August 3, 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, how the Kern County Library's Summer Reading Challenge is extended through August this year, and information about the Library's curbside services.
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
Jasmin LoBasso
Kern County Library
Fahra is reading...

Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer

When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
 
Celebrate the 15th Anniversary of Twilight!
Discover the bestselling series:
  • Access the series in eBook & eAudiobook on OverDrive
  • Access a summary in eBook on Hoopla
  • Check out the movie adaptations of the series in our Catalog
The Jewel Thief
by Jeannie Mobley

A lush romance inspired by the history of the Hope Diamond finds the daughter of a 17th-century crown jeweler secretly taking over when her father becomes too despondent to successfully reshape a mysterious deep-blue diamond. 
Catherine's War
by Julia Billet

A survival story based on true events follows the experiences of a young Jewish photographer who is forced to go into hiding and make a perilous journey to the free zone when Germany seizes France during World War II. 
 
Also Available in eBook on OverDrive
Fahra is watching...
 
Bulbbul
Available on Netflix

A child bride grows up to be an enigmatic woman presiding over her household, harboring a painful past as supernatural murders of men plague her village.

Jasmin is reading...
 
Joy at Work:
Organizing Your Professional Life
by Marie Kondō

Shares stories, studies, and strategies to help readers become more productive and avoid the challenges of workplace mess.
 
Also available in eBook on OverDrive
 
Marie Kondo's famous KonMari technique is also available in additional eLibrary titles:
  • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
    • eBook and eAudiobook on OverDrive
    • eBook and eAudiobook on CloudLibrary
    • eAudiobook and Summary on Hoopla 
  • Spark Joy (eBook and eAudiobook on OverDrive)
  • Kiki & Jax: The Life-Changing Magic of Friendship (eBook on OverDrive)
  • Tidying Up with Marie Kondo on Netflix 
Ask a Philosopher:
Answers to Your Most Important and
Most Unexpected Questions
by Ian Olasov

The award-winning organizer of New York City’s “Ask a Philosopher” booth draws on real-life questions from the author’s series to reveal how to use philosophical approaches to find transporting answers to personal and universal questions. 
Karmen
by Guillem March
 
Published in June 16, 2020 and available through Europe Comics.

This is a graphic novel about death and suicide… but not in the way you think. It’s about death that can be reversible, when and if the right angels are looking. The dead person here is Catalina, a self-absorbed student who kills herself out of heartbreak. The angel is Karmen, an angel of the facetious, unusual sort. Her capacity for empathy is so great that she leads “her” dead on a journey toward redemption. Full of surprises, metaphysics, and beautiful women, this graphic novel is tender and not devoid of humor.
Jasmin is watching...

The New Legends of Monkey
Available on Netflix

A valiant girl liberates the Monkey King -- a god long trapped in stone -- in a quest to find seven sacred scrolls and save the world from evil.
Even More Titles We Talk About
    Books
    The Silence of Bones by June Hur
    Bear by Ben Queen - to be released on August 17, 2020
    Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez
    Sanctuary by Paola Mendoza
    The Old Guard by Greg Rucka
    The Empire of Dreams by Rae Carson
    The Life and (Medieval) Times of Kit Sweetly by Jamie Pacton
     
    Shows
    Indian Matchmaking on Netflix
    Love on the Spectrum on Netflix
    Norsemen on Netflix

    Movies
    The Old Guard on Netflix