February 24, 2021
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
  • Join Kern County Library staff members, Fahra and Jasmin talk about what they have been reading, watching and listening to. 
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
Jasmin LoBasso
Kern County Library
Fahra is reading...

Book's Big Adventure
by Adam Lehrhaupt

Donated to a community library, a beloved but outgrown book falls from its neglected library shelf out of sight, where it worries that nobody will ever read it again. 
 
The Cousins
by Karen M. McManus

Invited to their grandmother’s island resort for the summer, three cousins who have never previously met uncover dark family secrets about why their parents were disinherited and what they must do to regain their grandmother’s favor.
 
Also available as eBook & eAudiobook on OverDrive 
 
Jasmin is reading...
 
Sorcery of Thorns
by Margaret Rogerson

A foundling apprentice raised in one of her kingdom's great libraries finds her fate in the hands of a sworn enemy when she is implicated in an act of sabotage behind the release of a dangerous grimoire.
 

The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga

The white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwai, a poor Indian villager whose great ambition leads him to the zenith of Indian business culture, the world of the Bangalore entrepreneur. On the occasion of the president of China’s impending trip to Bangalore, Balram writes a letter to him describing his transformation and his experience as driver and servant to a wealthy Indian family, which he thinks exemplifies the contradictions and complications of Indian society.
 
Also available as eAudiobook on HooplaDigital 
 

Even More Titles We Talk About

    Books
    The Five Love Languages by Gary D. Chapman
    King of Sword and Sky by C. L Wilson
    On Fragile Waves by E. Lily Yu
    Sex with Presidents: The ins and outs of Love and Lust in the White House by Eleanor Herman
    Podcasts
    Very Presidential
    Supernatural