Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Dear Life by Alice Munro Knopf, 2013. 319 pgs. Fiction The Nobel Prize Committee for Literature has made it abundantly clear that the ...

Command and Control:  Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser Penguin, 2013. 632 pgs, inclu...

Twerp by Mark Goldblatt Random House, 2013.  274 pgs. Young Adult When Julian Twerski (aka "Twerp") returns to school after ...

Cinnamon and Gunpowder By Eli Brown Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2013. 318 pgs. Historical Fiction Owen Wedgwood, famed chef, has been ...

The Tenth Witness by Leonard Rosen Permanent Press, 2013.  284 pgs.  Mystery In this prequel to Rosen's exemplary 2011 title All C...

When She Woke by Hilary Jordan Algonquin Books, 2012. 344 pgs. Fiction Jordan ( Mudbound , 2009) continues to write socially conscious...

Muck City: Winning and Losing in Football's Forgotten Town by Bryan Mealer Crown, 2012.  321 pgs. Nonfiction Belle Glade is an agr...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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