Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Beauty, Beast, and Belladonna by Maia Chance Berkley Prime Crime, 2016. 310 pgs. Mystery It’s 19th century France, and variety actress...

These Broken Stars By Amie Kaufman Disney Hyperion, 2013. 374 pgs. Young Adult Although Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen come from di...

North Korea Confidential by Daniel Tudor & James Pearson Tuttle Publishing, 2015. 192 pgs. Nonfiction There are lots of ideas abou...

The Season by Jonah Lisa Dyer and Stephen Dyer Viking, 2016. 344 pages. Young Adult Set in modern day Dallas, Texas, fans of Pride and...

Never Always Sometimes by Adi Alsaid Harlequin Teen, 2015. 313 pages. Young Adult. Just before beginning high school, best friends, Da...

The Nesting Place: It Doesn't Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful By Myquillyn Smith Zondervan, 2014. 199 pgs. Nonfiction Self-taught...

A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes #2) By Sabaa Tahir Razorbill, 2016. 452 pgs. Young Adult Elias and Laia are on the ru...

Roses and Rot By Kat Howard Saga Press, 2016, 307 pages, Fantasy Imogen and her sister Marin are accepted to an elite post-grad arts p...

Alice (Chronicles of Alice #1) By Christina Henry Ace, 2015. 291 pgs. Fantasy Alice has been imprisoned in the crumbling asylum of the...

The Invisible Library By Genevieve Cogman Roc, 2016, 341 pages, Science Fiction Irene is a professional spy for the Library, a shadowy...

LaRose By Louise Erdrich Harper, 2016. 373 pgs. Fiction I tried five times to write a short first paragraph for this review describing...

The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss By Anderson Cooper & Gloria Vanderbilt Harper, 2016. 290 pgs. M...

Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman   University Of Chicago Press , 2002. 230 pages. Nonfiction Originally published in 1962,...

First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladies by Kate Andersen Brower Harper, 2016. 400 pgs. Nonfiction Kate Ander...

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow Penguin Books, 2004. 818 pgs. Biography Alexander Hamilton is having a moment, 112 years after his d...

Charming by Elliot James Orbit, 2013. 480 pages. Fantasy. Book one of the Pax Arcana series (of which book five, In Shining Armor, wa...

Dead Wake : The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson Broadway Books, 2016. 480 pages. Nonfiction. Eerily similar to the story o...

Lily and the Octopus  by Steven Rowley New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016. 305 pages. Fiction. Lily, the aging dachshund, has a new...

Sweet Tomorrows: A Rose Harbor Novel  By Debbie Macomber Ballantine Books, 2016. 337 pgs. Romance Sweet Tomorrows is the final instal...

Badluck Way: a year on the ragged edge of the west  By Bryce Andrews Atria Books, 2014. 238 pgs. Biography Bryce Andrews is now a trie...

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 ...