Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves   by Alison Wood Brooks  Crown, 2025. 305 pages. Nonfiction  Though we do i...

Beauty Reborn   by Elizabeth Lowham  Shadow Mountain, 2023. 208 pages. Young Adult Fantasy Beauty’s life is the stuff of fairy tales. The yo...

The Ha-Ha By Jennifer Dawson Scribner, 2026/ 1961.177 pages. Fiction At a tea party at Oxford University in the 1950s, earnest undergraduate...

Beautyland    By Marie-Helene Bertino  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. 326 pages. Science Fiction  At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched...

Hekate By Nikita Gill Little, Brown and Company, 2025. 364 pages. YA Fiction Orphaned by the war between the Titans and Olympians, Hekate is...

Things No One Taught Us About Love By Vex King HarperOne, 2025. 301 pages. Nonfiction This easy-to-digest nonfiction book teaches that build...

This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum Pine & Cedar, 2026. 357 pages. Fiction Benny Abbott and Joy Moore host one of the mo...

The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley By Courtney Walsh  Thomas Nelson, 2023. 368 pages. Fiction  Isadora Bentley follows the rules. Isadora Ben...

Finding My Way: A Memoir by Malala Yousafzai Atria Books, 2025. 305 pages. Memoir Thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old after th...

Brawler: Stories By Lauren Groff  Riverhead Books, 2026. 275 pages. Fiction.  Ranging from the 1950s to the present day and moving across ag...

Disappoint Me By Nicola Dinan The Dial Press, 2025. 305 pages. Fiction This novel is an exploration of love, loss, trans panic, race, millen...