August 11, 2021
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
This is the Shadow and Bone episode you have been waiting for! This episode does contain spoilers, but it is one you don't want to miss! Join staff members, Fahra and Jasmin as they talk about the television adaptation of Shadow and Bone and the other books in the Grishaverse. Stay tuned until the end to catch what they have been reading, watching, and listening to for this week.
 
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
Jasmin LoBasso
Kern County Library
Fahra is reading...

Lost in the Never Woods
by Aiden Thomas

Forced to confront a past she cannot remember involving the disappearance of her two brothers five years earlier, Wendy encounters a boy who begs for her help when other children start to go missing. 
 
Also available as eAudiobook on CloudLibrary 
Six of Crows
by Leigh Bardugo

Offered a chance to participate in a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams, criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker recruits a team of talented associates to organize a plot that is threatened by their mutual enmity.
 
Also available as eBook on OverDrive 
The Truth Project
by Dante Medema

Seventeen-year-old Cordelia Koenig intended to breeze through her senior project. While her peers stressed, Cordelia planned to use the same trace-your-roots genealogy idea her older sister used years prior. And getting partnered with her longtime crush, Kodiak Jones, is icing on the cake. All she needs to do is mail in her DNA sample, write about her ancestry results, and get that easy A. But when Cordelia's GeneQuest results reveal that her father is not the person she thought he was, but a stranger who lives thousands of miles away, her entire world shatters. Now she isn't sure of anything--not the mother who lied, the man she calls Dad, or the girl staring back at her in the mirror. If your life began with a lie, how can you ever be sure of what's true?
 
Also available as eBook on CloudLibrary 
Fahra is watching...
 
Jungle Cruise
Disney+
 
Dr. Lily Houghton enlists the aid of wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff to take her down the Amazon in his ramshackle boat. Together, they search for an ancient tree that holds the power to heal -- a discovery that will change the future of medicine.

Jasmin is reading...
 
House of Hollow
by Krystal Sutherland

Reappearing in their Scotland suburb a month after going missing, three sisters with no memory of what happened begin to transform, while strange phenomena begin occurring around them in ways that impact their coming-of-age a decade later.
 
Also available as eBook & eAudiobook on CloudLibrary 
Shadow and Bone
by Leigh Bardugo

Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken to become the protegĂ© of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold. 
 
Also available as eBook on OverDrive 
Goddess in the Machine
by Lora Beth Johnson

Awakening from a cryogenic sleep 1,000 years later than planned, Andra is heralded as a goddess on a dying planet under the rule of a vicious monarch before teaming up with an exiled prince to help him claim his throne.
 

Jasmin is watching...
The World's Most Amazing Vacation Rentals
Netflix
 
With an eye for every budget, three travelers visit vacation rentals around the globe and share their expert tips and tricks in this reality series.
 

Even More Titles We Talk About

    Books
    Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton
    Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
    Diana and the Underworld Odyssey by Aisha Saeed
    Girl One by Sara Flannery Murphy
    I Want to be a Doctor by Laura Driscoll
    I Want to be a Veterinarian by Laura Driscoll
    If You Ever Want to Bring a Piano to the Beach, Don't! by Elise Parsley
    Louise Loves Bake Sales by Laura Driscoll
    Miss Mingo and the First Day of School by Jamie Harper
    Miss Mingo Weathers the Storm by Jamie Harper
    Pete the Cat: Sir Pete the Brave by James Dean
    Something is Killing the Children Volume One by James Tynion
    Splat the Cat and the Cat in the Moon by Laura Driscoll
     
    Movies 
    The Suicide Squad
     
    Shows 
    Reservation Dogs