Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Star Wars: Knitting the Galaxy   by Tanis Gray  Insight Editions, 2021. 207 pgs. Nonfiction  Tanis Gray and Insight Editions have done it ag...

How to Stop Time By Matt Haig Penguin Group, 2019. 352 pgs. Sci-Fi Tom Hazard looks like an ordinary 41-year-old man, but due to a rare gene...

Pan’s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun By Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke Katherine Tegen Books, 2019. 256 pages. Young Adult  Ofe...

  As Old as Time  by Liz Braswell  Disney Press, 2016, 484 pages, Young Adult Fiction, Fantasy   What if it was Belle’s mother that curse th...

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Riverhead Books, 2020, 343 pages, Historical Fiction Chafing at the confines of growing up in the small b...

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2019, 310 pages, General Fiction When a late-night grocery store run leads to being accused...

The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller Feiwel and Friends, 2020. 326 pages. Young Adult Eighteen-year-old Alessandra Stathos, the sec...

Tweet Cute by Emma Lord Wednesday Books, 2020. 361 pages. Young Adult Fiction   Pepper has a lot on her plate; she is a straight-A student...

Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power  by Pam Grossman Gallery Books, 2019. 288 pages. Nonfiction  “Show me your witches,...

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots William Morrow, 2020. 403 pages. Science Fiction. Anna has a boring job in an exciting industry. She's a...

Year of Yes  By Shonda Rhimes Simon & Schuster, 2015. 311 pgs. Nonfiction Shonda Rhimes is the creator of "Grey's Anatomy"...

Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel  by Jason Reynolds, illustrated by Danica Novgorodoff  Atheneum, 2020. 208 pgs. Young Adult Graphic Novels ...

You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yo...

Blood Countess By Lana Popovic Harry N. Abrams, 2020. 293 pages. Young Adult Anna is intelligent, driven, and struggling to figure out her p...

The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. 561 pages. Historical Fiction When a soon-to-be-retired university profe...

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman Atria Books, 2020, 341 pages, General Fiction A bank robber’s escape plan is foiled when he takes the wron...

Displacement  by Lucy Kinsley  Fantagraphic Books, 2015. 156 pages. Graphic Novel.  When Lucy’s aging grandparents book a cruise through the...

Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline Ballantine Books, 2020. 377 pages. Fiction Wade Watts won the greatest video game ever created. For a...

  Rebecca  by Daphne du Maurier  Doubleday, 1938. 380 pages. Fiction.   This classic novel of romantic suspense begins with our young, unn...

How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather  Knopf Books, 2016. 368 pages. Young Adult  After moving from New York to Salem with her stepmother,15...

Scars Like Wings By Erin Stewart Delacorte Press, 2019. 376 pages. Young Adult Sixteen-year-old Ava is left severely disfigured after a hous...

The Blade Itself by Joe Ambercrombie Orbit, 2015. 542 pages. Fantasy. Magic is leeching from the world, or so Ambercrombie writes as he intr...

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...