeen, 2012. 312 pgs. Young Adult In this sequel to Variant, Benson and Becky have escaped from Maxfiel...

Long Lankin by Lindsey Barraclough Candlewick, 2012. 455 pgs. Young Adult      Long Lankin is a fearsome British folk character, who...

Death at the Chateau Bremont: A Verlaque and Bonnet Mystery By M. L. Longworth Penguin, 2011, 320 pages. Mystery Étienne de Bremont is...

The Existence of Sasquatch and Yeti By Carol Hand ABDO, 2012. 112 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction Carol Hand discusses the mysteries surro...

Safekeeping By Karen Hesse Feiwel and Friends, 2012. 294 pgs. Young Adult Radley is in Haiti helping at an orphanage when she gets wor...

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher:  The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ...

The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything By Michael Saylor Vanguard Press, 2012. 279 pgs.Nonfiction Mobil...

The Crown of Embers By Rae Carson Greenwillow Books, 2012. 410 pgs. Young Adult Elisa has saved the people of Joya d'Arena from an...

The Final Four by Paul Volponi Viking, 2012. 244 pgs. Young Adult The Final Four of this title refers not only to the March Madness of...

The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling Little, Brown, 2012, 512pgs. Fiction Barry Fairbrother, a charismatic champion of the poor, dies...

Sutton by J. R. Moehlinger Hyperion, 2012. 334 pgs. Historical fiction. Willie Sutton was a bank robber, one of the best ever, and he ...

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 ...