Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel by Odyr Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. 175 pgs. Graphic Novel. Odyr, a Brazilian graphic novelist, br...

Knitting Magic by Tanis Gray Insight Editions, 2020. 207 pgs. Nonfiction In this first official Harry Potter knitting pattern book, th...

The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek  By Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal Crown, 2019. 326 pages. The small town of Bleak Creek takes pride in i...

Me  by Elton John Henry Holt. 2019. 374 pages. Biography I love Elton John. I have been drawn to his music since I was a child. And I’...

The Hidden Power of F*cking Up By The Try Guys Dey Street Book, 2019. 275 pages. Nonfiction. Ever try something new and fail at it mise...

The Dutch House By Ann Patchett Harper, 2019. 352 pages. Fiction At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy began an empire in r...

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett Harper, 2004. 471 pages. Fantasy. The book starts with Moist Van Litwig, an accomplished con man, thie...

Go to Sleep (I Miss You): Cartoons from the Fog of New Parenthood by Lucy Knisley New York : First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook P...

This Tender Land By William Kent Krueger Atria Books, 2019, 450 pages, Literary/Historical Fiction In 1930s Minnesota, Odie O’Banion i...

The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild  by Lawrence Anthony Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2009. 368 ...

Pet By Akwaeke Emezi Make Me a World, 2019. 204 pages. Young Adult Seventeen-year-old Jam lives in a future society that claims to hav...

The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America By Matt Kracht Chronicle Books LLC, 2019. 169 pages. Nonfiction This snarky, illustrated...

A Woman is No Man  By Etaf Rum Harper, 2019. 337 pages. Spanning two generations of an Arab-American family, this debut novel is a start...

The Truth About Magic: Poems By Atticus St. Martin’s Press, 2019. 250 pages. Nonfiction If poetry intimidates you, this collection is ...

The Language of Fire by Stephanie Hemphill Balzer + Bray, 2019. 512 pages. Young Adult The endlessly inspiring story of Joan of Arc is...

Waiting for Tom Hanks By Kerry Winfrey Berkley, 2019. 288 pages. Fiction Annie Cassidy grew up watching all the Nora Ephron classics like ...

The Toll By Neal Shusterman Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2019. 625 pgs. Young Adult This is the third book in the Arc...

Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years by Julie Andrews Hachette, 2019, 340 pages, Biography In her second memoir, Julie Andrews re...

The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London  by Christopher Skaife Straus and Giroux, 2018. 256 pgs. Nonfiction  ...

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo Flatiron Books, 2019. Fantasy. For her entire life, Galaxy "Alex" Stern has been able to see th...

The Burdens of a Bachelor (Arrangement, #5) By Rebecca Connolly  Phase Publishing, 2017. 283 pages. Romance What the eye cannot see...

A Pursuit of Home  By Kristi Ann Hunter Bethany House, 2019. 380 pgs. Historical Romance For most of her life Jess Beauchene has been ...

Serving Up Love: A Harvey House Brides Collection By Tracie Peterson, Karen Witemeyer, Regina Jennings, Jen Turano Bethany House, 2019. ...

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language By Gretchen McCullouch Riverhead Books, 2019. 326 pages. Nonfiction It shoul...

In Waves By AJ Dungo Nobrow, 2019. 368 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction Comics “Surfers have always found solace in the waves.” Through a s...

Queen of the Sea by Dylan Meconis Walker Books, 2019. 400 pages. Young Adult Margaret has lived at the quiet island convent her entire...

A River of Royal Blood by Amanda Joy Putnam, 2019. 368 pages. Young Adult Princesses of Myre don't inherit the throne; they earn i...

Frankly in Love By David Yoon G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2019. 406 pages. Young Adult Frank Li is Korean American, trying to live his own li...

Allegedly By Tiffany D. Jackson Katherine Tegen Books, 2017. 387 pages. Young Adult When Mary was nine, she killed a baby. Allegedly. ...

Don't You Forget About Me by Mhairi McFarlane William Morrow Paperbacks, 2019. 430 pages. Fiction Georgina is approaching thirty, ...