Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Books read and reviewed by librarians at the Provo City Library

Saturday, April 30, 2016

Saving Grace

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Saving Grace By Michele Paige Holmes Mirror Press, 2014. 376 pgs. Romance Grace Thatcher just wants to settle down in the country with...

A Girl's Guide to Moving On

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A Girl’s Guide to Moving on  By Debbie Macomber Ballantine Books, 2016. 339 pgs. Romance A Girl's Guide to Moving On is the secon...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Woman With a Blue Pencil

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Woman With a Blue Pencil  By Gordon McAlpine Seventh Street Books, 2015. 191 pgs. Mystery. When the LAPD fails to properly investigate...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Lock and Mori

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Lock and Mori By Heather Petty Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2015. 248 pages. Young Adult In this teenaged, modern-day twist on Sherlock ...
Monday, April 25, 2016

The Wild Truth

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The Wild Truth By Carine McCandless HarperOne, 2014. 277 pages. Nonfiction. Chris McCandless was found dead in the Alaskan wilderness ...

Red Handed: The Fine Art of Strange Crimes

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Red Handed: The Fine Art of Strange Crimes By Matt Kindt New York: First Second, 2013. 224 pp. Graphic Novel In the ten years that Det...

Seconds

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Seconds By Bryan Lee O'Malley New York: Ballantine Books, 2014. 321 pp. Graphic Novel Katie's life is in a state of flux. Afte...

The High Mountains of Portugal

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The High Mountains of Portugal By Yan Martel Spiegel & Grau, 2016. 332 pgs. Fiction For readers who helped make The Life of Pi an ...

Spain in Our Hearts

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Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 By Adam Hochschild Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. 438 pgs. Nonfict...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers By Mary Roach W.W. Norton & Company, 2003, 320 pgs. Nonfiction Stiff is a strange and ...
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We Are All Made of Molecules

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We Are All Made of Molecules By Susin Nielsen Wendy Lamb Books, 2015. 248 pages. Young Adult Brilliant but socially awkward, Stewart h...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

The Distance from Me to You

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The Distance from Me to You By Marina Gessner G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2015. 339 pgs. Young Adult McKenna, newly graduated from high sch...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

Six of Crows

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Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1)  By Leigh Bardugo Henry Holt and Company, 2015, 465 pgs. Young Adult, Fantasy In the bustling, seedy po...

The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help

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The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help By Amanda Palmer Grand Central Publishing, 2014. 336 pages. Bio...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

5 Love Languages

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5 Love Languages The Secret to Love that Lasts By Gary D. Chapman Moody & Northfield, 2001. 208 pages. Nonfiction. Dr Chapman explo...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Leadership and Self-Deception

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Leadership and Self-Deception By The Arbinger Institute Berrett-Koehler, 2010. 199 pages. Nonfiction. Bud is excited because he has been...
Saturday, April 9, 2016

Dumplin'

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Dumplin' by Julie Murphy Balzer + Bray, 2015.  384 pgs. Young Adult Willowdean Dickson is fat, and she’s perfectly comfortable say...

Stars over Sunset Boulevard

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Stars over Sunset Boulevard by Susan Meissner Penguin Group, 2016. 386 pgs. Fiction New roommates Violet Mayfield and Audrey Duvall se...

The Secret Life of Anna Blanc

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The Secret Life of Anna Blanc by Jennifer Kincheloe Seventh Street Books, 2015, 367 pages, Mystery It’s 1907, and Anna Blanc is tired ...

Noah's Wife

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Noah’s Wife by Lindsay Starck G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2016, 387 pages, General Fiction Moving to a small coastal community where she ...
Saturday, April 2, 2016

My Fair Gentleman

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My Fair Gentleman By Nancy Campbell Allen Shadow Mountain, 2016. 248 pgs. Romance The last thing Jack wants to do is leave his life at...

American Blood

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American Blood  By Ben Sanders Minotaur Books, 2015. 339 pgs. Fiction Marshall Grade used to be a NYPD detective, but after an underco...
Friday, April 1, 2016

When Calls the Heart

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When Calls the Heart By Janette Oke Bethany House, 1983. 221 pgs. Romance Elizabeth Thatcher, a school teacher, has always lived in the ...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

No Country For Old Men

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No Country For Old Men By Cormac McCarthy New York: Knoff, 2005. 309 pp. Fiction While out hunting along the Texas-Mexican border, Lle...
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Summerlost

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Summerlost  By Ally Condie Dutton Children’s Books, 2016. 249 pgs. Young Adult Fiction Internationally best-selling author, Ally Condi...
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Re-Gifters

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Re-Gifters By Mike Carey DC Comics, 2007. 148 pgs. Graphic Novel Dixie, a Korean-American teenager in LA, loves Hapkido and is lookin...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

The Forest Feast: Simple Vegetarian Recipes From My Cabin in the Woods

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The Forest Feast: Simple Vegetarian Recipes From My Cabin in the Woods By Erin Gleeson Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2014. 240 pgs. Nonfict...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Lights Out

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Lights Out: A Cyberattack: A Nation Unprepared: Surviving the Aftermath By Ted Koppel Crown Publishers, 2015. 279 pgs. Nonfiction Disa...
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Higher Call

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A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-torn Skies of World War II By Adam Makos Berkley Books, 2013. ...
Monday, March 28, 2016

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

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Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed  American History By Brian Kilmeade Sentinel, 2015. 238 pgs. No...
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