December 14, 2022
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
Join Library staff members, Fahra and Brenna on location at the Northeast Branch Library talk about the expansion of the Snacks in the Stacks Program and the Winter Reading Challenge. Find out what they have been reading, watching, and listening to and don't forget to sign up for the Winter Reading Challenge by clicking here: SIGN ME UP! 
 
 
Brenna Smith & Fahra Daredia 

Kern County Library 
 
 
Fahra is reading...

Pandora
by Susan Stokes-Chapman

Dora Blake is a talented jewelry designer who lives under the thumb of her suspicious and odious uncle, who is running her late parents' beloved shop of antiquities into the ground. When he begins acting erratically after a mysterious Greek vase is delivered and locked in the basement, Dora enlists the help of Edward Lawrence, a young antiquarian scholar, who (unbeknownst to her) sees the vase as an opportunity to unlock his academic future. Dora hopes to restore the shop to its former glory, find a future for her own elegant, artistic designs, and escape the iniquitous plans her uncle has in store for her. But what Edward claims to discover about the vase unravels everything Dora knows about her life, her family, and the antiquities in the basement. She begins to uncover the truth, she realizes that some mysteries are buried for a reason - and others are closer to the surface than they appear. Atmospheric and page-turning, Pandora is a story of secrets and deception, love and fulfillment, fate and hope.
 
 
Sweet Valley Twins 1: Best Friends
by Francine Pascal

Starting middle school, inseparable twins Jessica and Elizabeth realize they might not be as alike as they thought when they are divided by different interests, becoming their own person. 
 
Also available as eBook on CloudLibrary
Also available as eBook on Libby
 
Fahra is watching...
 
Destan 
 
The epic love story of Akkiz, a warrior mountain girl, and disabled Prince Batuga, who were both orphaned by Gök Han in the 8th century in the harsh steppes of Central Asia.
 

Brenna is reading...
 
The Last Thing He Told Me
by Laura Dave

After her husband disappears, Hannah Hall quickly realizes he isn’t who he said he was and that his 16-year-old daughter, who wants nothing to do with her, may hold the key to figuring out his true identity. 
 
Also available as eBook on CloudLibrary
Also available as eBook & eAudiobook on Libby
This is Where it Ends
by Marieke Nijkamp

Minutes after the principal of Opportunity High School in Alabama finishes her speech welcoming the student body to a new semester, they discover that the auditorium doors will not open and someone starts shooting as four teens, each with a personal reason to fear the shooter, tell the tale from separate perspectives.
 
Also available as eBook on CloudLibrary
Also available as eBook on Libby
Also available as eBook on HooplaDigital

Brenna is watching...
 
Firefly Lane Season 2 
Netflix
 
Tully and Kate support each other through good times and bad with an unbreakable bond that carries them from their teens to their forties.
 
 

Even More Titles We Talk About

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