January 26, 2022
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
Check out all our library branches that are reopening and others that are getting extended hours! We are so excited to have everyone visit our branches again! Find out what what library staff members, Fahra and Jasmin have been reading, watching, and listening to this week. 
 
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
Jasmin LoBasso 
Kern County Library 
Fahra is reading...

The Storyteller
by Kathryn Williams

When her late aunt’s diaries connect her to the long-lost Russian princess Anastasia, Jess Morgan digs into the century-old mystery and realizes there’s an even bigger truth to be revealed: her own. 
 
Also available as eBook on CloudLibrary 
White Smoke: A Novel
by Tiffany D. Jackson

Believing her new home to actually be alive, especially when her brother almost dies, Marigold and her new blended family won’t be safe until she brings the truth to light once and for all. 
 
Also available as eBook on CloudLibrary
Fahra is watching...
 
Little Krishna - The Darling of Virindavan
On Hulu and YouTube 

Little Krishna the darling of Vrindavan, while lapping up all the love and adoration of Nanda & mother Yashoda grew up as the naughty prankster. But he was also the bravest of all, crushing mighty demons like Putana & Trinavarta sent by Kamsa. Indra’s false pride got shattered when Little Krishna lifted up the entire Govardhan hill. Showcasing breathtaking underwater fight sequences, Krishna won over Kaliya in an epic battle emerging as the true savior of Vrindavan.

Jasmin is reading...
 
Rhapsodic
by Laura Thalassa

Callypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past. For the last seven years she’s been collecting a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she’s received. Only death or repayment will fulfill the obligations. Only then will the beads disappear.

Everyone knows that if you need a favor, you go to the Bargainer to make it happen. He’s a man who can get you anything you want... at a price. And everyone knows that sooner or later he always collects.

But for one of his clients, he’s never asked for repayment. Not until now. When Callie finds the fae king of the night in her room, a grin on his lips and a twinkle in his eye, she knows things are about to change. At first it’s just a chaste kiss—a single bead’s worth—and a promise for more.

For the Bargainer, it’s more than just a matter of rekindling an old romance. Something is happening in the Otherworld. Fae warriors are going missing one by one. Only the women are returned, each in a glass casket, a child clutched to their breast. And then there are the whispers among the slaves, whispers of an evil that’s been awoken.

If the Bargainer has any hope to save his people, he’ll need the help of the siren he spurned long ago. Only, his foe has a taste for exotic creatures, and Callie just happens to be one.
 
Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps you Alive
by Philipp Dettmer

The creator of a popular educational YouTube channel presents and illustrated journey through the human body’s immune system, with each chapter focusing on an element including defenses like antibodies and inflammation as well as threats like bacteria, allergies and cancer. 
 

Jasmin is watching...
 
What we do in the Shadows 
 On Hulu 
 
A look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of three vampires, who've lived together for over 100 years, on Staten Island. 
 

Even More Titles We Talk About

    Books
    Reputation: A Novel by Lex Croucher
     
    Movies
    Bal Ganesh 3 
     
    Soundtrack
    Encanto