Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson visits Provo Library

Daily Herald, June 2013: Brandon Sanderson won't even need to saddle up a dragon (or harness a chull) for his trip to Provo City Library on Monday night...Read more

Trio of visits to Provo Library is confirmation of growing trend

Daily Herald, May 2013: Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. Lois Lowry. Lief Enger. Lauren Oliver. Christopher Paolini. Over the last few years the Provo Library has opened its doors to one best-selling author after another. Sometimes it seems like there's scarcely time to go home between author visits...Read more

Book review: Isabella is the 'Star of the Story' in series' third picture book

Deseret News, April 2013: This is the third is a series of picture books about the antics of Isabella, a little girl with a big imagination. In "Isabella: Star of the Story," she visits the library and pretends to be book characters from. . .Read more

Book review: In 'Code,' the Virals are back, ready for danger, mystery

Deseret News, March 2013: Tory and her fellow Virals are back with a new adventure. The Gamemaster has a puzzle to solve, but it is much more than the Virals bargained for. If they don't solve the mystery, many may die — even the... Read more

“Bones” author and son co-write new “Virals” series

BYU Universe, March 2013: For Kathy Reichs, author and creator of the television crime series, "Bones," and her son, Brendan Reichs, passion for writing runs, well, bone deep. . . Read more

Authors bring tales of amour and apocalypse to Provo Library

Daily Herald, March 2013: On Wednesday, the world will be toast six ways to Sunday at Provo Library — and not the kind of toast you can eat with butter and jam, either. That bad news is that we’re all hosed. The good news is that our bleak future exists only in the active imaginations of six highly creative authors, each with a different grim tale to tell about strange days or futuristic societies. . . Read more

Book review: 'Mila 2.0' is a sci-fi drama with big screen potential

Deseret News, March 2013: Mila is just a typical 16-year-old girl living in The-Middle-of-Nowhere, Minnesota. She likes to hang out with her friends at Dairy Queen. She thinks her mom is totally overprotective. She hopes the new boy, Hunter, likes her.

And, unbeknownst to her, Mila just happens to be an android. . . Read more

3rd installment in Delirium trilogy is a thriller

Deseret News, March 2013: Fate and destiny as themes are explored in “Requiem,” the final installment of the Delirium trilogy, bringing Lena and groups of rebellion-fighters closer to an all-out revolution against an ascetically controlled government. . . Read more

Book review: 'Mind Games' is a complicated thriller

Deseret News, February 2013: "Mind Games” by Kiersten White is a psychological thriller about two sisters with unique powers and abilities. The sisters are controlled by a powerful agency and are held captive against their will. Though the story is frustrating at times, the end of the book compensates for any confusion the reader may have. . . Read more

Dark Days Book Tour authors write in strokes and streaks

BYU Universe, March 2013: Those unexpected moments when the mind relaxes bring bursts of creativity for one New York Times bestselling author; for another, it took 15 years to develop the paranormal world of her book. Lauren Oliver, author of the “Delirium” trilogy and Kiersten White, author of the “Paranormalcy” trilogy and “Mind Games” discussed the creative processes behind…Read more

‘Hue + Me’: BYU student-curated art exhibit explores color and inspires curiosity

BYU Universe, January 2013: It is an unusual centerpiece, to say the least. Situated in the middle of the Academy Square Art Gallery in the bottom of the Provo City Library is a large, glossy, rainbow-swirled tree stump.  It’s just one of a collection of thought-provoking, color-themed pieces curated by BYU senior Kev Nemelka in his first solo curatorial… Read more

New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale coming to Provo Library

BYU Universe, January 2013: New York Times best-selling author Shannon Hale will be coming to the Provo City Library for its Family Literacy Symposium on Jan. 19. Hale, a native of Salt Lake City, is the author of several well-known young adult fantasy novels and the Newbery Medal award-winning book, “Princess Academy.”  Read more

H U E + M E Art Exhibit

Daily Herald, January 2013: H U E + M E, Provo City Library's latest art exhibition, explores the ambiguous nature of color and its oxymoronic existence as a pool of “shared imagination“ from which artists and viewers draw inspiration and fashion individual and collective understandings. Curated by BYU Art History students. . .Read more

Artemis Fowl Takes His Final Bow

Publishers Weekly, July 2012: Eleven years ago, Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl first introduced readers to the eponymous, 12-year-old criminal mastermind, and to fairy police captain Holly Short.  Kids were quick to embrace... Read more

Author Rick Riordan Coming to Provo to Speak on May 2

Deseret News, April 2012: Coinciding with the release of his newest novel, The Kane Chronicles 3: The Serpent's Shadow, Rick Riodan is coming to Provo to speak... Read more

Mythmaster: Rick Riordan Remixes Ancient Tales for Young Readers

Daily Herald, April 2012: Rick Riodan knows how to walk like an Egyptian, and he probably suspects that the gods (the Greek ones, anyway) must be crazy... Read more

Provo Library Hosts Book Sale

UVU Review, January 2012: Travel forward and back in time, around the globe and beyond; probe the psyches of housewives, heathens and heroes; explore universal conflicts and everyday events. . . Read more

'Son' nicely wraps up 'The Giver' quartet

Deseret News, October 2012: Lois Lowry comes to Provo for an author's night at the Provo City Library. Lowry is the author of the popular series of books featuring "The Giver," with the latest — "Son" — of the four-book series. . .Read more

Bowing to Demand, Provo Library Spends $50K for Ebooks

Daily Herald, December 30, 2011: The Provo Library is giving a $50,000 gift to its patrons.  That is the amount library staff and the city council took. . . Read more

Dragon Writer: Former Teenage Author Still Riding the Success of High-Flying Fantasy Series

Daily Herald, November 20, 2011: After investing more than a decade of his young life in a made-up world with elves, dragons, wars and an evil sorcerer king, author Christopher Paolini reached the end. . . Read more

World of Books

Daily Herald, November 13, 2011: For hundreds of Utah County teens, Saturday afternoon was a celebration of reading. . . Read More

Provo Library Hosts Teen Book Fest on Saturday

Daily Herald, Novevember 10, 2011: From "The Hunger Games" to "Matched," dystopias have taken the New York Times Bestsellers list by storm, and Provo has noticed. . . Read More

Provo Library Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Daily Herald, September 8, 2011: Today, the Provo Library will celebrate its 10th Anniversary in the historic Brigham Young Academy Building. Originally dedicated in 1892. . . Read More

Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson Talk in Provo of Writing About Peter Pan with a Humorous Twist 

Deseret News, August 22, 2011: Author Ridley Pearson  remembers reading his young daughter the story of Peter Pan when she stopped him on page five, placing her small hand across the pages. . . . Read More

Mind Meld: Authors Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson Find Success Writing Together About Peter Pan

Daily Herald, August 7, 2011: Great minds don't ALWAYS think alike, even when they're thinking about the same thing. "I once yelled at Ridley that, 'A mermaid would NOT do that,' said Dave Barry. . . Read More

Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson to Visit Provo Library

Daily Herald, July 31, 2011: Peter Pan creator J.M. Barrie died in 1937, but the legacy of his most famous character has continued to grow in part thanks to the partnership of horror novelist Ridley Pearson and Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry. . . Read More