Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward By Gemma Hartley HarperOne, 2018. 264 pages. Nonfiction Journalist Gemma Hartley ...

Sun Moon Earth: The History of Solar Eclipses from Omens of Doom to Einstein and Exoplanets by Tyler Nordgren Basic Books, 2016. 239 pgs...

Siren’s Fury  by Mary Weber Thomas Nelson, 2015, 355 pgs. Young Adult Fiction. In the second book of the Storm Siren trilogy, Nym has ...

The Science of Science Fiction By Matthew Brenden Wood Nomad Press, 2017. 120 pages. Young Adult Nonfiction Is it possible to clone d...

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Composting  by Chris McLaughlin Alpha Books, 2010. 193 pgs. Nonfiction Why compost? Compost is nutrient...

Positive Discipline: The First Three Years: From Infant to Toddler--Laying the Foundation for Raising a Capable, Confident Child  by Jane...

Packing For Mars: The Curious Science of the Void  By Mary Roach W.W. Norton, 2010. 333 pages. Nonfiction Mary Roach, a journalist, exp...

Don't Worry, It Gets Worse: One Twentysomething's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood By Alida Nugent Plume, 2013. 191 pages. No...

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Rivalry, Adventure, and the History of The World From the Periodic Table of Elements by S...

Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisley First Second Books, 2019. 248 pgs. Nonfiction Graphic Novel. Lucy Knisley had...

Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul  by Nikita Gill Hachette Books, 2018. 170 pages. Nonfiction These poems aren’t j...

Serious Moonlight by Jenn Bennett Simon Pulse, 2019. 432 pgs. Young Adult. Birdie just got her first job working the graveyard shift a...

Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley Sourcebooks Landmark, 2018, 434 pages, General Fiction When Charley Van Hoek moves back to Long Island...

Next Year in Havana  by Chanel Cleeton Berkley, 2018. 382 pages. Fiction Marisol’s grandmother, Elisa, was the daughter of a wealthy f...

The Witch Elm By Tana French Viking, 2018, 509 pages, Mystery Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work and i...

Good Vibrations: My Life As A Beach Boy By Mike Love New York : Blue Rider Press, 2016.  436 pages. Biography Mike Love tells the stor...

Healing Hearts By Sarah M. Eden Shadow Mountain, 2019. 328 pgs. Historical Fiction Romance Gideon MacNamara is the only doctor in the ...

Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman Ballantine Books, 2018. 342 pages. Fiction When newlyweds Erin and Mark decided to honeym...

Transcription By Kate Atkinson Little, Brown and Company, 2018. 352 pages.  Historical Fiction In 1940, Juliet Armstrong is 18 years o...

Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede Point, 1992. 212 p. Young Adult Princess Cimorene no longer wants to be a princess. Princesses...

Lumberjanes: The Infernal Compass By Lilah Sturges Boom! Box, 2018. 141 Pages. Young Adult. This story follows the girls of the Roanoke ...

Autoboyography By Christina Lauren Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2017. 407 pages. Young Adult Tanner was open about his bisexuality whil...

Dear Martin By Nic Stone Crown, 2017. 210 pages. Young Adult Justyce is a college bound, African American teen attending a predominan...

Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc by David Elliott HMH Books for Young Readers, 2019. 208 pgs. Young Adult Joan of Arc was called...

The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson Katherine Tegen Books, 2019. 373 pgs. Young Adult Following the death of a classmate, Stevie Be...

Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1986, c1935. 207 p. Fiction. Adopting the structure and themes of the ...

Truly Devious  by Maureen Johnson Katherine Tegen Books, 2018. 420 pages. Young Adult Fiction Ellingham Academy was opened by a rich f...

The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler By John Hendrix Amulet Books, 2018, 175 pages, Young Adult Biography ...

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver New York : Harpe r Flamingo, 1998.  546 p. Fiction. The family of a fierce evangelical B...

Bloom by Kevin Panetta First Second, 2019. 368 pgs. Young Adult Comics Now that Ari has finished high school, he is ready to mov...