April 14, 2021
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
Join Kern County staff members, Fahra and Jasmin talk about National Poetry Month and catch up on what they have been reading, watching, and listening to.
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
Jasmin LoBasso
Kern County Library
Fahra is reading...

The Duke & I
by Julia Quinn

In an effort to keep himself footloose and single in spite of the efforts of the town's matchmakers, Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings, begins a sham courtship with Daphne Bridgerton.
 
 Also available as eBook & eAudiobook on HooplaDigital  
Also available as eBook & eAudiobook on OverDrive 
 
Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir
by Robin Ha

Moving abruptly from Seoul to Alabama, a Korean teen struggles in a hostile blended home and a new school where she does not speak English before forging unexpected connections in a local comic drawing class. 
 
Also available as eBook on OverDrive 
 
Fahra is watching...
 
Mulan

To save her ailing father from serving in the Imperial Army, a fearless young woman disguises herself as a man to battle northern invaders in China.
 
Also available on Disney+
 

Jasmin is reading...
 
Children of Blood and Bone
by Tomi Adeyemi

Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
 
Also available as ebook & eAudiobook on CloudLibrary 
Also available as eAudiobook on HooplaDigital
Also available as eBook on OverDrive  
 
 
Our Skin
by Megan Madison

An age-appropriate introduction to the concepts of race, gender, consent and body positivity, developed by early childhood and activism experts, combines clear text with engaging artwork to help the youngest children recognize and confront unjust actions.
 
Also available as eBook & eAudiobook on CloudLibrary 
Jasmin is watching...
                                                   
                                                    Seaspiracy  
   Seaspiracy is a 2021 documentary film about the environmental impact of fishing directed by and starring Ali Tabrizi, a British filmmaker. The film premiered on Netflix globally in March 2021 and garnered immediate attention in several countries.
 
 
 

Even More Titles We Talk About

    Books
    Bear Against Time by Jean-Luc Fromental
    Burned: A Fever Novel by Karen Marie Moning
    Castle of Books by Alessandro Sanna
    Complete Poems 1904-1962: Complete Poems 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings
    Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh
    Everything Comes Next: Collected & New Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye
    Fable by Adrienne Young
    Feverborn: A Fever Novel by Karen Marie Moning
    Field Trip to the Moon by John Hare
    Froggy Goes to Hawaii by Jonathan London
    Good Boys: Poems by Megan Fernandes
    Happy in Our Skin by Fran Manushkin
    The Home Edit Life: The No-Guilt Guide to Owning What you Want and Organizing Everything by Clea Shearer
    Home Body by Rupi Kaur
    Iced: A novel by Karen Marie Moning
    The Initial Insult by Mindy McGinnis
    I Would Leave Me if I Could: A Collection of Poetry by Halsey
    If I Tell You the Truth by Jasmin Kaur
    The King's Drapes by Jocelyn Tambascio
    "L" is for Library by Sonya Terry
    Llama Llama and the Bully Goat by Anna Dewdney
    Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
    Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
    Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Peña
    The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
    Penguin by Polly Dunbar
    Poisoned Apples: Poems For You, My Pretty by Christine Heppermann
    On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn
    Sugar and Spice and Everything Mice by Annie Silvestro
    The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
    Talking is Not My Thing by Rose Robbins
    The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
    The Truth Project by Dante Medema
    Unf*ck your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess by Rachel Hoffman
    Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Rey
    We Disagree by Bethanie Deeney Murguia
    When You Ask Me Where I'm Going by Jasmin Kaur
    Movies 
    Aladdin 
    DisneyNature: Elephants 
    Finding Nemo
    Monsters Inc.