Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Kissing in America  By Margo Rabb Harper, 2015. 391 pgs. Young Adult Fiction Sixteen-year-old Eva Roth loves romance novels, much to t...

Do Unto Animals: A Friendly Guide to How Animals Live, and How We Can Make Their Lives Better By Tracey Stewart New York: Artisan, 20...

The Dress Shop of Dreams by Menna van Praag Ballantine Books, 2014.  336 pgs.  Fiction Cora Sparks lives a safe, emotionally detached ...

A Song for Ella Grey by David Almond Delacorte Press, 2015. 268 pgs. Young Adult Set in current day northern England, this is a retell...

Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nut New York: Random House, 2015. 279 pp. Non-fiction In 1997, ...

A Noble Masquerade By Kristi Ann Hunter Bethany House, 2015, 365 pages, Romance Lady Miranda Hawthorne has spent years writing letters...

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard HarperTeen, 2015. 388 pgs. Young Adult Fiction This is a great read for fans of The Hunger Games and Di...

Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South by Christopher Dickey New York: Crown Publishers, 2015. 388 pp....

NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman Penguin Random House, 2015.  534 pgs.  Nonfiction ...

Revenge and the Wild By Michelle Modesto Balzer + Bray, 2016. 373 pages. Young Adult Seventeen-year-old Westie's a young woman on...

Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers By Nick Offerman Penguin Publishing Group: 2015, 4...

Brave Enough  By Cheryl Strayed Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. 135 pgs. Nonfiction In 2012 Cheryl Strayed published Wild , a memoir of her exp...

The Thing about Jellyfish  By Ali Benjamin Little, Brown and Company, 2015. 343. Young Adult Suzy Swanson is a scientific minded seven...

The CompleteIdiot’s Guide to Genealogy By Christine Rose and Kay Germain Ingalls Alpha, 2012. 410 pgs. Nonfiction Hands down this...

The Painter's Daughter By Julie Klassen Bethany House, 2015, 458 pgs. Romance Sophie Dupont is the daughter of a painter who is ac...

One By Sarah Crossan Greenwillow Books, 2015. 400 pages. Young Adult Grace and Tippi are conjoined twins who have been home schooled f...

Crimson Bound By Rosamund Hodge Balzer + Bray, 2015. 448 pages. Young Adult Rachelle was apprenticed to her aunt as the next vill...

Jade Lady Burning By Martin Limón Soho Crime, 2011. 254 pgs. Mystery. Ernie Bascom and George Sueno are members of the U.S. Army Crim...

The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz Candlewick Press, 2015. 387 pgs. Young Adult Told in the form of a diary, fourteen-year-old Joan l...

Newt’s Emerald by Garth Nix Katherine Tegen Books, 2015. 291 pgs. Young Adult Lady Truthful Newington A.K.A. Newt is set to inherit th...

Darkly Dreaming Dexter  By Jeff Lindsay Doubleday, 2004. 288 pgs. Mystery Dexter Morgan might seem like an ordinary guy, but when Dext...

Missoula By John Krakauer New York: Doubleday 2015 384 pages. Nonfiction. The latest publication from best-selling nonfiction w...

Sorcerer to the Crown By Zen Cho Ace, 2015.  384 pgs. Fantasy. Sorcerer to the Crown was a delightful surprise for me, as it appealed...

The Japanese Lover By Isabel Allende Atria Books, 2015. 321 pgs. Historical Fiction Alma Belasco escaped Poland just as the Nazis  came ...

Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story By Jewel Blue Rider Press, 2015. 386 pgs. Biography Jewel’s “Never Broken” is an impressiv...

  These Shallow Graves By Jennifer Donnelly Delacorte Press, 2015, 487 pages, Young Adult Mystery Fiction When her father is found dea...

  Best Boy By Eli Gottlieb Liveright Publishing, 2015, 248 pages, General Fiction A middle-aged autistic resident of a therapeutic com...

Winter By Marissa Meyer Feiwel and Friends, 2015. 832 pgs.  Young Adult. In the final book of The Lunar Chronicles , Cinder, Kai, Iko,...

Inherent Vice By Thomas Pynchon New York: Penguin Press, 2009. 369 pp. Mystery. In this mystery, private investigator and hippie, Doc Sp...

Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince by Lisa Hilton Boston: Houton, Mifflin, Harcourt, 2015. 384 pp. Biography Given the staggering number of...