Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Thunderstruck  By Elizabeth McCracken Thunderstruck is a powerful collection of short stories by one of America's best contemporary li...

Pointe By Brandy Colbert Putnam Juvenile, 2014. 333 pgs. Young adult. Theo is 17 and wants nothing more than to be a professional ball...

My Life With the Walter Boys By Ali Novack Sourcebooks Fire, 2014. 368 pgs. My Life With the Walter Boys  was a refreshing story line ...

Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom By Deborah Yaffe Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. 245 pages. No...

Valour and Vanity (Shades #4) By Mary Robinette Kowal Tor, 2014. 408 pages. Science fiction. Sir David and Lady Vincent are off to Ven...

Royally Lost By Angie Stanton HarperTeen, 2014. 308 pages. Young adult fiction. Nikolai is the crown prince of a small European countr...

Glitter and Glue: a memoir By Kelly Corrigan Ballantine Books, 2014. 224 pages. Nonfiction. When Kelly Corrigan graduated from college...

With Every Breath By Elizabeth Camden Bethany House, 2014. 360 pages. Romance. When Kate Livingston takes a job as a statistician for ...

Through To You By Lauren Barnholdt Simon Pulse, 2014. 278 pages. Young adult fiction. Harper and Penn are complete opposites: she'...

Pretty in Ink By Lindsey Palmer Kensington House, 2014. 304 pgs. Fiction Lindsey Palmer is a former magazine editor so she takes her k...

To All the Boys I've Loved Before By Jenny Han Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2014. 355 pages. Young adult fiction. Lara Jean knows th...

The Mirk and Midnight Hour By Jane Nickerson Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2014. 384 pgs. Young adult fiction. Violet is a Southern t...

The Steady Running of the Hour By Justin Go Simon and Schuster, 2014.  480 pgs. Fiction. Justin Go writes a book based on two timeline...

City of Jasmine By Deanna Raybourn Harlequin Mira, 2014. 354 pages. Fiction. Evangeline Starke is an adventuress. But as she reaches t...

The Butterfly Mosque by G. Willow Wilson Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010. 304 pages. Nonfiction. Willow Wilson was raised by academic par...

After the End By Amy Plum HarperTeen, 2014. 322 pgs. Young Adult Juneau has been living in a remote part of Alaska where her clan has ...

Full Steam Ahead By Karen Witemeyer Bethany House Publishers, 2014. 348 pages. Romance. Nicole Renard is in trouble - she needs to get...

Clever Girl By Tessa Hadley Harper, 2014. 272 pgs. Fiction. Clever Girl follows Stella as she goes from a child to middle age through ...

Curtsies & Conspiracies By Gail Carriger Little, Brown and Company, 2013. 310 pgs. Young Adult This is the second book in the Fini...

The Chapel Wars by Lindsey Leavitt Bloomsbury, 2014. 294 pages. Young Adult. Sixteen-year-old Holly is stunned when she inherits her g...

Perfect Ruin By Lauren DeStefano Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2013. 356 pgs. Young Adult Morgan Stockhour lives on the floating city of ...

Dad is Fat By Jim Gaffigan Crown Archetype, 2013. 274 pgs. Nonfiction Stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan recounts his experiences as a fat...

My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok Anchor Books, 2003 (c. 1972). 369 pages. Fiction. Asher Lev's first memories are of drawing, t...

The Heart's Pursuit by Robin Lee Hatcher Zondervan, 2014. 307 pages. Romance. Silver Matlock's fiance just robbed her father a...

My Story By Elizabeth Smart with Chris Stewart St. Martin's Press, 2013. 308 pgs. Biography This is Elizabeth Smart's memoir o...

I Never Fancied Him Anyway by Claudia Carroll Avon, 2009. 429 pages. Romance. There is one thing you should know about Cassandra from ...

All Joy and No Fun:  The Paradox of Modern Parenthood by Jennifer Senior HarperCollins, 2014. 308 pgs. Nonfiction I am not a parent, b...

Mothership By Martin Leicht and Isla Neal Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2012. 308 pages. Young Adult Elvie Nara is a student at the Hanov...

Guy In Real Life By Steve Brezenoff Balzer + Bray, 2014. 385 pages. Young Adult When Lesh's and Svetlana's worlds collide—lite...

Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History Antonio J. Mendez and Matt Baglio Viking, 2012. 310 page...