Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything By Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Simon & Schuster, 2016. 307 pages. Nonfiction ...

The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016. 342 pages. Young Adult In a fantasy world influenced by Indian m...

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work By John M. Gottman Harmony Books, 2015. 295 pgs. John Gottman is an expert on marriage. ...

Truthwitch by Susan Dennard Tor Teen, 2016. 415 pages. Young Adult Nineteen years into a 20-year truce, trouble is brewing in a land r...

The Sheriffs of Savage Wells By Sarah M. Eden Shadow Mountain, 2016. 322 pgs. Romance, Historical Fiction Paisley Bell has been acting...

Heartless By Marissa Meyer Feiwel & Friends, 2016. 453 pages. Young Adult Cath was born to a brilliant world full of balls, te...

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah Spiegel and Grau, 2016. 304 pgs. Biography Fans of The Daily Show ...

What Light By Jay Asher Razorbill, 2016. 250 pgs. Young Adult Sierra has lived on a Christmas tree farm her entire life. She spends the ...

The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff Penguin Books, 2000, ebook 494 pages, Fiction This novel is an unusual, emotional, and deeply movin...

Magic Bites  by Ilona Andrews Ace Books, 2007. 260 pages. Fantasy Kate Daniels is a mercenary whose main job is to clean up paranormal m...

Moon Called By Patricia Briggs Ace Books, 2006. 288 pages, Fantasy Mercy Thompson is not your normal Volkswagen mechanic living in the t...

A Curious Beginning (Veronica Speedwell #1) By Deanna Raybourn Berkley, 2015. 368 pgs. Mystery As much as Veronica loved her spinster...

Wild Card by Jim Butcher Dynamite Entertainment, October 2016. 144 pages. Graphic novel. Fantasy.  Set in between Dresden Files novels...

The Sun is Also a Star By Nicola Yoon Delacorte Press, 2016. 384 pgs. Young Adult It’s seventeen-year-old Natasha Kingsley’s last day ...

The Mists of Avalon By Marion Zimmer Bradley Knopf, 1982. 876 pages. Fantasy Marion Zimmer Bradley tells the classic Arthurian ta...

The Magnolia Story Chip Gaines, Joanna Gaines, and Mark Dagostino Thomas Nelson, 2016. 208 pgs. Nonfiction “Are y’all ready to see you...

Teeny's Tour of Pie By Teeny Lamothe Workman Publishing, 2014. 272 pgs. Nonfiction As a child, Teeny loved making pies alon...

March, Book Three (Review of the Trilogy) By John Lewis Top Shelf Productions, 2016, 246 pages, Nonfiction Graphic Novel John Lewis w...

Underground Airlines By Ben H. Winters Mulholland Books/Little Brown and Company, 2016. 327 pgs. Fiction Underground Airline is a ter...

Homegoing By Yaa Gyasi Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. 305 pgs. Fiction Covering three hundred years and seven generations, Homegoing follows t...

To the Bright Edge of the World By Eowyn Ivey Little, Brown & Co, 2016, 417 pages, General Fiction In the winter of 1885, decorat...

The Shadow Queen  by   C.J. Redwine Balzer + Bray, February 2016, 400 pages. Fantasy, young adult.  Lorelai and her brother lost everyth...

Korean Folk & Fairy Tales   by Suzanne Crowder Han Hollym, 1991. 256 pgs. Nonfiction This is a sampling of Korean stories which ha...

I Am Not a Serial Killer  By Dan Wells Tor, 2010. 271 pgs. Fiction John Wayne Clever is not a typical teenager. John has long been dra...

The Speed of Dark By Elizabeth Moon Del Rey, 2003. 340 pgs. Fiction Lou Arrendale has autism. He is extremely high functioning with a jo...

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue by John McWhorter Gotham Books, 2008. 230. Nonfiction Most Anglophiles know the traditional history of t...

A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro Katharine Tegen Books, 2016. 321 pages. Young Adult This isn’t your typical re-imagining of...

What Alice Forgot By Liane Moriarty G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2011. 426 pgs. Fiction Alice has an accident at the gym and when she wakes...

Like A River Glorious Greenwillow Books, 2016, 406 pages, Young Adult By Rae Carson Leah Westfall has finally made it to California af...

Darcy Swipes Left By Courtney Carbone Random House, 2016. 114 pgs. Young Adult Jane Austen meets the smart phone in this fun, modern tel...