Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Indeh: A Story of the Apache Wars Ethan Hawke, Greg Ruth Grand Central Publishing, 2016. 232 pages. In the war-torn Southwest of 1872, a...

Little Moments of Love By Catana Chetwynd Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2018. 148 pages. Graphic Novel Catana Chetwynd never realized whe...

The President is Missing by James Patterson and Bill Clinton Little, Brown and Company and Knopf, 2018. 528 pages. Fiction President Dunca...

More Than Meets the Eye By Karen Witemeyer Bethany House, 2018. 346 pgs. Romance Evangeline Hamilton was orphaned at a young age and b...

The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza By Shaun David Hutchinson Simon Pulse, 2018. 438 pgs. Young Adult Elena is the first scientifically c...

Donner Dinner Party By Nathan Hale Amulet Books, 2013. 123 pgs. Graphic Novel Based on the true events surrounding the ill-fated Donn...

Girl, Wash Your Face By Rachel Hollis Nelson Books, 2018. 220 pgs. Nonfiction Rachel Hollis has built a social media business on the p...

Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World by Mackenzi Lee Harry N. Abrams, 2018. 176pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction T...

Etched in Sand By Regina Calcaterra Harper Collins Harper Audio, 2013. Biography Regina Calcaterra is a survivor of parental abuse. Re...

Survivor's Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz By Michael Bornstein New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017. 348 p...

Sometimes I Lie By Alice Feeney Flatiron Books, 2018, 262 pages, General Fiction Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can't move. She...

Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery  by Scott Kelly Alfred A. Knopf, 2017, 387 pages, Autobiography The veteran of fou...

#GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amaruso G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2014. 241 pages. Nonfiction This is a must read for gutsy gals with great ideas. No...

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics teaches us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendenc...

Less by Andrew Sean Greer Little Brown, 2017. 263 pages, General Fiction It’s never easy to receive a wedding invitation to an ex’s ha...

Alex and Eliza by Melissa de la Cruz G.P. Putnam’s Son’s, 2017. 358 pgs. Young Adult Historical Fiction After a charged meeting ...

Slam! Vol. 1 by Pamela Ribon BOOM! Box, 2017. 112 pages. Graphic Novel Jennifer and Maisie show up to the Eastside Roller Girls roller...

A House Among the Trees by Julia Glass Pantheon Books, 2017. 352 pages. General Fiction Beloved children’s author and illustra...

Renegades by Marissa Meyer Feiwel and Friends, 2017. 556 pgs. Young Adult Following a time of chaos and a crumbling society, the...

The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery  By Barbara K. Lipska Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. 188 pgs. Bio...

The French Chef in America: Julia Child’s Second Act  by Alex Prud’homme Knopf, 2016. 318 pgs. Nonfiction This is a follow-up of My Lif...

Dearie by Bob Spitz Knopf, 2012. 534 pgs. Nonfiction This is a delightful biography of a delightful woman, Julia Child. It gives compr...

Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer by Barbara Ehrenreich Twelve, 2018....

Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware Scout Press, 2018. 368 pgs. Fiction Hal’s life is not going well.  Since her mother was run down by ...

Map of Salt and Stars by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar Touchstone, 2018. 360 pgs.  Fiction Nour was born in New York but after her fathe...

Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon by Robert Kurson Random House, 2...

The Hedge Knight II: Sworn Sword By George R. R. Martin Marvel, 2008. 152 pgs. Graphic Novel Ser Duncan and his squire, Egg, are in t...

DIY Updos, Knots, and Twists  by Melissa Cook Adams Media, 2015. 143 pgs. Nonfiction  Melissa Cook, creator of the popular fashion b...

The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2) By Veronica Roth Katherine Tegen Books, 2018. 443 pgs. Young Adult Fiction “The third child of ...

The Martian Chronicles  by Ray Bradbury Bantam Books, 1958. 181 pgs. SCI-FI Man comes to Mars expecting human responses and an Earth...