LibraryAware June 23, 2021

June 23, 2021

Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:

Happy Summer! Catch Up with Fahra and Jasmin and find out where they are with their reading goals. Let us know what you have been reading, watching, and listening to. Don't forget to join the summer reading challenge!

Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library

Jasmin LoBasso
Kern County Library

Fahra is reading...

Make Up Break Up
by Lily Menon

Rendered instantly famous when his break-up app becomes meteorically successful, Hudson Craft moves into a new office adjoining the workspace of a commitment-minded woman with whom he once shared a Las Vegas summer fling.

Also available as eAudiobook on CloudLibrary

Also available as eAudiobook on HooplaDigital

The Marvelous Mirza Girls
by Sheba Karim

Accompanying her mother on a gap-year visit to New Delhi after a beloved aunt’s death, Noreen rediscovers her cultural heritage alongside a handsome youth before their growing feelings trigger a family scandal.

Also available as eBook on OverDrive

Fahra is watching...

Indian Idol
YouTube

Indian Idol is all set to raise the bar yet again with not just impressive talent but their inspiring stories as well. Taking on the mantle as judges will be renowned singer and music composer Vishal Dadlani, popular singer and youth icon Neha Kakkar and the veteran singer and music director Himesh Reshammiya.

Jasmin is reading...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer

As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey--a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island.

Also available as eBook on CloudLibrary

Also available as eBook & eAudiobook on OverDrive

This Book is Out of Control!
by Richard Byrne

A follow-up to This book just ate my dog! finds Ben, Bella and their dog struggling to make a new remote-controlled toy work correctly while everything in the book around them goes completely haywire.

Jasmin is watching...

Sweet Tooth

Netflix

On a perilous adventure across a post-apocalyptic world, a lovable boy who's half-human and half-deer searches for a new beginning with a gruff protector.

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