August 24, 2020
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
  • Join Kern County Library staff members, Fahra and Jasmin, to talk about what we're reading and watching, about the upcoming One Book Project, and information about the Library's eBooks & eAudiobooks.
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
Jasmin LoBasso
Kern County Library
Fahra is reading...

The Magic Order
by Mark Millar

We live in a world where we've never seen a monster, and The Magic Order is the reason we sleep safely in our beds. By day, they live among us as our neighbors, friends, and co-workers, but by night they are the sorcerers, magicians, and wizards that protect us from the forces of darkness...unless the darkness gets them first. Magic meets the Mob in The Magic Order, as five families of magicians--sworn to protect our world for generations--must battle an enemy who's picking them off one by one.
 
Also available as an eComic on Hoopla
Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu

A stereotyped character actor stumbles into the spotlight before uncovering surprising links between his family and the secret history of Chinatown. By the award-winning author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.
 
Also available in eBook on OverDrive
 
Also available in eAudiobook on CloudLibrary
Fahra is watching...
 
Padmaavat

When a sultan hears of the beauty of Queen Padmavati, he sets out to capture her and lure her away from her husband.

Jasmin is reading...
 
Nothing to See Here
by Kevin Wilson

Agreeing to help her former college roommate care for two stepchildren who possess the ability to spontaneously combust when agitated, Lillian endeavors to keep her young charges cool in the face of an astonishing revelation. 
 
Also available in eBook & eAudiobook on OverDrive
 
Also available in eBook on CloudLibrary
Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined
by Stephenie Meyer

When seventeen-year-old Beufort Swan leaves Phoenix to live with his father in Forks, Washington, he meets a mysterious, alluring girl at school for whom he feels an overwhelming attraction to and who he comes to realize is not wholly human.
Jasmin is watching...

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

An inner-city teenager from Philly is sent by his mother to live with his relatives in Bel-Air and everybody is in for a surprise.
Even More Titles We Talk About
    Books
    Diana and the island of no return by Aisha Saeed
    Love, Sophia on the Moon by Anica Mrose Rissi
     
    Shows
    Selling Sunset on Netflix

    Movies
    Gunjan Saxena on Netflix

    Join Us Next Week with Author, Brittney Morris
    to talk about the Slay, one of the 2020 One Book Project companion titles. We'll talk about the inspiration behind the book, as well as what this great author is reading , watching, and listening to.
     
          Read Brittney Morris' book with the Kern County Library!
    Slay
    by Brittney Morris

    An honors student at Jefferson Academy, seventeen-year-old Keira enjoys developing and playing Slay, a secret, multiplayer online role-playing game celebrating black culture, until the two worlds collide.
     
    Also available in eBook & eAudiobook on OverDrive