Provo City Library Staff Reviews

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir Penguin Random House, 2015.  446 pgs. Young Adult      Laia and what remains of her family are Sc...

Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin Bantam, 1996. 693 pages. Fantasy Who hasn't heard of George R. R. Martin's A Game of Th...

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Jillian Tamaki First Second, 2014. 317 pages. Graphic Novel Every summer, Rose's ...

One Stolen Thing By Beth Kephart Chronicle Books, 2015. 271 pages. Young Adult Fiction. “Nadia Cara is in Florence, Italy, with her fam...

Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives By Gretchen Rubin Crown Publishers, 2015. 298 pgs. Nonfiction Gretchen ...

The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture By Euny Hong Picador, 2014. 267 pgs. Nonfiction. ...

Weapons of Mass Diplomacy By Abel Lanzac London:SelfMadeHero, 2014. Graphic Novel Arthur Vlaminck is coaxed away from academia to join...

The Stranger Vine By M.J. Carter G.P. Putnam's Sons. 2015. Fiction After a famous and controversial poet disappears in the heart o...

In the Unlikely Event By Judy Blume Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. 401 pgs. Fiction. Judy Blume’s much anticipated new novel is set in a small...

A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope By Tom Brokaw Random House, 2015. 230 pgs. Biography. In 2013, Tom Brokaw was still enjoyin...

Armada by Ernest Cline Crown, 2015.  349 pgs. Science Fiction      Ernest Cline begins his newest gaming novel thrill ride with a quot...

Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese Milkweed Editions, 2015. 246 pgs. Fiction       Medicine Walk is the beautifully well written story ...

Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 374 pages, Young Adult Historical Fiction "In 1845, Sammy, a ...

Tiffany Girl By Deanne Gist Howard Books, 2015.  544 pgs. Fiction. Tiffany Girl tells the story of Flossie Jayne, a late nineteenth c...

Eating on the Wild Side: the Missing Link to Optimum Health by Jo Robinson Little, Brown and Company, 2013. 416 pgs. Nonfiction T...

Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral by Mary Doria Russell HarperCollins, 2015. 581 pgs. Fiction Tombstone, Arizona. October 26, 18...

The Knockoff By Lucy Sykes Doubleday, 2015. 338 pgs. Fiction. When 40-something Imogen Tate, editor-in-chief, of the fashion magazine,...

Uprooted By Naomi Novik Del Rey, 2015. 438 pgs. Fantasy. Uprooted is Naomi Novik’s first foray outside the Temeraire series. Though ...

We Should Hang Out Sometime:   Embarrassingly, a True Story By Josh Sundquist Little, Brown, and Company, 2014. 326 pgs. Biography Wh...

This Star Won't Go Out By Esther Earl; with Lori and Wayne Earl Dutton Books. 2014. 431 pgs. Biography In full color and illustra...

The Heiress of Winterwood By Sarah E. Ladd Thomas Nelson, 2013. 320pgs. Romance Amelia Barrett, heir to an estate, promises that she w...

Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line By Michael Gibney Ballantine Books, 2014. 240 pgs. Nonfiction Have you ever sat in a nice restaurant a...

Landline By Rainbow Rowell St. Martin's Press, 2014. 310 pages. Fiction. Georgie McCool’s marriage has been strained for quite somet...

Chinese Rules: Mao’s Dog, Deng’s Cat, and Five Timeless Lessons from the Front lines in China By Tim Clissold Harper, 2014. 272 pgs. No...

Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time By Beth Moon Abbeville Press Publishers, 2014. 140 pgs. Nonfiction Beth Moon has captured stunning im...

The Great Fire: One American's Mission to Rescue Victims of the 20th Century's First Genocide by Lou Ureneck HarperCollins, 2015...

Nobody Walks by Mick Herron Soho Crime, 2015.  296 pgs.  Mystery Nobody Walks  is as well written a thriller--or book of any kind--tha...

Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys By Billy Crystal Henry Holt and Co.,...

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Warner Books, 1988. 296 pp. Fiction This is one of those classic novels I somehow missed all throu...

Information Doesn't Want to be Free by Cory Doctorow McSweeney's, 2014. 162 pp. Non-fiction In this book, Cory Doctorow builds...