August 31, 2020
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
  • Join Kern County Library staff members, Fahra and Jasmin, along with guest Brittney Morris author of SLAY to talk about what we're reading, watching, listening to and young women in STEM/STEAM. Join us for the library's kick off episode for the One Book Project and get a list of all the titles to participate. 
Brittney Morris 
Author of SLAY
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
Jasmin LoBasso
Kern County Library
Brittney is reading...

Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
by David Sedaris

A new collection of essays by the humorist and best-selling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day traces his offbeat world travel experiences, which involved surreal encounters with everything from French dentistry and Australian kookaburra eating habits to Beijing squat toilets and a wilderness Costco in North Carolina. 
 
Also available in eBook & eAudiobook on OverDrive
 
Also available in eBook & eAudiobook on CloudLibrary
Wings of Ebony
by J. Elle
 
In this riveting, keenly emotional debut fantasy, a Black teen from Houston has her world upended when she learns about her godly ancestry—and with evil sinking its claws into humans and gods alike, she’ll have to unearth the magic of her true identity to save both her worlds.
 
To be released 02/21/2021
Brittney is watching...
 
Great British Baking Show

Amateur bakers compete to be named the United Kingdom's best baker.
 
Also available on HooplaDigital
 
Fahra is reading...
 
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
by Claire Lisa Evans

The YACHT lead singer and VICE reporter celebrates the lesser-known contributions of women to the history of technology, sharing brief profiles of such boundary-breaking innovators as Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler and Stacy Horn.
 
Also available in eBook & eAudiobook on OverDrive
The Ugly Doodles
by Valeria Wicker

Inspired by a visit to an art museum, Raven sets out to create a masterpiece but her discarded mistakes start stalking her, teaching her to accept her imperfections.
Fahra is watching...
The Alienist 

Follows a psychiatrist and his team in 1890s New York City as they investigate a ritualistic serial killer who murders young boys.
 
Also available on HooplaDigital
 Jasmin is reading...

An Ember in the Ashes
by Sabaa Tahir

Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.
 
Also available as eBook on OverDrive 
A Torch Against the Night
by Sabaa Tahir

Laia and Elias fight their way north to liberate Laia's brother from the horrors of Kauf Prison, a mission that is complicated by hunting Empire soldiers, the manipulations of the Commandant and lingering ghosts from their pasts. 
 
Also available as eBook on OverDrive 
Jasmin is watching...
Harley Quinn
 
Harley Quinn has finally broken things off once and for all with the Joker and attempts to make it on her own as the criminal Queenpin of Gotham City in this half-hour adult animated action-comedy series. The series features Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy and a whole cast of heroes and villains, old and new, from the DC Universe.

Available on HBOmax
Even More Titles We Talk About
    Books
    Cinderella is Dead  by Kalynn Bayron 
    Diana and the island of no return by Aisha Saeed
    The Great Gatsby : A Graphic Novel Adaptation by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    SLAY  by Brittney Morris 
    Shows
    Crazy Delicious on Netflix
    Dragonball Z Kai 
    Legend of Korra 
    Sugar Rush on Netflix
    Podcasts
    Very Presidential with Ashley Flowers