Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Books read and reviewed by librarians at the Provo City Library

Saturday, April 27, 2013

The Angel's Kiss

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The Angel’s Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery By Justin Richards AudioGO, 2013. Science Fiction In New York, Melody Malone is the owner an...
Monday, April 22, 2013

Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game

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Baseball as a Road to God:  Seeing Beyond the Game by John Sexton, with Thomas Oliphant and Peter J. Schwartz Gotham, 2013. 242 pgs. Non...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Familiar

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Familiar By J. Robert Lennon Graywolf Press, 2012. 205 pgs. Fiction Driving home from her yearly pilgrimage to her son’s grav...

The Disaster Diaries

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The Disaster Diaries: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypse  By Sam Sheridan Penguin Press, 2013. 324 pgs. Nonfiction. ...
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Saturday Night Widows: The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives

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Saturday Night Widows: The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives  By Becky Aikman Crown, 2013. 337 pgs. Nonfiction Soon afte...

Aviator's Wife

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The Aviator’s Wife  By Melanie Benjamin Delacorte Press, 2013. 402 pgs. Historical Fiction Charles and Anne Lindbergh's names are ...
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Jungleland

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Jungleland: A Mysterious Lost City, a WWII Spy, and a True Story of Deadly Adventure  By Christopher Stewart Harper, 2013. 263 pgs. Biog...

Because I Said So!

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Because I Said So!: The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales & Warnings Every Generation Passes Down To Its Kids  By Ken Jennings Scribner,...

In the Shadow of the Banyan

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In the Shadow of the Banyan  By Vaddey Ratner Simon & Schuster, 2012. 322 pgs. Fiction "In the Shadow of the Banyan" ...

No Easy Day

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No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Ladin: The Autobiography of a Navy SEAL  By Mark Owen with Kevin ...

The Twelve

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The Twelve  By Justin Cronin Ballantine Books, 2012. 592 pgs. Horror The Twelve does not simply pick up where The Passage left off. ...

America Again: Re-Becoming the Greatness We Never Weren’t

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America Again: Re-Becoming the Greatness We Never Weren’t  By Stephen Colbert Grand Central Pub., 2012. 240 pgs. Nonfiction  On his TV...

The 19th Wife

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The 19th Wife   By David Ebershoff Random House, 2008. 514 pgs. Mystery The 19th Wife tells two stories. One of Ann Eliza Young, t...

Malice of Fortune

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Malice of Fortune  By Michael Ennis Doubleday, 2012. 396 pgs. Mystery A beautiful Vatican courtesan is sent by Pope Alexander to the ...

Frozen Heat

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Frozen Heat  By Richard Castle Hyperion, 2012. 313 pgs. Mystery Star homicide detective Nikki Heat with the NYPD is more than surpri...

The 100-year-old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

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The 100-year-old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared  By Jonas Jonasson Hyperion, 2012. 384 pgs. Fiction It’s Allan Karls...

Violets of March

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Violets of March   By Sarah Jio Plume, 2011. 296 pgs. Fiction Ten years ago, Emily seemed to have it all, a best selling book, an id...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Death on a Pale Horse: Sherlock Holmes on her Majesty's Secret Service

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Death on a Pale Horse:  Sherlock Holmes on her Majesty's Secret Service by Donald Thomas Pegasus, 2013.  345 pgs. Mystery Sherlock...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Etymologicon

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Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the HiddenConnections of the English Language By Mark Forsyth Berkley Books, 2011. 279 pgs. ...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Blue Asylum

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 Blue Asylum By Kathy Hepinstall Houghton Mifflin, 2012. 288 pgs. Fiction I love a book that has fantastic characters and an intriguin...
Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Last to Die

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Last to Die By Tess Gerritsen Ballantine Books, 2012, 352 pgs. Mystery Just to get my disappointment out of the way, I will start with...
Monday, April 1, 2013

The Six-Gun Tarot

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The Six-Gun Tarot by R. S. Belcher Tor, 2013.  361 pgs. Science Fiction Take a big old galvanized metal washtub such as were used for ...
Friday, March 29, 2013

Six Years

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Six Years By Harlen Coben Dutton, 2013.  351 pgs.  Mystery Jake Fisher meets Natalie when they are both attending artistic/scholarly r...
Friday, March 22, 2013

Storm Kings: The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers

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Storm Kings:  The Untold History of America's First Storm Chasers by Lee Sandlin Pantheon, 2013.  266 pgs.  Nonfiction. Waterspout...
Saturday, March 16, 2013

The Uses of Adversity

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The Uses of Adversity by Carlfred Broderick Deseret Book, 2008.  58 pgs. Nonfiction LDS readers could scarcely find a better text abou...
Friday, March 15, 2013

Shadowfell

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Shadowfell By Juliet Marillier Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. 410 pgs. Young Adult Fantasy Neryn is the only member of her family left, in a l...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Sweet Tooth

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Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan Nan A. Talese, 2012. 301 pgs. Fiction Serena, a young, gorgeous MI-5 employee with a Cambridge maths d...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Ghostman

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Ghostman by Roger Hobbs Knopf, 2013.  321 pgs.  Mystery Jack (for the moment, and with shifting last names) is a bad, bad man, but mor...
Thursday, March 7, 2013

Heat: Adventures in the World's Fiery Places

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Heat:  Adventures in the World's Fiery Places by Bill Streever Little, Brown and Company, 2013.  349 pgs.  Nonfiction Bill Streeve...
Saturday, March 2, 2013

100 Years of Comic Strips

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100 Years of Comic Strips edited by Bill Blackbeard, Dale Crain, and James Vance Barnes & Noble Books, 2004 (reprint edition).  479 ...
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