March 23, 2022
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
Now that you know so much about library staff members Fahra and Jasmin, it is time to meet some of our other library staff members. Say hell, goodbye, and get to know our Regional Supervisor of Kern County Libraries, Sherry Wade. Find out what our staff members have been reading, watching, and listening to for the week. 
 
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
 
Sherry Wade
Kern County Library 
Fahra is reading...

The Last Laugh
by Mindy McGinnis

As her mind slips deeper into delirium, Tress tries to keep it together long enough to finally find out what happened to her parents, while her cousin prepares to exact revenge on all who have done him wrong – including Tress.
 
Also available as eBook on CloudLibrary 
 

Sherry is reading...
 
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
by Kate Moore

In 1860, Elizabeth Packard, committed to an insane asylum by her traitorous husband, becomes a champion for the many rational women on her ward, discovering that the merit of losing everything is that you then have nothing to lose.
 
Also available eBook on HooplaDigital 
Also available as eBook on Libby

Even More Titles We Talk About

    Books
    All They Will Call You: The Telling of the Plane Wreck at Los Gatos Canyon by Tim Z. Hernandez
    Big Dance by Aoife Greenham
    The Boggart and the Monster by 1935- Cooper, Susan
    Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by 1929- Massie, Robert K.
    Christmas with Tucker by 1957- Kincaid, Gregory D.
    The Cellist of Sarajevo by 1975- Galloway, Steven
    Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel by Anthony Doerr
    The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
    Together We Grow by Susan Vaught
    The Day They Gave Babies Away by 1904- Eunson, Dale
    The Field of the Dogs by Katherine Paterson
    Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
    A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
    The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
    Heaven's My Destination by 1897-1975 Wilder, Thornton
    The Highwayman's Footsteps by Nicola Morgan
    Miss Eliza's English Kitchen: A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship by Annabel Abbs
    The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
    On the Day the Horse Got Out by Audrey Helen Weber
    Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas by Aaron Blabey
    The Raven Boys by 1981- Stiefvater, Maggie
    Selected Poems of Robert Frost by 1874-1963 Frost, Robert
    Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance by 1961- Armstrong, Jennifer
    A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
    Spill Zone by Scott Westerfeld
    The Suitcase by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros
    Winnie-the-Pooh by 1882-1956 Milne, A. A.
    The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner: And Other Stories by Terry Pratchett
    Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud