Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride By Lucy Knisley First Second, 2016. 292 pages. Graphic Novel, Biography. Graphic novelist...

Zahra’s Paradis By Amir & Khalil First Second, 2011. 255 pgs. Graphic Novel During the street protests after the 2009 elections in...

Chickens in the Headlights: a novel by Matthew Buckley Covenant Communications, 2005, 206 pgs. Fiction Summer vacation has just begun ...

Dead Letters By Caite Dolan-Leach Random House, 2017, 332 pgs. Fiction After an estrangement of several years, Ava Antipova must retur...

Music of the Ghosts By Vaddey Ratner Touchstone, 2017, 324 pgs.  Fiction After escaping Cambodia as a child, Teera returns to fulfill ...

Thick as Thieves (The Queen’s Thief #5)  By Megan Wha lan Turner  Harper Collins, 2017. 336 pages.  Kamet, a high-status slave of the Me...

Shifting Shadows  By Patricia Briggs Ace Books, 2014. 450 pages, Science Fiction This is a fun collection of short stories from the Merc...

The Masked City By Genevieve Cogman ROC, 2016. 372 pages. Fantasy In the second installment of the Invisible Library series , Irene mu...

The Women in the Castle By Jessica Shattuck William Morrow, 2016. 353 pgs. Historical Fiction Set toward the end of WWII, this novel t...

THE HEIR by Kiera Cass HarperCollins, 364 pages, fiction. THE HEIR  is book No. 4 in the Selection series, carrying on the story with ...

The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests By Chris Smith and Jon Stewart G...

Born Survivors : Three Young Mothers and their Extraordinary Story of Courage,Defiance, and Hope By Wendy Holden HarperCollins, 2015....

Scrooge #worstgiftever By Charles Dickens & Brett Wright Random House, 2016. 90 pages. Young Adult Scrooge #worstgiftever is a re...

This is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live by Melody Warnick Viking, 2016, 320 pages, Non-Fiction Aust...

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places  By Colin Dickey  Viking, 2016. 320 pages.   Author Colin Dickey was in the market to b...

Saints at Devil’s Gate: Landscapes along the Mormon Trail By Laura Allred Hurtado & Byron C. Andreasen The Church Historian’s Pre...

Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics  by Chris Duffy (Editor) First Second, 2014, 144 pages, Nonfiction Above th...

Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now that the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room is ...

Strange the Dreamer By Laini Taylor Little, Brown & Co, 2017, 536 pages, Young Adult Fiction Since he was five years old Lazlo Str...

The Black Witch  By Laurie Forest Harlequin Teen, 2017. 601 pgs. Young Adult Fiction Elloren is the spitting image of her grandmother wh...

I’d Rather Eat Chocolate: Learning to Love My Low Libido By Joan Sewell Broadway Books, 2007. 213 pages. Nonfiction Welcome to the...

The Long Earth By Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter Harper, 2012. 336 pages. Sci-Fi In this non-Discworld novel, Terry Pratchett ...

Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space By Margot Lee Shetterly H...

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

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

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...