Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Sixteen Scandals By Sophie Jordan Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. 235 pages. Young Adult Romance The youngest of four daughters, Primrose A...

Sapiens: A Graphic History. The Birth of Humankind. Volume One By Yuval N. Harari Harper Perennial, 2020. 245 pages. Graphic Novel.  One hun...

Love Your Life By Sophie Kinsella The Dial Press, 2020. 432 pages. Romance While visiting an anonymous writers' retreat in Italy where n...

Come, Sweet Day: Holding On To Hope in Dark Times by Julianne Donaldson Ensign Peak, 2021. 89 pgs. Poetry Julianne Donaldson is best know fo...

The Bear by Andrew Krivak 2020, Bellvue Literary Press. 221 pages. Science Fiction  In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to...

Always Human  by Ari North Yellow Jacket, 2020. 150 pages. Young Adult Graphic Novel  In the near-future, people use technology to give the ...

Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going By Neil deGrasse Tyson National Geographic, 2...

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger Levine Querido, 2020. 360 pages. YA Fantasy/Mystery In this award-winning contemporary fantasy/mystery, 17-y...

Georgana’s Secret by Arlem Hawks Shadow Mountain, 2021. 316 pages. Romance  As a young girl, Georgana Woodall dreamed of beautiful dresses,...

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...