Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Gods of Jade and Shadow  By Silvia Moreno-Garcia Del Rey, 2019. 338 pages. Science Fiction The rest of the world is living it up durin...

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White Orbit, 2018. 473 pages. Science Fiction Nilah Brio wants one thing, to be the youngest ...

Say Her Name By Zetta Elliot Brown Books, 2020. 96 pages. Poetry In this collection of powerful poems, poet and educator Zetta Elliot ra...

Displacement by Kiku Hughes First Second, 2020. 288 pgs. Young Adult Graphic Novels Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco with her mo...

Devolution  by Max Brooks  Del Rey, 2020. 286 pages. Fiction  The great Mount Rainier eruption rained death and destruction on much of the s...

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy HarperOne, 2019, 128 pages, Graphic Novel In the tradition of A.A. Milne’s Winni...

Wanderers  by Chuck Wendig  Del Rey, 2019. 782 pages. Fiction  All across the nation, a strange phenomenon is occurring—people appear to be ...

The Opposite of Always By Justin A. Reynolds Katherine Tegen Books, 2019. 457 pages. Young Adult One fateful evening Jack meets Kate at a p...

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz By Erik Larson Crown, 2020. 464 pgs. Nonfiction La...

Stars Uncharted by S. K. Dunstall Ace, 2018. 401 pages. Science Fiction. What does a cargo space captain, a celebrity gene modder, and a see...

The Sound of Stars   by Alechia Dow  Ink Yard Press, 2020. 426 pages. Young Adult Fiction.  This book is set after the invasion of the Ilori...

Vox by Christina Dalcher Berkley, 2018. 326 pages. Sci-Fi When the United States government decrees that women are no longer allowed m...

Wisdom from a Humble Jellyfish: And Other Self-Care Rituals from Nature by Rani Shah Dey St., 2020. 126 pages. Nonfiction We could all...

Stepsister By Jennifer Donnelly Scholastic Press, 2019. 352 pages. Young Adult This is the story of Cinderella's stepsister Isabel...

Talk Nerdy to Me by Tiffany Schmidt Harry N. Abrams, 2020. 336 pgs. Young Adult Fiction  Eliza Gordon-Fergus is excellent at foll...

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice   by Terry Tempest Williams Sarah Crichton Books, 2012. 208 pages. Nonfiction. W...

Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen Mira, 2019, 326 pages, Science Fiction When a mission goes wrong, time travel agent Kin Stewart fin...

The Bromance Book Club  by Lyssa Kay Adams Jove, 2019. 339 pgs. Romance The first rule of book club: You don’t talk about book club....

The Dark Matter of Mona Starr  by Laura Lee Gulledge Amulet Books, 2020. 180 pages. YA COMICS Mona Starr feels all alone. Her best fri...

Tem pests and Slaughter (Numair Chronicles, #1) by Tamora Pierce Random House, 2018. 464 pages. Young Adult Tempests and Slaughter cent...

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Becky Chambers Harper Voyager, 2016. 443 pages. Science Fiction. Desperate to leave Mars behind,...

The Rest of the Story By Sarah Dessen Balzer + Bray, 2019. 440 pages. Young Adult With her father leaving the country and her summer ...

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins Scholastic, 2020. 517 pages. Young Adult The Tenth Annual Hunger Games are about...

Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold By Stephen Fry Chronicle Books, 2019. 349 pages. Nonfiction The Greek myths are among some of the most enduri...

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt by Kara Cooney National Geographic, 2018. 399 pages. Nonfiction.  Throughout history w...

Snow Like Ashes Sara Raasch HarperCollins, 2014. 422 pages. Young Adult Sixteen years ago the Kingdom of Winter was conquered and its c...

The Herbalist’s Healing Kitchen: Use the Power of Food to Cook Your Way to Better Health By Devon Young Page Street, 2019. 192 pages. Nonfi...

Will My Cat Eat my Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death by Caitlin Doughty W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. 222 pages. ...

Valley of Dreams By Sarah M. Eden Mirror Press, 2020. 296 pgs. Historical Romance The newest book in the Hope Springs series tells the...

The Girl the Sea Gave Back By Adrienne Young Wednesday Books, 2019. 327 pages. Young Adult When she’s just a young girl, Tova is foun...