Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Books read and reviewed by librarians at the Provo City Library

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Alcatraz versus the Knights of Crystallia

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Alcatraz versus the Knights of Crystallia By Brandon Sanderson Scholastic Press, 2009. 299 pages. Young Adult After an extended de...
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

One Blood Ruby

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One Blood Ruby  by Melissa Marr Harper Collins, 2017. 368 pgs. Young Adult. In this sequel to Seven Black Diamonds, it appears not every...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Dear Mr. Knightley

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Dear Mr. Knightley By Katherine Reay Thomas Nelson, 2013. 327 pgs. Fiction Samantha Moore has had a rough life. The foster care system...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Hillbilly Elegy

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Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance Harper, 2016. 272 pgs. Biography. Part memoir, part sociological analysis, Hillbilly Elegy tells the st...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Alcatraz versus the Scrivener’s Bones

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Alcatraz versus the Scrivener’s Bones By Brandon Sanderson Scholastic Press, 2008. 322 pages. Young Adult Alcatraz is back for ano...
Monday, March 20, 2017

Lady Cop Makes Trouble

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Lady Cop Makes Trouble by Amy Stewart Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, 310 pages, Historical Fiction When Constance Kopp becomes one o...

Scythe

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Scythe by Neal Shusterman Simon & Schuster, 2016, 433 pages, Young Adult Fiction A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no mi...
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Friday, March 17, 2017

By Your Side

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By Your Side By Kasie West HarperTeen, 2017. 342 pgs,  Young Adult Autumn has spent her Friday afternoon at the library working on hom...
Thursday, March 16, 2017

The Traveler’s Gift

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The Traveler’s Gift  by Andy Andrews Nelson Publishers, 2002. 211 Pgs. Nonfiction David Ponder has hit rock bottom, he has lost his job ...

A Viscounts Proposal

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A Viscounts Proposal by Melanie Dickerson Waterfall Press, 2017. 279 pgs. Fiction Leorah Langdon has no patience for the false politene...

Sins Of Empire

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Sins of Empire by Brian McClellan Orbit, 2017. 624 pages. Fantasy. Vlora Flint, a veteran of the Adran revolution and storied powder mag...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Ever the Hunted

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Ever the Hunted by Erin Summerill Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. 392 pages. Young Adult Outcast Britta Flannery has always been dist...

The Girl from Everywhere

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The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig Greenwillow Books, 2016. 454 pages. Young Adult At 16, Nix has known no other home than her f...
Friday, March 10, 2017

Start of Darkness

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Start of Darkness by Rich Burlew Giant in the Playground, 2007. 116 pages. Fantasy, Graphic Novel How do villains become monsters? Are t...

Scrappy Little Nobody

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Scrappy Little Nobody By Anna Kendrick Touchstone Books, 2016. 304 pages. Biography Actress Anna Kendrick tells stories from her life ...
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Thursday, March 9, 2017

The Fireman

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Fireman by Joe Hill William Morrow, 2016. Fiction Harper Grayson is a nurse volunteering her time to help those infected by a terrifyi...

Norse Mythology

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Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. Fiction Thor, Odin and Loki come to life in Neil Gaiman’s new imaging ...
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Wednesday, March 8, 2017

The Bear and the Nightingale

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The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Del Rey, 2017. 336 pgs. Fiction For generations, the noble Vladimirovich family has li...
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Thursday, March 2, 2017

Wanderlost

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Wanderlost By Jen Malone HarperTeen, 2016. 316 pgs,  Young Adult Aubree can’t think of a better place to be than in perfectly boring...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

The Last Queen

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The Last Queen  by C. W. Gortner Ballantine Books, 2009. 378 pgs. Fiction. Juana’s childhood abruptly comes to an end when her parents...

One Week in the Library

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One Week in the Library by W. Maxwell Prince Image Comics Inc., 2016. 96 pgs. Graphic Novel In this experimental graphic novella, Alle...
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The Siren

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The Siren By Kiera Cass HarperTeen, 2016 (originally published 2009). 327 pages. Young Adult Fantasy Kahlen is a teen girl whose 1930s...
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Monday, February 27, 2017

Frontier Grit

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Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women by Marianne Monson Shadow Mountain, 2016. 198 pgs. Biography Frontier...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

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Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead By Brené Brown Gotham Books, 2012. 2...
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The Lady of the Lakes: The True Love Story of Sir Walter Scott

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The Lady of the Lakes: The True Love Story of Sir Walter Scott By Josi Kilpack Shadow Mountain, 2017. 338 pgs. Historical Fiction, Roman...

Dragonsong

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Dragonsong  by Anne McCaffery New York : Atheneum, 1976. 202 pgs YA Fiction  Menolly has a talent for music. A talent not appreciated o...
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Thursday, February 23, 2017

Vanished: True Tales of Mysterious Disappearances

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Vanished: True Tales of Mysterious Disappearances By Elizabeth MacLeod Annick Press, 2016. 184gs. Young Adult Nonfiction Do you rememb...

Avalanche

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Avalanche By Melinda Braun Simon Pulse, 2016. 263 pgs,  Young Adult What starts out as a fun back-country ski trip during Spring Break...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

1632

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1632 by Eric Flint BAEN Books, 2001, 597 pages, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction.  A small West Virginia town is mysteriously uproote...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Emperor of Thorns

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Emperor of Thorns By Mark Lawrence Ace Books, 2013. 434 pages. Fantasy Jorg is back for a third and final volume, and the question...
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