Provo City Library Staff Reviews

A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred by George F. Will Crown, 2014.  223 pgs.  Nonfiction.      George ...

The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia by David MacLean Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. 292 pages. Biography. David MacL...

Play It Again: An Amateur Against the Impossible by Alan Rusbridger Farrar, Straus and Girox, 2013. 403 pages. Biography. When Guardia...

India Black by Carol K. Carr Berkeley Prime Crime, 2011. 296 pages. Mystery. When a customer dies (of natural causes) in India Black...

Runner by Patrick Lee Minotaur Books, 2014.  328 pgs.  Mystery      Weird but exciting, Runner tells the story of Sam Dryden, an ex-Sp...

Stone Cold by C. J. Box G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2014.  370 pgs. Mystery      Joe Pickett, the best sort of game warden who has lately...

Vampires in the Lemon Grove By Karen Russell Knopf. 2013. 256 pgs. Short Stories I am a big fan of Karen Russell ( St. Lucy's Schoo...

Burial Rites By Hannah Kent Little, Brown and Company. 2013. 448 pgs. This book not only grabbed my attention in story but the setting...

Finding the Dragon Lady: The Mystery of Vietnam's Madam Nhu by Monique Brinson Demery Public Affairs, 2013. 280 pgs. Biography Whi...

Orfeo by Richard Powers W. W. Norton, 2014.  369 pages.  Fiction      Richard Powers' profoundly literary novel is also, in its wa...

A Mad, Wicked Folly By Sharon Biggs Waller Viking Juvenile, 2014. 448 pages. Young Adult When seventeen-year-old Victoria Darling is c...

The Nazi Hunters:  How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb Arthur A. Levine, 2013...

The Winner's Curse By Marie Rutkoski Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014. 368 pages. Young Adult As a member of the ruling Valorian c...

Boxers and Saints By Gene Luen Yang First Second, 2013. 325 and 170 pages. Graphic Novel In Boxers , bands of Christian missionaries r...

Thrice Told Tales By Catherine Lewis Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2013. 136 pages. Young Adult Nonfiction Using the old story of ...

The Martian by Andy Weir Crown, 2014. 369 pgs. Science Fiction      When Mark Watney's crew leaves him behind on Mars because they...

Fallen Women By Sandra Dallas St Martin's Press. 2013. Sandra Dallas takes on the city of Denver in 1885 in this book about a sist...

Ignite Me By Tahereh Mafi Harper Collins, 2014. 416 pgs. Young Adult. I couldn't finish this fast enough and then I was so sad it ...

Jump the Gun By Zoe Burke Poisoned Pen Press, 2013. 180 pages. Mystery. When Annabelle Starkey leaves her Chicago book conference for ...

Hope Springs By Sarah M. Eden Shadow Mountain, 2014. 391 pages. Romance. Part two of the Longing for Home saga, Hope Springs follows...

Dark Invasion: 1915: German's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America by Howard Blum HarperCollins, 2014.  4...

An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris Knopf, 2014.  429 pgs.  Historical Fiction  Robert Harris takes on the Dreyfus Affair i...

Courting Greta By Ramsey Hootman Gallery Books, 2013. 376 pages. Fiction. When former computer programmer Samuel Cooke starts life as ...

Thin Space By Jodi Casella Simon Pulse, 2013. 243 pages. Young Adult Responsible for the car accident that killed his twin brother, Ma...

A Trick of the Light By Lois Metzger Balzer + Bray, 2013. 196 pages. Young Adult Mike Welles feels like his life is spiraling out of c...

The Tyrant's Daughter By J.C. Carleson Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2014. 304 pages. Young Adult When her father is assassinated...

Confessions of a Bad Teacher: the Shocking Truth from the Front Lines of American Public Education by John Owens Sourcebooks, 2013. 244 ...

The Anatomist's Wife By Anna Lee Huber Berkley Prime Crime, 2012. 347 pages. Mystery. After her deceased husband's medical col...

The Golden Day By Ursula Dubosarsky Candlewick Press, 2013. 150 pgs.  Young Adult The '70's, a time of turmoil...eleven young ...

The Cartographer of No Man's Land by P. S. Duffy Liveright, 2013. 371 pgs. Fiction The 2014 centenary of the beginning of World Wa...