Provo City Library Staff Reviews

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune Tor, 2020, 398 page, Fantasy As a case worker for the Department in Charge of Magical Youth, Lin...

  All Hearts Come Home For Christmas By Sarah Eden, Anita Stansfield, Esther Hatch & Joanna Barker Covenant Communications, 2019. 290 pg...

We Are Not Free By Traci Chee Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. 384 pages. Young Adult  Fourteen Japanese-American teens who grew up in Japan...

Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World By Brooke McAlary Sourcebooks, Inc., 2018. 262 pages. Nonfiction Memoir-esque and meditative, Slow: ...

A Promised Land By Barack Obama Crown, 2020. 751 pages. Biography Former President Barack Obama sat down to write his memoir and thought he ...

Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld Simon & Schuster, 2020. 470 pages. Nonfiction Seinfeld has collected his material from many decades ...

Mexican Gothic   By Silvia Moreno-Garcia  Del Rey, 2020. 301 pages. Fiction  In 1950s Mexico, Noemi’s life as a glamorous debutante is fille...

Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Journey to Justice  by Debbie Levy  Simon & Schuster 2019. 207 pages. Graphic Novel.  Modern feminis...

Shine By Jessica Jung Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2020. 346 pages. Young Adult When Rachel Kim is recruited by one of Korea’s top K-pop lab...

Brass Carriages and Glass Hearts by Nancy Campbell Allen Shadow Mountain, 2020. 308 pages. Romance                                          ...

Elemental Haiku: Poems to Honor the Periodic Table, Three Lines at a Time By Mary Soon Lee Ten Speed Press, 2019. 131 pages. Poetry A set of...

A Deadly Education: A Novel by Naomi Novik Del Rey, 2020. 320 pages. Science Fiction Trapped in the Scholomance, a deadly version of Hogwart...

  To Kill a Kingdom  by Alexandra Christo  Feiwel and Friends, 2018. 342 pages. YA Fiction, Fantasy  Princess Lira, next in line for the si...

Home Body  by Rupi Kaur  Andrews McMeel, 2020. 188 pages. Poetry  i dive into the well of my body and end up in another world everything i n...

I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2020. Young Adult Skye Shinn wants to be a K-pop ...

To Best the Boys By Mary Weber Thomas Nelson, 2019, 321 pages, Young Adult Fantasy/Adventure Fiction Every year, the residents of Pinsbury P...

Stalking Jack the Ripper By Kerri Maniscalco  Brown and Company, 2016. 326 pages. Young Adult. Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was ...

The Glass Ocean By Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White William Morrow, 2018. 408 pages. Historical Fiction Desperate for inspir...

Finder by Suzanne Palmer DAW, 2019. 391 pages. Science Fiction. Fergus Ferguson has a job that gets him into a lot of trouble. To some, he...

Sababa: Fresh, Sunny Flavors from My Israeli Kitchen by Adeena Sussman Avery, 2019. 368 pages. Non-fiction With photos and colors as vibran...

Burn the Place by Iliana Regan  Midway, 2019. 266 pages. Biography  Iliana Regan is a self-taught chef and owner of a Michelin-star restaura...

Didn't See That Coming: Putting Life Back Together When Your World Falls Apart by Rachel Hollis Dey St. and imprint of William Morrow, 2...

Lifestyles of Gods and Monsters   by Emily Roberson  Farrar Straus Giroux, 337 pages. Young Adult   Ariadne has never been one to be part of...

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder By Holly Jackson Delacorte Press, 2020. 390 pages. Young Adult For her senior project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi inves...

I Was Told It Would Get Easier By Abbi Waxman Berkley, 2020. 352 pgs. Fiction Jessica Burnstein is a successful attorney whose only daughter...

Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Vintage Books, 1831, 231 pages, General Fiction Obsessed with discove...

The Kingdom of Back By Marie Lu G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2020. 313 pages. Young Adult  Nannerl Mozart is a young protégé at the clavier and wishe...

Old Man's War by John Scalzi Tor, 2005. 316 pages. Science Fiction. John Perry, age 75, begins his new life by being declared legally de...

The Most Precious of Cargoes  By Jean-Claude Grumberg  HarperVia, 2020. 120 pgs. Historical Fiction  In the height of World War II, one Jewi...

Axiom's End By Lindsay Ellis St. Martin's Press, 2020. 384 pgs. Young Adult Sci-Fi It's 2007, and Cora Sabino is trying to lay l...