May 19, 2021
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
Get hyped for Summer Reading, which is only a couple of weeks away! Join Fahra and Jasmin as they talk about the titles they've been reading, watching, and listening to.
 
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
Jasmin LoBasso
Kern County Library
Fahra is reading...

Laxmi's Mooch
by Shelly Anand

After Laxmi's friend Zoe points out the hairs on her lip, Laxmi is very self-conscious until her East Indian parents help her to accept and celebrate her appearance.
 
The Once and Future Witches
by Alix E. Harrow

In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in a Hugo award-winning author's novel of magic amid the suffragette movement. 
 
Also available as eAudiobook on CloudLibrary
Also available as eBook & eAudiobook on OverDrive 
 
Fahra is watching...
 
Indian Idol
YouTube
 
Indian Idol is all set to raise the bar yet again with not just impressive talent but their inspiring stories as well. Taking on the mantle as judges will be renowned singer and music composer Vishal Dadlani, popular singer and youth icon Neha Kakkar and the veteran singer and music director Himesh Reshammiya.
 

Jasmin is reading...
 
Broken Prince
by Erin Watt

After a foolish mistake that drives Ella Harper away and brings chaos to the Royal household, Reed Royal's charmed life begins to fall apart even as he struggles to prove himself worthy of Ella.
 
Walls
by Brad Holdgrafer

Walls. All sorts of walls. Social walls, border walls, political walls, emotional walls, big walls, and small walls too. Speaking to today's critical political issues, this delightful, charmingly illustrated children's book has resonance for adults too. It helps children learn and understand inclusivity, equality, openness, and kindness while simultaneously reminding grown-ups of those same values. A timely and timeless message.
 
Also available as eBook on HooplaDigital
 
 

Jasmin is watching...
Greenland
HBO Max
 
A family struggles for survival in the face of a cataclysmic natural disaster.
 

Even More Titles We Talk About

    Books
    Amira's Picture Day by Reem Faruqi
    The Anti-Book by Raphael Simon
    Badass Habits: Cultivate the Awareness, Boundaries, and Daily Upgrades You Need to Make Them Stick by Jen Sincero
    The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt
    Flamingo, Flamenco by Brooke Jorden
    I Sang You Down From the Stars by Tasha Spillett-Sumner
    My Tiny Pet by Jessie Hartland
    Paper Princess by Erin Watt
    Press Here by Hervé Tullet
    Princess the Pony by Robbie Stillerman
    Randy, the Badly Drawn Beautiful Horse by T. L. McBeth
    Wings of Fire: The Hidden Kingdom: The Graphic Novel by Barry Deutsch
     
    Shows
    Our Planet