December 08, 2021
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
Join staff members, Fahra and Jasmin as they judge December new releases of  young adult  titles by their book covers. Don't forget to add these books to your TBRs!
 
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
Jasmin LoBasso
Kern County Library
Fahra is waiting for ...

Coming Back
by Jessi Zabarsky

Preet and Valissa live peacefully together in a magical village until they are soon divided by different paths, insecurities, and distance, getting sent on separate adventures and trying to find their way back to each other.
 
No Beauties or Monsters
by Tara Goedjen

Even though she is suffering from memory loss and hallucinations, Rylie must unravel her family's secrets in order to save herself and find her missing friend.
 

Jasmin is waiting for...
 
Fools in Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales
by Ashley Herring Blake

Featuring contributions from best-selling, award-winning and up-and-coming authors, this collection of genre-bending and original stories celebrates the power of love in all its forms. 
 
How Not to Fall in Love
by Jacqueline Firkins

When her best friend gets his heart broken yet again, Harper, who thinks romance is nothing more than a marketing tool, offers to teach him how not to fall in love and unexpectedly loses her own heart in the process. 
 

Even More Titles We Talk About

    Books
    The Big Reveal by Jen Larsen
    The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling
    Heart of the Impaler by Alexander Delacroix
    If This Gets Out by S. Gonzales
    The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinska
    The Righteous by Renée Ahdieh
    Spin Me Right Round by David Valdes Greenwood
    Tethered Spirits by T. A. Hernandez
    The Unraveling of Luna Forester by Marisa Noelle