Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Galgorithm by Aaron Karo Simon Pulse, 2015. Young Adult. 310 pages. When Shane Chambliss was in 9th grade, he had his heart broken by ...

The Tokyo Zodiac Murder by Soji Shimada Pushkin Vertigo, 2015. 316 pgs. Mystery  It’s 1936 Japan, and an eccentric artist has been fou...

The Lies of Locke Lamora By Scott Linch Bantam Spectra, 2006. 499 pgs. Fantasy As a child, Locke Lamora was the most gifted orphaned t...

As Death Draws Near (Lady Darby #5) By Anna Lee Huber Berkley, 2016. 342 pgs. Mystery Sebastian and Kiera are finally enjoying a long-...

Rise and Shine By Sandra D. Bricker Moody Publishers, 2014. 285 pgs. Romance In this modern re-telling of Sleeping Beauty, Shannon Malon...

Lady Helen Finds Her Song By Jennifer Moore Covenant Communications, 2016. 225 pgs. Romance Lady Helen travels to India with her mothe...

This Savage Song  By Victoria Schwab Greenwillow Books, 2016. 464 pgs. Young Adult. In a divided city at war with monsters, Kate Harke...

Love and Gelato By Jenna Evans Welch Simon Pulse, 2016. 389 pgs. Young Adult Lina's world crashes down when her mom gets sick and di...

Smart and Sexy By Jill Shalvis Brava/Kensington, 2007. 269 pages. Fiction, Romantic suspense. Noah Fisher is a handsome and successful...

Smoke By Dan Vyleta Doubleday, 2016, 431 pages, Science Fiction Welcome to an alternate Victorian England where wicked thoughts (both ...

Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics By Nicholas Wapshott W. W. Norton & Company,  2012. 400 pages. Nonfiction. Biogr...

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. 305 pages. Fiction. In a well woven and page turning debut, Gyasi’s Homegoing...

The Gene: An Intimate History By Siddhartha Mukherjee Scribner, 2016. 592 pgs. Nonfiction Siddhartha Mukherjee's 2010  The Emperor...

Everyone Brave is Forgiven By Chris Cleave Simon & Schuster, 2016.  432 pgs.  Historical Fiction Mary North was born into privileg...

A Woman in Charge Carl Bernstein Vintage Books, 2008. 638 pgs. Biography At the Democratic National Convention last month, Hillary Cli...

M Train by Patti Smith Knopf, 2015. 253 pages, Biography Punk Rock star Patti Smith banks on her previous writing success ( Just Kids )...

The Passion of Dolssa By Julie Berry Viking, 2016, 478 pages, Young Adult Historical Fiction In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolss...

Big Girl: How I gave up dieting and got a life  by Kelsey Miller New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2016. 278 pages. Biography. Kelse...

No Other Will Do By Karen Witemeyer Bethany House, 2016. 364 pgs. Historical Fiction Emma Chandler's suffragette aunts taught her ...

The Midas Flesh  By Ryan North BOOM! Box, 2014.  128 pages. Graphic Novel. Science Fiction.  A team of three explorers find their w...

The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman Viking, 2016. 482 pages. Young Adult. It’s London 1812 and Lady Helen Wrexhall should be preparin...

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 and 2 Original Story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne; Script by Jack Thorne Sc...

Beyond All Dreams By Elizabeth Camden Bethany House 2015, 362 pages. Fiction. Set in 1897 Washington, D.C., this is a Christian-histor...

The Anatomy of Peace By The Arbinger Institute Berrett-Koehler, 2006. 232 pgs. Nonfiction Lou and his wife are heartbroken but also ve...

The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin By Stephanie Knipper Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2016. 325 pgs. Fiction Rose and Lily M...

The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded By Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis (Illustrator) Harry N. Abrams, 2016. 240 pgs. Graphic Novel ...

Attachments  By Rainbow Rowell Dutton, 2011. 323 pgs. Fiction Lincoln O'Neill took a job at as an "internet security officer...

The Springsweet By Saundra Mitchell Boston, 2012. 278 pgs. Young Adult Fiction Seventeen year old Zora Stewart is more than ready to l...

Glass Sword  By Victoria Aveyard HarperTeen, 2016. 464 pgs. Young Adult Fiction Glass Sword is book two in Aveyard’s Red Queen serie...

   Copperhead Volume 1: A New Sheriff in Town By Jay Faerber Image Comics, 2015. 128 pgs. Graphic Novel. Science Fiction Clara B...