Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Geekerella By Ashley Poston Quirk Books, 2017. 320 pages. Young Adult Elle Wittimer loves Starfield, the sci-fi space travel show she ...

Sheets by Brenna Thummler Lion Forge, 2018. 238 pgs. Young Adult Comics Marjorie Glatt is a practical 13-year-old who often feel...

Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett Krosoczka Graphix, 2018. 294 pgs. Graphic Novel In this moving memoir, Krosoczka explores what his early li...

Courage to Be You: Inspiring Lessons from an Unexpected Journey By Gail Miller Deseret Book, 2018. 160 pgs. Biography Gail Miller is t...

Stranger Things Have Happened by Jeff Strand Sourcebook Fire, 2017, 289 pages, Young Adult Fiction Marcus is a fifteen-year-old aspiring...

The 57 Bus By Dashka Slater Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017. 305 pages. Young Adult Nonfiction Sasha and Richard both live in Oakland, Cal...

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton Sourcebooks Landmark, 2018, 435 pages, Mystery The Hardcastle family is hosting...

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang Jove Books, 2018, 317 pages, Romance At thirty years old, Stella Lane has way less experience in the ...

Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters  By Anne Boyd Rioux W. W. Norton & Company, 2018. 273 pages. No...

Touch of Frost by Jennifer Estep K Teen, 2011. 373 pgs. Young Adult Fiction.  At her new school, Gwen Frost is known as that gypsy gir...

Victoria and Albert: A Royal Love Affair By Daisy Goodwin and Sara Sheridan St. Martin’s Press, 2017. 304 pgs. Nonfiction The marriage...

Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1982. 263 pages. Young Adult. Liza is a high achieving high school student, t...

The Archived by Victoria Schwab Hyperion, 2013. 321 pgs. Young Adult. When you die, you become a History which then gets filed in the ...

Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done By Jonathan Acuff Portfolio/Penguin, 2017. 196 pgs. Nonfiction Jonathan Acuff admits at the beg...

Sea Witch  by Sarah Hennings Katherine Tegen Books, 2018. 348 pages. Young Adult Evie has not been the same since her best friend Anna...

Sadie by Courtney Summers Wednesday Books, 2018. 311 pgs. Young Adult Fiction. Sadie was always more of a mom to Mattie than an older ...

Little Fires Everywhere   By Celest Ng Penguin Press, 2017. 338 pgs. Fiction In Shaker Heights, a prosperous suburb of Cleveland, life...

Angels: Agents of Light, Love, and Power  by Donald W. Parry Deseret Book, 2013. 260 pgs. Non-fiction. If you have ever had a question ...

As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto edited by Joan Reardon Mariner Books, 432 pages. Nonfiction. Julia Child ...

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing By Hank Green Dutton, 2018. 343 pgs. SCI-FI On her way home from work at 3:00 AM, April May stumbles ac...

Kiss of the Spindle By Nancy Campbell Allen Shadow Mountain, 2018. 360 pgs. Romance Dr. Isla Cooper has dedicated her life to serving ...

The Carnelian Crow (Stoker & Holmes #4) by Colleen Gleason Avid Press, 2017. 267 pgs. Young Adult Fiction   Following the di...

The Beekeeper's Apprentice By Laurie R. King Picador, 1994. 346 pages. Mystery Mary Russell has moved back to Sussex in prepar...

The Convenient Marriage By Georgette Heyer Arrow, 1934. 272 pages. Romance When Horatia's older sister Lizzie is proposed to by Lord M...

Knit Yourself Calm: A Creative Path to Managing Stress  by Lynne Rowe Search Press, 2017. 112 pgs. Non-fiction. The author knows knitt...

Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. By Brené Brown Random House, 2018. 320 pages Nonfiction. Brené Brown is ...

Pemmican Wars (A Girl Called Echo #1) by Katherena Vermette Highwater Press, 2017. 47 pgs. Young Adult Comics Echo is a 13-year-o...

Venetia by Georgette Heyer Heinemann Books, 1958. 355 pages. Romance Venetia is beautiful, clever, sensible, and firmly on the shelf. He...

The Agony of Bun O'Keefe by Heather Smith PRH Canada Young Readers  Penguin Teen. 2017.  256 pages. Young Adult.  It's Ne...

Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia Baen Books, 2009, 736 pgs, Sci-Fi One day Owen Zastava Pitt got to live the true American ...