December 29, 2021
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
Celebrate the holidays with library staff members Fahra, Jasmin and our friends at Hoopla Digital. Check out all the holiday titles Hoopla has to offer for all ages in ebook and eAudiobook formats. Check out what they have been reading, watching, and listening to for the week. 
 
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
Jasmin LoBasso 
Kern County Library 
Fahra is reading...

A Dark and Starless Forest
by Sarah Hollowell

Separated from the rest of the world by an eerie and menacing forest, Derry must learn to embrace its darkness—and the magic inside of her—when several of her siblings go missing. 
 
Also available as eBook on CloudLibrary 
Fatima's Great Outdoors
by Ambreen Tariq

Excitedly joining her family for an outdoor camping trip in a Midwestern state park, Fatima Khazi helps set up a tent, build a fire and fend off a daddy longlegs before settling down to sleep surrounded by the near-magical sounds of the forest.
 
Also available as eAudiobook on CloudLibrary 
 
Fahra is watching...
 
9-1-1

Follows first responders in Los Angeles who are paramedics, firefighters, police, and dispatchers, as they respond to emergency situations and try to balance the pressures of their personal and professional lives.
 

Jasmin is reading...
 
Cast in Firelight
by Dana Swift

A first installment in a planned duology follows the story of two royal heirs, betrothed to be married, who unknowingly encounter one another in the criminal underbelly of a rival kingdom that is threatening their homes. 
 
Also available as eBook on CloudLibrary 
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
by Megan Rosenbloom

The medical librarian and cofounder of the Death Salon examines the scientific and historical factors behind the tradition of binding books in human skin, drawing on in-depth research to share the stories behind skin-bound books that have survived time. 
 
Also available as eAudiobook on HooplaDigital 

Jasmin is watching...
Single All the Way 
on Netflix
 
Desperate to avoid his family's judgment about his perpetual single status, Peter convinces his best friend Nick to join him for the holidays and pretend that they're now in a relationship.
 
Watch the trailer here
 

Even More Titles We Talk About

    Books
    Birds of a Feather by Sita Singh
    Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
    I Spy Christmas by Jean Marzollo
    Misery by Stephen King
    Shhh! by Julie Sykes
    Where Three Oceans Meet by Rajani LaRocca
     
    Movies
    Encanto 
    Its a Wonderful Life 
    Love Actually 
    Love Hard 
    On the 12th Date of Christmas 
    The Spirt of Christmas 
     
    Shows 
    Why Women Kill