August 17, 2020
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
  • Join Kern County Library staff members, Fahra and Jasmin, with library lovers all the way on the other side of the U.S. of A! Erin and Courtney join us from New Hampshire to talk all things YA. Check out one of our many favorites in our Big YA Episode!
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
Jasmin LoBasso
Kern County Library
Courtney
Wiggin Memorial Library
Stratham, New Hampshire
Erin
Derry Public Library
Derry, New Hampshire
 Fahra recommends...

Cinder
by Marissa Meyer

As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
 
Also available in eBook & eAudiobook on OverDrive
When You Ask Me Where I'm Going
by Jasmin Kaur

A debut collection of poetry, prose, and artwork divided into six sections that trace the experiences of an undocumented woman’s efforts to escape abuse and raise her daughter in a world that discriminates against women, assault victims, and immigrants. 
 
Also available in eBook & eAudiobook on Hoopla
 
 Jasmin recommends...
 
A Court of Thorns and Roses
by Sarah J. Maas

Dragged off to a treacherous magical land as retribution for killing a wolf, huntress Feyre learns that her captor is one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world.
 
Also available in eBook & eAudiobook on OverDrive
 
Also available in eBook on CloudLibrary
Blood and Chocolate
by Annette Curtis Klause

Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom. 
 
 Courtney recommends...

Elysium Girls
by Kate Pentecost

A Dust Bowl-era community discovers that the world is under the control of two powerful sisters, Life and Death, who gamble with human lives, before a witch community leader and a trickster join other magical exiles to prevent an apocalypse.
Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery

Since its publication in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has been translated into at least 36 languages and sold more than 50 million copies. Follow the adventures of 11-year-old orphan, Anne Shirley, who is mistakenly sent to two middle-aged siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who had originally intended to adopt a boy to help them on the farm in the fictional town of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island, Canada.
 
Anne series available in eBook & eAudiobook on OverDrive
 
Anne series available in eBook & eAudiobook on Hoopla
 
Available in eBook & eAudiobook on CloudLibrary
 Erin recommends...
 
Wilder Girls
by Rory Power

Follow three best friends who live in quarantine at their island boarding school and the lengths they go through to uncover the truth of their confinement when one disappears.
 
Also available in eBook on OverDrive
The Book of Three
by Lloyd Alexander

Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper to a famous oracular sow, sets out on a hazardous mission to save Prydain from the forces of evil.

Even More Titles We Talk About
    Books
    A Game of Thrones by George R. R Martin
    Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
    Agnes at the End of the World by Kelly McWilliams
    Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir by Robin Ha
    Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
    Cursed by Frank Miller
    Fear Street the Beginning by R. L. Stine
    Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson
    Harleen by Stjepan Sejic
    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K Rowling
    How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
    I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block
    Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice
    Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined by Stephenie Meyer
    Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
    Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
    Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta
    Paper Girls by Brian K Vaughan
    Persepolis - The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
    Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
    Renegades by Marissa Meyer
    Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin
    The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
    The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Davis
    The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
    The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
    Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
    Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed by Laurie Halse Anderson