Provo City Library Staff Reviews

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn HarperCollins, 2017,  528 pgs. Historical Fiction This historical fiction book is a dual chronology abou...

Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death By M.C. Beaton St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1992. 272 pages. Mystery Agatha Raisin has spent her...

Soulful Simplicity: how living with less can lead to so much more by Courtney Carver Penguin Random House, 2017, 234 pgs.  Nonfiction Co...

A Study in Scarlet  by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle BBC Books, 2011, 212 pgs, Mystery.  Dr. John Watson meets Mr. Sherlock Holmes for the fi...

Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World by Eric Metaxas Viking, 2017, 480 pgs.  Biography Metaxas begins his...

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah St. Martin’s Press, 2018. 440 pgs. Fiction Leni Allbright is a thirteen-year-old just trying to fit ...

A World Ablaze: the Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation By Craig Harline Oxford University Press, 2017. 300 pgs. Biog...

When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon Simon Pulse, 2017. 380 pages. Young Adult Dimple Shah has big plans for her life, and they don...

The Upside of Stress: Why Stress is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It By Kelly McGonigal Avery, 2015. 279 pages. Nonfiction If yo...

The Prince and the Dressmaker By Jen Wang First Second, 2018. 288 pages. Young Adult Graphic Novels The Prince and the Dressmaker star...

A Lady in the Smoke By Karen Odden Penguin Random House, 2016. 411 pages. Mystery Set in Victorian England, Lady Elizabeth Fraser, the...

Food Anatomy By Julia Rothman Storey Publishing, 2016. 221 pgs. Nonfiction Have you ever wondered what all of those forks are for when...

Maisie Dobbs By Jacqueline Winspear Soho Crime, 2014. 304 pages. Mystery Maisie Dobbs does not confine herself to the expectation of wh...

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee Katherine Tegen Books, 2017,528 pgs. Young Adult Henry Montague “Monty” is goin...

Adulthood is a Myth by Sarah Andersen Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2016. 106 pgs. Graphic Novels Sarah Andersen is a graphic novel artist...

Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Little, Brown and Co, 289 pages, Young Adult Nonfiction An aut...

I Believe in a Thing Called Love By Maurene Goo Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017. 325 pgs. Young Adult High school senior Desi Lee is good a...

Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism By Marc Aronson Henry Holt and Co, 294 pages, Yo...

Orphan Train: a Novel by Christina Baker Kline William Morrow, 2013. 278 pgs. Fiction A memorable novel of two women: Molly, a teenage...

Warm Bodies  by Isaac Marion Emily Bestler Books, 2011. 241 pages. Romeo and Juliet’s love story get a paranormal makeover in this surpr...

Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet By Ta-Nehisi Coates Marvel, 2016, 144 pgs. Graphic Novel. When a superhuman terrorist group tha...

The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden Del Rey, 2018, 362 pgs.  Fantasy The Girl in the Tower is book two of the Winternight Trilog...

Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam L. Alter Penguin Press, 2017. 354 pgs. Nonf...

365 Days of Slow Cooking  by Karen Bellessa Petersen Covenant Communications, 2012. 265 pgs. Nonfiction Slow cooking is a great way t...

The Cottage Kitchen: Cozy Cooking in the English Countryside By Marte Marie Forsberg Clarkson Potter Publishers, 2017. 288 pages. Nonfic...

The Velvet Hours By Alyson Richman Berkley, 2016. 384 pages. Historical Fiction As Paris is confronted with the looming threat of Germ...

Solo by Kwame Alexander Blink, 2017. 424 pages. Young Adult Blade has it all - but he wishes he didn't. Being the son of famed roc...

The Secret of the India Orchid By Nancy Campbell Allen Shadow Mountain, 2017. 314 pgs. Historical Fiction, Romance On the very day tha...

For Love or Honor by Sarah M. Eden Covenant Communications, 2017. 256 pgs. Historical Romance Stanley Jonquil knew there was something...

Damsels By Leah Moore Dynamite Entertainment, 2017. 144 pgs. Graphic Novel The princesses of classic fairy tales band together to save t...