Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Books read and reviewed by librarians at the Provo City Library

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

A Long Way Home

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A Long Way Home By Saroo Brierley Berkley, 2015. 273 pgs. Biography Saroo Brierley spent his first five years living in rura...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

The Orpheus Clock: the Search for My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis

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The Orpheus Clock: the Search for My Family’s Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis By Simon Goodman Scribner, 2015. 353   pgs. Nonfi...
Saturday, May 27, 2017

Let It Go: Downsizing Your Way to a Richer, Happier Life

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Let It Go: Downsizing Your Way to a Richer, Happier Life By Peter Walsh Rodale Books, 2017. 256 pgs. Nonfiction Peter Walsh is a exper...
Saturday, May 20, 2017

The Fall of Lord Drayson

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The Fall of Lord Drayson By Rachael Anderson HEA Publishing, 2016. 284 pgs. Historical Fiction, Romance Lucy Beresford is shocked when...
Friday, May 19, 2017

My Not So Perfect Life

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My Not So Perfect Life By Sophie Kinsella Dial Press, 2017. 434 pgs. Fiction Katie Brenner, a farm girl from Somerset, is determined t...

American Spirit

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American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For By David McCullough Simon & Schuster, 2017. 176 pgs. Nonfiction American Spirit ...
Thursday, May 18, 2017

Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry

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Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry by Christie Wilcox Straus and Giroux, 2016. 236 pages. Non Fiction ...

The Crossover

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The Crossover By Kwame Alexander Houghton Mifflin, 2014. 237 pgs. Young Adult   “A bolt of lightning on my kicks… the court is sizzling...
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017

The Dark Talent

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The Dark Talent By Brandon Sanderson Starscape, 2016. 300 pages. Young Adult It’s finally here! It took almost seven years, but Al...

The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

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The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Saenz Clarion Books, 2017, 445 pages, Young Adult Fiction Sal used to know his pla...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

The Forgotten Warrior

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The Forgotten Warrior by Kathi Oram Peterson Covenant Communications, 2009. 257 pgs. Young Adult Fiction Sydney Morgan is a teenage girl...

For Love and Honor

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For Love and Honor  by Jodi Hedlund Grand Rapids, 2017. 239 pgs. Young Adult Fiction Sir Bennet rushes home after his mother’s request o...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Loving My Actual Life

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Loving My Actual Life By Alexandra Kuykendall Baker Books, 2016. 224 pgs. Nonfiction Alexandra is a mother of four, looking for bala...
Friday, May 5, 2017

Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Back

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Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Back By Jessica Fechtor Plume, 2016. 274 pgs. Nonfiction Jessica was 28, newly...

Food Fights and Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste

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Food Fights and Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste by Tom Nealon Overlook Press, 2017, 223 pages, Non-Fiction In this eclectic bo...
Thursday, May 4, 2017

The Bell Jar

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The Bell Jar By Slyvia Plath Perennial Classics, 1999. 264 pages. Fiction The time is the 1940s, and Esther Greenwood is at the ...
Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

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Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us By Michael Moss Random House, 2013. 446 pgs.  Nonfiction Using examples from well-know...

Misery

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Misery By Stephen King Signet, 1988. 338 pgs. Horror Paul Sheldon has just finished writing his latest novel. As he’s driving through ...
Friday, April 28, 2017

Shapeshifter

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Shapeshifter by Holly Bennett Orca Book Publishers, 2010. 244 pgs. Young Adult Fiction  Taking place in Eire and the Otherworld of Iri...
Thursday, April 27, 2017

Alcatraz versus the Shattered Lens

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Alcatraz versus the Shattered Lens By Brandon Sanderson Scholastic Press, 2010. 292 pages. Young Adult The kingdom of Mokia is und...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

When Breath Becomes Air

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When Breath Becomes Air By Paul Kalanithi Random House, 2016. 228   pgs. Biography At age seventeen Paul Kalanithi was sure ...
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