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Book Reviews

Book Reviews

KPCW invites members of the Friends of the Park City and Summit County libraries to review novels and non-fiction every month.
  • Book cover for "The Bookshop"
    Penguin Random House LLC
    If you love to read then Evan Friss’s work of nonfiction, “The Bookshop: A History of The American Bookstore,” is for you. Friss takes us on a journey through time, to towns and cities around the U.S. and introduces us to an eclectic mix of bookstores and booksellers.
  • Vintage Books
    The history of fossil fuels, 21st century fires and a look at our future with climate change are topics in this year’s One Book One Community selection, “Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World” by John Vaillant.
  • Book cover for Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
    Doubleday
    “Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions” by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey is a collection of riveting and compelling real-life cases of Americans who were wrongfully imprisoned for crimes they did not commit, for years and sometimes decades, until exonerated.
  • "The Serviceberry" book cover.
    Simon & Schuster
    Mainstream economic theory is usually based on the assumption that we need to compete for scarce resources and hoard what we possess, but is this necessarily the case? Robin Wall Kimmerer presents a different view based on her Native American cultural interpretation of how natural systems prosper in her recent book, “The Serviceberry.”
  • Award-winning author and journalist Zak Podmore has spent more than a decade writing about water and conservation issues in the West. A longtime Utahn, Podmore will be discussing his new book about the state of Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon Dam at the Park City Library on March 24th.
  • Emily Henry’s latest book “Funny Story” is truly a fun and funny story.
  • In his award-winning book, “The Emerald Mile,” author Kevin Fedarko described the great Colorado River’s 1983 Grand Canyon flood. In his latest effort, “A Walk in the Park,” Fadarko along with his friend photographer Peter McBride, relays a more focused and record-seeking exploration of the entire length of Grand Canyon National Park on foot.
  • Percival Everett’s new novel “James” was short-listed for the 2024 Booker prize. It is a re-envisioning of Mark Twain’s classic, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” In Everett’s novel it is Jim, the enslaved runaway who finally gets the chance to tell this story — his story.
  • “The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA” by Liza Mundy is an eye-opening narrative about the previously overlooked and undervalued roles and contributions made by women in one of the most secretive organizations in the world. The book details how despite heavy gender-based bias and discrimination, women rose to prominence in a heavily male-dominated environment, forcing critical institutional change along the way.