Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Kingdom of Souls   By Rena Barron HarperTeen, 2019. 485 pages. Young Adult  Arrah has always wanted magic of her own. Her family is powerful...

The Answer Is...: Reflections on My Life By Alex Trebek Simon & Scuster, 2020. 304 pages. Biography Best known as the host of Jeopardy! ...

The Children's Blizzard By  Melanie Benjamin Delacorte Press, 2021. 351 pgs. Fiction Many immigrants were tricked into coming to America...

My Calamity Jane  By Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows, and Brodi Ashton  HarperTeen, 2020. 520 pgs. Young Adult Historical Fiction  The United Sta...

The Blue Road: A Fable of Migration   By Wayde Compton  Arsenal Pulp Press, 2019. 116 pages. Young Adult Comics.  The Blue Road is a graphi...

Later   by Stephen King  Hard Case Crime, 2021. 264 pages.  Jamie Conklin is no ordinary child. He can see dead people. But not like that ki...

The Searcher by Tana French Viking, 2020, 451 pages, Mystery After 25 years working for the Chicago P.D., Cal Hooper thinks renovating a hou...

  Mommy Burnout: How to Reclaim Your Life and Raise Healthier Children in the Process  by Sheryl Ziegler  Dey St. 2018. 311 pages. Nonfict...

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Tantor Media Inc. 2016. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spe...

Fangs  by Sarah Andersen  Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2020. 100 pages. Graphic Novel  Elsie the vampire is three hundred years old, but in al...

  Amelia Unabridged by Ashley Schumacher Wednesday Books, 2021. 293 pages. Young Adult Fiction Amelia and Jenna are brought together b...

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...