Provo City Library Staff Reviews

More Happy Than Not By Adam Silvera Soho Teen, 2015. 295 pages. Young Adult In sixteen-year-old Aaron Soto's near-future world, pe...

Alias By Brian Michael Bendis Illustrated by Michael Gaydos Marvel Worldwide, 2014. 720 pages. Graphic Novel/Comics Unable to become ...

Humans of New York: Stories By Brandon Stanton St. Martin's Press, 2015. 432 pgs. Nonfiction Several years ago Brandon Stanton beg...

Nimona By Noelle Stevenson Harper Collins, 2015. 272 pages. Young Adult Graphic Novel This graphic novel covers a lot of ground: fanta...

Cress By Marissa Meyer Feiwel and Friends, 2014. 560 pgs. Young Adult Cress has spent most of her life trapped alone in a satellite, o...

The Night We Said Yes by Lauren Gilbaldi HarperTeen, 2015. 293 pgs. Young Adult When Ella agreed to go out with her best friend, Meg, ...

Dark Places  By Gillian Flynn Broadway Books, 2009. 349pgs. Mystery On January 2, 1985 Ben Day massacred his family in their home in K...

The Last Pioneer: John Taylor, a MormonProphet by Samuel W. Taylor Signature Books, 1999. 406 pgs. Nonfiction Originally publishe...

Memory Man By David Baldacci Grand Central Publishing, 2015. 405 pgs. Mystery. In his early years, Amos Decker was preparing for a car...

Her Name Is Rose By Christine Breen St. Martin's Press, 2015. 290 pgs. Fiction Iris Bowen lives in Western Ireland and is an avid ...

We Never Asked for Wings By Vanessa Diffenbaugh Ballentine Books, 2015. 299 pgs. Fiction Sometimes in life we are put in situations th...

The Orchardist By Amanda Coplin Harper, 2012. 426 pgs. Fiction In her debut novel, Amanda Coplin follows the life of William Talmadge ...

The Dream Lover: A Novel By Elizabeth Berg Random House, 356 pgs. Historical Fiction In this beautiful historical novel, Elizabeth Ber...

The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed By Jessica Lahey Harper, 272 pgs. Nonfiction J...

Secrets of a Charmed Life  By Susan Meissner New American Library, 2015. 409 pgs. Fiction. Emmy’s dream of becoming a wedding dress de...

  Walk on Earth a Stranger By Rae Carson Greenwillow Books, 2015, 436 pages, YA Western "Lee Westfall has a secret. She can sense...

A Darker Shade of Magic By V.E. Schwab New York, New York: Tor, 2015. 400 pp. Science Fiction Kell is a magician, able to travel acros...

The Promise by Robert Crais G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2015.  402 pgs. Mystery I am not sure what a police procedural is called when it ...

Illusionarium By Heather Dixon Greenwillow Books, 2015, 361 pages, Young Adult As apprentice to his father, the second-best medical s...

Surviving Hitler: the Unlikely True Story of an SS Soldier and a Jewish Woman By O. Hakan Palm Deseret Book, 2014. 227 pgs. Nonfiction ...

I In Order to Live By Yeonmi Park Penguin Press, 2015. 273 pgs. Nonfiction Yeonmi Park was born in North Korea where she suffered incr...

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...