Provo City Library Staff Reviews

How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child by Sandra Uwiringiyimana, Abigail Pesta Katherine Tegen Books, 2017. 304 pages. Young Adult ...

The Cross of Lead by Avi Hyperion Books For Children, 2002. pgs 262, Young Adult On the day of his mother’s funeral a 14th century peasa...

The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear To Faith By Gabrielle Bernstein Hay House Inc., 2016. 200 pages. Nonfiction. This is a short ...

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking By Malcolm Gladwell Little, Brown and Co., 2005. 277 pgs. Nonfiction In this book, Malco...

Dear Evan Hansen  by Val Emmich and Steven Levenson Poppy, Little, Brown and Company, 2018. 358 pages. Young Adult Fiction. Evan Hanse...

A Defense of Honor  By Kristi Ann Hunter Bethany House, 2018. 376 pgs. Romance Katherine "Kit" FitzGilbert had to make th...

Just Mercy: (adapted for young adults) A True Story of the Fight for Justice by Bryan Stevenson Delacorte Press, 2018. 277 pages. Yo...

And the Ocean was Our Sky by Patrick Ness HarperTeen, 2018. 158 pgs. Young Adult Fiction For centuries, whales and men have been...

Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico by David Bowles Cinco Puntos Press, 2018. 300 pages. Young Adult Nonfiction. The...

How to Win Friends and Influence People By Dale Carnegie Simon and Schuster, 1936. 299 pgs. Nonfiction Have you ever wondered why you ge...

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden First Second, 2018. 533 pgs. Young Adult Graphic Novel. Mia is a new member of a team that travels throu...

The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi Wednesday Books, 2019. 388 pgs. Young Adult. In Paris, 1889 the Exposition Universelle is about t...

The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees by Don Brown Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018, 103 pages, Graphic Novel/Young Adult Nonficti...

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris Harper, 2018, 262 pages, Historical Fiction This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and...

Monster Hunter Vendetta by Larry Correia Baen Books, 2010, 656 pgs. Sci Fi Owen Zastava Pitt has faced werewolves, zombies, and a pack o...

The Blue Sword  by Robin McKinley Puffin Books, 2000, 272 pgs, Young Adult. “Harry” makes the long journey to the desert to live with ...

Flocks by L. Nichols Secret Acres, 2018. 332 pages. Graphic Novel It can be hard to figure out where you "belong" in life. I...

T he Winter of the Witch: A Novel  by Katherine Arden Del Rey, 2019. 372 pgs. Fantasy.  This epic conclusion to the Winternight trilog...

Storm Siren  by Mary Weber Thomas Nelson, 2014. 341 pgs. Young Adult Fiction. Nym shouldn’t exist. Elementals, able to manipulate wea...

The Beatles: The Biography By Bob Spitz Little Brown, 2005. 983 pages. Biography Though I am a big Beatles fan, I didn't have a good c...

Handmade Houseplants by Corrie Beth Hogg Timber Press, 2018. 298 pgs. Nonfiction Learn how to make realistic plants from paper i...

The Bird and the Blade By Megan Bannen Balzer + Bray, 2018. 416 pages. Young Adult Set in the Mongol Empire around the 12th century, J...

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy Hachette Books, 2017. 416 pag...

Batman: White Knight by Sean Gordon Murphy DC Black Label, 2018. 323 pages. Graphic Novel Bruce Wayne has always done what it takes to...

Mercy Thompson: Homecoming by Patricia Briggs Ballantine Books. 2009. 112 pgs. Graphic Novels Have you ever wondered what life was like ...

Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty By Charles Leerhsen New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.  449 pages. An authoritative, reliable and compe...

Long Journey Home By Sarah M. Eden Mirror Press, 2018. 363 pgs. Romance Maura O'Connor became a war widow at a young age and strug...

The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom By Slavomir Rawicz Lyons Press, 1997. 242 pages. Nonfiction Rawicz was a Polish Ar...

Dry By Neal Shusterman Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2018. 390 pages. Young Adult. In Southern California, when r...

The Belles By Dhonielle Clayton Freeform Books, 2018. 434 pages. Young Adult. The Belles are women born with a magical power to ...