November 18, 2020
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
  • Join Kern County Library staff members, Fahra and Jasmin, along with guest Erik Talkin author of Lulu and the Hunger Monster and  CEO of The Foodbank of Santa Barbara County to talk about what we're reading, watching, listening to and food literacy. 
Erik Talkin 
Author of Lulu and the Hunger Monster 
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
 
Jasmin LoBasso
Kern County Library
 
Erik is reading...

Cemetery Boys
by Aiden Thomas

Determined to prove himself a real brujo to the traditional Latinx family that does not accept his true gender, a trans boy summons the ghost of the resident bad boy, who refuses to return quietly to death. 
 
Also available on eAudiobook on CloudLibrary
 
The Skunk: A Picture Book
by Mac Barnett

Discovering that he is being followed by a skunk, a tuxedoed man finds himself in a frantic race through the city as he tries to outmaneuver the stinky little creature. 
 
Erik is watching...
 
Dark

A missing child sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers as they unearth a mind-bending mystery that spans three generations.
 
 
Fahra is reading...
 
Displacement
by Kiku Hughes

On a visit to San Francisco, Kiku finds herself transported in time back to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II.
 
On Account of the Gum
by Adam Rex

Improbable, ridiculous remedies accumulate when there is gum stuck in your hair.
 
Also available as eBook on HooplaDigital
 
Fahra is watching...
Laxmmi Bomb 

Aasif's belief in logic and science shatters when he gets possessed by a ghost. What starts as a comical journey soon unearths a dark secret. 
 
 Jasmin is reading...

Snapdragon
by Kat Leyh

Befriending an eccentric but savvy older woman who suggests that they help each other while raising a litter of orphaned baby opossums, a young girl discovers that the woman may possess real magic and a possible connection to her family. 
 
Also available as eBook on OverDrive
 
This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
by Tiffany Jewell

In 20 carefully laid out chapters, a primer on anti-racism teaches readers about identities, histories and the origins of racism as well as ways to identify and take action against racism, within ourselves and society. Original.
 
Also available as eBook on OverDrive 
 
Also available as eBook on CloudLibrary
 
Jasmin is watching...
Dash & Lily 
 
Opposites attract at Christmas as cynical Dash and sunny Lily trade messages and dares in a red notebook they pass back and forth around New York City.
 
Even More Titles We Talk About
    Books
    Bat and the Waiting Game by Elana K Arnold
    The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch. Volume one, At the Edge of Empire by Daniel Kraus
    Elephants Cannot Dance! by Mo Willems
    Hollow Kingdom: A Novel by Kira Jane Buxton
    Horrible Bear! by Ame Dyckman
    It's Not Little Red Riding Hood by Josh Funk
    Lord of the Fading Lands by C. L. Wilson
    Mrs. Biddlebox by Linda Smith
    Through the Woods by Emily Carroll