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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.
  • "A Different Kind of Power" book cover.
    Penguin Random House
    “A Different Kind of Power” by Jacinda Ardern is an uplifting, thoughtful memoir by the former Prime Minister of New Zealand (2017-2023). It showcases what leadership based on empathy and kindness looks like and addresses the challenges faced by many women in high profile political roles.
  • "The Correspondent" book cover
    Penguin Random House
    If all we really know about anyone else is what they show us, how do we decide who that person actually is? “The Correspondent” is the smash hit debut novel that explores that question.
  • "The Siren's Call" book cover
    Penguin Random House
    Despite the ever-increasing amount of information available to us, our attention is a fixed quantity. Chris Hayes’ recent book explores what we devote our attention to and why. Amy Mills has this month’s book review of, “The Siren’s Call.”
  • "Bitterfrost" book cover
    Severn House Publishers Ltd.
    Award-winning writer Bryan Gruley’s newest submission “Bitterfrost” tells the story of Northern Michigan and murder, hockey and high jinx in a neatly crafted mystery tale of love and friendship, retribution and revenge, validation and vindication.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • “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.
  • 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.