Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust By Planaria Price and Helen Reichmann West Farrar Strauss Giroux 2018. 2...

  Heart Berries: a memoir By Terese Marie Mailhot Counterpoint, 2018. 142 pgs. Nonfiction Mailhot's memoir is a scattered, but poet...

  The Great Glass Sea      By Josh Weil Grove Press, 2014. 474 pgs. Science Fiction                    This is a story about twins, Yar...

Radiance By Catherynne M. Valente Tor Books, 2016. 478 pgs. Fiction. This book is a decopunk, pulp, Science Fiction, space ope...

Loving Lieutenant Lancaster By Sarah M. Eden Covenant Communications, 2018. 243 pgs. Romance Arabella Hampton was orphaned at a young ...

The False Prince By Jennifer Nielsen Scholastic Press, 2012. 342 pgs. Young Adult The country of Carthya is under threat of civil war....

Circe By Madeline Miller Little, Brown & Co, 2018, 393 pages, General Fiction Circe, the daughter of Helios the sun god, chafes at...

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. 195 pages General Fiction After almost 12 expeditions to Area X, the ...

The Line Becomes a River By Francisco Cantú Riverhead Books, 2018. 250 pages. Francisco Cantú crew up in the American Southwest, the gra...

The Whydah : A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found by, Martin W. Sandler Candlewick Press, 2017. 170 pgs, YA Non-Fiction This book go...

We Own the Sky By Luke Allnutt Park Row Books, 2018, 358 pages, General Fiction When a devastating illness befalls his family, Rob Coa...

Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens By Eddie Izzard Random House, 2017, 385 pgs. Biography British comedian and act...

The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot Mifflin University of Nebraska Press, 2009. 280 pgs. Biography In 1851, Olive Oatm...

A Whole New World (Twisted Tales, 1) by Liz Braswell Disney Press, 2015. 376 pgs. YA Fantasy What if Aladdin never got the lamp? Based...

Victoria: The Queen By Julia Baird Random House, 2017, 752 pages, Biography This biography of Queen Victoria is fresh, well researched...

Wires and Nerve (Lunar Chronicles, 1)  by Marissa Meyer Feiwel & Friends, 2017. 238 pgs. Young Adult Graphic Novels  In this conti...

One Second After By William R. Forstchen Forge, 2009. 352 pgs. Sci-Fi John Matherson, a retired U.S. Army Colonel, moved to his wife’...

Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet By M. C. Beaton St. Martin's Press, 1993. 213 pages. Mystery Agatha Raisin has retired to the Co...

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...