Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Books read and reviewed by librarians at the Provo City Library

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Dead Iron

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Dead Iron by Devon Monk ROC, 2011.  337 pgs. Science Fiction What better way to end Beach Reading Season than with steampunk and werew...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Snow Hunters

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Snow Hunters by Paul Yoon Simon & Schuster, 2013.  194 pgs.  Fiction Snow Hunters has appeared on several Best Books of the Month ...
Monday, August 19, 2013

The Sound of Things Falling

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The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean Penguin, 2013. 270 pgs. Fiction Lots o...
Friday, August 16, 2013

Life After Life

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Life after Life by Kate Atkinson Little, Brown and Company, 2013. 529 pgs. Fiction. Ursula Todd no sooner dies than she is reborn on a...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

The Down and Dirty Guide to Camping With Kids

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The Down and Dirty Guide to Camping With Kids: How to Plan Memorable Family Adventures & Connect Kids to Nature By Helen Olsson Roos...
Friday, July 26, 2013

Far Far Away

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Far Far Away by Tom McNeal Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.  369 pgs. Young Adult In some respects, this is a dreadful story, grim in the manner...

Breaking Point

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Breaking Point by C. J. Box G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2013.  367 pgs. Mystery Joe Pickett, Box's Wyoming Fish and Game officer, hea...
Monday, July 22, 2013

Cotton Tenants: Three Families

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Cotton Tenants:  Three Families by James Agee, photographs by Walker Evans Melville House, 2013.  224 pgs. Nonfiction James Agee and W...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

A Serpent's Tooth

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A Serpent's Tooth by Craig Johnson Viking, 2013.  335 pgs. Mystery In Johnson's latest Walt Longmire adventure, a "lost b...
Saturday, July 6, 2013

Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

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Italian Ways:  On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by Tim Parks W. W. Norton, 2013.  261 pgs.  Nonfiction Tim Parks takes to th...
Friday, June 28, 2013

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman William Morrow, 2013. 181 pgs. Fiction The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a beautiful...
Saturday, June 22, 2013

Reboot

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Reboot By Amy Tintera HarperTeen, 2013, 365 pgs. Young Adult Wren rebooted after being dead for 178 minutes. The reboots are controlle...
Friday, June 21, 2013

Wool 1-5

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Wool 1-5 by Hugh Howey Simon and Schuster, 2013. 508 pgs. Science Fiction   Whenever anyone talks about successful...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

As I Lay Dying

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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Modern Library, 2012. 231 pgs. Fiction Anyone planning on seeing James Franco's movie version o...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

The Clockwork Princess

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The Clockwork Princess By Cassandra Clare Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2013.  570 pgs. Young Adult There is great unrest at the Shadow...
Monday, June 17, 2013

His Majesty's Hope

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His Majesty’s Hope   by Susan Elia Macneal Bantam Books, 2013. 354 pgs. Mystery Maggie is off on her first foreign mission for ...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

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Walkable City: How Downtown can save America, One Step at a Time By Jeff Speck Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. 312 pages.  Nonfictio...

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

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Revolutionary Summer:  The Birth of American Independence by Joseph J. Ellis Knopf, 2013.  219 pgs.  History Most of us have a few bri...
Monday, June 10, 2013

Relish: My Life in the Kitchen

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Relish: My Life in the Kitchen By Lucy Knisley MacMillan Children's Publishing Group, 2013. 192 pages.  Nonfiction Graphic Novel T...
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Thursday, June 6, 2013

The Riddle of the Labyrinth

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The Riddle of the Labyrinth:  The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox HarperCollins, 2013.  363 pgs.  Nonfiction The deciph...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Crewel

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Crewel (Crewel World, #1) By Gennifer Albin Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. 368 pages. Young Adult Adelice Lewys has the ability to w...
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