December 10, 2021
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
Join library staff member, Fahra talk with Saida Woolf author of the graphic novel Soulstream. Find out what Saida has been upto since we last spoke to her and talk with her about the success of her graphic novel. Don't forget to check out what we have been reading, watching and listening to.
 
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
Saida Woolf
Author of Soulstream
Fahra is reading...

Of Women and Salt
by Gabriela Garcia

The daughter of a Cuban immigrant battles addiction and the fallout of her decision to take in the child of an ICE detainee, while her mother wrestles with displacement trauma and complicated family ties. 
 
Also available as eAudiobook on CloudLibrary
Also available as eBook & eAudiobook on OverDrive 
 
Soulstream 
by Saida Woolf

It’s almost the end of Winter Break, and Marie is on a reluctant hike through the woods with her brother when they discover a mysterious portal and find themselves in another dimension. Marie is contacted by the Mage Goddess, who gives her the magical Ocean Bracelet, an item that allows her to transform into the superhero Soulstream. With her newfound powers, and the help of her friends, she embarks on a quest to save the Shattered World.
 
Also available as eBook on HooplaDigial 
 
Fahra is watching...
 
9-1-1

Follows first responders in Los Angeles who are paramedics, firefighters, police, and dispatchers, as they respond to emergency situations and try to balance the pressures of their personal and professional lives.
 

Saida is reading...
 
White Ash 
by Charlie Stickney

Welcome to White Ash, a small smudge of a town in western Pennsylvania, where mining is a generational calling and the secrets are buried deeper than the coal in the mountain. As Aleck Zwerg tries to escape that legacy and head off to college, he falls into the orbit of the enigmatic Lillian Alden. Together, they race down a dangerous path, leading Aleck to uncover a secret about his family that changes everything he knows about himself and White Ash. And now, if he leaves, there will be no one left to protect the people of the town from an ancient evil that has just returned.
 
Also available as eBook on HooplaDigital
 
Witch Hat Atelier
by Kamome Shirahama

Meet young Coco, curious and bright, and desperate to learn how magic's wrought, but witches keep their secrets hidden tight, and witches, Coco knows, are born, not taught. Then one day Coco spies upon a witch as he prepares the charms for which she yearns. And sees that, like her skill with thread and stitch, the truth is, magic's something she can learn. Now with this knowledge, Coco starts to try to teach herself the witches' way with charms. And yet her aspirations go awry, as Coco's magic causes grievous harm. To set things right young Coco leaves her home and so begins the tale with this tome.
 

Saida is watching...
Cinderella and the Four Knights 
on Netflix

A young girl living with her cruel stepmother and sister is hired by an old man to move into a beautiful mansion to look after three young and rich men.
 
Watch the trailer here
 

Even More Titles We Talk About

    Books
    12 days of princess by Holly Rice
    Arthur's Christmas by Marc Tolon Brown
    Canopus by Dave Chisholm
    Cazadora by Romina Garber
    Doing Business by Shawn Harris
    Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards
    Pig the Monster by Aaron Blabey
    What a Happy Family by Saumya Dave
     
    Movies 
     Amphibia
    Bob Biwas