Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Love on a Whim By Aubrey Mace Covenant Communications, 2015. 252 pgs. Romance Rachel Pearce graduated from Stanford with her law degre...

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace By H.W. Brands Doubleday, 2012. 718 pgs. Biography Brands biography of Uly...

Sudden Sea: the Great Hurricane of 1938 By R.A. Scotti Little, Brown and Company, 2001. 279 pgs. Nonfiction In an era when weather ...

Down a Dark Hall  By Lois Duncan Laurel-Leaf, 1974. 181 pgs. Young Adult When her mom gets remarried, fourteen-year-old Kit feels a li...

Stars of K-Pop: Girls Edition  By StarNews Watermark Publishing, 2014. 191 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction. Through photographs, interview...

Trouble is a Friend of Mine by Stephanie Tromly New York, Kathy Dawson Books, 2015. 334 pgs. Young Adult Fiction After Zoe Webster’s p...

That’s Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms, and What Our English Says About Us by Erin Moore New York: Gotham Books, 2015. 223 pgs. N...

Why Not Me? Mindy Kaling New York: Crown Archetype, 2015.  228 pgs.  Nonfiction/Humor. Mindy Kaling has captured a lot of attention in...

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie New York: Orbit, 2013. 409 pp. Science Fiction While I don't read a great deal of science fiction,...

Up Till Now: The Autobiography William Shatner Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2008. 358 pgs. Biography In this entertaining an...

The Nightingale By Kristin Hannah St. Martin's Press, 2015. 440 pgs. Historical Fiction Viann and Isabelle are sisters living in F...

Modern Romance By Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg Penguin, 2015, 277 pages, Nonfiction/Humor How has technology changed the way we ...

Troubled Times: Provo, Utah 1855-1856 by D. Robert Carter Provo City, 2015. 252 pgs. Nonfiction This well-research and nicely written ...

The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr HarperCollins, 2015. 229 pgs. Nonfiction Award-winning memoirist Mary Karr knows whereof she speaks in ...

Last Words by Michael Koryta Little, Brown and Company, 2015. 420 pgs. Mystery Mark Novak is devastated when his wife is murdered, and...

The Boston Girl By Anita Diamant Scribner, 2015. 322 pgs. Historical Fiction In "The Boston Girl," Addie Baum is the complet...

Circling the Sun: A Novel By Paula McLain Ballantine Books, 2015.  366 pgs. Historical Fiction Beryl Markham was born in England but r...

The Marriage of Opposites Alice Hoffman Simon & Schuster, 2015. 292 pgs. Fiction Rachel Pomié, a young woman raised on St. Thomas ...

The Scribe by Matthew Guinn W.W. Norton, 2015.  292 pgs.  Mystery Post Civil War Atlanta is trying to rise above the ashes and establi...

The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan by Rafia Zakaria Beacon Press, 2014.  251 pgs. Non-fiction. Zakaria works a melanch...

Badlands by C. J. Box Minotaur, 2014. 278 pgs. Mystery Cassie Dewell is thirty-six years old and a bit on the fleshy side (as my g...

Heir to the Jedi By Kevin Hearne Del Ray, 2015.  288 pgs. Science Fiction Luke Skywalker is the new hero of the Rebel Alliance and he ...

Q: A Novel By Evan J. Mandery William Morrow Paperbacks, 2011. 368 pgs. Fiction In this witty, warm, and self-aware novel, our protago...

A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness - and a Trove of Letters - Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression By Ted Gup Peng...

The Wright Brothers By David McCullough Simon & Schuster, 2015. 320 pages. Nonfiction David McCullough is such a household name a...

A Heart Revealed By Josi S. Kilpack Shadow Mountain, 2015. 324 pgs. Romance Amber Sterlington is the most popular girl of the London s...

The Harder They Come  By T.C. Boyle Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins publishers, 2015. 384 pgs. Fiction Boyle’s latest novel begins q...

Silver Linings: A Rose Harbor Novel By Debbie Macomber Ballantine Books, 2015. 345 pgs. Romance Debbie Macomber's latest novel wil...

Dietland By Sarai Walker Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. 320 pgs. Fiction Plum Kettle, overweight, lives a quiet life in New York Cit...

The End of All Things by John Scalzi New York, NY: Tom Doherty & Assoc., LLC. 380 pp. Science Fiction This is the latest in Scalzi...