Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Lila by Marilynne Robinson Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. 261 pages. Fiction Lila is the third in a related series by Robinson (fi...

A Match Made in Texas By Karen Witemeyer, Mary Connealy, Regina Jennings, Carol Cox Bethany House, 2014. 379 pages. Romance. A collect...

The Witch: and Other Tales Re-told by Jean Thompson Blue Rider Press, 2014. 256 pages. Short stories. In this collection of short stor...

Becoming Lady Lockwood By Jennifer Moore Covenant Communications, 2014. 199 pages. Romance. Amelia Beckett is a widow before she even ...

The Rosie Effect By Graeme Simsion Simon & Schuster, 2015. 344 pages. Fiction. In the sequel to 2013's surprise hit The Rosie ...

Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United by Zephyr Teachout Harvard University Press, 2014. 376 ...

First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen By Charlie Lovett Viking, 2014. 308 pages. Fiction. To say t...

Breakfast Served Anytime By Sarah Combs Candlewick Press, 2014. 261 pages. Young adult fiction. It's the summer before her senior ...

Pride, Prejudice, and Cheese Grits By Mary Jane Hathaway Howard Books, 2014. 314 pages. Fiction. Shelby Roswell is a Civil War histori...

There Was and There Was Not by Meline Toumani Henry Holt and Company, 2014.  284 pgs. Nonfiction Who remembers the Armenians? Hitler f...

Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz HarperCollins, 2014.  285 pgs.  Mystery Second in a series of neo-Holmesian works approved and supported ...

Rescue of the Bounty: Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy by Michael J. Tougias and Douglas A. Campbell Scribner, 2014.  232 pgs. ...

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions By Randall Munroe Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. 303 pgs. Nonfict...

The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley Sourcebooks Landmark, 2011. 441 pages. Romance. Eva Ward, mourning the loss of her sister, takes h...

Puppy Love by A. Destiny and Catherine Hapka Simon Pulse, 2014. 217 pages. Young adult fiction. Lauren has always wanted to have a dog...

A Man Called Ove By Fredrik Backman Atria Books, 2014. 337 pages. Fiction. Ove is a grumpy old man. That's really all that can be ...

The Lost Sisterhood By Anne Fortier Ballantine Books, 2014. 608 pgs. Fiction. Diana Morgan is a lecturer at Oxford University and is a...

The Blind Man's Garden Nadeem Aslam Vintage Books, 2014. 367 pages. Fiction. Pakistan, 2001. American troops have just invaded Afg...

Leaving Time By Jodi Picoult Ballantine Books, 2014. 416 pgs. Fiction. The newest book of this bestselling author is completely unique...

Not My Father's Son By Alan Cumming Dey Street Books, 2014. 304 pgs. Biography. Alan Cumming started working with producers on a p...

Winterspell By Claire Legrand Simon & Shcuster Books for Young Readers, 2014. 464 pgs. Young adult. Claire Legrand has rewritten a...

The Aftermath By Rhidian Brook Vintage, 2014. 352 pgs. Historical fiction. This novel takes place in Hamburg after Work War II. The pl...

The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson Ecco Press, 2014. 387 pages. Fiction. How does an illiterate black girl from t...

The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy by Jacopo della Quercia St. Martin's Griffin, 2014. 384 pages. Fiction. Everyone...

Texts From Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters By Mallory Ortberg Henry Holt and Co., 240 pgs. 201...

Compulsion By Martina Boone Simon Pulse, 448 pgs.  2014. Young adult. This young adult novel drew me in based on the description of th...

The Silkworm By Robert Gilbraith Mulholland Books, 464 pgs. 2014. Mystery. Owen Quine is a novelist who goes missing and his wife asks...

They All Fall Down By Roxanne St. Claire Delacorte Press, 352 pgs. 2014. Young adult. First off, let's talk about the cover. The c...

Wedding Cake (Culinary #12) By Josi S. Kilpack Shadow Mountain, 2014. 288 pages. Mystery. In the final book in Kilpack's Culinary ...

Charlie Glass's Slippers By Holly McQueen Atria Paperback, 2014. 451 pages. Fiction. Charlie Glass has always been at everyone...