February 10, 2021
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
  • Join Kern County Library staff members, Fahra and Jasmin, along with guest and staff member Nerina to talk about the different kinds of Romance Novels. 
Nerina
Kern County Library
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
 
Jasmin LoBasso
Kern County Library
 
Nerina is reading...

Twist Me
by Anna Zaires
 
Kidnapped. Taken to a private island.
 
I never thought this could happen to me. I never imagined one chance meeting on the eve of my eighteenth birthday could change my life so completely.
Now I belong to him. To Julian. To a man who is as ruthless as he is beautiful – a man whose touch makes me burn. A man whose tenderness I find more devastating than his cruelty.
My captor is an enigma. I don’t know who he is or why he took me. There is a darkness inside him – a darkness that scares me even as it draws me in.
My name is Nora Leston, and this is my story.
  • Also available as eBook on HooplaDigital 
 
Beautiful Creatures
by Kami Garcia

Struggling to conceal her supernatural ability, a curse that has haunted her family for generations, Lena moves to Gatlin County's infamous plantation and inexplicably draws the attention of Ethan, who has been haunted by dreams of an unknown girl.
  • Also available as eAudiobook and movie on HooplaDigital
  • Also available as eBook and eAudiobook on OverDrive
 
 
Nerina is watching...
 
Bottle Rocket

Three suburban wannabe criminals get mixed up with the real deal when the local godfather involves them in a big heist.
 
 
Fahra is reading...
 
The Initial Insult
by Mindy McGinnis

Ostracized by the elite community of Amontillado, Ohio, after the disappearance of her parents, Tress organizes a Halloween costume party at an abandoned house, where she launches a macabre plan to force a popular former friend to confess what she knows. 
 
Oona
by Kelly DiPucchio

Oona and her best friend Otto love to search for treasure but often find messy, tricky, and even shark-related trouble instead.
 
Fahra is watching...
How To Get Away With Murder

A law professor and her students become involved in a murder plot.
 
 
 Jasmin is reading...

The Sum of All Kisses
by Julia Quinn
Hugh Prentice, a bookish mathematician whose leg was rendered useless in a duel, doesn't quite know what to think about the fiery, passionate Lady Sarah Pleinsworth, and she in turn is not sure if she can forgive him for the duel that forced her cousin into exile.
  • Also available as eBook & eAudiobook on HooplaDigital
  • Also available as eAudiobook on OverDrive
 
The Bookworm's Guide to Dating
by Emma Hart

What I wanted for my birthday: Books.
What I got for my birthday: my brother’s best friend playing matchmaker.

Let it be known that I, Kinsley Lane, am one hundred percent against being set up with somebody.
And I’m one thousand percent sure that Josh Carter is not the man to find me a boyfriend.
I mean, if I’m so great, why isn’t he the one dating me? (For the record, I don’t know the answer. That’s just what the guy on the internet asked.)
Still, I’ll humor him. If I go on his little dates, he’ll teach my bookish, introverted self how not to be totally, completely, utterly, unforgivably awkward on every single one of them.
And all I have to do is fall in love with one of the lovely gentlemen he’s serving up for me on a silver platter—all of whom fit my very specific guidelines.
Simple, right?
It would be.
If only I could stop falling for Josh. 
  • Also available as eAudiobook on HooplaDigital
  • Also available as eBook on OverDrive
 
Jasmin is watching...
Snowpiercer 

A failed climate-change experiment kills all life on Earth and only a lucky few who boarded the Snowpiercer train have survived.
 
Even More Titles We Talk About
    Books
    Bewitching the Elements: A Guide to Empowering Yourself Through Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Spirit by Gabriela Herstik
    The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A. N Roquelaure
    The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
    Dark Lover by J. R. Ward
    Den of Vipers by K.A. Knight
    A Discovery of Witches by Deborah E. Harkness
    The Duke & I by Julia Quinn
    Eating Purely: More than 100 All-Natural, Organic, Gluten-Free Recipes for a Healthy Life by Elizabeth Stein
    Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
    Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice
    Paper Princess by Erin Watt
    Plant-Powered Beauty: The Essential Guide to Using Natural Ingredients for Health, Wellness, and Personal Skincare with 50-Plus Recipes by Amy Galper
    Snowpiercer: The Escape 1 by Jacques Lob
    A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Fantasy Anthology by Dhonielle Clayton
    Whole Beauty: Daily Rituals and Natural Recipes for Lifelong Beauty and Wellness Daily Rituals and Recipes for Lifelong Beauty and Wellness by Shiva Rose

    Shows/ Movies 
    A Discovery of Witches on Amazon Prime
    Fantastic Mr. Fox
    Snowpiercer on HBOmax
     
    Podcast
    That's So Retrograde
    The Witch Wave