Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Books read and reviewed by librarians at the Provo City Library

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Eat Joy

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Eat Joy: stories & comfort food from 31 celebrated writers  Edited by Natalie Eve Garrett Black Balloon Publishing, 2019. 194 pages. N...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Kings of the Wyld

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Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames Orbit, 2017. 529 pages. Fantasy. In one of the most unique recent twists on the adventuring fantas...
Monday, May 18, 2020

The Nickel Boys

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The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Doubleday, 2019, 213 pages, Literary/Historical Fiction Elwood Curtis is a black, straight-A stude...
Friday, May 8, 2020

Not If I Save You First

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Not If I Save You First By Ally Carter Scholastic Press, 2018. 293 pages. Young Adult Maddie Manchester thought she and Logan would be...
Monday, May 4, 2020

Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

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Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth Penguin Group USA, 2012. 340 pgs. Biography  Young Jenny i...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

Sadie

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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

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Strange Planet By Nathan Pyle Wm Morrow Gift, 2019. 144 pages. Graphic Novel Based on the popular Instagram, Strange Planet , Pyle ha...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Untamed

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Untamed By Glennon Doyle The Dial Press, 2020. 352 pages. Nonfiction. In her third memoir, Untamed , Glennon Doyle discusses what it is ...
Saturday, April 18, 2020

Dragon Hoops

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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...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

Seven Deadly Shadows

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Seven Deadly Shadows by Courtney Alameda HarperTeen, 2020. 376 pages. Young Adult Kira Fujikawa is not your typical High School studen...
Monday, April 13, 2020

Her Quiet Revolution

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Her Quiet Revolution: A Novel of Martha Hughes Cannon: Frontier Doctor and First Female State Senator By Marianne Monson Shadow Mountain...
Friday, April 10, 2020

More Than Words Can Say

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More Than Words Can Say by Karen Witemeyer Bethany House Publishers, 2019. 358 pgs. Historical Romance Abigail Kemp is determined to n...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

The Lost Heiress

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

Elemental

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Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything By Tim James Abrams Press, 2019. 216 pages. Nonfiction. Our univ...
Monday, March 30, 2020

Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel

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Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel by Odyr Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. 175 pgs. Graphic Novel. Odyr, a Brazilian graphic novelist, br...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

Knitting Magic

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

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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...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Me

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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’...
Tuesday, March 17, 2020

The Hidden Power of F*cking Up

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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...
Monday, March 16, 2020

The Dutch House

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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...
Saturday, March 14, 2020

Going Postal

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Going Postal by Terry Pratchett Harper, 2004. 471 pages. Fantasy. The book starts with Moist Van Litwig, an accomplished con man, thie...
Friday, March 13, 2020

Go to Sleep (I Miss You)

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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...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020

This Tender Land

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This Tender Land By William Kent Krueger Atria Books, 2019, 450 pages, Literary/Historical Fiction In 1930s Minnesota, Odie O’Banion i...
Thursday, March 5, 2020

The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild

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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

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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...
Wednesday, March 4, 2020

The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America

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The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America By Matt Kracht Chronicle Books LLC, 2019. 169 pages. Nonfiction This snarky, illustrated...
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Saturday, February 29, 2020

A Woman is No Man

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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

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The Truth About Magic: Poems By Atticus St. Martin’s Press, 2019. 250 pages. Nonfiction If poetry intimidates you, this collection is ...
Friday, February 28, 2020

The Language of Fire

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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

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