Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Books read and reviewed by librarians at the Provo City Library

Thursday, August 31, 2017

The Boy Who Escaped Paradise

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The Boy Who Escaped Paradise By J.M. Lee Pegasus Books, 2016. 278 pgs. Mystery When Gilmo is found at the scene of a murder in New Yor...

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The New Koreans: The Story of a Nation By Michael Breen Thomas Dunne Books, 2017. 462 pgs. Nonfiction Korea is a country (now countrie...

The Witchfinder's Sister

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The Witchfinder's Sister By Beth Underdown Ballantine Books, 2017. 304 Pages. Historical Fiction In 1645, the English Civil War dr...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

A Twist in Time

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A Twist in Time By Julie McElwain Pegasus, 2017. 452 pages. Historical Fiction FBI agent Kendra Donovan's attempts to return to he...

The Ship Beyond Time

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The Ship Beyond Time by Heidi Heilig Greenwillow Books, 2017. Young Adult Fantasy. 456 pages In this sequel to The Girl from Everywher...

Crosstalk

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Crosstalk By Connie Willis Del Rey, 2016. Science Fiction. 498 pages. In a slightly alternate version of our own modern day, people ar...
Monday, August 28, 2017

Cry Wolf

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Cry Wolf  by Patricia Briggs New York: Ace Books, 2008. 310 pgs. Fantasy Anna is a werewolf who was changed against her will. She has re...
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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

The Handmaid's Tale

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The Handmaid’s Tale  By Margaret Atwood Anchor Books, 1986. 325 pages Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is one of the earliest and m...
Thursday, August 17, 2017

Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill

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Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill By Greg Mitchell Crown, 2016. 382 pgs...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Fire By Night

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The Fire By Night By Teresa Messineo William Morrow, 2017. 306 pgs. Historical Fiction Shedding more light on less familiar aspects of...

The Women in the Castle

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The Women in the Castle By Jessica Shattuck William Morrow, 2017. 353 pgs. Historical Fiction Marianne was widowed in 1944 when her hu...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee -- a Look Inside North Korea

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Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee – a Look Inside North Korea By Jang Jin-sung Atria Books, 2014. 339 pgs. Nonfiction Having shown ...

The Vicar's Daughter

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The Vicar's Daughter: A Proper Romance By Josi S. Kilpack Shadow Mountain, 2017, 315 pgs. Romance, Historical Fiction Cassie is th...
Friday, August 11, 2017

Exquisite Captive

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Exquisite Captive  by Heather Demetrios Balzer + Bray 2014, 463 pgs, Young Adult Fiction Nalia, a young jinni of a powerful and ancien...
Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz

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Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz By Michael Bornstein and Debbie Bornstein Holinstat Farrar Straus G...
Monday, August 7, 2017

Summer Lovin'

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Summer Lovin' By Carly Phillips Harlequin, 2005. Fiction, 298 pages. This cheerful romance is the typical romance where opposi...

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

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The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper By Phaedra Patrick Mira Books, 2016, 331 pages, Fiction Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a ...

The Burning Point

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The Burning Point By Tracy McKay By Common Consent Press, 2017. 269 pgs. Biography The subtitle perfectly summarizes this book, "...
Saturday, August 5, 2017

The Vaccine Controversy: the History, Use, and Safety of Vaccinations

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The Vaccine Controversy: The History, Use, and Safety of Vaccinations  by Kurt Link, M.D. Praeger Publishers, 2005, 196 pgs. Nonfiction ...

Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living

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Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living By Shauna Niequist Zondervan, 2016. 236 pgs. No...
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Thursday, August 3, 2017

Whistling Past the Graveyard

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Whistling Past the Graveyard  By Susan Crandall Gallery Books, 2013. 308 pages. Starla Claudelle has run away from life with her overly ...
Monday, July 31, 2017

American Foodie

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American Foodie By Dwight Furrow Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. 179 pgs. Nonfiction  Is food a fine art? Can it evoke emotion and con...
Saturday, July 29, 2017

Miss Whitaker Opens Her Heart

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Miss Whitaker Opens Her Heart By Jennifer Moore Covenant Communications, 2017. 207 pgs. Historical Fiction,  Romance Sarah Whitaker ca...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

Letting Go of the Words

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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

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Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability By Steve Krug New Riders, 2014. Nonfiction. 200 pages This bo...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry  By Neil deGrasse Tyson Everyone’s favorite celebrity astrophysicist once again enthralls readers with...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

On the Edge

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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

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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

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A Murder in Time By Julie McElwain Pegasus Books, 2016. 498 pages. Mystery Kendra Donovan is one of the most promising young agents at...
Monday, July 17, 2017

The Hidden Memory of Objects

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