June 30, 2021
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
Catch up on all the library updates and what is happening at the Beale Memorial Library. Check out what staff members, Fahra and Jasmin have been reading, watching, and listening to. Don't forget to join the Summer Reading Challenge!
 
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
Jasmin LoBasso
Kern County Library
Fahra is reading...

Illusionary
by Zoraida Córdova

A follow-up to Incendiary finds Renata embarking on a dangerous journey alongside an unlikely ally to find a fabled artifact and bring peace to the kingdom.
 
Also available as eBook on OverDrive 
 
A Red Train and Other Colors
by Bernette Ford

Come take a ride with animals in a book that covers two concepts: colors and modes of transport. A charming cat looks happily out the window of a red train, a bunny rides in a yellow rocket, and there's also a blue car, orange submarine, green bus, purple boat, and more Children will love the beautiful and cheerful collage-like art.
Fahra is watching...
 
The Ice Road 
Netflix
 
To save a team of miners trapped underground, a down-on-his-luck ice road trucker joins a mission across treacherous terrain to deliver rescue equipment. 

Jasmin is reading...
 
Dove Arising
by Karen Bao

Preferring a life of obscurity on a lunar colony in the years after her father's fatal accident, greenhouse cultivator Phaet Theta is forced to join the Militia in order to protect her younger siblings and befriends fellow outsider Wes before her plans are thwarted by dangerous adversaries. 
 
 
I Need a New Butt!
by Dawn McMillan

After discovering that his butt has a crack in it, a young boy looks for a replacement.
 
Also available as eBook on OverDrive 

Jasmin is watching...
Luca
Disney+
 
Set in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera, Disney and Pixar’s original feature film “Luca” is a coming-of-age story about one young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer filled with gelato, pasta and endless scooter rides. Luca (voice of Jacob Tremblay) shares these adventures with his newfound best friend, Alberto (voice of Jack Dylan Grazer), but all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water’s surface. “Luca” is directed by Academy Award® nominee Enrico Casarosa (“La Luna”) and produced by Andrea Warren (“Lava,” “Cars 3”).
 

Even More Titles We Talk About

    Books
    The Adventures of Marco Flamingo Under the Sea by Sheila Jarkins
    American Cozy: Hygge-Inspired Ways to Create Comfort & Happiness by Stephanie Pedersen
    Be a Work in Progress: And Other Things I'd Like to Tell My Younger Self by John Cena
    Do Your Best Every Day to Do Your Best Every Day by John Cena
    Flamingo Dream by Donna Jo Napoli
    El Deafo by Cece Bell
    The Marvelous Mirza Girls by Sheba Karim
    Sylvie: The Colorful Flamingo by Jennifer Gordon Sattler
     
    Movies 
    The 33
    The Mitchells VS the Machines
    Soul
     
    Webtoons
    The Wrath & the Dawn 
     
    Shows 
    Mira, Royal Detective