Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Otherkin by Nina Berry Kensington Publishing, 2012, 310 pgs, Young Adult Fiction All in one afternoon Dez, a good girl who does her be...

The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food By Dan Barber Penguin Books, 2015. 496 pages. Nonfiction Dan Barber is well known f...

Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison By Piper Kerman Spiegel & Grau, 2011. 327 pages. Biography During a few w...

The End of Your Life Book Club By Will Schwalbe Alfred A Knopf, 2012. 336 pgs. Biography When Mary Schwalbe was diagnosed with pancre...

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat  By Samin Nosrat Simon & Schuster, 2017. 462 pages. Many cookbooks are a collection of recipes, sometimes arou...

The Dragon’s Curse: A Transference Novel  by Bethany Wiggins Crown, 2018, 328 pgs, Young Adult Fiction In this sequel to The Dragon’s ...

The Girl With the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke Albert Whitman & Company, 2017, 277 pages, fiction Ellie’s class trip to Germany ...

Long Way Down By Jason Reynolds Atheneum, 2017. 306 pages. Fifteen-year-old Will lives by three rules: 1) no crying, 2) no snitching, an...

The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact By Chip Heath and Dan Heath Simon and Schuster, 2017, 307 pages,...

My Dearest Love by Sarah M. Eden Mirror Press, 2017, 129 pgs. Historical Romance Ian O'Connor spends long days in a textile mill i...

The Lightless Sky: a Twelve-Year-Old Refugee’s Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World By G...

The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad Tim Duggan Books. 2017. 306 pgs. Biography ...

Need to Know by Karen Cleaveland Ballantine Books, 2018, 290 pgs.  Fiction Vivian Miller is a professional trying to balance work and ...

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink Riverhead Books, 2017. 272 pgs. Nonfiction Does it matter when you st...

Burn Bright by Patricia Briggs New York : Ace, 2018. 308 pgs, Science Fiction Charles and Anna Cornick are facing a threat that is hittin...

 Emergency Contact By Mary H. K. Choi New York, Simon & Schuster, 2018. 400 pgs Young Adult What do you do when your best friend...

Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo Random House, 2017. 364 pages. Young Adult Fantasy Hidden from mortal eyes,  the Amazons liv...

The Dry By Jane Harper Flatiron Books, 2017, 328 pages, Mystery After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk ...

The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw New York, Simon Pulse, 2018. 310 pgs Young Adult The town of Sparrow Oregon is haunted by three sisters ...

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 ...