June 29, 2020
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
  • Join Kern County Library staff members, Fahra and Jasmin, with Mike Russo of local bookstore Russo's Books to talk about what we're reading and watching, the unprecedented success of eBooks and reading for both the Library and Russo's Books during the COVID-19 pandemic, and information about the Library's curbside services.
  • Watch this week's episode on the Beale Memorial Library Facebook page. 
Mike Russo 
Russo's Books
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
Jasmin LoBasso
Kern County Library
Mike is reading...

The Wise Man's Fear
by Patrick Rothfuss

Picking up where Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind left off,
hero Kvothe continues on his quest to reclaim the honor of
his family in the Fae realm and learn the truth about the
death of his parents and Amyr, the Chandrian. 
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
by Robert T. Kiyosaki

Rich Dad, Poor Dad makes the argument that a good
education and a secure job are not guarantees for financial success, and describes guidelines for making money
work for oneself.
 
Also available as an eBook on OverDrive
 
Also available in multiple translations and summaries in
eBook and eAudibook format on Hoopla
 
Also available as an eAudiobook on RBDigital
Even More Popular Picks

The Ballad of Songbirds and  Snakes
by Suzanne Collins

A prequel set in the world of Panem 64 years before the events of The Hunger Games begins on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games. This series is by the award-winning author of the Underland Chronicles. 
 
Also available as an eBook on OverDrive
 
Also available as an eAudiobook on Hoopla
The One and Only Bob
by Katherine Applegate

A sequel to the Newbery Medal-winning The One and Only Ivan. Bob, helped by friends Ivan and Ruby, is searching for
his lost sister on a journey that is dangerously complicated
by an approaching hurricane. 
Fahra is reading...
 
The Henna Wars
by Adiba Jaigirdar

When Nishat, an Irish girl of Bengali heritage, sees her old friend Flávia again, she feels attracted, but when they both enter a school contest as henna artists, their feelings for each other become more complicated.
I'm Still Here : Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
by Austin Channing Brown

The author shares her experiences of growing up black, Christian, and female in white America, exploring the
country's racial divide at all levels of society, and how overcoming apathy and focusing on God's work in the
world can heal persistent divisions.
 
Also available as an eBook & eAudiobook on OverDrive
 
Also available in an eBook summary on Hoopla
Jasmin is reading...

The Wild Robot
by Peter Brown

Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is
there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about
her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
 
Also available as an eBook & eAudiobook on OverDrive
 
Also available as an eBook & eAudiobook on CloudLibrary
The Memory Police
by Yko Ogawa

An Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance
finds a young novelist hiding her editor from mysterious authorities who would erase all memories of people who
once existed. By the award-winning author of
The Housekeeper and The Professor.
 
Also available as an eAudiobook on RBDigital
Even More Titles We Talk About
    A Burning by Megha Majumdar
    Harleen by Stjepan Sejic
    Feast of Peas by Kashmira Sheth
    Eat, and Love Yourself by Sweeney Boo
    The Mystery Knight by George R. R. Martin
    Archenemies by Marissa Meyer
    The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
    Meet Cute : Stories by Jennifer L Armentrout
    Harry Potter : A Journey Through a History of Magic by British Library