February 16, 2022
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
Join Kern County Library staff members, Fahra and Jasmin as they get to know new library staff member, Sonia Patino the supervisor of the Arvin Branch Library. Visit the Arvin Branch Library on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 11am-6pm and see all the fun things that they are doing. 
Sonia Patino  
Arvin Branch Library 
 
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
 
Jasmin LoBasso
Kern County Library 
 
Sonia is reading...

Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel
by Celeste Ng

Fighting an ugly custody battle with an artistic tenant who has little regard for the strict rules of their progressive Cleveland suburb, a straitlaced family woman who is seeking to adopt a baby becomes obsessed with exposing the tenant's past, only to trigger devastating consequences for both of their families.
 
Also available as eAudiobook on CloudLibrary
Also available as a eBook & eAudiobook on Libby
 
The Silent Patient
by Alex Michaelides

A therapist becomes dangerously obsessed with uncovering the truth about what prompted his client, an artist who refuses to speak, to murder her husband in a way that triggers mass public speculation. 
 
Also available as eAudiobook on CloudLibrary 
Also available as eBook & eAudiobook on Libby 
 
Sonia is watching...
 
New Girl

A young woman moves into an apartment with three single men after a bad breakup.
 
 
Fahra is reading...
 
You Can't Be Serious
by Kal Penn

In this series of funny, consequential, awkward and ridiculous stories from the actor and White House aide’s idiosyncratic life, he reflects on the most exasperating and rewarding moments of his journey so far, showing that everyone can have more than one life story.
 
Also available as eBook & eAudiobook on Libby 
Lore Olympus Volume One
by Rachel Smythe

Offers a contemporary retelling in graphic novel format of the Greek myth of Persephone and Hades. 
 
If the Shoe Fits
by Julie Murphy

A fashion-obsessed plus-size woman fills in for a no-show contestant on her executive producer stepmother's popular dating reality show and becomes a body-positivity viral sensation overnight and could actually picture herself falling for the eligible suitor. 
 
Also available as eBook & eAudiobook on HooplaDigital 
Also available as eBook & eAudiobook on Libby
 Jasmin is reading...

A Curse So Dark and Lonely
by Brigid Kemmerer

A lush retelling of Beauty and the Beast finds a cursed prince reliving the same autumn over and over in the form of a dangerous monster, hoping to save his kingdom and win the heart of a girl from the real world. 
 
Also available as eBook on CloudLibrary 
Also available as eBook on Libby 
Jasmin is watching...
Squid Games 
on Netflix
 
Hundreds of cash-strapped contestants accept an invitation to compete in children's games for a tempting prize, but the stakes are deadly.
 
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