Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Sisters Abroad: Interviews from the MormonWomen Project Neylan McBaine, editor Patheos Press, 2013. 137 pgs. Nonfiction This slim...

Napoleon: A Life By Andrew Roberts Viking, 2014. 926 pgs. Biography Napoleon wrote a lot of letters.  It is estimated he produced arou...

K-Pop Now!: The Korean Music Revolution By Mark James Russell Tuttle Publishing, 2014. 128 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction. There are a wi...

Washed Away By Geoff Williams Pegasus Books. 2013. 356 pgs. Nonfiction In March, 1913, the worst flood in the history of the United St...

Paris Architect By Charles Belfoure Sourcebooks Landmark. 374 pgs. Fiction Lucien Bernard is a talented but self-absorbed architect in...

Alienated By Melissa Landers Disney Hyperion, 2014. 344 pgs. Young Adult Cara Sweeney has been busy the last few years fighting her wa...

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban By Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb Little, Brown and Compa...

Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson Candlewick, 2015.  456 pgs.  Nonficti...

In the Dark Places by Peter Robinson HarperCollins, 2015.  326 pgs. Mystery When an expensive tractor goes missing, no one in Inspecto...

Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. 183 pgs. Young Adult There are several improbabilities in Gary Sc...

The Nonrunner’s Marathon Guide for Women By Dawn Dais Seal Press, 2006. 249 pgs. Nonfiction. Dawn Dais felt that running was for other...

Einstein’s Trunk By Jim Haberkorn Bonneville Books, 2011, 234 pages, Suspense Fiction The Russians have learned that Einstein has left...

My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business By Dick Van Dyke Crown Archetype, 2011. 287 pgs. Biography This is a terrific little ...

Twice in a Lifetime By Dorothy Garlock Grand Central Publishing, 2015. 372 pgs. Romance Clara Sinclair's husband was killed in WWI...

The Eleventh Brother: A Novel of Joseph in Egypt By Rachel K. Wilcox Deseret Book, 2015. 333 pgs. Historical Fiction This novel adds d...

You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir By Felicia Day Touchstone, 2015. 260 pgs. Biography Felicia Day’s wonderful ...

P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han New York: Simon and Schuster BFYR, 2015. 337 pgs. Young Adult. Continuing the story from To All the...

Emmy & Oliver by Robin Benway New York: Harper Teen, 2015. 343 pgs. Young Adult At age eight, Emmy expects she will be friends wit...

Born With Teeth By Kate Mulgrew New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2015. 306 pp. Biography Starting with her upbringing as part of a lar...

  Born of Persuasion (Price of Privilege #1) By Jessica Dotta Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2013, 435 pages, Historical/Inspirational...

The Little Paris Bookshop Crown, 2015. 400 pgs. Fiction. Jean Perdu is lost. Twenty years ago, the love of his life left him without ...

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing By Marie Kondo Ten Speed Press, 2014. 224 pgs. No...

The Dorito Effect : The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor By Mark Schatzker Simon and Shuster, 2015. 259 pgs. Nonfiction Have...

The Fall  By Bethany Griffin Greenwillow Books, 2014. 420 pgs. Young Adult Madeline and her twin brother Roderick are the last in a lo...

The Gigantic Beard that was Evil By Stephen Collins Picador, 2014. unpaged. Graphic Novel Dave lives on the nice and tidy island of He...

Where All Light Tends to Go By David Joy G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2015. 260 pgs. Fiction On the day that should have been his high school g...

Mind MGMT, Vol 1: The Manager by Matt Kindt Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2013. 196 pp. Graphic novel Two years after the mystery of ...

Heart-Shaped Box By Joe Hill William Morrow, 2007. 376 pages. Horror Now retired, aging rock star Judas Coyne has taken up several hob...

The Shining Girls By Lauren Beukes Mulholland Books, 2013. 375 pages. Science Fiction Harper Curtis isn't your standard serial kil...

Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older Arthur A. Levine Books, 2015. 304 pages. Young Adult All Sierra Santiago wants to do this summer is ...