Provo City Library Staff Reviews

The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness By Dave Ramsey Thomas Nelson Publishing, 2009. 259 pgs. Nonfiction. With...

The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Pedro Domingos Basic Books, 2015. 352 pgs...

The Other Daughter By Lauren Willig St. Martin's Press, 2015.  296 pgs. Fiction Rachel Woodley was raised by her loving and proper...

The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family’s Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis By Simon Goodman Scribner, 2015. 353 pgs. Nonfiction T...

The Lake House By Kate Morton Atria Books, 2015. 495 pgs. Fiction The Edavane family is shattered when their toddler son vanishes on t...

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things By Jenny Lawson Flatiron Books, 2015. 329 pgs. Biography Jenny Lawson has suffered...

The Sleeper and the Spindle By Neil Gaiman Harper, 2015. 66 pages. Young Adult Neil Gaiman's newest newest fairy tale is one p...

Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live By Viktor Mayer-Schonberger & Kenneth Cukier Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013....

S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome By Mary Beard New York: Liveright Publishing, 215. 606 pp. Non-fiction Mary Beard, a Cambridge don...

Silver in the Blood  By Jessica Day George Bloomsbury, 2015. 368 pgs. Young Adult. Seventeen year old cousins Dacia and Lou are thri...

I Love I Hate I Miss My Sister By Amelie Sarn Delacourt, 2014. 152 pages. Young Adult Intellectually gifted and studious Sohane, 18, h...

Leaves on the Wind By Zack Whedon Dark Horse Books, 2014. 152 pgs. Graphic Novel After being tossed around the 'verse by various c...

Carry On By Rainbow Rowell St. Martin's Griffin, 2015. 522 pgs. Young Adult Simon Snow is the "chosen one," a young wiza...

  Girl Waits with Gun By Amy Stewart Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015, 408 pages, Historical Fiction In 1914, sisters Constance, Nora, ...

Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl: A Memoir By Carrie Brownstein New York: Riverhead Books, 2015. 244 pp. Biography Prior to her appearan...

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...