July 07, 2021
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
Join staff members, Fahra and Jasmin in the stacks talk about some advance reader copies and new books that just came in. Don't forget to add these books to your TBR because you know Fahra and Jasmin will be doing the same! 
 
 
Fahra Daredia & Jasmin LoBasso 

Beale Memorial Library & Kern County Library 
 
 
Fahra is reading...

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents and his family that he has never asked before.
 
Also available as eAudiobook on HooplaDigital 
Also available as eAudiobook on OverDrive
Legendborn
by Tracy Deonn

Wanting to escape her previous life after the accidental death of her mother, 16-year-old Bree enrolls in a program for high school students at the local university before her witness to a magical attack reveals her undiscovered powers as well as sinister truths about her mother’s death. 
 
 Also available as eBook on OverDrive
Fahra is watching...
 
Hello Charlie 
Amazon Prime
 
Charlie is a young simpleton daydreamer, currently, a pizza delivery boy, who finds himself driving his uncle’s truck , Girnaar Express to deliver a gorilla from Mumbai to the jetty at Diu. Charlie is unaware that the gorilla is disguised business tycoon M.D.Makwana who is on the run after committing a multi crore scam. It is a mad road journey that ends up making a hero out of a simpleton.
 
Watch the trailer here
 

Jasmin is reading...
 
Dove Exiled
by Karen Bao

A follow-up to Dove Arising finds exposed fugitive Phaet Theta struggling between staying on Earth with Wes and stowing away on a Moon-bound ship to rescue her siblings from the vengeful government that killed their mother.
 
 
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
by Don Miguel Ruiz

In The Four Agreements, bestselling author don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.
 
Also available as eBook on OverDrive 
 

Jasmin is watching...
 
Good On Paper
Netflix
 
After years of putting her career first, a stand-up comic meets a guy who seems perfect: smart, nice, successful... and possibly too good to be true.
 
Watch the trailer here
 

Even More Titles We Talk About

    Books
    Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson
    Dog's First Baby : A Board Book by Natalie Nelson
    Finding Junie Kim by Ellen Oh
    Her Honor: My Life on the Bench ... What Works, What's Broken, and How to Change It by LaDoris H. Cordell
    Hour of the Witch: A Novel by Chris Bohjalian
    If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy
    The Last Shadow Warrior by Sam Subity
    Like Other Girls by Britta Lundin
    Off the Record by Camryn Garrett
    One Great Lie by Deb Caletti
    Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard
    The Right Side of Reckless by Whitney D. Grandison
    Thornwood by Leah Cypess

    Movies 
    Guest House