Provo City Library Staff Reviews

America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve by Roger Lowenstein New York: Penguin Press, 2015. 355 pp. Non-fiction...

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things that Happened By Allie Brosh Touchstone...

Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman, with the assistance of Jed Woodworth Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. 740 pgs. Nonf...

The Desert Between the Mountains: Mormons, Miners, Padres, Mountain Men, and the Opening of the Great Basin, 1772-1869 by Michael S. Durh...

Thug Notes: A Street-Smart Guide to Classic Literature By Sparky Sweets, PhD Vintage Books, 2015. 288 pages, Non-Fiction Based on the...

Frank & Ava: In Love and War  By John Brady Thomas Dunne Books, 2015. 304 pgs. Nonfiction Teenaged southerner Ava Gardner dreamed ...

Lord Fenton’s Folly  By Josi S. Kilpack Shadow Mountain Publishing, 2015. 336 pgs. Romance Alice Stanbridge has been in love with her ...

The Dead House By Dawn Kurtagich Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2015. 432 pages. Young Adult More than two decades ago, the so...

Daughters Unto Devils By Amy Lukavics Harlequin Teen, 2015. 281 pages. Young Adult After the terrors of last winter, sixteen-year-ol...

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 ...