Provo City Library Staff Reviews

An Age of License By Lucy Knisley Fantagraphics Books, 2014. 189 pgs. Graphic Novel Lucy Knisley has written another nonfiction graphi...

The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins Riverhead Books, 2015. 323 pgs. Fiction Rachel takes the same train into London each morning, and a...

Royal Wedding By Meg Cabot William Morrow, 2015. 436 pages. Fiction The Princess Diaries series gets an update with this book about Pr...

Mike's Place:  A True Story of Love, Blues, and Terror in Tel Aviv By Jack Baxter First Second Books, 2015. 189 pages. Graphic Novel...

The Visitors by Sally Beaumann Harper 2014, 529 pages, Historical Fiction “The story of the friendship between delicate 11-year-old Luc...

Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2015. 320 pages. Young Adult Ever since she was diagnosed wit...

Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella Delacorte Press, 2015. 286 pgs. Young Adult Fiction After an incident at school leaves fourteen-year...

Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen St. Martin's Press, 2014.  296 pgs. Fiction. Immobilized by the death of her husband, Kate P...

Princess of the Silver Woods by Jessica Day George Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2012.  322 pgs. Young Adult Fiction. Though King G...

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee Harper, 2015. 278 pgs. Fiction “Scout” Finch’s small town Alabama is brought back in “Go Set a Wat...

Advanced Genealogy Research Techniques by George G. Morgan and Drew Smith McGraw Hill Education, 2014. 206 pgs. Nonfiction A common oc...

Johnny Carson by Henry Bushkin Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. 304 pgs. Biography Johnny Carson was the king of late...

The Billion Dollar Spy:  A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman Doubleday, 2015.  312 pgs.  Biography. In...

The Speechwriter: A Brief Education in Politics by Barton Swaim Simon and Schuster, 2015.  204 pgs. Nonfiction Barton Swaim worked for...

The Affinities by Robert Charles Wilson Tor, New York, 2015. 300 pp. Fiction In dire financial straits and facing the prospect of havi...

The Truth According to Us By Annie Barrows The Dial Press, 2015. 491 pgs. Fiction In 1938, Willa Romeyn is thirteen years old and just...

Do No Harm:  Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh New York: St. Martin's, 2014. 276 pgs. Henry Marsh is a Brit...

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World By Steven Johnson Riverhead Books, 2014. 293 pgs. Nonfiction Examining by ...

I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives By Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda Little, Brown and Company, 2015.   392 p...

The Tastemakers: Why We’re Crazy for Cupcakes but Fed Up with Fondue By David Sax PublicAffairs, 2014. 336 pgs. Nonfiction Have you ev...

The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story  By Lily Koppel Grand Central Publishing, 2014. 320 pgs. Nonfiction Lily Koppel’s New York Time...

At The Water’s Edge: A Novel  By Sara Gruen Spiegel & Grau, 2015. 369 pgs. Fiction. Sara Gruen -- well known author of Water for E...

Rendezvous with Rama By Arthur C. Clarke Spectra, 1990. 288pgs. Science Fiction Just a few hundred years in the future, an enormous cy...

A Worthy Pursuit By Karen Witemeyer Bethany House, 2015. 341 pgs. Romance Stone Hammond is the best tracker around and he figures he...

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. ...