Provo City Library Staff Reviews

All the Light We Cannot See By Anthony Doerr Scribner, 2014. 544 pgs. Historical Fiction This book deserves all the herald and accla...

I Heard My Country Calling: A Memoir by James Webb Simon and Schuster, 2014.  388 pages.  Biography From its title one might guess Jam...

Flat-out Celeste (Flat Out #3) By Jessica Park CreateSpace, 2013. 329 pages. Fiction. While not as socially awkward as she was a few y...

Honeymoon Hotel By Hester Browne Gallery Books, 2014. 452 pages. Fiction. Rosie McDonald is not a wedding planner - she's an event...

Sunshine on Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith Anchor Books, 2014. 297 pages. Fiction. In the 8th book of McCall Smith's Sc...

Solanin by Inio Asano Viz Media, 2006. 424 pp. Graphic Novel This is a story of a young woman, Meiko Inoue, her boyfriend, Naruo,  and...

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. 333 pp. Fiction Outside of Toronto, a famous actor, Arthur Leander, col...

The Last Illusion By Porchista Khakpour There is an ancient Persian myth about a boy named Zal, born of a king, but raised by a large...

Chances Are By Traci Hunter Abramson Covenant Communications, 2014. 245 pages. Romance. Maya has escaped an arranged marriage in Ind...

For Elise By Sarah M. Eden Covenant Communications, 2014. 259 pages. Romance. When tragedy strikes the families of childhood friends...

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer Little, Brown and Company, 2014.  425 pgs.  Fiction    "Just because you're paranoid do...

Diary of Two Mad Black Mormons: Finding the Lord's Lessons in Everyday Life By Zandra Vranes and Tamu Smith Ensign Peak, 2014. 221 p...

Illusive By Emily Lloyd-Jones Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 416 pgs. Young adult. This dystopian novel has promise for fans o...

10%  Happier By Dan Harris It Books, 256 pgs. 2014. Nonfiction. What interested me about this book most was actually his stories about...

This is the Water By Yannick Murphy Harper Perennial, 352 pgs. 2014. Fiction, This book centers around a swim team, and as a high scho...

All Fall Down By Jennifer Weiner Atria Books, 2014. 400 pgs. Fiction. Jennifer Weiner's books can be hit or miss for me but I was ...

The From-Aways By C.J. Hauser William Morrow, 2014. 341 pages. Fiction. This is the story of two women who come as outsiders to a smal...

The Day She Died By Catriona McPherson Midnight Ink, 2014. 301 pages. Fiction. When Jessie Constable meets Gus King and his daughter R...

An Unwilling Accomplice (Bess Crawford #6) By Charles Todd William Morrow, 2014. 337 pages. Mystery. Nurse Bess Crawford comes home fo...

Once Upon a Marigold (Marigold #1) By Jean Ferris Harcourt, Inc., 2002. 266 pages. Young adult fiction. Christian has lived in a fores...

A Promise Kept by Robin Lee Hatcher Thomas Nelson, 2013. 296 pages. Fiction. Allison can't believe it when, after issuing her husb...

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'...