Provo City Library Staff Reviews

The Hilarious World of Depression By John Moe St. Martin's Press, 2020. 285 pages. Nonfiction John Moe does vital work in combatting the...

A Sky Painted Gold By Laura Wood Random House Children’s Books, 2020. 376 pages. Young Adult  Lou has dreamed of a fancy, high society life,...

Light for the World to See  by Kwame Alexander  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. 96 pages.  Kwame Alexander is well-known for his slam-dunk ...

Juliet Takes a Breath By Gabby Rivera Dial Books, 2019. 304 pages. Fiction.  The night before she leaves for her dream internship, Juliet P...

Dry: Delicious Handcrafted Cocktails and Other Clever Concoctions: Seasonal, Refreshing, Alcohol-Free by Clare Liardet The Experiment, 2018....

Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It By Ethan Kross Crown, 2021. 242 pgs. Nonfiction Ethan Kross is an awar...

  The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids  by Jessica Joelle Alexander...

Rich Dad, Poor Dad Robert T. Kiyosaki Plata Publishing, 2017. 352 pages. Nonfiction. Robert Kiyosaki presents the basics of financial litera...

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Viking, 2020, 288 pages, Science Fiction At a moment when everything seems to be going wrong and she is lo...

Think Like a Monk: Train Your Brain for Peace and Purpose Every Day By Jay Shetty Simon & Schuster, 2020. 328 pgs. Nonfiction   Jay Shet...

Eat a Peach By David Chang Clarkson Potter Publishers, 2020. 288 pgs. Biography David Chang is best known as the chef and owner of Momofuku ...

A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. 757 pages. Fantasy. Sarah J. Maas returns to her Court of Thrones and...

The Best-Laid Plans by Sarah M. Eden  Covenant Communications, 2021. 134 pages. Romance  Newton Hughes has long dreamed of pursuing a career...

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...