Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Year of No Clutter: a Memoir  by Eve Schaub Sourcebooks, Inc. 2017, 290 pgs, Biography. In this memoir, Eve decides to finally tackle ...

Genius Belabored: Childbed Fever and the Tragic Life of Ignaz Simmelweis  by Theodore G Obenchain The University of Alabama Press, 2016,...

Ashes on the Moor By Sarah M. Eden Shadow Mountain, 2018. 376 pgs. Historical Romance Evangeline's life changed drastically the da...

Educated by Tara Westover Random House, 2018, 334 pgs.  Biography 9780399590504 Educated is the story of a girl raised in the moun...

Carnegie’s Maid by Marie Benedict Sourcebooks Landmark, 2018. 281 pgs. Historical Fiction Andrew Carnegie, at the age of 33, seemed t...

The Vegetarian By Han Kang Hogarth, 2015. 188 pgs. Fiction Yeong-hye and her husband have lived a very average, relatively boring life....

Craving Connection Crystal Stine, editor B & H Publishing Group, 2017. 280 pgs. Nonfiction This book of essays shares 30 chall...

Chancer : How One Good Boy Saved Another : A Memoir By Donnie Kanter Winokur Grand Harbor Press, 2017. 272 pgs. Nonfiction This memoir b...

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success By Carol S. Dweck Ballantine Books, 2008. 277 pgs. Nonfiction Carol Dweck is a researcher at Co...

Love Remains: A Hope Springs Novel By Sarah M. Eden Mirror Press, 2017. 366 pgs. Romance Tavish O'Connor has been doing everything...

The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War By H.W. Brands Doubleday, 2016. 437 pages. Nonfiction ...

Take Me With You by Andrea Gibson Plume Books, 2018. 200 pages. Nonfiction An award-winning poet and activist, Andrea Gibson's lat...

Compost City: Practical Composting Know-how for Small-Space Living  By Rebecca Louie Roost Books, 2015. 209 pages. According to author R...

Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste  By Bea Johnson Scribner, 2013. 292 pages. Nonfiction ...

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg Alfred A. Knopf, 2013, 228 pages, Nonfiction Chief Operating Officer of ...

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2017. 344 pgs. Young Adult Julia and her par...

Glow of Death By Jane K. Cleland Minotaur, 2016. 291 pgs. Mystery Antiques expert, Josie Prescott, is also an amateur sleuth. Appraisi...

The Comfort Food Diaries By Emily Nunn Atria Books, 2017. 310 pgs. Nonfiction Emily Nunn worked for many years as a food writer in bot...

Warcross By Marie Lu G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 353 pages, Young Adult Fiction When teenage coder Emika Chen hacks her way into the opening t...

Dragon Bones  by Patricia Briggs Ace Books, 2002, 295 pgs. Fantasy Ward has recently inherited his family’s estate when his father dies ...

The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco Sourcebooks Fire, 2017, 411 pages Young Adult Fiction Tea has a very strong gift for death magic which cau...

Covenant Motherhood: Reflecting the Role of Christ in Our Lives  by Stephanie Dibb Sorensen Covenant Communications, 2013, 109 pgs, Nonf...

Glass Houses By Louise Penny Minotaur Books, 2017, 391 pages, Mystery When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold Novembe...

Pitch Dark By Courtney Alameda Feiwel Friends, 2018. 384 pages. Young Adult Tuck has been in stasis for 400 years after his ship, the ...

Thyme of Death (China Bayles #1) By Susan Wittig Albert Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1992. 260 pgs. Mystery China Bayles used to be a big...

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...