Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth  By Jay Hosler Hill and Wang, 2011. 150 pgs. Graphic Novel When Glargalian astronomers discovere...

Shadows of Self (Mistborn #5) By Brandon Sanderson Tor, 2015. 383 pgs. Fantasy Shadows of Self follows after The Alloy of Law in the ...

The Conspiracy of Us by Maggie Hall G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2015, 330 pages, Young Adult Fiction Sixteen-year-old Avery West tries to...

The Court and the World By Stephen Breyer Knopf; Reprint edition (September 15, 2015) 400 pages Nonfiction Justice Breyer’s analysis o...

The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett Harper Collins, 2012. Science Fiction. 336 pgs. In the first of four collaborative works, Terry Pra...

Station 11 By Emily St. John Mandel Knopf, 2014. 336 pgs. Fiction Fifteen years after a pandemic flu wiped out most of civilizatio...

Above the Waterfall By Ron Rash Ecco, 2015. 252 pgs.  Mystery Les is a retiring sheriff in a small Appalachian town.  Becky is a local...

Brooklyn By Colm Toibin New York, Scribner, 2009. 262 pages. Fiction. Set in 1950s, a young Irish girl, Eilis Lacey, is sent ...

The Summer Before the War By Helen Simonson Random House, 2016. 496 pgs. Fiction Beatrice Nash, in mourning for her father, moves to t...

The Happiness Project By Gretchen Rubin Harper, 2009. 301 pgs. Nonfiction I've read several of Gretchen Rubin's books already an...

More Than the Tattooed Mormon By Al Carraway CFI, 2015. 150 pgs. Biography Al Carraway who blogs at alfoxshead.blogspot.com tells about...

Leviathan Wakes By James S.A. Corey New York: Orbit, 2011. 582 pp. Science Fiction Far into the future, humanity has spread throughout...

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End By Atul Gawande Metropolitan Books, 2014. 282 pages. Nonfiction Thanks to modern me...

What is Not Yours is Not Yours By Helen Oyeyemi New York: Riverhead Books 2016. 325 pages. Fiction. What do a flaming tyrant,...

The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer Melville House, 2016. 336 pgs. Fiction. Eight-year-old Carmel has a tendency to slip away from ...

Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld Random House, 492 pages, 2016, General Fiction Returning with her sister, Jane, to their Ohio hometown w...

Eat, pray, love one woman's search for everything across Italy, India, and Indonesia By Elizabeth Gilbert Penguin Books, 2006. 334 p...

The Power of Everyday Missionaries: the what and how of sharing the gospel By Clayton M. Christensen Deseret Book, 2013. 152 pages. Nonf...

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

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

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

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 By Matt Kindt New York: First Second, 2013. 224 pp. Graphic Novel In the ten years that Det...

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

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

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

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