Provo City Library Staff Reviews

All the Bright Places By Jennifer Niven Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. 388 pages. Young adult fiction. Finch and Violet meet at the top of the...

Dearest (Woodcutter #3) By Alethea Kontis Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. 282 pages. Young adult fiction. In the third adventure of ...

At the Drop of a Hat (Hat Shop #3) By Jenn McKinlay Berkley Prime Crime, 2015. 292 pages. Mystery. Milliners Scarlett Parker and Vivi...

Suspicion by Alexandra Monir Delacorte Press, 2014. 295 pages. Young adult fiction. After her parents died on her grandfather's du...

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated By Alison Arngrim IT Books, 2010. 302 pages...

Hero Complex (Keaton School #2) By Margaux Froley Soho Teen, 2014. 214 pages. Young adult. After solving the mystery Jason Hutchings...

Escape Theory (Keaton School #1) By Margaux Froley Soho Teen, 2013. 272 pages. Young adult. When the popular Jason Hutchings (Hutch, t...

The Age of Radiance by Craig Nelson Scribner, 2014.  437 pgs.  Nonfiction One could be forgiven for giving a miss to Craig Nelson'...

The Walled City By Ryan Graudin Little, Brown and Company, 2014. 242 pages. Young adult fiction. Every type of vice lives unchecked in...

The Rumpelstiltskin Problem By Vivian Vande Velde Houghton Mifflin, 2000. 116 pages. Young adult fiction. The fable of Rumpelstiltskin...

Persuasion, Captain Wentworth and Cracklin' Cornbread (Jane Austen Takes the South #3) By Mary Jane Hathaway Howard Books, 2014. 296...

The Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency #15) By Alexander McCall Smith Pantheon Books, 2014. 227 pages. Myste...

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War By Karen Abbott Harper, 2014. 528 pgs. Nonfiction. This book tak...

The Hollow Ground By Natalie S. Harnett Thomas Dunne Books, 2014. 336 pgs. Fiction. Bridig Howley is growing up in actual hell on eart...

We Are Not Ourselves By Matthew Thomas Sim on & Schuster, 2014. 620 pgs. Fiction We Are Not Ourselves is a take on the c...

Emma, Mr. Knightley, and Chili-Slaw Dogs (Jane Austen Takes the South #2) By Mary Jane Hathaway Howard Books, 2014. 291 pages. Fiction. ...

Autumn Falls By Bella Thorne Delacorte Press, 2014. 217 pages. Young adult fiction. When Autumn's dad dies unexpectedly in a car a...

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (Flavia #7) By Alan Bradley Delacorte Press, 2015. 392 pages. Mystery. In his latest mystery featuri...

Shutter By Courtney Alameda Fiewel and Friends, 2015. 384 pgs. Young adult. Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat, which is a person who...

Diamond Boy by Michael Williams Little Brown Books for Young Readers, 2014. 400 pp.Young Adult Set in contemporary Zimbabwe, Patson Mo...

Lizzy & Jane by Katherine Reay Thomas Nelson, 2014. 344 pages. Fiction. Fifteen years after the death of her mother to breast canc...

Rapunzel Untangled By Cindy C. Bennett Sweetwater Books, 2013. 294 pages. Young adult fiction. In this modern retelling of Rapunzel, o...

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 ...