Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Dodger by Terry Pratchett HarperCollins, 2012.  360 pgs. Young Adult. Dodger is a tosher and a thief, whatever it takes to keep body a...

Violins of Autumn  By Amy McAuley Walker, 2012. 326 pgs. Young Adult After lying about her age, Betty has become a Special Operations...

The Girl Who Owned a City By O.T. Nelson; adapted by Dan Jolley; illustrated by Joelle Jones Graphic Universe, 2012. 125 pgs. Graphic no...

The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure By Martin W. Sandler Candlewick Press, 2012. 163 pgs. Young Adult N...

Jepp, Who Defied the Stars By Katherine Marsh Hyperion, 2012. 369 pgs. Young Adult Historical Fiction Jepp is a teenage dwarf living i...

Envious Casca By Georgette Heyer Sourcebooks Landmark, 2010. 396 pgs. Mystery Fans of Heyer’s historical romances may be interested to...

The Black Box by Michael Connelly Little, Brown and Company, 2012.  403 pgs. Mystery. During the Los Angeles riots of 1992, much of So...

The Secret Keeper  By Kate Morton Atria Books, 2012. 484 pgs. Fiction  While hiding in a tree during a family picnic, 16-year-old Lau...

Hallucinations  By Oliver Sacks Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. 326 pgs. Nonfiction Dr. Oliver Sacks has spent his career studying bizarre ca...

The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith  By Joanna Brooks Free Press, 2012. 209 pgs. Biography  Joanna Brooks grew up ...

Princess Elizabeth’s Spy By Susan Elia MacNeal Bantam Books, 2012. 369 pgs. Mystery After doing an outstanding job in helping save the...

Home Front Girl By Joan Wehlen Morrison Chicago Review Press, 2013. 252 pgs. Biography Joan Wehlen was just your average American girl...

Christmas Spirit: A Collection of Inspiring True Christmas Stories Covenant Communications, 2012. 81 pgs. Nonfiction This collection o...

A Land More Kind Than Home By Wiley Cash William Morrow, 2012. 309. Fiction I love stories that take place in the Appalachian Mountain...

A Game for Swallows By Zeina Abirached Graphic Universe, 2012. 188 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction Zeina was born in the middle of the ci...

Mr. Churchill’s Secretary By Susan Elia MacNeal Bantam Books, 2012. 373 pgs. Mystery Maggie Hope, an American in London during the ons...

The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers Little, Brown, and Company, 2012. 230 pgs. Fiction. A promise made to a dead man's mother is the ...

The Hunters By John Flanagan Philomel Books, 2012. 403 pgs. Young Adult In the third book in the Brotherband Chronicles, Hal and the c...

The Small Woman By Alan Burgess Buccaneer Books, 1959. 221 pgs. Biography In the 1930s, Gladys Alyward was an English housemaid who fe...

Friends with Boys By Faith Erin Hicks First Second, 2012. 169 pgs. Graphic Novel Having been homeschooled for her entire life, Maggie ...

Sapphire Blue By Kerstin Geir Henry Holt, 2012. 362 pgs. Young Adult Gwen's life has been flipped upside down since it turned out ...

The Last Dragon Slayer by Jasper Fforde Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.  287 pgs. Young Adult Jasper Fforde's usual literary snor...

The Diviners By Libba Bray Little, Brown Publishers for Young Readers, 2012, 592 pgs. Young Adult Libba Bray has combined the current...

Against the Tide By Elizabeth Camden Bethany House, 2012. 368 pgs. Romance Lydia Pallas has a stable life working as a translator for ...

How Children Succeed:  Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character By Paul Tough Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. 231 pgs. Nonfic...

The God Who Weeps:  How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life By Terryl Givens and Fiona Givens Ensign Peak, 2012.  148 pgs. Nonfiction Terryl...

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo By Tom Reiss Crown Trade, 2012.  414 pgs. Biography. ...

The Sandcastle Girls By Chris Bohjalian Doubleday, 2012. 299 pgs. Historical Fiction In 1915, Elizabeth Endicott decided to leave her ...

The Light Between Oceans By M.L. Stedman Scribner, 2012. 345 pgs. Fiction The Light Between Oceans , the debut novel of M.L. Steadman,...

Life Itself: a Memoir By Roger Ebert Grand Central Pub., 2011. 436 pgs. Biography After decades in front of the camera telling America...