Provo City Library Staff Reviews

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel by Anthony Marra Hogarth, 2013. 384 pgs. Fiction This is the best book I have read this y...

Family Life: A Novel by Akhil Sharma W.W. Norton and Company, 2014. 224 pgs. Fiction Family Life is an intimate portrait of an I...

Alena By Rachel Pastan  Riverhead. 2013. 320 pgs. This book was supposed to really give fans of Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca someth...

The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris By Jenny Colgan Sourcebooks Landmark, 2014. 374 pages. Fiction. Anna Trent doesn't know that...

Love Life By Rob Lowe Simon and Schuster Audio, 2014. Biography. Having Rob Lowe read his own stories is something like sitting with h...

Wake the Dawn by Lauraine Snelling FaithWords, 2013. 350 pages. Romance. Snelling follows the lives of two broken characters as they w...

In Sunlight and In Shadow By Mark Helprin Mariner Books, 2012. 720 pgs. Fiction 'In Sunlight and In Shadow' is at once both an ...

The Dead in their Vaulted Arches By Alan Bradley Random House Audio, 2014. 8 hours. Mystery. Precocious 11-year-old chemist Flavia de ...

One or Two Things I Learned About Love By Dyan Sheldon Candlewick Press, 2013. 288 pages. Young adult. Hildy has only been on two and ...

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Goldstein Pantheon Books, 2014. 456 pgs. Non-fiction. This is a f...

Love Illuminated: Exploring Life's Most Mystifying Subject (With the Help of 50,000 Strangers) By Daniel Jones William Morrow, 2014....

The Night Guest By Fiona McFarlane Faber and Faber, Inc., 2013. 241 pgs. Fiction Fiona McFarlane's debut novel is a captivating,...

This Dark Road to Mercy  By Wiley Cash William Morrow. 2014. 240 pgs. This book is so well written that I finished it in one day. The...

Frozen By Melissa De La Cruz Putnam Juvenile. 2013. 336 pgs. Young Adult This new series from Melissa de la Cruz's new series star...

Everything I Need to Know I Learned From a Little Golden Book By Diane Muldrow Golden Books, 2013. unpaged. Non-Fiction Open the cover...

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 ...