Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Dead Heat by Patricia Briggs Ace Books, 2015, 324 pgs, Fantasy In the fourth book of the Alpha and Omega series, Charles and Anna take...

Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright Harper, 2018, 288 pgs.  Nonfiction I’ll be honest.  I’ve never really understood what fascism ...

Girls Burn Brighter By Shobha Rao Flatiron Books, 2018. 307 pgs. Fiction This powerful story of friendship set against the cruelties of ...

The Shape of Water By Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus Feiwel and Friends, 2018. 315 pages. Elisa Esposito is mute, an orphan, and li...

You Bring the Distant Near By Mitali Perkins Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017, 303 pages, Young Adult Fiction From 1965 through the present,...

Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success By Rory Vaden Perigee Book, 2012. 212 pgs. Nonfiction Rory Vaden is an incredibly...

Lilac Girls By Martha Hall Kelly New York: Ballantine Books, 2016. 487 pgs. Fiction This World War II historical fiction is about thre...

Spelled By Betsy Schow Sourcebooks Fire, 2015. 344 pgs. Young Adult Fantasy When Dorthea, the Princess of the Emerald Kingdom, makes a...

Butterfly: from Refugee to Olympian, My Story of Rescue, Hope and Triumph By Yusra Mardini St. Martin’s Press. 2018. 284 pgs. Biography ...

WeTwo: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals By Gillian Gill Ballantine Books, 2009. 480 pages. Biography. It was a love affa...

Rhett and Link’s Book of Mythicality: A Field Guide to Curiosity, Creativity, and Tomfoolery By Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal Crown Arche...

Children of Blood and Bone By Tomi Adeyemi Henry Holt and Co, 2018, 531 pages, Young Adult Fiction Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older...

One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly By Ashley Mae Hoiland Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2016. 213 pgs. Nonfiction ...

Raven's Shadow by Patricia Briggs Ace Fantasy, 2004, 334 pgs. Science Fiction Seraph is a Traveler her particular order is Raven who...

Space Opera By Catherynne M. Valente Saga Press, 2018. 304 pgs. Science Fiction Hailed as a cross between The Hitchhiker’s Guide to th...

The Fox Hunt: a Refugee’s Memoir of Coming to America by Mohammed Al Samawi William Morrow. 2018. 323 pgs. Biography Mohammed Al Samaw...

Every Secret Thing By Susanna Kearsley Allison & Busby, 2012. 474 pgs. Fiction Kate Murray meets an old man who comments on a simi...

Where There's Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up By Elizabeth Smart St. Martin's Press, 2018. 261 pgs. Biography...

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 ...