Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Dark Breaks the Dawn  by Sara B. Larson Scholastic Press, 2017, 307 pgs Young Adult Princess Evelayn of Eadrolan is the Princess of the ...

How to Find Love in a Bookshop By Veronia Henry Viking, 2017. 340 pgs. Fiction Emilia was raised with books, quite literally. She gr...

Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis HarperCollins, 2013. Fiction, 223 pages. As with most jobs it's helpful to have a mentor to give g...

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery Harcourt Books, 1943.  83 pages, Fiction. Styled as a children's book, The Little Pr...

The Dragon’s Price: A Transference Novel by Bethany Wiggins Crown Books for Young Readers, 2017. 296 pgs. Young Adult Fiction; Fantasy ...

A Shadow Bright and Burning By Jessica Cluess Random House, 2016. 207 pages. Young Adult Fantasy In an alternate Victorian England, th...

The Power of When: Discover Your Chronotype--and the Best Time to Eat Lunch, Ask for a Raise, Have Sex, Write a Novel, Take Your Meds, a...

The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work By Shawn Achor Crown Busi...

Beartown By Fredrik Backman Atria Books, 2017.  418 pgs. Fiction For residents of Beartown, nothing is more important than hockey.  It...

Into the Water By Paula Hawkins Riverhead Books, 2017. 388 pgs. Fiction  9780735211209 A history of drownings haunts a dark watering h...

Descender, Volume 1: Tin Stars By Jeff Lemire Image Comics, 2015. 160 pgs. Graphic Novel In this first volume of the critically acclaime...

Last Star Burning By Caitlin Sangster Simon Pulse, 2017. 396 pgs. Young Adult Fiction Up until she was eight, Sev was a First, one of ...

Worth the Wrestle by Sheri Dew Deseret Book, 2017. 104 pgs. Nonfiction In this book Sheri Dew teaches that questions are good, and exa...

The City of Miracles By Robert Jackson Bennett Broadway Books. 2017. 451 pgs. Fantasy. The third and final book of The Divine Cities s...

Turtles All the Way Down By John Green Dutton Books, 2017. 286 pgs. Young Adult Fiction Aza Holmes is just trying to get through each ...

Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone By Brené Brown Random House, 2017. 194 pgs. Nonfic...

The Wood By Chelsea Bobulski Feiwel and Friends, 2017. 313 pgs. Young Adult Fiction Winter has grown up next to a magical wood where t...

Sleeper By MacKenzie Cadenhead Sourcebooks Fire, 2017. 264 pgs. Young Adult Fiction Sarah can’t sleep like a typical teenager. At nigh...

Milk and Honey By Rupi Kaur Andrews McMeel, 2015. 204 pages. “I didn’t leave because I stopped loving you, I left because the longer  ...

Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman Atria Books, 2016. 324 pgs. Fiction Britt-Marie can't stand mess. Her OCD tendencies make ...

Romancing Daphne by Sarah M. Eden Covenant, 2017. 317 pgs. Historical Fiction, Romance Daphne Lancaster is extremely shy and has felt ...

The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions Peter Brannen Ha...

Magpie Murders By Anthony Horowitz Harper, 2017, 236 pages, Mystery When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway...

A Disappearance in Damascus: Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War       By Deborah Campbell Picdor, 2017. 341 pgs. Nonfiction...

The Polygamist’s Daughter By Anna LeBaron Tyndale, 2017. 307 pgs. Nonfiction As a child Anna LeBaron rarely lived with her mother...

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Balzer + Bray, 2017, 444 pages, Young Adult Fiction After witnessing her friend's death at the han...

Making It Through the Middle: Hope and Help When the Journey Seems Long by Emily Freeman Deseret Book, 2014. 56 pgs. Nonfiction Emily ...

Empress of a Thousand Skies  By Rhoda Belleza Razorbill, 2017. 314 pages. Young Adult Rhee's family was killed when she was just a...

Bull By David Elliot HMH Books, 2017. 200 pages. Young Adult Fiction. When mortals cross gods, consequences follow, and it's not o...

Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creatures By Ben Mezrich Atria Books, 2017. 293 pgs. ...