Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Sadie by Courtney Summers Wednesday Books, 2018. 311 pages. Young Adult Sadie is used to taking care of things herself. Even before th...

Strange Planet By Nathan Pyle Wm Morrow Gift, 2019. 144 pages. Graphic Novel Based on the popular Instagram, Strange Planet , Pyle ha...

Untamed By Glennon Doyle The Dial Press, 2020. 352 pages. Nonfiction. In her third memoir, Untamed , Glennon Doyle discusses what it is ...

Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang First Second, 2020. 445 pgs. Young Adult Comics Gene is an artist and understands stories, so when he h...

Seven Deadly Shadows by Courtney Alameda HarperTeen, 2020. 376 pages. Young Adult Kira Fujikawa is not your typical High School studen...

Her Quiet Revolution: A Novel of Martha Hughes Cannon: Frontier Doctor and First Female State Senator By Marianne Monson Shadow Mountain...

More Than Words Can Say by Karen Witemeyer Bethany House Publishers, 2019. 358 pgs. Historical Romance Abigail Kemp is determined to n...

The Lost Heiress By Roseanna M. White Bethany House, 2015. 439 pgs. Inspirational Fiction Brook Eden has never known where she really ...

Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything By Tim James Abrams Press, 2019. 216 pages. Nonfiction. Our univ...

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...