April 7, 2021
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
Join Kern County Library staff members, Fahra and Ashley to learn about Beale Memorial Library and all of its services and check out what they have been reading, watching, and listening to this week. Follow Beale Memorial Library's Facebook page to keep with all their events!
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
Ashley Clay
Beale Memorial Library
Fahra is reading...

Fable
by Adrienne Young

A first entry in a planned duology by the author of the Sky in the Deep series finds the teen daughter of a seaside village’s most powerful trader testing the limits of skills imparted by her late mother to reconnect with her father and establish her place among his crew. 
 
Also available as eAudiobook on CloudLibrary 
Also available as eBook & eAudiobook on OverDrive
 
Home Body
by Rupi Kaur

Rupi Kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. Home Body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself - reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change. Illustrated by the author, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark, rest here.
 
Also available as eBook on HooplaDigital
 
Fahra is watching...
 
Bahubali: The Beginning & The Conclusion
 
In the kingdom of Mahishmati, while pursuing his love, Shivudu learns about the conflict ridden past of his family and his legacy. He must now prepare himself to face his newfound arch-enemy.
 
When Bhallaladeva conspires against his brother to become the king of Mahishmati, he has him killed by Katappa and imprisons his wife. Years later, his brother's son returns to avenge his father's death.

Ashley is reading...
 
The Flight Girls
by Noelle Salazar

A novel looks at the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program and the heroic role women played in training military pilots who were being deployed to fight during World War II. 
 
Also available as eBook & eAudiobook on HooplaDigital
 
Lily of the Nile
by Stephanie Dray

The daughter of Cleopatra, Princess Selene, struggles to survive amidst political and romantic intrigue after her parents are vanquished from Rome and she becomes the object of desire and obsession for the new and ruthless Caesar. 
 
Also available as eAudiobook on HooplaDigital
 

Ashley is watching...
Fresh prince of Bel Air

An inner-city teenager from Philly is sent by his mother to live with his relatives in Bel-Air and everybody is in for a surprise.
 

Even More Titles We Talk About

    Books
    Almost American girl: An Illustrated Memoir by Robin Ha
    America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray
    Magic Marks the Spot by Caroline Carlson
    The Mouse Watch by J. J. Gilbert
    Daughters of the Nile: A Novel of Cleopatra's Daughter by Stephanie Dray
    My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton by Stephanie Dray
    Song of the Nile by Stephanie Dray
    A Wolf Called Wander by Rosanne Parry
     
    Shows
    Cable Girls 
    Cocomelon
    A Discovery of Witches 
    The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Reunion 
    Resurrection Ertugrul 
    Snowpiercer

    Movies
    The Outpost 
    Penguin Bloom
    The Rescuers
    The Rescuers Down Under 
    Snowpiercer