Provo City Library Staff Reviews

The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House By Kate Anderson This is a fascinating look into the residential life of Amer...

Funny Girl: A Novel by Nick Hornby Riverhead Books, 2015. 452 pgs. Fiction Nick Hornby’s new novel is set in London during the 1960s. ...

Ghost Boy: The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body by Martin Pistorius Nelson Books, 2013. 276 pgs. Biog...

Tigerman by Nick Harkaway Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.  337 pgs. Fiction Lester Ferris is a British soldier assigned, after terrible tours i...

Swan Song 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich by Walter Kempowski W. W. Norton, 2015.  479 pgs. History Walte...

The Children Act by Ian McEwan Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2014. 221 pages. Fiction. Presiding as judge over family law in the London H...

Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan William Morrow, 2014. 424 pages. Fiction. Polly Waterford's life has fallen apart. Her ...

The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle For the Great Society by Julian E. Zelizer Penguin Press. 2015 370 p...

On the Fence by Kasie West HarperTeen, 2014. 295 pages. Young adult fiction. Growing up with just her dad and three older brothers, Ch...

Of Noble Family (Shades of Milk & Honey #5) by Mary Robinette Kowal Tor, 2015. 575 pages. Fantasy In the final book in the Glamou...

Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen Viking, 2015. 417 pages. Young adult fiction. Sydney has always been overlooked in her family, always s...

Better Than Perfect by Melissa Kantor HarperTeen, 2015. 324 pages. Young adult fiction. Juliet has a perfect life: beautiful and ambit...

We Can Work It Out (Lonely Hearts Club #2) Elizabeth Eulberg Point, 2015. 312 pages. Young adult fiction. Get over a scheming boy? Che...

The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson Harper, 2015. 338 pages. Fiction. It's Denver, 1962 and Kitty is an independent woman, running a...

The UnAmericans by Molly Antopol W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. 261 pages. Fiction. The UnAmericans is a brilliant collection of st...

Barefoot Dogs: Stories by Antonio Ruiz-Camacho Scribner, 2015. 146 pages. Fiction. Mexico City at the start of the new millennium was ...

Emma: A Modern Retelling by Alexander McCall Smith Pantheon Books, 2015. 361 pages. Fiction. In this modern retake of Jane Austen'...

The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure by C.D. Rose Melville House, 2014. 175 pages. Fiction. We hear a lot about published a...

The Start of Me and You by Emery Lord Bloomsbury, 2015. 376 pages. Young adult fiction. Paige Hancock is ready to start her life anew,...

Cat Out of Hell by Lynne Truss Melville House, 2015. 163 pages. Fiction. Alec Charlesworth, grieving the sudden death of his wife, fin...

The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan Grand Central Publishing, 2015. 454 pages. Fiction. Rebecca Porter has never been one...

Bark by Lorrie Moore Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. 192 pages. Fiction. Bark  is a much anticipated second collection of short stories by Lorri...

How the Light Gets In (Three Pines #9) by Louise Penny Minotaur Books, 2013. 405 pages. Mystery. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, head ...

Dreaming Spies (Mary Russell #13) by Laurie R. King Bantam Books, 2015. 331 pages. Mystery. Mary Russell, back in Oxford after a long ...

The First Bad Man  By Miranda July First Scribner, 2015. 276 pages. Miranda July is a celebrated author, filmmaker, actress, visual and...

Sidney Chambers and the Problem of Evil (Grantchester #3) by James Runcie Bloomsbury USA, 2014. 287 pages. Mystery. It's the 1960...

Blind by Rachel DeWoskin Viking, 2014. 394 pages. Young adult fiction. After being blinded in a horrible firecracker accident, Emma Si...

Coming of Age in Samoa: A  Psychological Study of   Primitive Youth for Western Civilization By Margaret Mead Morrow, 1961. 304 pages....

Lady Emma's Campaign by Jennifer Moore Covenant Communications, 2014. 212 pages. Romance. In a sequel to Becoming Lady Lockwood , ...

Veronica Mars: Mr. Kiss and Tell (Veronica Mars #2) by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham Vintage Books, 2015. 330 pages. Mystery. Veroni...