September 28, 2020
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
  • Join Kern County Library staff members, Fahra and Jasmin, along with guest Allison Crotzer Kimmel author of Unbeatable Betty to talk about what we're reading, watching, and listening to, as well as the stories of young influential women. Join us for the One Book Project and get a list of all the titles to participate. 
Allison Crotzer Kimmel 
Author of Unbeatable Betty
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
Jasmin LoBasso
Kern County Library
Allison is reading...

One By One
by Ruth Ware

When an offsite company retreat is upended by an avalanche that strands them in a remote mountain chalet, eight coworkers are forced to set aside their corporate rankings and mutual distrust in order to survive. 
 
Also available on eBook & eAudiobook  on OverDrive 
The Last House Guest: A Novel
by Megan Miranda

When her longtime best friend is found murdered, a woman combs through her idyllic Maine tourist community to uncover local secrets and clear her name of suspicion. By the best-selling author of All the Missing Girls. 
 
 Also available on eBook & eAudiobook on Overdrive
Allison is watching...
 
Will & Grace

Winner of all the major Emmy Awards, this groundbreaking comedy stars Eric McCormack and Debra Messing as gay lawyer Will and straight interior designer Grace, lifelong best friends who move in together. Even odder than this couple are Jack (Sean Hayes), Will's flamboyantly funny friend, and Karen (Megan Mullaly), a socialite slumming as Grace's assistant. 
 
Fahra is reading...
 
Punching the Air
by Ibi Zoboi

The award-winning author of American Street and the prison reform activist of the Exonerated Five trace the story of a young artist and poet whose prospects at a diverse art school are threatened by a racially biased system and a tragic altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood. 
 
 
All My Friends are Ghosts
by S. M. Vidaurri

Skipping school when she becomes so lost that she almost feels like a ghost, young Effie encounters an actual ghost in the nearby woods who gives her poltergeist lessons before her confidence is tested by a mysterious spirit.
 
Also available on HooplaDigital
Fahra is watching...
Resurrection Ertugrul

When a good deed unwittingly endangers his clan, a 13th-century Turkish warrior agrees to fight a sultan's enemies in exchange for new tribal land.
 
Also available on YouTube 
 Jasmin is reading...

No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
by Reed Hastings

The co-founder of Netflix and the author of The Culture Map trace the former DVD mail rental service’s meteoric rise, explaining how Hastings’ practices of innovation, adaptation and top-market employee compensation have been a major part of Netflix’s revolutionary successes. 
 
The Lesson: A Novel
by Cadwell Turnbull

The people of the US Virgin Islands coexist with the Ynaa, a race of super-advanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose, until the death of a young boy plunges three families into an inevitable conflict that will touch everyone and teach a terrible lesson.
 
Also available in eBook & eAudiobook on HooplaDigital
Jasmin is watching...
Grey's Anatomy

Comedic look at the often complicated personal life and career of medical intern Meredith Grey, and her fellow interns at Seattle Grace Hospital.
Even More Titles We Talk About
    Books
    Charles Dickens's Great expectations : By Charles Dickens by Jack Wang
    Fast Girls : A Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team by Elise Hooper
    For the right to learn : Malala Yousafzai's story by Rebecca Langston-George
    Jacob Riis's camera : bringing light to tenement children by Alexis O'Neill
    The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate
    The one and only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
    Scary stories to tell in the dark : three books to chill your bones by Alvin Schwartz
    Scythe by Neal Shusterman
    Start With Why : A Guide for Those at the Beginning of Their Journey by Simon Sinek
    Shows
    Goosebumps
    Interior Design Masters
    The Masked Singer
    The New Adventures of Old Christine 
    Movies 
    Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
    The Nightmare Before Christmas
    Scared Shrekless
    It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
    The Sixth Sense 
    The Blair Witch Project
    Goosebumps 
    Goosebumps 2