Provo City Library Staff Reviews

The Last Days of California By Mary Miller Liveright Publishing Corperation, 2014. 233 pgs. Fiction Jess is a 15 year old with a compul...

The Signature of All Things By Elizabeth Gilbert Viking Adult, 2013. 512 pgs. Historical Fiction Elizabeth Gilbert, of Eat, Pray, Love...

Blotto, Twinks and the Ex-King's Daughter Simon Brett Felony & Mayhem Press, 2011. 211 pages. Mystery. When the ex-princess of...

The Buddha in the Attic Julie Otsuka Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 129 pages. Fiction. Otsuka gathers her research into Japanese mail order b...

Eight World Cups:  My Journey Through the Beauty and Dark Side of Soccer by George Vecsey Henry Holt, 2014.  290 pages.  Nonfiction Ne...

Better Off Friends Elizabeth Eulberg Scholastic Inc., 2014. 276 pages. Young adult fiction. Macallan and Levi were best friends from t...

One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B.J. Novak Alfred A.Knopf, 2014. 276 pgs. Fiction I checked out B.J. Novak's (a write...

Yes, I Could Care Less: How to Be a Language Snob Without Being a Jerk Bill Walsh St. Martin's Griffing, 2013. 288 pages. Nonfiction...

The Invention of Wings By Sue Monk Kidd Viking Adult, 2014. 384 pgs. The narration of this book switches between two equally fascinati...

Love Letters to the Dead By Ava Dellaira Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014. 336 pgs. This book was written in such a beautiful way that...

The Science of Happily Ever After By Ty Tashiro Harlequin, 2014. 288 pgs. Dr. Ty Tashiro writes his  book from an informative point o...

Heartburn by Nora Ephron Random House Audio, 2013. Fiction I don't normally go for chick lit, but I was enticed by this title when ...

Uganda Be Kidding Me By Chelsea Handler Grand Central Publishing, 2014. 272 pgs. In Chelsea Handler's fifth book, she takes on her...

Longbourn by Jo Baker Knopf, 2013. 352 pgs. Fiction In general I tend to not be a huge fan of 'fan fiction' or spin offs from...

The Forever Girl Alexander McCall Smith Pantheon Books, 2014. 316 pages. Fiction. McCall Smith's latest book follows two love stor...

Flash Boys: a Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis W. W. Norton and Company, 2014.  271 pgs.  Nonfiction Usually when Michael Lewis tak...

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...