Provo City Library Staff Reviews

American Foodie By Dwight Furrow Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. 179 pgs. Nonfiction  Is food a fine art? Can it evoke emotion and con...

Miss Whitaker Opens Her Heart By Jennifer Moore Covenant Communications, 2017. 207 pgs. Historical Fiction,  Romance Sarah Whitaker ca...

Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content That Works By Ginny Redish Morgan Kaufman, 2012. Nonfiction. 333 pages No website, no mat...

Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability By Steve Krug New Riders, 2014. Nonfiction. 200 pages This bo...

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry  By Neil deGrasse Tyson Everyone’s favorite celebrity astrophysicist once again enthralls readers with...

On the Edge  by Ilona Andrews Ace Books, 2009. 326 pgs. Science Fiction On the Edge is a story about Rose Drayton who live in the Edge, ...

Big Mushy Happy Lump  By Sarah Andersen Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2017. 128 pages. Graphic Novel Sarah Andersen's Sarah's Scr...

A Murder in Time By Julie McElwain Pegasus Books, 2016. 498 pages. Mystery Kendra Donovan is one of the most promising young agents at...

The Hidden Memory of Objects By  Danielle Mages Amato Balzer & Bray, 2017. 330 pages. Young Adult Megan, talented collage artis...

My Life, My Love, My Legacy By Coretta Scott King; as told to the Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds Henry Holt & Company, 2017. 356 pgs. Bio...

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane By Lisa See Simon & Schuster, 2017. 371 pgs. Fiction Born in a remote Yunnan village, high in the...

Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out By Susan Kuklin Candlewick Press, 2014. 182 pages. Young Adult Nonfiction Beyond Magen...

Open Heart: a Cardiac Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table By Stephan Westaby Basic Books, 2017. 287  pgs. Nonf...

A Useful Woman By Darcie Wilde Berkley Prime Crime, 2016, 357 pages, Mystery The daughter of a baronet and a minor heiress, Rosalind T...

Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy By Sheryl Sandberg Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. 226 pgs. Nonfiction Sheryl ...

Every Falling Star: the True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea By Sungju Lee & Susan McClelland Amulet Books, 2...

A Fine Gentleman By Sarah M. Eden Covenant Communications, 2017. 238 pgs. Historical Fiction, Romance Jason Jonquil is a London barris...

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges By Nathan Englander Vintage International, 2000. 205 pages. Fiction This short story collection...

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine By Gail Honeyman Pamela Dorman Books, 2017. 336 pgs. Fiction Eleanor Oliphant goes about each day ...

City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris By Holly Tucker W.W. Norton, 2017, 310 pages, Non-Fict...

One True Loves By Taylor Jenkins Reid Washington Square Press, 2016. 331 pgs. Fiction Emma and Jesse met and fell in love during high ...

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...