Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Andre the Giant: Life and Legend by Box Brown First Second, 2014. 240 pgs. Graphic Novel Andre Roussimoff, better known as Andre the G...

Sleeping Giants By Sylvain Neuvel Random House, 2016. 373 pgs. Science Fiction On her eleventh birthday, Rose Franklin leaves her home...

Invaded by Melissa Landers Hyperion, 2015. Young Adult 356 pgs. In this sequel to Alienated , Cara has been shipped off to be an excha...

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less By Greg McKeown Crown Business, 2014. 260 pgs. Nonfiction If you are looking for a straigh...

Sword Art Online: Aincrad by Reki Kawahara Yen Press, 2014. 378 pgs. Graphic Novel In the near future virtual reality gaming has progr...

The Crown’s Game Evelyn Skye HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. 399 pages. Young Adult In 1825 Russia, with unrest among the Kazakhs and ...

The Forbidden Orchid By Sharon Biggs Waller Viking Books for Young Readers, 2016. 416 pgs. Young Adult Elodie Buchanon lives in a smal...

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster By Jon Krakauer Anchor, 1997. 337 pgs. Nonfiction On May 10, 1996, onl...

You Are Here By Jennifer E. Smith Simon & Schuster, 2012. 251 pgs. Young Adult Emma has always felt different from the rest of her f...

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States By Sarah Vowell Riverhead Books, 2015. 274 pgs. Biography Sarah Vowell is my favorite history ...

America's First Daughter By Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie William Morrow, 2016. 590 pgs. Historical Fiction Authors Dray and K...

The Hedge Knight: The Graphic Novel By George RR Martin Jet City Comics (November 5, 2013) 184 Pages, Graphic Novel The history of Wes...

A Gathering of Shadows By V.E. Schwab Tor Books, 2016. 512 pgs. Science Fiction In an alternate world where parallel Londons exist ...

Queen of fashion : what Marie Antoinette wore to the Revolution By Caroline Weber Holt, 2006. 412 pages. Nonfiction, biography. In a ...

Forever and Forever: The Courtship of Henry Longfellow and Fanny Appleton By Josi S. Kilpack Shadow Mountain, 2016. 327 pgs. Romance F...

Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time By Brian Tracy Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007. 12...

Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and thePeople Who Play It David M. Ewalt Scribner August 20, 2013 288 Pages Nonfict...

Far From the Madding Crowd By Hardy, Thomas Oxford University Press, 2002. 433 pages. Fiction. Bathsheba Everdene is a spirited, bea...

The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts By Joshua Hammer New York : Simon ...

Our Souls at Night By Kent Haruf Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, 179 pages, General Fiction In the fictional town of Holt, Colorado, Addie Moor...

Be Frank with Me By Julia Claiborne Johnson William Morrow, 2016, 287 pages, General Fiction Reclusive literary legend M. M. "Mim...

Etta and Otto and Russell and James By Etta Hooper New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015. 305 pages. Fiction. Etta has never se...

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children By Ransom Riggs Quirk Books, 2011. 352 pgs. Young Adult Fiction Miss Peregrine’s Home ...

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...